Near Death on the High Seas

✍ Scribed by Kuhne, Cecil

• Book ID: 110460465
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 602 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780307389305

✦ Synopsis

"The wind was blowing at hurricane strength-sixty-five knots and over-and increasing in the gusts to eighty knots. His boat was surfing on waves as high as a sixty-foot, six-storey building. . .Each wave that struck choked and froze him, the icy water working its way down inside his survival suit." --from Close to the Wind by Pete Goss

In Near Death on the High Seas , Cecil Kuhne collects some of the most terrifying and astounding experiences of sailors confronting the awesome, raw power of the sea. These tales-filled with everyday heroes and survivors-comprise a riveting and often breathtaking collection of extraordinary stories that show the terrible ferocity of the untamable ocean.

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- Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki - the historic and celebrated journey of the Kon-Tiki as it journeys across the Pacific.
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