The Perfect Storm

A True Story of Men Against the Sea

By: Sebastian Junger

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Paperback | 29 June 2009

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248 Pages

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17.5 x 14.5 x 1.5

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October 1991. It was "the perfect storm" a tempest that may happen only once in a century a nor'easter created by so rare a combination of factors that it could not possibly have been worse. Creating waves ten stories high and winds of 120 miles an hour, the storm whipped the sea to inconceivable levels few people on earth have ever witnessed.

Few, except the six-man crew of the "Andrea Gail," a commercial fishing boat tragically headed toward the storm's hellish center.

About the Author

Sebastian Junger is the author of A Death in Belmont and Fire. He has been awarded a National Magazine Award and an SAIS Novartis Prize for journalism. Most recently, he has been reporting on the war in Afghanistan for Vanity Fair. He lives in New York City.

Industry Reviews

"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

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