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The perfect storm : a true story of men against the sea / Sebastian Junger.
LIBRA - Special QC945 .J66 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Junger, Sebastian.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Northeast storms--New England.
- Northeast storms.
- Natural disasters--New England--History.
- Natural disasters.
- Fisheries--New England--History.
- Fisheries.
- Swordfish fishing--New England--History.
- Swordfish fishing.
- Halloween Nor'easter, 1991.
- Alex award.
- Film novelizations.
- History.
- Gloucester (Mass.)--Social life and customs.
- Gloucester (Mass.).
- New England.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 236 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First HarperPerennial edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : HarperPerennial, 1999.
- Summary:
- In this real-life thriller, the author follows the doomed ship's course and, in breathtaking prose, examines the culture of risk, the love of the sea, & the desperation born of a dying tradition that tethers fisherman to their boats-no matter what the cost.
- Contents:
- Georges Bank, 1896
- Gloucester, Mass., 1991
- God's country
- The Flemish cap
- The barrel of the gun
- Graveyard of the Atlantic
- The zero-moment point
- The world of the living
- Into the abyss
- The dreams of the dead
- Afterword.
- ISBN:
- 0060977477
- 9780060977474
- OCLC:
- 42640198
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