by Sebastian Junger · Diana-Verlag · tapa dura · ISBN 9783828450080
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«Der Sturm. Die letzte Fahrt der Andrea Gail» is Sebastian Junger's nonfiction account, published by Diana-Verlag in hardcover (317 pages, in German).
On October 29, 1991, the fishing vessel Andrea Gail disappeared off the Canadian coast during a storm with waves over thirty meters high, with no time to send a distress call. Junger reconstructs the lives of the six crew members, fishermen from Gloucester, and the dangers of deep-sea fishing, based on testimony from meteorologists and sailors.
Original title: «The Perfect Storm» (1997). The German edition, translated by Eckhard Kiehl, appeared in 1998.
A read for those seeking true accounts of survival and maritime disasters with a documentary basis.
Sebastian Junger is an American journalist, author and filmmaker who has reported in-the-field on dirty, dangerous and demanding occupations and the experience of infantry combat. He is the author of The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (1997) which was adapted into a major motion picture and led to a resurgence in adventure creative nonfiction writing. He covered the War in Afghanistan for more than a decade, often embedded in dangerous and remote military outposts. The book War (2010) was drawn from his field reporting for Vanity Fair, that also served as the background for the documentary film Restrepo (2010) which received the Grand Jury Prize for best documentary at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Junger's works explore themes such as brotherhood, trauma, and the relationship of the individual to society as told from the far reaches of human experience.
