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The Perfect Storm

The Perfect Storm

By Sebastian Junger

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The worst storm in history seen from the wheelhouse of a doomed fishing trawler; a mesmerisingly vivid account of a natural hell from a perspective that offers no escape.<br /> The &#39;perfect storm&#39; is a once-in-a-hundred-years combination: a high pressure system from the Great Lakes, running into storm winds over an Atlantic island - Sable Island - and colliding with a weather system from the Caribbean: Hurricane Grace.<br /> This is the story of that storm, told through the accounts of individual fishing boats caught up in the maelstrom, their families waiting anxiously for news of their return, the rescue services scrambled to save them. It is the story of the old battle between the fisherman and the sea, between man and Nature, that awesome and capricious power which can transform the surface of the Atlantic into an impossible tumult of water walls and gaping voids, with the capacity to break an oil tanker in two.<br /> In spare, lyrical prose &#39;The Perfect Storm&#39; describes what happened when the Andrea Gail looked into the wrathful face of the perfect storm.

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Title

The Perfect Storm

ISBN

9780007324385

Author

by Sebastian Junger

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Imprint

Fourth Estate

Publication Date

24 June 2010

Format

EPUB

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Number of Pages

240

Filesize

1.83 MB

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ePub edition

Language

EN

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History: Specific Subjects

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General/trade

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True Stories Of Endurance & Survival

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'(It) will become a classic for a jaded modern world.' The Independent '[Sebastian Junger] writes like a poet who has been to meteorology school.' Ruth Rendell 'Terrifying, sad, exhi...

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Author Biography

Sebastian Junger grew up in New England and has worked as a tree-feller, Bosnian correspondent, journalist and adventurer. His first book, 'The Perfect Storm', spent over four years on the bestseller lists and its film adaptation was a huge box-office success. Junger has been contributing editor to Vanity Fair, and winner of the National Magazine Award for Reporting. He has also written for magazines including Harper's, the New York Times Magazine, and National Geographic Adventure.

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