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The Wave [electronic resource] : In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean. Susan Casey.

Casey, Susan. (Author).

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this "wonderfully vivid, kinetic narrative" ( The New York Times ), the bestselling author of Voices in the Ocean captures colossal, ship-swallowing waves, and the surfers and scientists who seek them out. For legendary surfer Laird Hamilton, hundred foot waves represent the ultimate challenge. As Susan Casey travels the globe, hunting these monsters of the ocean with Hamilton’s crew, she witnesses first-hand the life or death stakes, the glory, and the mystery of impossibly mammoth waves. Yet for the scientists who study them, these waves represent something truly scary brewing in the planet’s waters. With inexorable verve, The Wave brilliantly portrays human beings confronting nature at its most ferocious.

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Nature.
Science.
Sports & Recreations.
Nonfiction.

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