Classic Krakauer: Mark Foo's Last Ride, After the Fall, and Other Essays

Jon Krakauer

Classic Krakauer: Mark Foo's Last Ride, After the Fall, and Other Essays
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Country
United States
Published
5 November 2019
Pages
160
ISBN
9781984897695

Classic Krakauer: Mark Foo’s Last Ride, After the Fall, and Other Essays

Jon Krakauer

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.

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.

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