Bright Pacific Horizon Press · North Pacific sheet
Majuro Seattle Seattle

Bright Pacific Horizon Press

North Pacific sheet · ed. 2026 · single-title imprint

An independent imprint publishing one book: At the Tide’s Mercy, Marshallese oral histories of nuclear legacy, migration, and cultural continuity.

Between 1946 and 1958 the United States conducted nuclear tests at Bikini and Enewetak. Rongelap and Utrik were exposed to fallout from the Bravo test in 1954. The passage plotted above is a displacement that followed, and it was not freely chosen.

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Legend

  • Atoll of the Marshall Islands
  • Passage of the Marshallese exodus, Majuro to Seattle

This sheet

Projection — equirectangular, 158°E to 118°W
Positions — atolls, Hawaiʻi and Seattle plotted from true coordinates
Soundings — illustrative; this sheet carries no survey authority

The charted destination

At the Tide’s Mercy Voices from the Marshallese Exodus · 2026

Interviews and fieldwork among Marshallese communities in Majuro and Seattle — a chronicle of nuclear legacy, migration, and cultural continuity, carried in the words of the people who lived it.

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TitleAt the Tide’s Mercy
SubtitleVoices from the Marshallese Exodus
SubjectOral history · documentary nonfiction
MethodField interviews and questionnaires, Majuro and Seattle
Year2026
AvailabilityNot yet set
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Abstract of survey

The book rests on primary fieldwork rather than secondary reading. These are the figures it was built from.

Fieldwork behind At the Tide’s Mercy
CountRecord
145Valid questionnaires returned
19In-depth interviews recorded
10Voices carried into the book

The press

Bright Pacific Horizon Press is a single-title imprint. It exists to publish and steward At the Tide’s Mercy and to give the work a permanent address.

There is no catalog behind this and none is claimed. One book, documented properly, is the whole of the undertaking so far.

Who founded the press, and how this project began, is not yet written here. It will be, in the founder’s own words rather than a publisher’s boilerplate.

Authorities

A chart names the surveys it draws on. These are the published works this project reads against.

  • 2001 Niedenthal, Jack. For the Good of Mankind: A History of the People of Bikini and Their Islands. Bravo Publishers.
  • 2004 Barker, Holly M. Bravo for the Marshallese: Regaining Control in a Post-Nuclear, Post-Colonial World. Wadsworth.
  • 2008 Johnston, Barbara Rose, and Holly M. Barker. Consequential Damages of Nuclear Testing: The Rongelap Report. Left Coast Press.