SUR, Legend of The Last Otter Hunter

by Michael Hemp

Overview

An aging outlaw, seeking refuge from his violent past, seeks sanctuary in Big Sur, a “Refuge for Settlers and Outlaws” in post-Western California. But by 1906, the Western frontier has almost completely disappeared and wanted gunmen are a dead or hunted breed. William Manning seeks refuge from the law in the remote Bug Sur of California’s wild central coast and is forced by fate to become the “last of the otter hunters”—only to be challenged by violence and hardship to a destiny as the only man able to save them from extinction by his own kind.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013862678
Publisher:	The History Company
Publication date:	12/15/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	66 KB

About the Author

Born in Berkeley, California in 1942. Graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1964/66. Management with Shell Oil Company until commissioned a US Air Force Intelligence Officer in 1967. Served three (four star) Commanders of the Strategic Air Command at Omaha, Nebraska, as Special Intelligence Briefing Officer. My last year of service in the Air Force was in combat Special Operations in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and the Vietnams. http://bombardierslounge.com/monkey_hotel.html
I became a sales and feature writer for Monterey Life Magazine on moving to Pacific Grove, California, after a decade in the San Francisco Bay area in service station and foreign auto businesses. In 1983, I founded the non-profit Cannery Row Foundation to preserve the historical and Steinbeck literary legacies of old Cannery Row. My history of The Row was published as a result of hundreds of interviews and utilizing over a hundred archival photographs to illustrate my research. Google "Cannery Row history."
I moved to the Hawaiian island of Kaua`i in 1988 and served as writer, photographer and Associate Publisher of Kauai Magazine until 1989, when I established my own advertising and heritage marketing agency, Concept Communications/The History Company. I had three business destroyed by Hurricane Iniki in 2002. We moved to Honolulu for two more years before returning to California.
On return to Monterey, I accepted a position as Director of Marketing and Communications for the Cannery Row Company, bringing history, Steinbeck literature, and multi-cultural events and publications to the marketing of Cannery Row. In 2003, I returned to historic research, writing and heritage marketing publishing. It was my move to rural Carmel Valley that prompted me to adapt the book form of The Nadjik Pheromone from a 1994 screenplay written in Hawaii. The subjects were just too topical and important not to tackle. SUR, The Legend of The Last Otter Hunter is a historical fiction eBook from material discovered in Cannery Row oral history research. Other books in development include memoirs of my experiences in the secret Laotian war (Terry and the Pirates meets Catch 22) and of my years researching Old Cannery Row.
I am married to an interior designer. We live in Carmel Valley Village, with my staff of two standard poodles. My daughter is a senior computer engineer at Intuit; my son is a construction contractor and musician.

Editorial Reviews

BEYOND STEINBECK, The Last Otter Hunter tells the story Cannery Row’s definitive historian always wanted to.
The spirit of Hemp’s lead character was modeled after Clint Eastwood’s lead in Unforgiven, and Hemp dedicates the book to Eastwood. When reading SUR, it is a pleasure to imagine Eastwood’s charged, gravelly restraint in the voice of Manning, and the narrative, which is rich with fascinating, historical exposition, is a quick, entertaining read.

David Schmalz