Jon Krakauer ha seleccionado 8 artículos y 2 ensayos que narran desde una terrible avalancha en el Everest hasta cómo un volcán está punto de destruir una gran parte de Seattle; desde un programa de terapia para adolescentes...
-Mal de altura- se ha convertido en una lectura obligada para todo amante de la literatura de montaña, de aventura o de viajes. Un -best seller- internacional tanto por la calidad de la historia como por el acierto con el que su autor, Jon Krakauer...
El 24 de julio de 1984, Allen Lafferty, un mormón practicante, se encontró con una escena terrible: su mujer y su hija de quince meses habían sido brutalmente asesinadas. Allen no tenía ninguna duda de la identidad de los culpa...
Mal de altura se ha convertido en una lectura obligada para todo amante de la literatura de montaña, de aventura o de viajes. Un best seller internacional tanto por la calidad de la historia como por el acierto con el que su autor, Jon Krakauer,...
Tillman había renunciado a un contrato millonario con la Liga de Fútbol americano (NFL) para alistarse en el Ejército, tras el fuerte impacto que tuvieron sobre él los atentados del 11-S de 2001. Pero dos años más...
Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air 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 hurricane-force winds, exposure, and the effects of altitude, which ended in...
Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild examines the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man who walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later.
Spanning an extraordinary range of subjects and locations, these ten gripping essays show why Jon Krakauer is considered a standard-bearer of modern journalism.
No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant hardships and victories more brilliantly than critically acclaimed author Jon Krakauer. In this collection of his finest work from such magazines as Outside and Smithsonian , he explores the subject...
âThe late Siegfried Kracauer was best known as a historian and critic of the cinema. His main intellectual preoccupation during the last years of his life was the relation between past and present, and the relation between histories in...
In May 2002, Pat Tillman walked away from his $3.6 million NFL contract to enlist in the United States Special Operation Forces. He was deeply troubled by 9/11, and felt a strong moral obligation to join the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Two...
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER ⢠The epic account of the storm on the summit of Mt. Everest that claimed five lives and left countless more-including Krakauer's-in guilt-ridden disarray.Â
No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant victories and hardships more brilliantly than Jon Krakauer. In this collection of his finest essays and reporting, Krakauer writes of mountains from the memorable perspective of one who has himself stru...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ⢠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. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. This is the...