The Perfect Storm Book Report

The storm was a nor’easter (a North Atlantic cyclone) which absorbed Grace, a Category 2 hurricane, and which itself became a small hurricane before it subsided.

• The swordfish ships, at 70-80 feet, may seem large, but are tiny when compared to the size and strength of the ocean. Junger describes waves over 100 feet high and winds over 100 miles an hour.

• The overarching, dominant theme of the book is man versus nature.

• The Perfect Storm is a nonfiction account of fishermen and their loved ones in Gloucester, Massachusetts—a coastal town sustained for centuries by the fishing industry—in the autumn of 1991.