In Hazard: Four Days of Terror at Sea - Softcover

Hughes, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1885031068 ISBN 13: 9781885031068

Publisher: Capstan Press, 1998

Synopsis

The story of a ship's and her crew's desperate struggle to survive the most powerful hurricane ever recorded.

About this title

About the Author:

Richard Hughes (1900—1976) attended Oxford and lived for most of his life in a castle in Wales. His books include The Fox in the Attic, The Wooden Shepherdess, and A High Wind in Jamaica. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and, in the United States, an honorary member of both the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1946.

John Crowley is the author of many critically acclaimed books, including Love & Sleep, Aegypt, and Little, Big. He lives in northern Massachusetts with his wife and twin daughters.

Review:

A tremendous piece of dramatic narrative description . . . magnificent. SUNDAY TIMES

To take the same subject as Conrad in TYPHOON would be foolhardy if it were not so triumphantly justified. GRAHAM GREEN -- From the Publisher

About this edition

• Publisher: Capstan Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1885031068
• ISBN 13: 9781885031068
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240