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Rough Water: Stories of Survival from the Sea (Adrenaline) by Willis, Clint is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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<p><P>In this anthology, editor Clint Willis gives readers some of the best sea stories of all time. Included are excerpts from R. H. Dana's classic Two Years Before the Mast, a shipwreck survivor's 74-day ordeal aboard an inflatable life raft, an eyewitness account of the Titanic disaster, a dramatic rescue at sea in a Force-12 storm, a solo circumnavigation of Antarctica, and a one-man cruise through the Roaring Forties. Rough Water delivers page after page of high adventure amid gales, swells, surges, shoals, icebergs, fog banks, sharks, and mutineers.<P></p><h3>School Library Journal</h3><p>YA-A collection of excerpts from mostly real-life experiences that will leave even the most jaded armchair adventurers gasping for air and thoroughly waterlogged. Both titles depict humans at their most physically challenged in environments that they sought out but for which they were not necessarily completely prepared. High features Jon Krakauer, David Roberts, and Chris Bonington. An excerpt from Matt Dickinson's The Other Side of Everest is also included. A touching narrative is taken from Maria Coffey's Fragile Edge, in which the author recounts her visit to Tibet to find some closure o

Who reads Rough Water: Stories of Survival from the Sea (Adrenaline)?

Author

Willis, Clint

Publisher

New York: Balliett & Fitzgerald: Thunder's Mouth Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9781560251743

Category

history

Subjects

Anthropology, Science, Fiction

Rating

3.41 / 5 (20 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14