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The Perfect Storm (1997) (edit title/settings)

A True Story of Men Against the Sea

by Sebastian Junger (Author) (edit contributors)

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October 1991. It was "the perfect storm"--a tempest that may happen only once in 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... read more

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ONE midwinter day off the coast of Massachusetts, the crew of a mackerel schooner spotted a bottle with a note in it.

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Foreword
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
Afterword

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  1. Sebastian Junger (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Country: England
Publication Date: 1997
ISBN: 1857027205
Page Count: 240

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Reading Level: Young Adults

Some of it is a little technical for kids, but mostly fine for YA or adult readers.

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