The Ship That Vanished

John Valliant's essay about the sinking of the Fantome, a Caribbean pleasure cruiser, during Hurricane Mitch in 1998, and the subsequent lawsuit. The disaster was the Atlantic’s worst sailing accident in over forty years. This selection is part of the full-length audiobook "Storm: Stories of Survival From Land and Sea."

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Should Be a Dollar

I’ve read and listened to most of Valliant’s books. This isn’t worth anything more than a dollar. I listened it so you don’t have to. It’s a very short excerpt of a book. Valliant’s style is there but the whole time you’re wishing for a longer story and a narrator that doesn’t sound so “clean cut”. There’s even an attempt at a Jamaican accent that threw me off.