Tento autor sa zaoberá hlbokými otázkami ľudskej skúsenosti, často skúma témy vojny, prežitia a hraníc ľudskej odolnosti. Jeho písanie je charakteristické prenikavým pozorovaním a schopnosťou zachytiť surovú realitu situácií, ktoré testujú ľudského ducha. S neochvejným zameraním na pravdu a etiku žurnalistiky sa Junger snaží priniesť čitateľom autentické a pôsobivé príbehy. Jeho práca podnecuje k zamysleniu nad povahou odvahy, komunity a inherentnými rizikami, ktorým ľudia čelia pri prekonávaní vlastných limitov.
For one year, in 2007-2008, Sebastian Junger accompanied 30 men, a single platoon, from the storied 2nd battalion of the U.S. Army as they fought their way through a remote valley in eastern Afghanistan. Over the course of five trips, Junger was in more firefights than he could count, as men he knew were killed or wounded and he himself was almost killed. Junger gives us insight into the truths of combat: the fear, the honour, and the trust among men. He describes the endless, body-numbing anticipation of battle; the unquestioned and automatic risks soldiers take; and the adrenaline-fuelled confusion of being ambushed
October 1991. It was "the perfect storm"--a tempest that may happen only once in a century--a nor'easter created by so rare a combination of factors that it could not possibly have been worse. Creating waves ten stories high and winds of 120 miles an hour, the storm whipped the sea to inconceivable levels few people on Earth have ever witnessed. Few, except the six-man crew of the Andrea Gail, a commercial fishing boat tragically headed towards its hellish center.
A riveting collection of literary journalism by the bestselling author 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 nature and human nature. Few writers have been to so many disparate and desperate corners of the globe. Fewer still have met the standard of great 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.
From the author of THE PERFECT STORM and WAR comes a book about why men miss war, why Londoners missed the Blitz, and what we can all learn from American Indian captives who refused to go home. Tribe is a look at post-traumatic stress disorder and the challenges veterans face returning to society. Using his background in anthropology, Sebastian Junger argues that the problem lies not with vets or with the trauma they've suffered, but with the society to which they are trying to return. One of the most puzzling things about veterans who experience PTSD is that the majority never even saw combat--and yet they feel deeply alienated and out of place back home. The reason may lie in our natural inclination, as a species, to live in groups of thirty to fifty people who are entirely reliant on one another for safety, comfort and a sense of meaning: in short, the life of a soldier. It is one of the ironies of the modern age that as affluence rises in a society, so do rates of suicide, depression and of course PTSD. In a wealthy society people don't need to cooperate with one another, so they often lead much lonelier lives that lead to psychological distress. There is a way for modern society to reverse this trend, however, and studying how veterans react to coming home may provide a clue to how to do it. But it won't be easy.
A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and
what might follow—by the bestselling author of Tribe and The Perfect Storm.
'Mind blowingly brilliant' PHILIPPA PERRY
Een spectaculaire geschiedenis van de mens in strijd met de zee
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In oktober 1991 raast een gigantische storm voor de Amerikaanse oostkust, die vele vissers en hun familie, maar ook de reddingsdiensten, menig spannend uur bezorgt.
