Books by Jon Krakauer

By examining the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man, who in 1992 walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated ... More

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Jon Krakauer's literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. In UNDER THE BANNER OF HEAVEN, he shifts ... More

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Last spring, Jon Krakauer, the acclaimed author of "Into the Wild", undertook a magazine assignment about expensive adventure/thrill trips around the ... More

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This text provides an account of Taliban-like theocracies in the American heartland controlled by renegade Mormon prophets. At the core of the book ... More

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Journalist Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. The ... More

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The bestselling author of "Into the Wild", "Into Thin Air" and "Under the Banner of Heaven" delivers a stunning, eloquent account of a hero - a ... More

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No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant victories and hardships more brilliantly than Jon Krakauer. In this collection of his finest ... More

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Now available in paperback comes the bestselling adventure book by Jon Krakauer, the acclaimed author of "Into the Wild". When disaster struck during ... More

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The story of a 24-hour period on Everest, when members of three separate expeditions struggled for survival when they were caught in a storm and ... More

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In 1999, Lowe's husband Alex died tragically in an avalanche on the Himalayan mountains. Through letters and expedition notes from Alex, "Forget Me ... More

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This is the true story of a 24-hour period on Everest, when members of three separate expeditions were caught in a storm and faced a battle against ... More

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For generations of adventurers, from George Mallory to Sir Edmund Hillary, to Jon Krakauer, Mount Everest and the world's greatest peaks have ... More

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An acclaimed mountaineer delivers an exhilarating chronicle that brings the reader inside the daredevil world of those who risk their lives to climb, ... More

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"Originally published digitally in the United States by Byliner, Inc., in 2011"--T.p. verso.

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A pictorial classic on one of the last "undiscovered" countries is offered by David Roberts and Jon Krakauer, author of "Into Thin Air". While ... More

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When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10,1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from ... More

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In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was ... More

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Two of Roberts' most sought-after works collected into one volume.

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"Deborah originally published by Vanguard Press, 1970. The Mountain of My Fear originally published by Vanguard Press, 1968."

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In 1963, Jim Whittaker became the first American to summit Everest via the South Col route. Roughly two weeks after Whittaker's achievement, Tom ... More

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En 1996 Jon Krakauer partio hacia el Himalaya para escribir un reportaje sobre la creciente explotacion comercial del Everest. Su intencion era ... More

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For this singular collection, Joyce Carol Oates selected fifty-five unforgettable essays by the finest American writers of the twentieth century. ... More

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