Sebastian Junger: The Perfect Storm [1999] paperback

Name: Sebastian Junger: The Perfect Storm [1999] paperback
Brand: Junger, Sebastian

Junger, Sebastian

Sebastian Junger: The Perfect Storm [1999] paperback\nThe phenomenal, international, million-copy selling true story of the battle to survive the worst storm this century has seen - the 'Halloween' Gale of 1991 - which produced wind speeds of 120mph and wave heights of 100 feet. 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 thy