Top ten books about the hostile ocean

Cynan Jones's latest book is Cove. One of his ten top books about the hostile ocean, as shared at the Guardian:

The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger

When warm air from a low-pressure system collides with a flow of cool, dry air generated by high pressure, and this coincides with tropical moisture provided by a hurricane, the situation is ripe for a “perfect storm”. Such a storm is at the centre of this true account of the disaster that beset the Andrea Gail and its crew, out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, on a late-season fishing expedition in 1991.

Rarely has a book battered me with so many astounding facts and figures – how much power a lightning strike delivers, how long trawl lines can be, the numbers behind waves … I read this book a long time ago, but it remains vivid in my mind.

Read about the other entries on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue