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The Resource The perfect storm : a true story of man against the sea, Sebastian Junger, (electronic resource)

The perfect storm : a true story of man against the sea, Sebastian Junger, (electronic resource)

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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 'perfect storm' is a once-in-a-hundred-years combination: a high pressure system from the Great Lakes, running into storm winds over an Atlantic island - Sable Island - 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, that awesome and capricious power which can transform 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. In spare, lyrical prose?The Perfect Storm?
Language
eng
Work
Instance
Label
The perfect storm : a true story of man against the sea
Title
The perfect storm
Title remainder
a true story of man against the sea
Statement of responsibility
Sebastian Junger
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Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
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 'perfect storm' is a once-in-a-hundred-years combination: a high pressure system from the Great Lakes, running into storm winds over an Atlantic island - Sable Island - 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, that awesome and capricious power which can transform 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. In spare, lyrical prose?The Perfect Storm?
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TEFOD
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Junger, Sebastian
Dewey number
363.3492091631
Illustrations
maps
Index
no index present
LC call number
QC981.8.C53
LC item number
J86 2010eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
dictionaries
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  • Andrea Gail (Boat)
  • Severe storms
  • Shipwrecks
  • Shipwreck survival
Label
The perfect storm : a true story of man against the sea, Sebastian Junger, (electronic resource)
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http://goldcoast.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=FAD64186-626A-4CA0-8DE6-EDA14844E848
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online resource
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rdacarrier.
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent.
Control code
ocn712789432
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Extent
1 online resource
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unknown
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online
Isbn
9780007324385
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Media category
computer
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rdamedia.
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  • c
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map.
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not applicable
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unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
Stock number
FAD64186-626A-4CA0-8DE6-EDA14844E848
System control number
(OCoLC)712789432
Label
The perfect storm : a true story of man against the sea, Sebastian Junger, (electronic resource)
Link
http://goldcoast.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=FAD64186-626A-4CA0-8DE6-EDA14844E848
Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier.
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent.
Control code
ocn712789432
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780007324385
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
map.
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
Stock number
FAD64186-626A-4CA0-8DE6-EDA14844E848
System control number
(OCoLC)712789432

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