Out of the Noosphere: Adventure Sports Travel and the Environment: The Best of Outside Magazine

Inside the best of the first fifteen years of Outside Cartwheeling down a Himalayan river. Climbing Americas unfriendliest mountain. Dousing fires in the oil fields of Kuwait. Chasing African killer bees. For twenty years Outside magazine has devoted itself to original and engaging reports on travel adventure sports and the environment. This collection of the best of the stories from the first fifteen years features many of the countrys finest writers in a single volume: EDWARD ABBEY RICK BASS JOHN BRANT CHIP BROWN BILL BRYSON TIN CAHILL E. JEAN CARROLL PHIL GARLINGTON JIM HARRISON DONALD KATZ WILLIAM KITTREDGE JON KRAKAUER BARRY LOPEZ THOMAS MCGUANE BILL MCKIBBEN MICHAEL MCRAE PETER MATTHIESSEN PETER NELSON GEOFFREY NORMAN DAVID QUAMMEN BOB REISS DAVID ROBERTS ROB SCHULTHEIS BOB SHACOCHIS LAURENCE SHAMES GRANT SINS ANNICK SMITH RICK TELANDER BILL VAUGHN CRAIG VETTER RANDY WAYNE WHITE ED ZUCKERMAN Whether youre an armchair adventurer or a true-life trekker youll be at once entranced and exhilarated as you go Out of the Noösphere.