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Storm

Stories of Survival from Land and Sea

Storm( )
Editor: Willis, Clint
Author: Junger, Sebastian
Bass, Rick
Proulx, Annie
Conrad, Joseph
Tolstoy, Leo
Series title:Adrenaline Bks.
ISBN:978-1-56025-300-6
Publication Date:Nov 2000
Publisher:Hachette Books
Imprint:Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $28.99
Book Description:

Adrenaline Books’ search for the world’s best and most exciting reading has taken readers from the peaks of Everest to the jungles of Papua, New Guinea. Now, publishing’s most successful adventure literature series returns with Storm, first-hand accounts of battling the elements: hurricanes; blizzards; tornadoes; sandstorms -- in mountains, seas, plains, and jungles. Included are sections from sailors, climbers, captains, and other hardy souls, such as Patrick...
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Book Details
Pages:360
Detailed Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Survival
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.24 x 22.86 x 2.896 cm
Book Weight:0.58 Kilograms
Author Biography
Junger, Sebastian (Editor)
Sebastian Junger was born in 1962 in Belmont, Massachusetts. He received his BA degree from Wesleyan University in Cultural Anthropology in 1984. He is a freelance journalist who writes for numerous magazines, including Outside, American Heritage, Men's Journal, and the New York Times Magazine. As an underemployed journalist who assigned himself stories and worked as a stringer for the Associated Press in Bosnia, Junger was fascinated by the dangers that people face regularly while doing ordinary jobs.

Junger was working as a climber for a tree removal service when the storm occurred that provided the inspiration for his first book. The Perfect Storm (1997) is a carefully researched account of the wreck of the swordfishing boat Andrea Gail, The wreck took place during what one meteorologist called a "perfect storm"--a storm with the worst possible conditions. In order to relate the story of a disaster that left no survivors and had no eyewitnesses, Junger used a combination of sound research, technical detail, and personal insight to reconstruct the final hours. After the publication of this book he was nicknamed the new Hemingway. In 2000, this book was made into a film starring George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg.

He wrote several books such as War which is about his time spent with a U.S. Army platoon in Afghanistan. At the Sundance Film Festival in 2010 his documentary Restrepo won Grand Jury Prize for a domestic documentary.

Junger's book, Tribe, made the New York Times Bestseller list in 2016.

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