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The Wave: In Pursuit of the Oceans´ Greatest Furies
Susan Casey
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Description for The Wave: In Pursuit of the Oceans´ Greatest Furies
Paperback. A story about man confronting nature at its most ferocious. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.), maps (some col.), ports. (chiefly col.). BIC Classification: WSSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 371 x 25. Weight in Grams: 314.
Some people are drawn towards nature at its most extreme - and it doesn't get more extreme than giant waves.
These deadly waves have a strangely hypnotic pull on two types of person: for scientists and super-surfers, rogue waves are a grail, and they will go to dangerous lengths to hunt them down.
This is a white-knuckle ride with the men who live to catch rogue waves. It zips from Lloyds of London to rusty oil rigs, tropical Tahitian surf shacks to super-computer data labs. Find out what happens when nature confronts nature at her most ferocious.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099531760
SKU
V9780099531760
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About Susan Casey
Susan Casey, the author of the New York Times bestseller The Devil's Teeth, is the Editor-in-Chief of O, the Oprah Magazine, and has also served as creative director of Outside magazine.
Reviews for The Wave: In Pursuit of the Oceans´ Greatest Furies
An enthralling story of... pursuit of the most mesmerizing- and terrifying- freaks of nature ever seen
Sunday Times
Arguably the best book yet written about big-wave surfing
Times Literary Supplement
Fascinating, heroic, dazzling, terrifying, amazing, mesmerizing, instructive, enlightening, superb. This is the Dragon Tattoo, Moby-Dick, Into Thin Air for our time
Globe and Mail
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Sunday Times
Arguably the best book yet written about big-wave surfing
Times Literary Supplement
Fascinating, heroic, dazzling, terrifying, amazing, mesmerizing, instructive, enlightening, superb. This is the Dragon Tattoo, Moby-Dick, Into Thin Air for our time
Globe and Mail
... Read more