The Wave
  • Published: 1 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9780099531760
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $39.99
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The Wave

In Pursuit of the Oceans' Greatest Furies

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Colossal rogue waves are nature's most deadly new phenomena - meet the obsessed super surfers and sceintists who dare to cross their path.

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.
  • Published: 1 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9780099531760
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $39.99
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About the author

Susan Casey

Susan Casey, the author of the New York Times bestseller The Devil's Teeth and The Wave, is the Editor-in-Chief of O, the Oprah Magazine, and has also served as creative director of Outside magazine.

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Praise for The Wave

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

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

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

Arguably the best book yet written about big-wave surfing

Times Literary Supplement

An enthralling story of... pursuit of the most mesmerizing- and terrifying- freaks of nature ever seen

Sunday Times