Jon Krakauer
Autor/a de Cap a terres salvatges
Sobre l'autor
Jon Krakauer was born in Brookline, Massachusetts on April 12, 1954. He received a degree in environmental studies from Hampshire College in Massachusetts in 1976. He worked as a carpenter, fisherman, and writer. He articles on mountain climbing appeared in several publications including GQ, mostra'n més National Geographic, Architectural Digest, Playboy, The New Yorker, and Rolling Stone. In 1996, he climbed Mt. Everest, but a storm took the lives of four of the five teammates who reached the summit with him. An analysis of the calamity he wrote for Outside magazine received a National Magazine Award. An article he wrote for Smithsonian about volcanology received the 1997 Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism. He is the author of several books including Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster; Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith; Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman; Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way; and Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town. His book, Into the Wild, was made into a movie in 2007. He is also the editor of the Modern Library Exploration series. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Obres de Jon Krakauer
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster {abridged audio} (1997) — Author & Reader — 96 exemplars
How Chris McCandless Died: An Update 2 exemplars
Loving Them to Death 1 exemplars
Outside, September 1996 (Into Thin Air) 1 exemplars
Rocky Times for Banff 1 exemplars
A new vision for a museum on the Mall 1 exemplars
High and Hallowed 1 exemplars
Obres associades
High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places (1999) — Pròleg, algunes edicions — 465 exemplars
In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic (1917) — Prefaci, algunes edicions — 424 exemplars
Prophet's Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints (2011) — Prefaci — 320 exemplars
Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer (2011) — Pròleg — 203 exemplars
The mountain of my fear {and} Deborah : a wilderness narrative (1991) — Pròleg, algunes edicions — 63 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1954-04-12
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
Corvallis, Oregon, USA
Seattle, Washington, USA
Boulder, Colorado, USA - Educació
- Hampshire College (1977 | Environmental Studies)
- Professions
- mountaineer
journalist
editor, Exploration series - Organitzacions
- Outside
- Premis i honors
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1999)
- Agent
- John Ware
Membres
Converses
True story: Young "supertramp" dies alone after eating potatoe seeds. a Name that Book (gener 2013)
Ressenyes
Cap a terres salvatges de Jon Krakauer
Dons sí, ahir vaig acabar l'altre llibre que m'havia emportat de vacances, Cap a terres salvatges de Jon Krakauer (Símbol editors - Portàtil). La història d'un jove que ho abandona tot per viure la seva aventura i mor satisfet d'haver sobreviscut més de cent dies en ambient hostil. L'autor investiga les causes de la mort del jove, i ens explica les circumstàncies personals del personatge, els paisatges descrits són increïbles.
Llistes
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Read This Next (1)
Asia (1)
Allie's Wishlist (1)
Football (1)
Tagged Storms (1)
To Read (1)
Unread books (4)
Five star books (1)
Disaster Books (1)
Books I've Read (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 25
- També de
- 14
- Membres
- 45,638
- Popularitat
- #355
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 1,166
- ISBN
- 343
- Llengües
- 25
- Preferit
- 155
- Pedres de toc
- 1,061
