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Classic Krakauer: Essays on Wilderness and Risk by Jon Krakauer
$25.00 AUD
Category: Sport
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
$22.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
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
$25.00 AUD
Category: Biography | 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
$22.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
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
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Picador Collection
Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild examines the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man who walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later. In April 1992, Chris McCandless set off alone into the Alaskan wild. He had given his savings to charit ...Show more
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
$21.00 AUD
Category: History
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 Violent Faith (US ed.) by Jon Krakauer
$25.00 AUD
Category: Crime
Krakauer shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief in this true story of an appalling double murder committed by two Mormon Fundamentalist brothers who insist God commanded them to kill.
Under the Banner of Heaven (TV Tie-In) by Jon Krakauer
$25.00 AUD
Category: American
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
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