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Author: Sebastian Junger
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 21.10cm
Weight: 0.232kg
ISBN: 9780393337013
ISBN 10: 0393337014
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 26 June 2009
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
Every boater is drawn to storm-at-sea stories, and this one beats them all. -- Philadelphia Inquirer Harrowing, relentless ... and thoroughly enjoyable. -- Kansas City Star A terrifying, edifying read... Readers ... are first seduced into caring for the book's doomed characters, then compelled to watch them carried into the jaws of a meteorological hell. Junger's compassionate, intelligent voice instructs us effortlessly on the sea life of the sword-fisherman, the physics of a sinking steel ship, and the details of death by drowning. -- Dava Sobel, author of Longitude One reads with the most intense concern, anxiety and concentration; and if one knows anything at all about the sea one feels the absolutely enormous strength of the hurricane winds and the incredibly towering mass of the hundred-foot waves. -- Patrick O'Brian A fascinating book, not just about a storm, but about the hard-drinking, fatalistic lives of commercial fishermen and the families and friends they leave behind with each dangerous voyage. -- Cleveland Plain Dealer The pages of this book crunch with salt. -- Boating
A terrifying, edifying read. . . . Readers . . . are first seduced into caring for the book's doomed characters, then compelled to watch them carried into the jaws of a meteorological hell. Junger's compassionate, intelligent voice instructs us effortlessly on the sea life of the sword-fisherman, the physics of a sinking steel ship, and the details of death by drowning. -- Dava Sobel
""Every boater is drawn to storm-at-sea stories, and this one beats them all."" -- Philadelphia Inquirer ""Ferociously dramatic and vividly written... It's an indelible experience."" -- Entertainment Weekly ""Harrowing, relentless ... and thoroughly enjoyable."" -- Kansas City Star ""A terrifying, edifying read... Readers ... are first seduced into caring for the book's doomed characters, then compelled to watch them carried into the jaws of a meteorological hell. Junger's compassionate, intelligent voice instructs us effortlessly on the sea life of the sword-fisherman, the physics of a sinking steel ship, and the details of death by drowning."" -- Dava Sobel, author of Longitude ""One reads with the most intense concern, anxiety and concentration; and if one knows anything at all about the sea one feels the absolutely enormous strength of the hurricane winds and the incredibly towering mass of the hundred-foot waves."" -- Patrick O'Brian ""A fascinating book, not just about a storm, but about the hard-drinking, fatalistic lives of commercial fishermen and the families and friends they leave behind with each dangerous voyage."" -- Cleveland Plain Dealer ""The pages of this book crunch with salt."" -- Boating
The pages of this book crunch with salt.
Author Information
Sebastian Junger is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Storm, A Death in Belmont, Fire, War, Tribe, and Freedom. As an award-winning journalist, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, and a special correspondent at ABC News, he has covered major international news stories around the world, and has received both a National Magazine Award and a Peabody Award. He lives in New York City and Cape Cod.
