Classic Krakauer

<b>Spanning an extraordinary range of subjects and locations these ten gripping essays show why Jon Krakauer is considered a standard-bearer of modern journalism. </b><br><br>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. <br><br>Bringing together work originally published in such magazines as <i>The New Yorker</i> <i>Outside</i> and <i>Smithsonian</i>&#151;all rigorously researched vividly written and marked by an unerring instinct for storytelling and scoop&#151;<i>Classic Krakauer</i> powerfully demonstrates the author&#146;s ambivalent love affair with unruly landscapes and his relentless search for truth.