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The Perfect Storm - A True Story of Man Against the Sea (Paperback): Sebastian Junger

The Perfect Storm - A True Story of Man Against the Sea (Paperback)

Sebastian Junger

Series: Collins Modern Classics

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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.

The ‘perfect storm’ 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.

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.

In spare, lyrical prose ‘The Perfect Storm’ describes what happened when the Andrea Gail looked into the wrathful face of the perfect storm.

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Imprint: Fourth Estate
Series: Collins Modern Classics
Release date: September 2024
Authors: Sebastian Junger
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 978-0-00-870618-0
Categories: Books > Fiction > Special features > Graphic novels
Books > Fiction > Special features > Classic fiction
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LSN: 0-00-870618-2
Barcode: 9780008706180

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