The Wave
In Pursuit of the Oceans' Greatest Furies
1st Edition
Published on 16. September 2010
368 pages
978-1-4070-8707-8 (ISBN)
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
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 *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
File size
2,41 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4070-8707-8 (9781407087078)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
07/2011
Vintage
€16.50
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Person
Susan Casey, the author of the New York Times bestseller The Devil's Teeth, is the Editor-in-Chief of O, the Oprah Magazine, and has also served as creative director of Outside magazine.
