The perfect storm : a true story of men against the sea /

Junger, Sebastian.

The perfect storm : a true story of men against the sea / Sebastian Junger. - New York : W.W. Norton & Company, c2009. - xiv, 233 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.

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.

The incredible true account of the most extraordinary storm of the 20th century, this is the story of a tempest born from so rare a combination of factors it was deemed "perfect" and of the doomed fishing boat with her crew of six that was helpless in the midst of a force beyond comprehension.

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Andrea Gail (Boat)


Fisheries--New England.
Halloween Nor'easter, 1991.
Natural disasters--History.--New England
Shipwrecks--North Atlantic Ocean.

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