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Rough Water: v. 1: Stories of Survival from the Sea (Extreme Adventure)
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Product Description
With this unique collection, including Wouk's classic The Caine Mutiny, you'll be on the edge of your seat as you listen to tales of men and women braving the elements, confronting savage storms, and battling monumental waves as they face the forces of nature
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1303895 in Books
- Published on: 2001-04-26
- Formats: Audiobook, Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 4
- Binding: Audio Cassette
- 6 pages
Editorial Reviews
Review
"Listening is an armchair adventurer's dream."
Customer Reviews
Humbling examples of humanity at its best and worst
These accounts by sailors captured in truly overwhelming situations form a microcosm of humanity in extremis--the reader can't help but compare his or her notions of his/her bravery, cowardice, fortitude, skill, intelligence, and sanity to those of the real-life characters in the anthology. Though the book is awash in humbling, awe-inspiring accounts of the almost mythic power of the ocean, its storms and waves and wind and rain are secondary to the humanity of the people in its grasp. The most compelling element of these stories is the will to survive of their characters, and the craftiness and real bravery employed in doing so (with a couple notable and harrowing exceptions). There isn't a weak selection here.
This Book Is Missing The SALT Of The Sea !
Having read "The Perfect Storm" I was prepared for another high sea adventure, in fact, 16 of them in the book "Rough Water" edited by Clint Willis.
A couple of stories were quite interesting but my fingers weren't salty when I finished reading them and perhaps in there lies the problem.
If you like sea stories and have never been on a boat you might enjoy the material more than someone who owns a boat and has been dashed about by the sea.
Most of us that operate vessels make a real effort to leave a port and arrive at another in one piece.
The stories in "Rough Water" are about people that never planned and often didn't seem to know where they were going or where they had been. The settings of the stories never really evolved.
I would recommend purchasing this book and then sharing it with many friends so that they too didn't have to invest in it.
