Colossal rogue waves are nature's most deadly new phenomena - meet the obsessed super surfers and sceintists who dare to cross their path.
Susan Casey, the author of the New York Times bestseller The Devil's Teeth, is the Editor-in-Chief of O, the Oprah Magazine, and has also served as creative director of Outside magazine.
An enthralling story of... pursuit of the most mesmerizing- and
terrifying- freaks of nature ever seen
*Sunday Times*
Arguably the best book yet written about big-wave surfing
*Times Literary Supplement*
Fascinating, heroic, dazzling, terrifying, amazing, mesmerizing,
instructive, enlightening, superb. This is the Dragon Tattoo,
Moby-Dick, Into Thin Air for our time
*Globe and Mail*
Examines big waves from every angle, and goes in deep with...
mariners, wave scientists and extreme surfers... [A] wonderfully
vivid, kinetic narrative
*New York Times Book Review*
Immensely powerful, beautiful, addictive and, yes, incredibly
thrilling... Like a surfer who is happily hooked, the reader simply
won't be able to get enough of it
*San Francisco Chronicle*
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