The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea

Sebastian Junger

Harper Collins, 1999 - Biography & Autobiography - 236 pages

October, 1991. It was "the perfect storm"--A tempest that may happen only once a century--a nor'easter created by so rare a combination of factors that it could not possibly have been worse. Creating waves ten stories high and winds of 120 miles an hour, the storm whipped the sea to inconceivable levels few people on Earth have ever witnessed. Few, except the six-man crew of the Andrea Gail, a commercial fishing boat tragically headed towards the storm's hellish center

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
• Author: Sebastian Junger
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Harper Collins, 1999
• ISBN: 0060977477, 9780060977474
• Length: 236 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography & Autobiography / Historical; Nature / Ecosystems & Habitats / Oceans & Seas; Nature / Natural Disasters; Nature / Weather; Science / Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology; Social Science / Customs & Traditions; Transportation / Ships & Shipbuilding / General; Transportation / Ships & Shipbuilding / History