This book is most definately a must read! I love this book!!!! Sebastian Junger really grasps your attention throughout the whole book. His discriptions of the scenes taking place and the feelings and emotions the characters are going through are remarkable. He really does make you feel like you can taste that ocean breeze. Then how he planned out the plot of the story, with so many things going wrong, it was like, just when you think they are going to be ok and there is a glimmer of hope he pulls … more
Sebastian Junger starts slowly with the last few land-based days of the doomed crew in New England. The reader is then catapulted in one of the largest North Atlantic storms of the last century. This is a must read for anyone interested in boating, the fishing industry, extreme weather, or New England maritime pride. Junger weaves narrative created from actual witness accounts, shore and boating logs, and friends of those lost at sea. This book is one that is tandem hand … more