In a compelling book that evokes the writings of Thoreau, Muir, and Jack London, Krakauer recounts the haunting and tragic mystery of 22-year-old Chris McCandless who disappeared in April 1992 into the Alaskan wilderness in search of a...

Spanning an extraordinary range of subjects and locations, these ten gripping essays show why Jon Krakauer is considered a standard-bearer of modern journalism. His pieces take us from a horrifying avalanche on Mount Everest to a volcano...

Greg Mortenson, the bestselling author of Three Cups of Tea, is a man who has built a global reputation as a selfless humanitarian and children's crusader, and he's been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. But, as Jon Krakauer...

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

"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,...

Under the Banner of Heaven von Krakauer, Jon

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

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...

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...

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...

"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