After the Storm

"Vivid, wise, and heartfelt. The crowning achievement of one of America's foremost sailing writers." —Nathaniel Philbrick, National Book Award-winning author of In the Heart of the Sea

"As captivating as it is unusual. Rousmaniere's descriptions of hurricanes and shipwrecks are among the best in the literature of the sea, but his book is far more than a sea story." —Philip Caputo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Rumor of War and The Voyage

After the Storm is John Rousmaniere's most ambitious work ever, the unique expression of a master storyteller. Each of the book's stories of seafaring disaster—many little known, all of deep human interest—tells of the hopes and choices that put these sailors in harm's way and shows us the immense and unopposable power of the sea. After the Storm combines all the harrowing twists of the best adventure writing with a search for meaning on multiple levels.

Author of Fastnet, Force 10, The Annapolis Book of Seamanship, and a dozen other top-selling books on the sea and maritime history, John Rousmaniere has appeared on the History Channel, CNN, and other networks to talk about storms at sea. Uniquely qualified to write about the sea and its meaning, he has sailed more than 35,000 bluewater miles and holds graduate degrees in history and theology.