Sebastian Junger
Autor de La tormenta perfecta una historia real de la lucha de los hombres contra el mar
Sobre El Autor
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 mostrar más 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. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
Obras de Sebastian Junger
Sea Stories Collection: "In the Heart of the Sea", "The Perfect Storm", "Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea" (2001) — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them (2006) — Contribuidor — 391 copias
Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do (2013) — Contribuidor — 182 copias
Fire Fighters: Stories of Survival from the Front Lines of Firefighting (2002) — Contribuidor — 13 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Junger, Sebastian
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1962-01-17
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Belmont, Massachusetts, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Belmont, Massachusetts, USA
- Educación
- Wesleyan University (BA | Cultural Anthropology)
- Ocupaciones
- journalist
author - Relaciones
- Deghati, Reza (colleague)
- Organizaciones
- Vanity Fair
- Premios y honores
- National Magazine Award
SAIS Novartis Prize for journalism - Biografía breve
- Sebastian Junger is a freelance journalist and award-winning author with expertise in covering dangerous work around the globe. He has reported from such places as Liberia, Sierra Leone, Kosovo, Kashmir, Cyprus, the American West and, most recently, Afghanistan.
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- Obras
- 19
- También por
- 14
- Miembros
- 11,728
- Popularidad
- #2,005
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 266
- ISBNs
- 205
- Idiomas
- 13
- Favorito
- 10
En octubre de 1991 tuvo lugar lo que los meteorólogos denominaron «la tormenta del siglo», un fenómeno imprevisto que azotó la costa este de Norteamérica fruto de una insólita combinación de factores. Con olas de más de treinta metros de altura y vientos de 180 kilómetros por hora, la tormenta sacudió el mar con una violencia extraordinaria.
En La tormenta perfecta, Junger describe las condiciones que dieron lugar a este hecho sin precedentes y reconstruye minuciosamente tres emocionantes historias, la de los seis tripulantes del pesquero Andrea Gail –que desaparecieron a cientos de kilómetros de su hogar en Gloucester, Massachusetts–, la de un velero atrapado en plena tormenta y la del rescate de los tripulantes de un helicóptero de salvamento que cayó al mar.
A partir de una extensa serie de fuentes, que van de comunicaciones por radio a relatos de testigos, Junger recrea con impresionante tensión narrativa la lucha de estos hombres por su supervivencia y traza un magnífico retrato de la gente de mar.
Convertida en un bestseller desde su aparición en 1997, esta crónica sobrecogedora está considerada ya un clásico del género.… (más)