Nejdřív jsem úplně náhodou viděla film a pak mi do rukou přistála knížka… ten příběh je tak fascinující, že si téměř na každé stránce říkáte, že to ani nemůže být pravda. Styl, jakým je napsaná, vás chytí za srdce – vtáhne do děje, jak komunita rybářů – o kterých jsem až do té doby nic nevěděla – drží spolu, znají se a jsou vlastně rozšířením své vlastní rodiny, a téměř každá z nich už někoho na moři ztratila… tolik náhod, že se to zdá, až nemožné – a přece jen… jak jednou začnete číst, přestanete až na poslední stránce. First, I saw the movie by chance and then the book landed in my hands… the story is so fascinating that almost every page makes you think that it can't be true. The style in which it is written grabs your heart – it draws you into the story, how a community of fishermen – about whom I knew nothing until then – stick together, know each other and are actually an extension of their own family, and almost every one of them has lost someone at sea… so many coincidences that it seems almost impossible – and yet… once you start reading, you stop at the last page.
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The worst storm in history seem from the wheelhouse of a doomed fishing trawler; a mesmerisingly vivid account of a natural hell from a perspective that offers no escape. The 'perfect storm' is a once-in-a-hundred-years combination: a high pressure system from the Great Lakes, running into storm winds over an Atlantic island - Sable Island - and colliding with a weather system from the Caribbean: Hurricane Grace. This is the story of that storm, told through the accounts of individual fishing boats caught up in the maelstrom, their families waiting anxiously for news of their return, the rescue services scrambled to save them. It is the story of the old battle between the fisherman and the sea, between man and Nature, but here Nature is an awesome and capricious power that transforms the surface of the Atlantic into an impossible tumult of water walls and gaping voids, with the capacity to break an oil tanker in two, let alone the 72ft swordfishing boat Andrea Gail with her crew of eight. A typical Hurricane encompasses a million cubic miles of atmosphere and can contain enough energy to, in theory, meet the electric power needs of the UK for a decade. Except that a hurricane will not be controlled. In spare, lyrical prose 'The Perfect Storm' describes what happened when the Andrea Gail looked into the wrathful face of the perfect storm.
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The perfect storm : a true story of man against the sea, Sebastian Junger
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- 2007
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