Fire
By: Sebastian Junger
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton; W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780393010466
Subjects: Terrorism; World politics; Disasters; Low-intensity conflicts (Military science); Urban warfare
Description: "For readers and viewers of The Perfect Storm, opening this new work by Sebastian Junger will be like stepping off the deck of the Andrea Gail and into the inferno of a fire burning out of control in the steep canyons of Idaho. Here is the same meticulous prose brought to bear on the inner workings of a terrifying elemental force: here is a cast of characters risking everything in an effort to bring that force under control." "Few writers have been to so many desperate corners of the globe as has Sebastian Junger: fewer still have provided such starkly memorable evocations of characters and events. From the murderous mechanics of the diamond trade in Sierra Leone to the logic of guerrilla warfare in Afghanistan and the forensics of genocide in Kosovo, this new collection of Junger's nonfiction will take you places you wouldn't dream of going to on your own."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Fire -- (1992); title: Blowup : what went wrong at Storm King Mountain -- (1994); title: The whale hunters -- (1995); title: Escape from Kashmir -- (1996); title: Kosovo's valley of death -- (1998); title: Dispatches from a dead war -- (1999); title: Colter's way -- (1999); title: The forensics of war -- (1999); title: The terror of Sierra Leone -- (2000); title: The lion in winter-- (2001).