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...

The bestselling author of Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, and Under the Banner of Heaven delivers a stunning, eloquent account of a remarkable young man's haunting journey. Like the men whose epic stories Jon Krakauer has told in his...

"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...