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Into the Wild from Anchor Price: $10.36 Customer Review:  This is an excellent true story about a part of our existance which has not been investigated all that much in modern literature. Into the Wild is a story of a young man (Chris McCandless) who wished to embark on some thoroughly testing and meaningful adventures in the North American wilderness,... |
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Under the Banner of Heaven : A Story of Violent Faith from Anchor Price: $10.17 Customer Review: It is not a new observation that religious zealotry and mental illness can be an extremely destructive combination. This book describes an example--in which Morman fundamentalist brothers (apparently) murder their sister-in-law and infant niece for religious reasons--while informing the reader about... |
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Into Thin Air : A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster from Anchor Price: $10.46 Customer Review: Into Thin Air, is a captivating and truly mesmerizing, first-hand account of the deadliest season in the history of climbing Mount Everest. On assignment from Outside magazine, Jon Krakauer, is to report about the commercialization of the world's highest mountain. He would attempt the daunting... |
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Eiger Dreams : Ventures Among Men and Mountains from Anchor Price: $9.71 Customer Review:  How to do justice to a writer like Krakauer....well, he's such a good writer that I feel any review I write would suffer compared to the source. Nevertheless, here I go. This is Krakauer's first book. It's a collection of his previously published articles on mountaineering (save the last one... |
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Under the Banner of Heaven from Doubleday |
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Iceland : Land of the Sagas from Villard Price: $13.57 Customer Review:  I am glad I got this book just for the text, which is excellent. But I'm surprised at rave reviews for the photos, which to me are absurd. They hardly explore Iceland's unique topography and instead turn it into a generic rugged Anywhere. Notice that in almost every photo there's some sign of... |
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High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places from Simon & Schuster Price: $10.20 Customer Review: In my opinion, there are three main genres of mountain books: Those that compile stories of expeditions and summits, like Mike Groom's book. Those that are an emotional tale of a man's life with mountain stories in between, like Jim Wickwire's. And those that have an outstanding mix of the two, like... |
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In the Land of White Death from Modern Library Price: $9.71 Customer Review: Albanov was a Russian navigator. In 1912 he set sail as second in command of the Saint Anna in the hopes of reaching Vladivostok across the Northeast Passage. His ship was locked in the pack ice in the Kara Sea and drifting northward. After 18 months locked in the ice, with supplies incapable of... |
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The Best American Essays of the Century from Houghton Mifflin Price: $25.00 Customer Review: Some good essays here, but a number of boring ones as well, if they had 100 years of essays to choose from, I'm suprised this was the best they could come up with. |
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Notes from The Century Before : A Journal from British Columbia (Modern Library Exploration) from Modern Library Price: $10.46 Customer Review: Two things brought my attention to this book. 1) Edward Hoagland's introductions in well known works of Thoreau and Muir, and 2) my interest in the beautiful expanse of wildness that is British Columbia. The book might be described as "quirky," and I have to wonder whether it was an influence in the... |
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High: Stories of Survival from Everest and K2 from Adrenaline Audiobooks Price: $21.21 Customer Review: I very much enjoyed and highly recommend this book. I've read many of the books from which these chapters are selected, yet there was much fresh material for me. The editing was so masterful that even though the chapters are from different writers, mountains, and times, they flowed together... |
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Into Thin Air from RH Audio Price-less Price: $12.23 |
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Epic: Stories of Survival from the World's Highest Peaks (The Adrenaline Series) from Adrenaline Audiobooks Price: $21.21 Customer Review: This book contains the greatest short stories about climbing that I have ever read. Each story is unique and as entertaining as the other. |
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster from Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media Price: $20.60 |
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In eisige H?hen. Das Drama am Mount Everest. from Piper |
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Into Thin Air from Villard |
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In die Wildnis. Allein nach Alaska. from Piper |
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Mal de Altura - Bolsillo from Suma de Letras Price: $11.70 |
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Into Thin Air : A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster from Books on Tape, Incorporated |
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High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Other Unforgiving Places from Canongate Books Ltd Customer Review: This is a terrific book which draws you into David Breashears' world. You follow his development from young rock climber to world class mountaineer and filmmaker. You also see his development as a person, all while drawing you into that exclusive club of mountaineers. He makes you feel his passion... |
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Into Thin Air : A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster from Books on Tape, Incorporated |
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Under The Banner Of Heaven from Books on Tape |
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High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Other Unforgiving Places from Canongate Books Ltd Customer Review: This is a terrific book which draws you into David Breashears' world. You follow his development from young rock climber to world class mountaineer and filmmaker. You also see his development as a person, all while drawing you into that exclusive club of mountaineers. He makes you feel his passion... |
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Into Thin Air the Illustrated Edition from Arcade Publishing |
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