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

"Beautifully written and astutely observed. This is a marvelous book."--Washington Post "For fans of The Perfect Storm, In the Heart of the Sea, and Bill Bryson on his sassiest days."--Afar Travel Magazine and Guide Aboard a sinking cruise ship, a journalist faces death and reconsiders life. "If you're looking for a great read, look no further than The Passenger."--San Francisco Examiner In March 2019, the Viking Sky cruise ship was struck by a bomb cyclone in the North Atlantic. Rocked by 50-foot swells and 40-knot gales, the ship lost power and began to drift straight toward the notoriously dangerous Hustadvika coast in Norway. This is the suspenseful, harrowing, funny, touching story by one passenger who contemplated death aboard that ship. Chaney Kwak is a travel writer used to all sorts of mishaps on the road, but this is a first even for him: trapped on the battered cruise ship, he stuffs his passport into his underwear just in case his body has to be identified. As the massive