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562775395 |
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20190501181530.0 |
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020206s2010 nyuabf b 000 0 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2010010193 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780767928847 |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0767928849 |
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(OCoLC)562775395 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
551.46/3 |
| Edition number |
22 |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
551.463 |
| Item number |
.C2688w |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Casey, Susan, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1962- |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The wave : |
| Remainder of title |
in pursuit of the rogues, freaks, and giants of the ocean |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Susan Casey |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
1st ed |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Doubleday, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
c2010 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
326 p., [16] p. of plates : |
| Other physical details |
ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; |
| Dimensions |
25 cm |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-324) |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
The grand empress -- Broken skulls -- Schrodinger's wave - - Karma, tiger sharks, and the golden carrot -- Wave good- bye -- Mavericks -- "I never saw anything like it" -- Killers -- Heavy weather -- Egypt -- Out, way out, on the Cortes bank -- The wild coast -- At the edge of the horizon |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
Investigates colossal ship-swallowing rogue waves and the surfers who seek them out. For centuries, mariners have spun tales of gargantuan waves, 100 feet high or taller. Until recently scientists dismissed these stories; waves that high would seem to violate the laws of physics. But in the past few decades, as a number of ships have vanished and new evidence has emerged, oceanographers realized something was brewing in the planet's waters. They found their proof in February 2000, when a British research vessel was trapped in a vortex of impossibly mammoth waves in the North Sea, including several approaching 100 feet. Scientists scramble to understand this phenomenon. Yet extreme surfers fly around the world trying to ride the ocean's ultimate challenges. The sport's pioneer, Laird Hamilton, with a group of friends in Hawaii, figured out how to board waves of 70 and 80 feet. The exploits of Hamilton and his fellow surfers are juxtaposed against scientists' urgent efforts to understand the destructive powers of waves, from the tsunami that wiped out 250,000 people in the Pacific in 2004 to the 1,740 foot wave that recently leveled part of the Alaskan coast. The book portrays human beings confronting nature at its most ferocious. -- Publisher info |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Rogue waves |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Surfing |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Ocean waves |
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Oceanography |
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