The Passenger: How a Travel Writer Learned to Love Cruises & Other Lies from a Sinking Ship

by Kwak, Chaney
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ISBN: 9781567926972
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Overview

In March 2019, the cruise ship Viking Sky was struck by a cyclone bomb in the Arctic Sea. Rocking by 50-foot swells and 40-knot gales, the ship's engines shut down as 1,373 trapped passengers were trapped far off the Norwegian coast--with no immediate chance of rescue. This is the suspenseful, harrowing, funny, touching story by one passenger who faced death aboard that ship.

Chaney Kwak is a travel writer and not one of those people who love cruises. But when his boss asked him to take a cruise to see the Northern Lights, he couldn't say no. Shortly after that, onboard the ship, he was stuffing his passport into his briefs in case his body was recovered: he wanted his parents to know the body was their son.
The storm that nearly sunk the Viking Sky off the notorious Hustadvika coast of western Norway was a major news story at the time. Knowing far less about the danger than people in the outside world, Mr. Kwak knew he was in deep trouble when he saw all the "thoughts and prayers" on Twitter. In prose that is immediately involving, the reader is taken along for an unforgettable and highly personal journey through one very dangerous cruise-- perfect for readers who love personal accounts of disasters and great storytelling.

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Author: Kwak, Chaney
  • ISBN: 9781567926972
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 7.60 x 1.10
  • Number Of Pages: 160
  • Publication Year: 2021

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