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The Wave: In Pursuit of the Oceans' Greatest Furies
Author(s): Susan Casey (Author)
- Publisher: Vintage
- Publication Date: 7 July 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 368 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780099531760
- ISBN-13: 9780099531760
Book Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Arguably the best book yet written about big-wave surfing ―
Times Literary SupplementFascinating, heroic, dazzling, terrifying, amazing, mesmerizing, instructive, enlightening, superb. This is the
Dragon Tattoo, Moby-Dick, Into Thin Air for our time ― Globe and MailExamines big waves from every angle, and goes in deep with... mariners, wave scientists and extreme surfers... [A] wonderfully vivid, kinetic narrative ―
New York Times Book ReviewImmensely powerful, beautiful, addictive and, yes, incredibly thrilling... Like a surfer who is happily hooked, the reader simply won't be able to get enough of it ―
San Francisco Chronicle