Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro

by Rachel Slade

Maritime history is well documented and several excellent books have been published on the subject. I am grateful for the impressive scholarship found in the following works: The Way of the Ship: America’s Maritime History Reeinvisioned, 1600–2000, by Alex Roland, W. Jeffrey Bolster, and Alexander Keyssar; The Sea & Civilization: A Maritime History of the World by Lincoln Paine; The Maritime History of Massachusetts, 1783–1860 by Samuel Eliot Morison; The Forgotten Heroes: The Heroic Story of the United States Merchant Marine by Brian Herbert; Until the Sea Shall Free Them: Life, Death and Survival in the Merchant Marine by Robert Frump; America and the Sea: A Maritime History by Benjamin W. Labaree, William M. Fowler Jr., John B. Hattendorf, Jeffrey J. Safford, Edward W. Sloan, and Andrew W. German; and an obscure out of print volume published in 1958, The Maritime Story: A Study in Labor-Management Relations by Joseph P. Goldberg. And for anyone who still harbors a romantic view of the age of sail, Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr. will disabuse you of that notion.