There was a time when people read the sea. They touched skin and scale, fur and feather and divined the weather and the way of things with their fingertips. They felt its dimpled skin, watched its rippled surface and it sang to them and they heard its song. Mattie Finn surfs dark water when the moon shines like a white stone on the surface and creatures feed in the troughs and gutters beneath his board. Mattie Finn, too, hears that song. The Night Surfer is journey across legends and oceans of antiquity to the North Coast of Australia and Northern California and the ocean communities of Coffs Harbour, Santa Cruz and San Francisco.