The Resource Classic Krakauer : essays on wilderness and risk, Jon Krakauer
Classic Krakauer : essays on wilderness and risk, Jon Krakauer
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The item Classic Krakauer : essays on wilderness and risk, Jon Krakauer represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Grosse Pointe Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
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The item Classic Krakauer : essays on wilderness and risk, Jon Krakauer represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Grosse Pointe Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
- Summary
- "The gripping articles collected in Classic Krakauer--originally published in magazines 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 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. Rigorously researched and vividly written, marked by an unerring instinctfor storytelling and scoop, these pieces are unified by the author's ambivalent love affair with unruly landscapes and his relentless search for truth"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Anchor Books edition.
- Extent
- 181 p.
- Contents
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- Mark Foo's last ride
- Living under the volcano
- Death and anger on Everest
- Descent to Mars
- After the fall
- Gates of the Arctic
- Loving them to death
- A clean, well-lighted place
- Fred Beckey is still on the loose
- Embrace the misery
- Isbn
- 9781984897695
- Label
- Classic Krakauer : essays on wilderness and risk
- Title
- Classic Krakauer
- Title remainder
- essays on wilderness and risk
- Statement of responsibility
- Jon Krakauer
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "The gripping articles collected in Classic Krakauer--originally published in magazines 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 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. Rigorously researched and vividly written, marked by an unerring instinctfor storytelling and scoop, these pieces are unified by the author's ambivalent love affair with unruly landscapes and his relentless search for truth"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- LBSOR/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Krakauer, Jon
- Dewey number
- 814/.54
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- American essays
- Wayfaring life
- Label
- Classic Krakauer : essays on wilderness and risk, Jon Krakauer
- Contents
- Mark Foo's last ride -- Living under the volcano -- Death and anger on Everest -- Descent to Mars -- After the fall -- Gates of the Arctic -- Loving them to death -- A clean, well-lighted place -- Fred Beckey is still on the loose -- Embrace the misery
- Control code
- BK0024608963
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Edition
- First Anchor Books edition.
- Extent
- 181 p.
- Isbn
- 9781984897695
- Lccn
- 2019018697
- Label
- Classic Krakauer : essays on wilderness and risk, Jon Krakauer
- Contents
- Mark Foo's last ride -- Living under the volcano -- Death and anger on Everest -- Descent to Mars -- After the fall -- Gates of the Arctic -- Loving them to death -- A clean, well-lighted place -- Fred Beckey is still on the loose -- Embrace the misery
- Control code
- BK0024608963
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Edition
- First Anchor Books edition.
- Extent
- 181 p.
- Isbn
- 9781984897695
- Lccn
- 2019018697
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