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Jon Krakauer's acclaimed account of a disastrous expedition on Mt Everest.

What would possess a gifted young man recently graduated from college to literally walk away from his life?

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From the bestselling author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, a riveting account of Taliban-like theocracies in the American heartland controlled by renegade Mormon prophets.

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Spanning an extraordinary range of subjects and locations, these ten gripping essays show why Jon Krakauer is considered a standard-bearer of modern journalism. His pieces take us from a horrifying avalanche on Mount Everest to a volcano poised to obliterate a big chunk of Seattle, from a wilderness teen-therapy program run by apparent sadists to an otherworldly cave in New Mexico, studied by NASA to better understand Mars, from the notebook o...

Il 24 luglio 1984 Dan e Ron Lafferty uccisero a sangue freddo la cognata Brenda e la nipotina di appena un anno. Per nulla pentiti, sostennero di averlo fatto perché "ispirati da Dio". Com'è possibile che fatti del genere siano avvenuti alle soglie del ventunesimo secolo, nell'avanzatissima America? Per trovare una risposta, Jon Krakauer ha iniziato un'inchiesta che in breve si è trasformata in una vera e propria discesa agli inferi tra i "tal...

Pubblicate inizialmente su prestigiose riviste come New Yorker, Outside e Smithonian, queste storie dimostrano in modo lampante perché Krakauer è considerato il maestro del giornalismo contemporaneo d'avventura. Dal leggendario alpinista americano Fred Beckey, un dirtbag climber che ha aperto centinaia di nuove vie in oltre settant'anni di attività, agli ultimi, tragici, giorni dell'altrettanto leggendario surfista Mark Foo, che non ha saputo ...

Er gehört zur Crème de la Crème des investigativen Journalismus in Amerika - der Bestsellerautor Jon Krakauer schrieb zahlreiche Reportagen und Essays für Magazine wie The New Yorker, Outside oder das Smithsonian. Dieser Band vereint neun dieser packenden Storys und offenbart das breite Spektrum seiner einzigartigen Berichterstattung. Krakauer versetzt uns in atemberaubende und faszinierende Situationen: in eine dramatische Lawinenkatastrophe ...

Missoula, Montana, è una tipica città universitaria come ce ne sono in tutto il mondo. Dal 2008 al 2012 nel campus dell'università sono stati denunciati ben 350 casi di violenza sessuale, meno probabilmente di quanti non ne siano avvenuti e ben più di quanti non siano poi stati effettivamente condannati. Gli stupri perpetrati da conoscenti sono un tipo di crimine molto particolare, perché spesso la vittima desta più sospetti del presunto viole...

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Driving west out of Atlanta, he intended to invent an utterly new life for himself, one in which he would be free to wallow in unfiltered experience . . . No longer would he answer to Chris McCandless, he was now Alexander Supertramp, master of his own destiny.In April 1992, Chris McCandless set off alone into the Alaskan wild. He had given his savings to charity, abandoned his car and his possessions, and burnt the money in his wallet, determ...

No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant hardships and victories more brilliantly than critically acclaimed author Jon Krakauer. In this collection of his finest work from such magazines as Outside and Smithsonian, he explores the subject from the unique and memorable perspective of one who has battled peaks like K2, Denali, Everest, and, of course, the Eiger. Always with a keen eye, an open heart, and a hunger for the ultimate exp...

The bestselling author of Into the Wild, Into Thin Air and Under the Banner of Heaven delivers a stunning, eloquent account of a hero - a millionaire sports star who gave it all up to fight with the US Army in Afghanistan, only to be killed by one of his own platoon.

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We raised our fists and cheered. . . . With the sagas in our heads, with Iceland at its wildest beneath our boots, it would not have been impossible to see Bárdr clumping along the summit ridge, prodding the glacier with his staff, ready to show us the way down."Iceland is a pictorial classic on one of the last "undiscovered" countries in Europe--reissued for the first time in paperback. Iceland is often thought to be covered by ice, but in fa...

In a compelling book that evokes the writings of Thoreau, Muir, and Jack London, Krakauer recounts the haunting and tragic mystery of 22-year-old Chris McCandless who disappeared in April 1992 into the Alaskan wilderness in search of a raw, transcendent experience. His emaciated corpse was discovered four months later. Maps. NPR sponsorship.