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The Perfect Storm
Sebastian Junger

The Perfect Storm

A True Story of Men Against the Sea

Harper Perennial (Oct 06, 1999)
9780060977474
| Paperback
256 pages | 134 x 207 mm | English
Dewey 974.45

Subject

  • Fisheries
  • Natural Disasters
  • Northeast Storms
  • Northeast Storms/ New England
  • Swordfish Fishing

Plot

October, 1991. It was "the perfect storm"--A tempest that may happen only once 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 towards the storm's hellish center