The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea

by Junger, Sebastian

• ISBN13: 9780393050325
• ISBN10: 0393050327
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780393040166
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
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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 toward the storm's hellish center.

Author Biography

Sebastian Junger is a freelance journalist who writes for numerous magazines, including Outside, American Heritage, and Men's Journal, where he is a contributing editor

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
Georges Bank, 1896	p. 3
Gloucester, Mass., 1991	p. 5
God's Country	p. 37
The Flemish Cap	p. 65
The Barrel of the Gun	p. 95
Graveyard of the Atlantic	p. 117
The Zero-Moment Point	p. 136
The World of the Living	p. 147
Into the Abyss	p. 166
The Dreams of the Dead	p. 202
Acknowledgments	p. 226
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