The Collins Modern Classics - A True Story of Man Against the Sea

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, but here Nature is an awesome and capricious power that transforms 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, let alone the 72ft swordfishing boat Andrea Gail with her crew of eight. A typical Hurricane encompasses a million cubic miles of atmosphere and can contain enough energy to, in theory, meet the electric power needs of the UK for a decade. Except that a hurricane will not be controlled. In spare, lyrical prose ''The Perfect Storm'' describes what happened when the Andrea Gail looked into the wrathful face of the perfect storm.

About the author

Sebastian Junger is the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm and A Death in Belmont. He is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, and has been awarded a National Magazine Award and an SAIS Novartis Prize for journalism. He lives in New York.

Product details

• Authors: Sebastian Junger, Junger Sebastian
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 23.05.2024
• EAN: 9780008706180
• ISBN: 978-0-00-870618-0
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Collins Modern Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Survival, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief, HISTORY / Maritime History & Piracy, NATURE / Weather, Weather, Weather and climate: general interest, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made), Civil;War;Liberty