Classic Krakauer: Mark Foo's Last Ride, After the Fall, and Other Essays [Idioma Inglés]: Essays on Wilderness and Risk - Softcover

Krakauer, Jon

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ISBN 10: 1984897691 ISBN 13: 9781984897695

Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2019

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"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

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From the bestselling author of Missoula and Into the Wild: a selection of the masterful investigative reporting that made Krakauer famous, covering topics from avalanches on Mount Everest to a volcano in Washington State; from a wilderness therapy program for teens to an extraordinary cave in New Mexico so unearthly that is used by NASA to better understand Mars.

The gripping articles collected in Classic Krakauer--originally published in periodicals such as The New Yorker, Outside, and Smithsonian--show why he is considered a standard-bearer of modern journalism. Spanning an extraordinary range of subjects and locations, these articles take us from a horrifying avalanche on Mount Everest to a volcano poised to obliterate a big chunk of greater Seattle at any moment; 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. Rigorously researched and vividly written, marked by an unerring instinct for storytelling and scoop, the pieces in Classic Krakauer are unified by the author's ambivalent love affair with unruly landscapes and his relentless search for truth.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1984897691
• ISBN 13: 9781984897695
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192