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Rough Water: Stories of Survival From The Sea
Written by David Lewis, F.A. Worsley, Herman Wouk and
Narrated by George Guidall, Graeme Malcolm, Rick Adamson and Simon Prebble
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
Hear the stories of men and women battling the elements, and sometimes each other, to stay alive, confronting savage storms, rogue waves, icebergs, sharks, starvation and their own fear and suffering.From Sebastian Junger’s The Whale Hunter to Herman Wouk’s The Caine Mutiny to Lawrence Beesley’s The Loss of The S.S. Titanic, Rough Water is a unique collection of the finest writing on why men and women go to sea, and what they find there.Rough Water is an adventure audiobook at its most compelling!
Author
David Lewis
Dr David Lewis read for a doctorate at the Department of Experimental Psychology, at the University of Sussex. After qualifying as a clinical psychologist and psychopathologist, that is someone who studies mental illness, he founded a registered UK charity to help people with stress and anxiety problems. More recently he set up a not-for-profit website, from which he provides free guidance and answer questions sent in by visitors. Over the past years, he has published more than 30 books on psychological topics, most of which can be purchased from Amazon or Amazon resellers. He has also appeared in numerous television and radio programmes on psychological and medical topics, including Secret Eaters and Embarrassing Bodies (Channel 4). He lives near Brighton on the south coast of England and is chairman of Mindlab International, an independent research laboratory based at the University of Sussex.
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Reviews for Rough Water
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Adrift was the best story. A couple of the other stories were ok.