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The Wave
eBook - In Pursuit of the Oceans' Greatest Furies
ISBN/EAN: 9781407087078
Umbreit-Nr.: 6454240
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 352 S., 2.33 MB
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 16.09.2010
Auflage: 1/2010
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <p>Some people are drawn towards nature at its most extreme - and it doesn't get more extreme than giant waves.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>
- Kurztext
- 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.
- Autorenportrait
- Susan Casey, the author of the<i>New York Times</i>bestseller<i>The Devil's Teeth</i>, is the Editor-in-Chief of<i>O, the Oprah Magazine</i>, and has also served as creative director of<i>Outside</i>magazine.
- Schlagzeile
- Colossal rogue waves are nature's most deadly new phenomena - meet the obsessed super surfers and sceintists who dare to cross their path.