Fire
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- ISBN13: 9780060088613
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
A riveting collection of literary television journalism by the bestselling leader of The Perfect Storm, capped off brilliantly by a new Afterword and a timely essay about war-torn Afghanistan — a superb eyewitness report about the Taliban’s defeat in Kabul — new to book form.
Sebastian Junger has made a specialty of bringing to life the drama of scenery and human scenery. Few writers have been to so many disparate and desperate corners of the globe. Fewer still have met the standard of fantastic television journalism more consistently. None has provided more starkly memorable evocations of extreme events. From the murderous mechanics of the diamond trade in Sierra Leone, to an inferno forest fire burning out of control in the steep canyons of Idaho, to the forensics of genocide in Kosovo, this collection of Junger’s reporting will take readers to places they need to know about but wouldn’t dream of going on their own. In his company we travel to these places, pass through frightening checkpoints, actual and psychological, and come face-to-face with the truth.Amazon.com Review
The events explored in Fire focus on “people confronting situations that could easily ruin them,” and as he demonstrated in The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger is skilled at breaking such situations down to their core fundamentals. In this exciting book, he reports on raging forest fires in the Western U.S, war zones in Kosovo and Afghanistan, the deadly diamond trade in Sierra Leone, the plight of travelers kidnapped by guerrillas in Kashmir, the last living whale harpooner on the Caribbean island of Bequia, and the Greek-Turkish conflict on Cyprus. There is also a fascinating chapter on John Colter (explorer, fur trader, and member of the Corps of Discovery led by Lewis and Clark) in which he comments on the need for some to seek adventure as a means of escape from our relatively safe modern world: “Life in modern society is designed to eliminate as many unforeseen events as possible, and as inviting as that seems, it leaves us hopelessly underutilized…. Threats to our safety and comfort have been so completely wiped out that we have to go out of our way to make them.” Junger has a keen grasp on this mentality (in fact, he exhibits it himself), and in Fire he clearly clarifies the fears and difficulties involved in reporting on treacherous events from foreign countries: “You have two weeks to know a completely alien culture, find a tale that no one has heard of, and run it into the ground. It never feels even remotely possible. But it is.” And he has done it well in this thrilling book. –Shawn Carkonen
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I thought I bought a book about fighting forest fires, you can fool me hopefully only once, see you later Junger you’ll never see another penny of my money.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
What a dissapointment!! I’m not judging FIRE comparing it to THE PERFECT STORM. I reflect it’s not permanently that a writer can repeat the success of his previous winning book.
The distress is that I never have imagined tha Junger would gor for some simple money, misleading his fans, releasing a book with OLD magazine articles, lacking EVEN REVISING THEM! THat was what shocked me the most!!
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
After so much success with PERFECT STORM, Junger rapidly unrestricted another book.
But, to my surprise, it was not made of original material1 IT’s just a compilation of ancient magazine articles from ancient times!!
Come on, Junger, you can do better than that to cash some more money!
This intention behind this book is so commercial, that they even used terribly tiny letter type in the mass market papaerback edition, to lower the number of pages and, consenquently, the cost, while selling the book all the same by thu usual US$ 7.99! Bring shame on on you, Mr. Junger!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Amazingly enough I ran onto an excert of the book “Fire” by Mr. Junger in “Vanity Honest” magazine having nothing else to look at and waiting for time to pass. I was immediatly attracted to the article, which only told about the forest fire fighting, because my father was a forest fire fighter with the BLM. I ate up the article and immediatly ordered 2 books. One for myself and one for my father. This is when Amazon.com did not have a full review or much info on it at all. The magazine article did not mention anywhere about the book having “additional” tales in it not related to fire fighting. After page 43 I was dissappointed and bored. It was “forced” reading after that. The magazine excerpt was nearly the exact 43 pages from the book. I could have saved my money and just hackneyed the magazine article. The book should have been called “Collected tales of treacherous jobs and political situations” or something. Vanity Honest and the title and take in of the book were very MISLEADING as to the content of the book and though I loved “The Perfect Storm” (the movie) and the first part of “Fire”, I was very disappointed. I hope my dad doesn’t throw out the book.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
What a dissapointment, coming after his fantastic debut, THE PERFECT STORM. THis is a loose collection of magazine articles published previously by the leader, lacking even new research… Maybe his editor wanted to cash in as fas as possible in the wake of PERFECT STORM’s success, adn JUnger had not the time to come up with something new and really excellent. So, he got his scrap book, and thcam tcham!! This book was born!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5