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Classic Krakauer: Essays on Wilderness and Risk by Jon Krakauer
30.00 NZD
Category: Essays
The gripping articles collected in Classic Krakauer--originally published in periodicals such as The New Yorker, Outside, and Smithsonian--show why he is considered a standard-bearer of modern journalism. Spanning an extraordinary range of subjects and locations, these articles take us from a horrifying ...Show more
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
27.99 NZD
Category: Adventure | Reading Level: very good
Unabridged! When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering affects of oxygen deprivation. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous decent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers wer ...Show more
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Picador Collection
Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air is the true story of a 24-hour period on Everest, when members of three separate expeditions were caught in a storm and faced a battle against hurricane-force winds, exposure, and the effects of altitude, which ended in the worst single-season death toll in the peak's histor ...Show more
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
27.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
By examining the 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 author Jon Krakauer explores the obsession which leads some people to explore the outer limi ...Show more
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer
49.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
From bestselling author Jon Krakauer, a stark, powerful, meticulously reported narrative about a series of sexual assaults at the University of Montana --- stories that illuminate the human drama behind the national plague of campus rape Missoula, Montana, is a typical college town, with a highly regard ...Show more
Three Cups of Deceit by Jon Krakauer
24.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
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 demonstrates in this extensively researched and penetrating book, he is no ...Show more
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
29.99 NZD
Category: Religion
Brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty insist they were commanded to kill by God. Krakauer's investigation is a meticulously researched, bone-chilling narrative of polygamy, savage violence and unyielding faith: an incisive, gripping work of non-fiction that illuminates an otherwise confounding realm of human be ...Show more
Under the Banner of Heaven:A Story of a Violent faith by Jon Krakauer
37.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
A riveting account of Taliban-like theocracies in the American heartland controlled by renegade Mormon prophets from the best-selling author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air. Here, Krakauer shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief within the USA. At the c ...Show more
Under the Banner of Heaven (TV Tie-In) by Jon Krakauer
27.99 NZD
Category: History
True crime in the American heartland. Under the Banner of Heaven is a riveting account of Mormon fundamentalism and renegade prophets, from the bestselling author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air.Brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty insist they were commanded to kill by God. Jon Krakauer's investigation into ...Show more
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer
37.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
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 previous bestsellers, Pat Tillman was an irrepressible individualist and ...Show more
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