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Junger, Sebastian
The perfect storm : a true story of men against the sea / Sebastian Junger.
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New York, NY : 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.
ISBN 9780393337013 (pbk.)
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Natural disasters--New England--History.
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Shipwrecks--North Atlantic Ocean.
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Andrea Gail (Boat).
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Halloween Nor'easter, 1991.
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