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A story about man confronting nature at its most ferocious.

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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 *
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 *
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 *
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 *

The Wave

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A Paperback / softback by Susan Casey


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    Publisher: Vintage Publishing
    Publication Date: 07/07/2011
    ISBN13: 9780099531760, 978-0099531760
    ISBN10: 0099531763

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    A story about man confronting nature at its most ferocious.

    Trade Review
    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 *
    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 *
    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 *
    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 *

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