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.
"[Susan Casey] examines big waves from every angle, and goes in
deep with those who know the phenomenon most intimately....Casey
makes a convincing, entertaining case (nifty cliffhangers and all)
that there is a heretofore little-known monster in our midst....She
pushes the scientists on the big question.....Casey is fluent in
'gnarly' and proficient in 'wonk, ' and she writes lucidly so the
rest of us can come along for the ride. Her wonderfully vivid,
kinetic narrative....offers a prescient vision of watery
perils--and sometimes, bittersweet triumphs....Amid the images of
demolition, Casey hangs on to the magic and beauty of waves."--New
York Times Book Review "You think Jaws made you fear the ocean? In
this adrenaline rush of a book, Casey....describes 'nature's
biggest tantrum'....Her eerie, majestic descriptions...make THE
WAVE an unsettling thrill ride that's as terrifying as it is awe
inspiring."--People
"Immensely powerful, beautiful, addictive and, yes, incredibly
thrilling....takes the reader into the hearts and minds of the
world's renowned surfers....Through the eyes of the surfers,
readers get a remarkable sense of how they choose their waves, the
skill that it takes to rocket across them, what it feels like to
fall, what happens when surfers and Jet Skis are flung into coral
reefs, what it's like to be rolled and pounded by tons of water,
and what it is like physically and psychologically to be held under
for too long - how some surfers make it back to the surface, and
others drown.
But "The Wave" is far more than a book about surfing. Casey's quest
is also to understand the characteristics of giant waves and rogue
waves. She explores the impact giant waves have on ships, oil rigs,
fishing boats and passenger ships.....Casey explains the science of
waves in a straightforward but always engaging manner.....Casey
also illuminates recent mind-boggling discoveries.....Casey unlocks
the mysteries of waves in her fascinating and enlightening book.
And like a surfer who is happily hooked, the reader simply won't be
able to get enough of it."--San Francisco Chronicle
"Susan Casey's white-knuckle chronicle -- which follows the surfers
pursuing the waves and the scientists struggling to understand them
-- delivers a thrill so intense you may never get in a boat
again."--Entertainment Weekly "[A] thrilling tale"--Time "Casey
does an exceptional job of explaining the natural forces (winds,
currents, ocean-bottom shape) that create these daunting, at times
fatal, surfing spots....Casey's account of the impromptu adventure
is terrific"--Wall Street Journal "Gripping....we are thankful she
included us on the ride."--The Washington Post "The book dives
deeply into the world of top-level surfers....Casey does a
commendable job of surveying the broader problems confronting wave
studies....compelling and wonderfully
detailed....engrossing....Casey adroitly moves beyond what we think
we know about big-wave surf culture and churns out a series of
action chapters that are not for the faint of heart."--Los Angeles
Times
"Reading the 'The Wave' is almost like riding one, paddling in the
expositional surf of vivid imagery and colorful description, thrown
at you in ever-escalating surges"--Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Extraordinary....fascinating, heroic, dazzling, terrifying,
amazing, unbelievable, mesmerizing, instructive, enlightening,
superb. This is the Dragon Tattoo, Moby Dick, Into Thin Air for our
time; a powerful, articulate ride into a world you never knew
existed but that you will never, never forget. I am honoured to
write this review. Bravo, Susan Casey.-- Globe and Mail (Canada)
"Utterly engrossing"--Salon "A fabulous page-turner" -John
Hockenbery, NPR "[A] captivating hybrid--an intro to the
mind-melting physics of waves and a ride-along with the scientists
and surfers who chase after them...Fascinating"
-- Men's Journal "[A] breath-snatching thrill ride"
--Elle "Casey pursues....with tenacity and literary grace....a
powerful voice in adventure writing....delves into the
science....masterful"--Outside "ffers a probing look at both the
passionate and the pragmatic sides of these oceanic
wonders....compelling reading"---Bookpage "Something is stewing in
our seas, and Susan Casey--traveling, and in some cases swimming,
all around the world--is eager to find out what it is. Both a
rollicking look at the ocean's growing freakishness and a troubling
examination of our ailing planet, The Wave gives new meaning to the
term 'immersion reporting.'"
--Hampton Sides, author of Hellhound on His Trail, Blood and
Thunder, and Ghost Soldiers "At once scary and fun, The Wave
surprises at every turn."
--Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe "Like
the surfers and scientists she profiles, Casey lived and breathed
giant waves for years. Casey combines an insane passion for craft
with an uncanny ability to describe the indescribable. In The Wave
she whisks the reader off to unimaginably surreal settings and puts
them in the middle of mind-blowing scenarios. This book sucked me
in like the undertow at Pipeline."
--Mary Roach, author of Stiff and Packing for Mars "Reading The
Wave is the closest most of us will ever come to the sensation of
riding, or even seeing, one of these towering monsters of the sea.
It's exhilarating, astonishing, and, not infrequently, terrifying.
Brace yourself."
--Candice Millard, author of The River of Doubt "THE WAVE is an
amazing look at humble yet larger-than-life people who live by
daring feats, honorable acts, and selfless denial-- in short, these
guys don't care if anyone is looking as they attempt what seems
impossible: riding waves the size of ten story sky scrapers. Casey
was there in the middle of the action, and she writes with such
precision about such strange, wondrous things, that it seems that
many objects rising out of the ocean in this book belong only to
mythology. Terrifying, beautiful, her prose is shot through with
the haunting half-light of a storm. You can hear the waves crashing
on your head as you read. I'm not kidding. You feel the waves grow
with each turn of the page."
--Doug Stanton, author of Horse Soldiers and In Harm's Way "This
book is adrenalin. You don't want to surf the waves described
herein. Read the book. It's safer that way."
--Eddie Vedder
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