Pub Date: May 1, 1997
Dewey: B
LCCN: 96042412
Lexile Code: 1140
Features: Dust Cover, Maps, Price on Product, Table of Contents
Target Age Group: NA to NA
Physical Info: 1.00" H x 8.60" L x 5.80" W ( 1.00 lbs) 240 pages
BISAC Categories:
Biography and Autobiography | General | Nature | Natural Disasters
Description: It was the storm of the century, boasting waves over 100 feet high--a tempest created by so rare a combination of factors that meteorologists deemed it "the perfect storm". In a book taut with the fury of the elements, Junger depicts the courage, terror, and awe which the men of the fishing vessel "Andrea Gail" faced as they were caught in the grip of a savage force of nature.
Brief description: Sebastian Junger is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Storm, A Death in Belmont, Fire, War, Tribe, and Freedom. As an award-winning journalist, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, and a special correspondent at ABC News, he has covered major international news stories around the world, and has received both a National Magazine Award and a Peabody Award. He lives in New York City and Cape Cod.
Review Quotes: 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