The perfect storm : a true story of men against the sea
(2009, original release: 1997)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
974.45/JUNGER,S
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2009]
©2009
©2009
DESCRIPTION
xiv, 233 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
039304016X, 9780393337013, 9780393040166, 0393337014, 006101351X, 9780061013515, 039304016X
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Georges Bank, 1896 -- Gloucester, Mass., 1991 -- God's country -- The Flemish cap -- The barrel of the gun -- Graveyard of the Atlantic -- The zero-moment point -- The world of the living -- Into the abyss -- The dreams of the dead
The incredible true account of the most extraordinary storm of the 20th century, this is the story of a tempest born from so rare a combination of factors it was deemed "perfect" and of the doomed fishing boat with her crew of six that was helpless in the midst of a force beyond comprehension
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