In spare, lyrical prose 'The Perfect Storm' describes what happened when the Andrea Gail looked into the wrathful face of the perfect storm. Sebastian Junger recreates the experiences of the six fishermen aboard the Andrea Gail who died in the. It is the story of the old battle between the fisherman and the sea, between man and Nature, that awesome and capricious power which can transform the surface of the Atlantic into an impossible tumult of water walls and gaping voids, with the capacity to break an oil tanker in two. In his nonfiction narrative The Perfect Storm. LitCharts makes it easy to find quotes by chapter, character, and theme. This is the story of that storm, told through the accounts of individual fishing boats caught up in the maelstrom, their families waiting anxiously for news of their return, the rescue services scrambled to save them. The paperback edition (ISBN 0-06-097747-7) followed in 1999 from HarperCollins Perennial imprint. The Perfect Storm is a 1997 nonfiction book by Sebastian Junger, who writes for numerous magazines, including Outside, American Heritage, and Mens Journal. The 'perfect storm' is a once-in-a-hundred-years combination: a high pressure system from the Great Lakes, running into storm winds over an Atlantic island – Sable Island – and colliding with a weather system from the Caribbean: Hurricane Grace. The Perfect Storm is a creative nonfiction book written by Sebastian Junger and published by W. The author Sebastian Junger wants his book to be. The worst storm in history seen from the wheelhouse of a doomed fishing trawler a mesmerisingly vivid account of a natural hell from a perspective that offers no escape. In the beginning of the book the author gives a foreword which briefly gives a vision of The Perfect Storm.

The perfect storm by sebastian junger