The Wave: In Pursuit of the Oceans' Greatest Furies
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The Wave: In Pursuit of the Oceans’ Greatest Furies

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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.

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Weight 0.279 kg
Dimensions 2.3 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Paperback
Language

Pages

368
Publisher

Year Published

2011-7-7
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Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0099531763
About The Author

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

An enthralling story of… pursuit of the most mesmerizing- and terrifying- freaks of nature ever seen
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Arguably the best book yet written about big-wave surfing

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