Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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Audiobook5 hours
Rough Water: Stories of Survival From The Sea
Written by David Lewis, F.A. Worsley, Herman Wouk and
Narrated by George Guidall, Graeme Malcolm, Rick Adamson and Simon Prebble
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
Hear the stories of men and women battling the elements, and sometimes each other, to stay alive, confronting savage storms, rogue waves, icebergs, sharks, starvation and their own fear and suffering.From Sebastian Junger’s The Whale Hunter to Herman Wouk’s The Caine Mutiny to Lawrence Beesley’s The Loss of The S.S. Titanic, Rough Water is a unique collection of the finest writing on why men and women go to sea, and what they find there.Rough Water is an adventure audiobook at its most compelling!
Author
David Lewis
David Levering Lewis is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the two-volume biography of W. E. B. Du Bois. He has been awarded numerous prizes and fellowships, including a MacArthur Fellowship. Twice a finalist for the National Book Award, Lewis lives in Manhattan and Stanfordville, New York, with his wife.
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Reviews for Rough Water
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Adrift was the best story. A couple of the other stories were ok.