eBooks - Travel - Historical Travels - Jim Carrier - The Ship and the Storm: Hurricane Mitch and the Loss of the Fantome
The Ship and the Storm: Hurricane Mitch and the Loss of the Fantome eBooks
by Jim Carrier
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Windows 98SE+, Mac OS X+, Palm Features
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Windows 98+, Tablet PC, Pocket PC 2003 Features
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All Palm & Pocket PC handheld devices plus all Windows and Macintosh computers. Features
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The Ship and the Storm: Hurricane Mitch and the Loss of the Fantome Summary
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Be prepared. This book weighs in at nearly 2.1MB in size. You'll need to make sure that you've got plenty of room on your PDA before you try to sync up this one. This book is full of stories and photographs and is the perfect book for anyone with one of the new generation Palms or a Sony Clie. Store this book on an expansion card and you won't have any worries about running out of memory!
In October 1998, one of the most savage storms in Atlantic history cornered a 282-foot passenger sailing ship against an exposed Caribbean coastline. With nowhere to hide and no time to run, the Fantome turned to face Hurricane Mitch's assault of 180 mile-per-hour winds and 50-foot seas. As the eye of the storm approached, Fantome's satellite phone went dead. The ship and its 31 crewmembers simply disappeared, leaving only questions that won't go away. The Ship and the Storm explores every facet of this tragic story. Was the ship seaworthy? Why did the captain put to sea with the storm approaching? What happened in the eye wall of the worst hurricane in 200 years? This riveting real-life drama is forensic journalism at its finest, taking us from the deck of the ship, to cruise company headquarters in Miami, to the National Hurricane Center. From Jim Carrier's extensive on-site research and hundreds of hours of interviews emerges a story of hubris, courage, and the power of nature. |
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