{"id":1227,"date":"2026-02-14T15:07:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T20:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homesteadinginthecity.kleinmartin.com\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2026-02-14T15:07:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T20:07:17","slug":"book-review-category-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homesteadinginthecity.kleinmartin.com\/?p=1227","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Category Five"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"162\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/homesteadinginthecity.kleinmartin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cat-5.png?resize=162%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1228\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Category Five is yet another &#8216;travelog&#8217; book, but this one is completely different . Porter Fox is a sailor and shipwright&#8217;s son who travels (and sails some)  around the world, talking to experts in the ocean, and collecting their observations and predictions of what future storms could look like. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is so much talk of sailing, I really am ready to go, even though so much of it in the book is dealing with sailing through storms. Or preparing to sail through a storm. Its full of meteorology and physics and brilliant people using scientific terms, that  Fox is able to quickly and humorously turn into lay person speak. <br>The book is very hopeful about climate change and how we can use the oceans to help slow it, but finishing it the day Trump cut all the red tape and bowed out of the Paris agreement, made it frustrating and frightening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you are interested in the ocean at all, I think you would enjoy this book. If you are a fan of history, of human perseverance, science or sailing, I think you would enjoy this book. If you are the least bit interested in climate change, get this book. <br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Category Five is yet another &#8216;travelog&#8217; book, but this one is completely different . Porter Fox is a sailor and shipwright&#8217;s son who travels (and sails some) around the world, talking to experts in the ocean, and collecting their observations and predictions of what future storms could look like. There is so much talk of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/homesteadinginthecity.kleinmartin.com\/?p=1227\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Book Review: Category Five<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"1","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"2","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"2","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"2","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"default","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[260,30,1],"tags":[241,261,262,263,259],"class_list":["post-1227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-shipwrecks","category-uncategorized","tag-book-review","tag-climate-change","tag-porter-fox","tag-sailing","tag-travel-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5HEA6-jN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1220,"url":"https:\/\/homesteadinginthecity.kleinmartin.com\/?p=1220","url_meta":{"origin":1227,"position":0},"title":"Book Review: The Pirate Queen","author":"Gina Kleinmartin","date":"February 2, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"I had a discussion with a friend about Grace O'Malley, and when this book popped up in a library search, I grabbed it. 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