The Perfect Storm
by Sebastian Junger, Anne Collins
1997Social life and customsForeign speakersAndrea Gail (Boat)Andrea Gail (Ship)Open Library Staff Picks
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It was the storm of the century, boasting waves over one hundred feet high --- a tempest created by so rare a combination of factors that meteorologists deemed it "the perfect storm." When it struck in October 1991, there was a virtually no warning. "She's comin; on, boys, and she's comin' on strong." radioed Captain Billy Tyne of the Andrew Gail off the coast of Nova Scotia, and soon afterward the boat and its crew of six disappeared without a trace. In a narrative taut with the fury of the elements, Sebastian Junger takes us deep into the heart of the storm, depicting with vivid detail the courage, terror, and awe that surface in such a gale,. Junger illustrates a world of swordfishermen consumed by the dangerous but lucrative trade of offshore fishing ---"a young man's game, a single man's game" --- and gives us a glimpse of their lives in the tough fishing port of Gloucester, Massachusetts; he recreates the last moments of the Andrea Gail crew and recounts the daring high-seas rescues that made heroes of some and victims of others, and he weaves together the history of the fishing industry, the science of the storms, and the candid accounts of the people whos lives the storms touched. The Perfect Storm is a real-life thriller that leaves us with the taste of salt air on our tongues and a breathless sense of what it feels like to be caught, helpless, in the grip of a force of nature beyond our understanding or control. We know, on the strength of this stark and compelling journey into the dark heart of nature, what it feels like to drown.
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Social life and customsForeign speakersAndrea Gail (Boat)Andrea Gail (Ship)Open Library Staff PicksHalloween Nor'easter, 1991
First published 1997Setting
New EnglandNorth Atlantic OceanGloucester (Mass.)
About the author
Sebastian Junger
17 January 1962
Sebastian Junger is the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of *The Perfect Storm*, *A Death in Belmont* and *Fire*. As a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and as a contributor to ABC News, he has covered major international news stories in Liberia, Sierra Leone and other places around the globe. He has been awarded the National Magazine Award and an SAIS Novartis Prize for Journalism. Junger became a fixture in the national media when, as a first-time author, he commanded The New York Times best-seller list for more than three years with *The Perfect Storm*, which later set sales records and became a major motion picture from Warner Bros. ([Source][1]) [1]: http://www.seb…
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