The Wave

In Pursuit of the Oceans' Greatest Furies

Susan Casey

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Vintage
01 September 2011

Mathematics & Sciences; Surfing, windsurfing, water skiing

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.

By: Susan Casey
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 279g
ISBN: 9780099531760
ISBN 10: 0099531763
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 01 September 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for The Wave: In Pursuit of the Oceans' Greatest Furies

Examines big waves from every angle, and goes in deep with . . . mariners, wave scientists and extreme surfers. . . . [A] wonderfully vivid, kinetic narrative. -- The New York Times Book Review 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 [An] adrenaline rush of a book. . . . As terrifying as it is awe inspiring. -- People Casey's descriptions of these monsters are as gripping in their own way as any mountaineering saga from the frozen peaks of Everest or K2. -- The Washington Post Book World Susan Casey's white-knuckle chronicle . . . delivers a thrill so intense you may never get in a boat again. -- Entertainment Weekly Reading The Wave is almost like riding one, paddling in the expositional surf of vivid imagery and colorful description thrown at you in ever-escalati