SEBASTIAN JUNGER
A True Story of Man Against the Sea
Fourth Estate
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First published in Great Britain in 1997 by Fourth Estate Limited
Copyright © Sebastian Junger 1997
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‘If one knows anything at all about the sea, one feels the enormous strengths of the hurricane winds and the incredibly towering mass of the hundred-foot waves’
PATRICK O’BRIAN
‘Sebastian Jungers compassionate, intelligent voice instructs us effortlessly on the sea life of the swordfisherman, the physics of a sinking steel ship, and the details of death by drowning. It is a terrifying read’
DAVA SOBEL
‘Junger moves seamlessly between the wrenching human dramas and the awesome details of the storm.
‘Junger has found a language to match the stature of the sea at its worst, and to capture its mysteries … it’s a chilling account that registers 12 on the Beaufort Scale’
‘A magnificent sea yarn … but a true story and all the more compelling for hat’
‘Cuts every facet of raw material to flashing brilliance … It amounts to a Homeric epic in its control of overwhelming natural forces and the grim demands they make of human life and effort’
‘The closest you will come to drowning at sea without actually having to do so’
‘Sometimes a story comes along that’s almost too good to be believable.