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Title: After the Storm : True Stories of Disaster and Recovery at Sea by John Rousmaniere ISBN: 0-07-137795-6 Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press Pub. Date: 17 April, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Too Academic
Comment: I enjoy reading sea stories such as "Working on the Edge", but it was a real chore to get through the maze of details which seemed to be included just to make the book 'thick' and did nothing to really add to the 'story'. Pass on this one and spend your money on something written as less of a text book.
Rating: 3
Summary: The Literary Side of Nautical Disaster
Comment: Be forewarned if you purchase "After the Storm" expecting it to be another in the recent spate of books recounting tales of nautical disasters. It does focus on ten seperate instances of seaborne mayhem dating from the 1820s to the 1990s. But instead of including straightforward narrative accounts, author John Rousmaniere is more concerned with the literary and spiritual aspects of such events. The common thread that runs through these tales is that for the most part they all either affected or were commented upon by notable literary personalites, from Mary Shelley to Robert Louis Stevenson to Joseph Conrad and others. So much so that the accounts of the disasters themselves take a back seat to describing their social, psychological, religious and even political effects.
All in all there is nothing necessarily wrong with Rousmaniere's approach, except that its appeal will be limited to the interest that the reader has in the exteraneous subject matter. Unfortunately, the book's subtitle, "True Stories of Disaster and Recovery at Sea," leads one to believe that it is a collection of adventure tales, which is really not the case.
Overall, I would recommend that potential readers closely scrutinize the summaries of this book's subject matter to determine if it will appeal to them.
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Title: Fastnet, Force 10: The Deadliest Storm in the History of Modern Sailing, New Edition by John Rousmaniere ISBN: 0393308650 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Greatest Sailing Stories Ever Told: Twenty-Seven Unforgettable Stories by Christopher Caswell ISBN: 1585745146 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: A Voyage For Madmen by Peter Nichols ISBN: 0060197641 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 22 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Intrepid Voyagers : Stories of the World's Most Adventurous Sailors by Thomas A. Lochhaas, Tom Lochhaas ISBN: 0071388834 Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press Pub. Date: 03 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Dangerous Waters: Modern Piracy and Terror on the High Seas by John S. Burnett ISBN: 0525946799 Publisher: E P Dutton Pub. Date: 26 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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