About this product

Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-101984897691

ISBN-139781984897695

eBay Product ID (ePID)27038733548

Product Key Features

Book TitleClassic Krakauer : Essays on Wilderness and Risk

Number of Pages192 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2019

TopicSociology / General, Mountaineering, Essays, Sports

GenreSports & Recreation, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections

AuthorJon Krakauer

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight7.2 Oz

Item Length7.8 in

Item Width5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2019-018697

Reviews"Krakauer is a masterly writer and reporter." -- The New York Times Book Review "A first-rate journalist." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Krakauer is an extremely gifted storyteller as well as a relentlessly honest and evenhanded journalist." -- Elle "Jon Krakauer has made a name for himself by writing about impassioned individuals and the incredible lengths to which they go in pursuit of their goals." -- San Jose Mercury News

SynopsisSpanning 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 of one Fred Beckey, who catalogued the greatest unclimbed mountaineering routes on the planet, to the last days of legendary surfer Mark Foo. Bringing together work originally published in such magazines as The New Yorker , Outside , and Smithsonian -all rigorously researched, vividly written, and marked by an unerring instinct for storytelling and scoop- Classic Krakauer powerfully demonstrates the author's ambivalent love affair with unruly landscapes and his relentless search for truth., 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 of one Fred Beckey, who catalogued the greatest unclimbed mountaineering routes on the planet, to the last days of legendary surfer Mark Foo. Bringing together work originally published in such magazines as The New Yorker , Outside , and Smithsonian --all rigorously researched, vividly written, and marked by an unerring instinct for storytelling and scoop-- Classic Krakauer powerfully demonstrates the author's ambivalent love affair with unruly landscapes and his relentless search for truth.

LC Classification NumberPS3561.R238A6 2019