STORM: Stories of Survival from Land and Sea.
by Willis, Clint, editor
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very good in illustrated wrappers with self flaps (slight spine slant).
- ISBN 10
- 1560253002
- ISBN 13
- 9781560253006
- Seller
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About This Item
New York:: Adrenaline / Thunder's Mouth / Balliet & Fitzgerald, , (2002). First edition -. Very good in illustrated wrappers with self flaps (slight spine slant).. First printing, a trade paperback original. Collects 18 stories - a mixture of fiction, memoir, and description - of surviving storms. It opens with a disturbing essay by Gordon Chaplin who lost his wife and boat after deciding to ride out a typhoon instead of seeking shelter. Contributors range from Rick Bass to John Muir, Leo Tolstoy, Wallace Stegner, Richard Byrd, Jack London, Sebastian Junger, Barry Lopez, Ernest Gann, Annie Proulx and more. xiii, 363 pp plus 4 pp publisher's ads.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85882
- Title
- STORM: Stories of Survival from Land and Sea.
- Author
- Willis, Clint, editor
- Format/Binding
- First edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in illustrated wrappers with self flaps (slight spine slant).
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1560253002
- ISBN 13
- 9781560253006
- Publisher
- Adrenaline / Thunder's Mouth / Balliet & Fitzgerald,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (2002)
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthology;
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