Hungry as the Sea

✍ Scribed by Smith, Wilbur

• Book ID: 108301453
• Publisher: Pan
• Year: 1978
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 268 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Wilbur Smith sets his vividly realistic novels on the razor's edge between human courage and nature's wrath. In Hungry as the Sea , this master storyteller takes us to the frigid South Atlantic, where one man fights for his life-- and for redemption.
Nicholas Berg is on a daring rescue mission. One of his former ships is being lashed against the cliffs of Cape Alarm and is surrounded surrounded by survivors clinging to their boats. Berg has gambled everything on reaching the Golden Adventurer before a competitor and a violent storm to win a fortune in salvage fees. If he succeeds, however, the real danger will only just begin . . ..

From the power of a relentless ocean to the hunger of men to survive upon her, this is a towering novel of adventure, love and the daring of the human soul.

Review

"One of the world's most popular and prolific adventure writers."--"The Washington Post"
"Smith joins the ranks as one of the grand masters of twentieth-century novels."--"Tulsa World"
"A captivating storyteller."--"Orlando Sentinel"

Review

"One of the world's most popular and prolific adventure writers."--*The Washington Post

"A captivating storyteller."-- Orlando Sentinel

"Smith is a master." -- *Publishers Weekly

"A rare author who wields a razor-sharp sword of craftsmanship." --Tulsa World

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Praise for Wilbur Smith

_“Smith is a master.” *—Publishers Weekly
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_“One of the world’s most popular adventure writers.” —The Washington Post Book World
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“A rare author who wields a razor-sharp sword of craftsmanship.” —Tulsa World*

_“Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared.” —The Times (UK)
"Best Historical Novelist--I say Wilbur Smith, with his swashbuckling novels of Africa. The bodices of rip and the blood flows. You can get lost in Wilbur Smith and misplace all of August."--Stephen King
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"Action is Wilur Smith's game, and he is a master."--The Washington Post Book World

“The world’s leading adventure writer.” —Daily Express (UK)

"Wilbur Smith rarely misses a trick."--Sunday Times

“Smith is a captivating storyteller.” —The Orlando Sentinel

_“No one does adventure quite like Smith.” — Daily Mirror(UK)
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"A thundering good’ read is virtually the only way of describing Wilbur Smith’s books.” — The Irish Times

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