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Title: Melodrama on the High Seas
Review: It's easy to see why this book was such a huge bestseller, as Junger weaves a tragic love story in with a tale of men doing manly work, the wrath of mother nature, and peppers with a dash of science lending what is a mythic tale an aura of detachment. The book centers on a fishing trawler which (presumably) sank in the Atlantic during a horrific storm in 1991 and the men who crewed it. Junger's interviews with their surviving loved ones, sailors who were caught in the same storm, and others who survived similiar near-death experiences form the compelling core of the book, as he recreates the buildup to the trip, the fishing, and the storm. Along the way are excursions into the history of commerical fishing, trawler design, fluid dynamics, meterology, and many other tangents. It's a good, melodramatic tale, and when you're done, you can see why it's being made as a big Hollywood movie.
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