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Perfect Storm

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Perfect Storm"Drifting down on swimmers is standard rescue procedure, but the seas are so violent that Buschor keeps getting flung out of reach. There are times when he's thirty feet higher than the men trying to rescue him. . . . I]f the boat's not going to Buschor, Buschor's going to have to go to it. SWIM they scream over the rail. SWIM Buschor rips off his gloves and hood and starts swimming for his life." It was the storm of the century, boasting waves over


"Drifting down on swimmers is standard rescue procedure, but the seas are so violent that Buschor keeps getting flung out of reach. There are times when he's thirty feet higher than the men trying to rescue him. . . . I]f the boat's not going to Buschor, Buschor's going to have to go to it. SWIM they scream over the rail. SWIM Buschor rips off his gloves and hood and starts swimming for his life."

It was the storm of the century, boasting waves over one hundred feet high a tempest created by so rare a combination of factors that meteorologists deemed it "the perfect storm." When it struck in October 1991, there was virtually no warning. "She's comin' on, boys, and she's comin' on strong," radioed Captain Billy Tyne of the Andrea Gail off the coast of Nova Scotia, and soon afterward the boat and its crew of six disappeared without a trace.

In a book taut with the fury of the elements, Sebastian Junger takes us deep into the heart of the storm, depicting with vivid detail the courage, terror, and awe that surface in such a gale. Junger illuminates a world of swordfishermen consumed by the dangerous but lucrative trade of offshore fishing, "a young man's game, a single man's game," and gives us a glimpse of their lives in the tough fishing port of Gloucester, Massachusetts; he recreates the last moments of the Andrea Gail crew and recounts the daring high-seas rescues that made heroes of some and victims of others; and he weaves together the history of the fishing industry, the science of storms, and the candid accounts of the people whose lives the storm touched, to produce a rich and informed narrative. The Perfect Storm is a real-life thriller that will leave readers with the taste of salt air on their tongues and a sense of terror of the deep.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 05/17/1997
ISBN: 9780393040166
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.80w x 1.00d
Award: ALA Notable Books - Winner
Award: Alex Awards - Winner

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 04/07/1997 pg. 83
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/1997 pg. 440
Library Journal 05/15/1997 pg. 90
New York Times 06/22/1997 pg. 8
School Library Journal 11/01/1997 pg. 149
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 01/01/1997 pg. 74
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 01/01/1998 pg. 74
School Library Journal 12/01/1997
School Library Journal 11/01/1997

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 18445 / Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
Reading Level: 7.4 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 13
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