Collins Modern Classics - The Perfect Storm: A True Story OfMan AgainstThe Sea

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The worst storm in history seen from the wheelhouse of a doomed fishing trawler; a mesmerisingly vivid account of a natural hell from a perspective that offers no escape.
The aEURO~perfect stormaEURO (TM) is a once-in-a-hundred-years combination: a high pressure system from the Great Lakes, running into storm winds over an Atlantic island aEURO" Sable Island aEURO" 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 the capacity to break an oil tanker in two, let alone the 72ft swordfishing boat Andrea Gail with her crew of eight. A typical Hurricane encompasses a million cubic miles of atmosphere and can contain enough energy to, in theory, meet the electric power needs of the UK for a decade. Except that a hurricane will not be controlled.

In spare, lyrical prose aEURO~The Perfect StormaEURO (TM) describes what happened when the Andrea Gail looked into the wrathful face of the perfect storm.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780008706180
Published: May 2024

Number of pages: 240
Width: 129 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: 20 mm

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers