Author

Books by James Nestor

James Nestor is an American science journalist and author based in San Francisco. He has written for Outside Magazine, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Scientific American, and Dwell, and is a regular guest lecturer at the Esalen Institute. His earlier book, Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves (2014), explored human physiology and the science of free-diving. Breath, published in 2020, became a New York Times bestseller and brought years of reporting on respiratory research to a wide audience. Nestor continues to write and speak about human physiology and the science of breathwork.