The Wave In Pursuit of the Oceans' Greatest Furies

"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