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Title: Rough Water: Stories of Survival from the Sea by Sebastian Junger, Herman Wouk, Lawrence Beesley, Meg Noonan, Steven Callahan, Patrick O'Brien, David Lewis, Eric Conger, Graeme Malcolm, Alan Sklar ISBN: 1-885408-34-X Publisher: Listen & Live Audio Pub. Date: 01 December, 1999 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 4 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Save Your Money
Comment: Save your money and purchase the REAL stories 'outlined' in this cheap book put together to ride the wave of The Perfect Storm. The collection of stories is nothing more than a collection of extended abstracts of the real stories. Many of the 'abstracts' are taken out of context and the reader does not get an accurate picture of what and why the nautical situation developed or how it concluded. Pass on this one.
Rating: 3
Summary: An average anthology
Comment: This book is in a series put out by Adrenaline books and each book contains certain selections chosen by the editor. The selections are either excerpts from books, excerpts from diaries and journals, short stories, or an occasional essay. I look at how good the writing is, and how good the stories are.
There are 16 selections in this book. Half of them range from good to great, and the other eight are fairly poor. The writing is okay throughout, with some being more exceptional than others, but it's the stories that differ the most in quality. Six of them, whether written well or not, have virtually no story whatsoever or are very poor. As it turns out, the best stories in this book are also some of the better written. This is where the book's strength shows up. The selections introduce you to stories and books you may have never read and after reading some of the good selections, it makes you want to go read the books they were taken from. So I would mostly recommend this book to people who have not read much or any sea stories. It introduces you to a wide variety of sea literature. But otherwise I would only lightly recommend it by saying that everyone would find some selections that they really like.
Rating: 5
Summary: Oustanding collection
Comment: Clint Willis has created a fascinating series of books with Epic, Climb, High, Wild, Ice, Rough Water, and The War. Each of these volumes presents the best literature about their respective subjects in a powerful cohesive manner. These books are a quick read, but intricate and spellbinding. I have given many of them to friends and family as gifts.
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Title: Rescue: Stories of Survival from Land and Sea by Dorcas Miller ISBN: 1560252588 Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Explore: Stories of Survival from Off the Map (Adrenaline Series) by Jennifer Schwamm, Clint Willis ISBN: 1560252782 Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press Pub. Date: 15 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Epic: Stories of Survival from the World's Highest Peaks by Clint Willis ISBN: 1560251549 Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Survive: Stories of Castaways and Cannibals by Nate Hardcastle, Clint Willis ISBN: 1560253673 Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press Pub. Date: 09 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Ice: Stories of Survival from Polar Exploration (Adrenaline Books) by Clint Willis ISBN: 1560252189 Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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