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The Wave
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  • Published: 1 December 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407087078
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368
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The Wave

In Pursuit of the Oceans' Greatest Furies

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EBook
1 Dec 2010
Audiobook
14 Sept 2010
Paperback
1 Sept 2011
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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 December 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407087078
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368
Categories:

About the author

Susan Casey

Susan Casey is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Voices in the Ocean: A Journey Into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins; The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean; and The Devil’s Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America’s Great White Sharks. She is a National Magazine Award–winning journalist whose work has been featured in Esquire, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, Outside, National Geographic, and the Best American Science and Nature Writing, Best American Sports Writing, and Best American Magazine Writing anthologies. Casey lives in New York City and Maui.
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Praise for The Wave

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

Sunday Times

Arguably the best book yet written about big-wave surfing

Times Literary Supplement

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

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