The Ship and the Storm, Jim Carrier
The Ship and the Storm, Jim Carrier
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The Ship and the Storm
Hurricane Mitch and the Loss of the Fantome

Author: Jim Carrier

Narrator: Robertson Dean

Unabridged: 11 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/21/2020

Synopsis

Captain Guyan March had spent his entire professional career aboard Windjammer Barefoot Cruises’ fleet of extravagant tall ships that carry passengers on weeklong fantasy cruises spiced with rum and sun. When he agreed to command the Fantome, Windjammer’s marquee ship, a beautiful 282-foot schooner that “sailed like a pig” in the Gulf of Honduras, he knew that a storm would leave him little space to run. In the southern reaches of the Caribbean, Tropical Storm Mitch whirled to life like a nebula and became Captain March’s worst nightmare—a category five storm with 180-mile-per-hour winds and fifty-foot seas. After discharging his passengers in Belize, Captain March and his crew, most of them West Indians, took the $20 million uninsured tall ship out to sea to dodge the approaching storm. What ensued was a deadly game of cat and mouse that confounded experts’ predictions and cornered the Fantome with eerie precision.Based on journalist Jim Carrier’s exhaustive research and hundreds of interviews, The Ship and the Storm explores the story of the Fantome and Hurricane Mitch from every angle. From the deck of the ship, to the research planes flying into the eye of the hurricane, to islanders and coastal villagers in a desperate battle for survival, The Ship and the Storm is the heartbreaking and horrifying story of the most destructive hurricane in Western Hemisphere history.

About Jim Carrier

Jim Carrier is an award-winning journalist, civil rights activist, and filmmaker. He has written ten books, produced documentaries on civil rights, been published in National Geographic and the New York Times, and produced multimedia projects for the Southern Poverty Law Center. His reporting has been broadcast on NPR and PBS, and was included in Best American Science and Nature Writing. Volunteering at the Southern Poverty Law Center, he wrote Ten Ways to Fight Hate, a community guide distributed to one million officials and human rights activists. Carrier developed Tolerance.org, which won two Webbys for activist websites and produced the film Faces in the Water which shows every thirty minutes at the Civil Rights Memorial. He and his daughter, Amy, descend from Martha Carrier who was hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. His wife, Trish O’Kane, PhD, is a lecturer in environmental education at the University of Vermont.

About Robertson Dean

Robertson Dean has played leading roles on and off Broadway and at dozens of regional theaters throughout the country. He has a BA from Tufts University and an MFA from Yale. His audiobook narration has garnered ten AudioFile Earphones Awards. He now lives in Los Angeles, where he works in film and television in addition to narrating.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lori

Gripping, haunting, tragic... well researched and written from a fairly objective perspective (there was a lot of blame flying around in the face of this tragedy). I sailed with Windjammer on the Yankee Clipper less than a year after the Fantome was lost. I travelled with a large group of veteran Wi......more

Goodreads review by Hugh

The Ship and the Storm was about a famous Windjammer called Fantome said by a Captain Guyan off the Yucatan Peninsula. There is a hurricane, Mitch, that comes on a collision course with the boat. I remember Mitch but had forgotten how devastating it was and how poorly forecasted it was. What happens......more

Goodreads review by Stefanie

The Fantome was a schooner, also known as a tall ship, last owned by Windjammer Barefoot Cruises. (It was once owned by the Duke of Westminster, which I thought was a tremendously interesting fact, and it also mentioned several famous names that had been aboard prior to the last ownership.) The ship......more

Goodreads review by Susan

This was a well researched and well written account of a terrible tragedy. The author chose not to blame Windjammer, the weather forecasters, Mike D. Burke or even Guyan March for the loss of the ship and crew. He leaves the reader to draw their own conclusions. It was a compelling read even with th......more

Goodreads review by Tom

Jim Carrier tells the story of The Ship and the Storm by using crew accounts, passenger interviews, surviving crew relatives and official weather related records. Anchored in the quiet waters of the Bay at Omoa, Honduras passengers excitedly board the Windjammer Cruise Ship Fantome. Feted with the fi......more

Quotes

“A remarkable work…An unfolding detective story whose protagonist is a storm that defies reliable forecasting, and a behind-the-scenes exposé.” New York Times

“[A] dark drama of duty and courage…Gripping but never exploitative.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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