This edition has been updated to reflect new developments and includes new material obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.Pat Tillman walked away from a multimillion-dollar NFL contract to join the Army and became an icon of...

"Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman" von Jon Krakauer erzählt die bewegende und komplexe Lebensgeschichte von Pat Tillman, einem professionellen American-Football-Spieler, der nach den Anschlägen vom

Under the Banner of Heaven von Krakauer, Jon

"Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster" von Jon Krakauer ist ein packender Bericht über die tragischen Ereignisse, die sich 1996 am Mount Everest ereigneten. Krakauer, selbst Teil einer kommerziellen Expedition,...

National Bestseller A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He...

From the bestselling author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, Under The Banner of Heaven is a riveting account of Taliban-like theocracies in the American heartland controlled by renegade Mormon prophets. von Krakauer, Jon

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...

Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild examines true story of Chris McCandless, a young man, who in 1992 walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later, internationally bestselling...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Jon Krakauer's classic account of a gifted young man who chose literally to walk away from his life. By examining the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man, who in 1992 walked deep into the Alaskan...

"Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman" von Jon Krakauer ist eine biografische Erzählung über das Leben von Pat Tillman, einem professionellen American-Football-Spieler, der seine Karriere aufgab, um nach den Terroranschlägen am

In April 1992, a young man from a comfortable, middle-class family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mount McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. This book searches...

"Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith" von Jon Krakauer ist ein Sachbuch, das sich mit den extremen Auswüchsen des Glaubens innerhalb der Fundamentalistischen Kirche Jesu Christi der Heiligen der Letzten Tage (FLDS),...