The Ship and the Storm Hurricane Mitch and the Loss of the Fantome |
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| Author:
| Carrier, Jim |
| Series title: | Harvest Book Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-15-600740-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2002 |
| Publisher: | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $14.00 |
Book Description:
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Captain Guyan March had spent his entire professional career aboard Windjammer Barefoot Cruises' fleet of extravagant tall ships that carry passengers on weeklong fantasy cruises spiced with rum and sun. When he agreed to command the
Fantome, Windjammer's marquee ship, a beautiful 282-foot schooner that "sailed like a pig" in the Gulf of Honduras, he knew that a storm would leave him little space to run. In the southern reaches of the Caribbean, Tropical Storm Mitch whirled...
More DescriptionCaptain Guyan March had spent his entire professional career aboard Windjammer Barefoot Cruises' fleet of extravagant tall ships that carry passengers on weeklong fantasy cruises spiced with rum and sun. When he agreed to command theFantome, Windjammer's marquee ship, a beautiful 282-foot schooner that "sailed like a pig" in the Gulf of Honduras, he knew that a storm would leave him little space to run. In the southern reaches of the Caribbean, Tropical Storm Mitch whirled to life like a nebula and became Captain March's worst nightmare--a category five storm with 180-mile-per-hour winds and fifty-foot seas. After discharging his passengers in Belize, Captain March and his crew, most of them West Indians, took the $20 millionuninsured tall ship out to sea to dodge the approaching storm. What ensued was a deadly game of cat and mouse that confounded experts' predictions and cornered theFantome with eerie precision.
Based on journalist Jim Carrier's exhaustive research and hundreds of interviews,The Ship and the Storm explores the story of theFantome and Hurricane Mitch from every angle. From the deck of the ship, to the research planes flying into the eye of the hurricane, to islanders and coastal villagers in a desperate battle for survival,The Ship and the Storm is the heartbreaking and horrifying story of the most destructive hurricane in Western Hemisphere history.