The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780767928854)

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.

Author: Susan Casey
ISBN-10: 0767928857
ISBN-13: 9780767928854
Publisher: Anchor Books
Language: English
Published: 05/31/2011
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 7.91h x 5.26w x 0.91d

Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 06/03/2011 pg. 77
New York Times Book Review 06/19/2011 pg. 28
People Weekly 07/11/2011 pg. 45
Entertainment Weekly 07/24/2015 pg. 62