Readers familiar with Randy Wayne White's Out There column in Outside magazine will relish this first collection of his best work; those new to White's delectable blend of adventure, hilarity, and spirit can only be envied for the satisfaction of that first encounter. Whether it's `This Dog Is Legend, in which he tells of his cinder-block-retrieving Chesapeake Bay retriever named Gator, or Coming To America, about the stirring-and sometimes terrifying-Mariel boat lift, White never fails to engross us in a life of sun, boats, work, and sport.