Jon Krakauer
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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, vis mere 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) vis mindre
Værker af Jon Krakauer
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster {abridged audio} (1997) — Author & Reader — 97 eksemplarer
How Chris McCandless Died: An Update 2 eksemplarer
Loving Them to Death 1 eksemplar
Eiger Dreams by Jon Krakauer (1992-08-01) 1 eksemplar
Outside, September 1996 (Into Thin Air) 1 eksemplar
Rocky Times for Banff 1 eksemplar
A new vision for a museum on the Mall 1 eksemplar
High and Hallowed 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places (1999) — Forord, nogle udgaver — 475 eksemplarer
In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic (1917) — Forord, nogle udgaver — 425 eksemplarer
Prophet's Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints (2011) — Forord — 329 eksemplarer
Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer (2011) — Forord — 213 eksemplarer
The mountain of my fear {and} Deborah : a wilderness narrative (1991) — Forord, nogle udgaver — 65 eksemplarer
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- Fødselsdato
- 1954-04-12
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
- Bopæl
- Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
Corvallis, Oregon, USA
Seattle, Washington, USA
Boulder, Colorado, USA - Uddannelse
- Hampshire College (1977 | Environmental Studies)
- Erhverv
- mountaineer
journalist
editor, Exploration series - Organisationer
- Outside
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1999)
- Agent
- John Ware
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True story: Young "supertramp" dies alone after eating potatoe seeds. i Name that Book (januar 2013)
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- 4.0
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- 352
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I do give the book 2 stars just because Jon Krakauer is a good author (in my opinion).