Extreme Earth

by Sebastian Junger

This volume celebrates the most dramatic and often the most dangerous places on the planet.

It is divided into four chapters: earth, fire, air and water.

Each section celebrates the natural world's most astonishing phenomena from the most active volcano to the driest desert

319 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Sebastian Junger is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of War, The Perfect Storm, Fire, and A Death in Belmont. Together with Tim Hetherington, he directed the Academy Award-nominated film Restrepo, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. He is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and has been awarded a National Magazine Award and an SAIS Novartis Prize for journalism. He lives in New York City.