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Classic Krakauer : essays on wilderness and risk
- Title
- Classic Krakauer : essays on wilderness and risk / Jon Krakauer.
- Author
- Krakauer, Jon
- Publication
- New York : Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2019.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 20-1619 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 181 pages; 21 cm
- 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 instinct for storytelling and scoop, these pieces are unified by the author's ambivalent love affair with unruly landscapes and his relentless search for truth"--
- Uniform Title
- Essays. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Essays.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Essays.
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Anecdotes.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFD 20-1619
- ISBN
- 9781984897695
- 1984897691
- LCCN
- 2019018697
- OCLC
- 1090758078
- Author
- Krakauer, Jon, author.
- Title
- Classic Krakauer : essays on wilderness and risk / Jon Krakauer.
- Publisher
- New York : Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2019.
- Edition
- First Anchor Books edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Form:
- Online version: Krakauer, Jon, author. Classic Krakauer First Anchor Books edition. New York : Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2019 9780525562733 (DLC) 2019021956
- Research Call Number
- JFD 20-1619