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The Perfect Storm

Sebastian Junger

ISBN

Alex award Autobiography Biography Biography & Autobiography Customs & Traditions Ecology Ecosystems & Habitats - Oceans & Seas Historical Hurricane Grace Meteorology & Climatology Movie novels Natural Disasters Nature New England Northeast storms Northeast storms - New England Science Shipbuilding Social Science Specific Groups Storms Swordfish fishing Transportation Weather

PublisherHarperCollins
PublishedSep 23, 1999
SUMMARY: October 1991. It was "the perfect storm"--a tempest that may happen only once in 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 its hellish center.