The Wave: In Pursuit of the Oceans' Greatest Furies - Softcover
A story about man confronting nature at its most ferocious.
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"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)
"Examines 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 Review)
"Immensely 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)
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"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)
"Examines 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 Review)
"Immensely 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)
Colossal rogue waves are nature's most deadly new phenomena - meet the obsessed super surfers and sceintists who dare to cross their path.
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0099531763
- ISBN 13 9780099531760
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages368
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