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Jon Krakauer is the author of Under the Banner of Heaven (2003), Erämaan armoille (2001), Somnis de l'Eiger (2000), Tunn luft (1999), Gåtefull død (1999).

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Under the Banner of Heaven

release date: Jan 01, 2003
Under the Banner of Heaven
Traces the 1984 murder of a woman and her child by fundamentalist Mormons, exploring the belief systems and traditions that mark the faith''s most extreme factions and what their practices reflect about the nature of religion in America.

Erämaan armoille

release date: Jan 01, 2001

Somnis de l'Eiger

release date: Jan 01, 2000

Tunn luft

release date: Jan 01, 1999

Gåtefull død

release date: Jan 01, 1999
Gåtefull død
I april haiket en ung mann fra en velstående familie til Alaska og forsvant alene inn i villmarken nord for Mt. McKinley. Hans navn var Christopher Johnson McCandless. Han hadde gitt bort 25 000 dollar av sparepengene sine til veldedighet, etterlatt bilen sin og mesteparten av sine eiendeler, brentalle kontanter i lommeboken og skapt seg et nytt liv. Fire måneder senere blir han funnet død av en elgjeger... Jon Krakauer gjenskaper et levende bilde av McCandless'' korte liv, og han forsøker å gi oss et svar på hva som drev den unge mannen, og hvilke lengsler han hadde. Det er en reise i en ungmanns rastløse fotspor, og hva som skjedde rundt hans mystiske død.

Ind i vildmarken

release date: Jan 01, 1999

Tragédie à l'Everest

release date: Jan 01, 1998
Tragédie à l'Everest
Je t''aime. Dors bien, ma chérie. Je t''en prie, ne te fais pas trop de souci. Telles furent les dernières paroles adressées à sa femme, en Nouvelle-Zélande, par Rob Hall, l''un des guides himalayens les plus expérimentés, depuis le sommet de l''Everest. Il ne devait pas en redescendre vivant. Le 10 mai 1996, le Toit du monde fut le théâtre d''une véritable hécatombe. En route vers le sommet, quatre expéditions furent prises dans une violente tempête. En vingt-quatre heures, huit alpinistes, dont deux guides réputés, trouvèrent la mort. Envoyé spécial du magazine américain Outside, Jon Krakauer faisait partie des survivants. Salué par le magazine Time comme le meilleur document de l''année 1997, ce livre lucide et courageux passionnera tous les amoureux de récits d''aventures vécues, amateurs de montagne ou non, comme il a fasciné des centaines de milliers de lecteurs américains qui en ont d''ores et déjà fait un classique.

Wszystko za Everest

release date: Jan 01, 1998

Into Thin Air

release date: Apr 22, 1997
Into Thin Air
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 effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly toward the top. No one had noticed that the sky had begun to fill with clouds. Six hours later and 3,000 feet lower, in 70-knot winds and blinding snow, Krakauer collapsed in his tent, freezing, hallucinating from exhaustion and hypoxia, but safe. The following morning, he learned that six of his fellow climbers hadn''t made it back to their camp and were desperately struggling for their lives. When the storm finally passed, five of them would be dead, and the sixth so horribly frostbitten that his right hand would have to be amputated. Into Thin Air is the definitive account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest by the acclaimed journalist and author of the bestseller Into the Wild. On assignment for Outside Magazine to report on the growing commercialization of the mountain, Krakauer, an accomplished climber, went to the Himalayas as a client of Rob Hall, the most respected high-altitude guide in the world. A rangy, thirty-five-year-old New Zealander, Hall had summited Everest four times between 1990 and 1995 and had led thirty-nine climbers to the top. Ascending the mountain in close proximity to Hall''s team was a guided expedition led by Scott Fischer, a forty-year-old American with legendary strength and drive who had climbed the peak without supplemental oxygen in 1994. But neither Hall nor Fischer survived the rogue storm that struck in May 1996. Krakauer examines what it is about Everest that has compelled so many people -- including himself -- to throw caution to the wind, ignore the concerns of loved ones, and willingly subject themselves to such risk, hardship, and expense. Written with emotional clarity and supported by his unimpeachable reporting, Krakauer''s eyewitness account of what happened on the roof of the world is a singular achievement. Into the Wild is available on audio, read by actor Campbell Scott.

Eiger Dreams

release date: Jan 01, 1997
Eiger Dreams
No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant victories and hardships more brilliantly than Jon Krakauer. In this collection of his finest essays and reporting, Krakauer writes of mountains from the memorable perspective of one who has himself struggled with solo madness to scale Alaska''s notorious Devils Thumb. In Pakistan, the fearsome K2 kills thirteen of the world''s most experienced mountain climbers in one horrific summer. In Valdez, Alaska, two men scale a frozen waterfall over a four-hundred-foot drop. In France, a hip international crowd of rock climbers, bungee jumpers, and paragliders figure out new ways to risk their lives on the towering peaks of Mont Blanc. Why do they do it? How do they do it? In this extraordinary book, Krakauer presents an unusual fraternity of daredevils, athletes, and misfits stretching the limits of the possible. From the paranoid confines of a snowbound tent, to the thunderous, suffocating terror of a white-out on Mount McKinley, Eiger Dreams spins tales of driven lives, sudden deaths, and incredible victories. This is a stirring, vivid book about one of the most compelling and dangerous of all human pursuits.

Voyage au bout de la solitude

release date: Jan 01, 1997
Voyage au bout de la solitude
En 1992, le cadavre d''un jeune homme est découvert dans un bus abandonné en Alaska, au pied du mont McKinley, loin de tout lieu habité. Fils de bonne famille, Chris McCandless aurait dû en toute logique devenir un Américain bien tranquille, cadre supérieur à l''avenir sans surprise, avec femme et enfants souriants et bien nourris. Intelligent, doué pour les études, il décide pourtant, dès l''obtention de son diplôme universitaire, de partir sur les routes, à l''aventure. Après avoir fait don de ses économies à une œuvre humanitaire, il entame son périple sous un nom d''emprunt avec sa vieille voiture qu''il abandonnera un peu plus tard. Il sillonne le sud des Etats-Unis, subsistant grâce à de menus travaux, et réalise enfin son grand projet: s''installer pour quelque temps au cœur de l''Alaska, seul, en communion avec la nature. Mais il n''est ni trappeur, ni homme des bois. Quand après plusieurs mois il veut rejoindre la civilisation, il en est empêché par une rivière en crue qui lui barre le passage. Son corps décharné sera retrouvé par des randonneurs quelques semaines plus tard. Ce parcours dramatique d''un jeune homme qui a voulu vivre jusqu''au bout son impossible idéal est retracé avec minutie par Jon Krakauer, un brillant écrivain-journaliste américain d''autant plus passionné par ce fait divers hors du commun qu''il retrouve en Chris McCandless les difficultés et les aspirations de sa propre jeunesse. Le récit de cette existence trop brève mais pleinement vécue est d''ores et déjà considéré comme un livre-culte, aux Etats-Unis bien sûr, mais également dans les neuf pays du monde où il a été publié, du Japon à l''Espagne en passant par la Chine et l''Italie.

Geologists Worry about Dangers of Living Under the Volcano

release date: Jan 01, 1996
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