The Perfect StormThe Perfect Storm
a True Story of Men Against the Sea
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Book, 2000
Current format, Book, 2000, , All copies in use.A New York Times best-seller tells the true story of one of the most violent storms to sweep the Atlantic in the twentieth century and the six men who sailed into its path. Reprint.
Presents a vivid account of a history-making storm that hit the New England coast in October 1991 and the lives it changed, weaving together the history of the fishing industry, the science of storms, and personal accounts
Presents a vivid account of a history-making storm that hit the New England coast in October 1991 and the lives it changed, weaving together the history of the fishing industry, the science of storms, and personal accounts
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 theAndrea Gail, a commercial fishing boat tragically headed towards its hellish center.
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- New York : Harper Torch, 2000, c1997.
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