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, toon meer 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) toon minder
Werken van Jon Krakauer
De ijle lucht in het verslag van een huiveringwekkende Mount Everest-expeditie (1996) 14,110 exemplaren
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster {abridged audio} (1997) — Author & Reader — 97 exemplaren
How Chris McCandless Died: An Update 2 exemplaren
Loving Them to Death 1 exemplaar
Into the Wild By Jon Krakauer 1 exemplaar
Outside, September 1996 (Into Thin Air) 1 exemplaar
Rocky Times for Banff 1 exemplaar
A new vision for a museum on the Mall 1 exemplaar
High and Hallowed 1 exemplaar
Into the wild: nelle terre selvagge 1 exemplaar
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High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places (1999) — Voorwoord, sommige edities — 481 exemplaren
In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic (1917) — Voorwoord, sommige edities — 431 exemplaren
Prophet's Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints (2011) — Voorwoord — 331 exemplaren
Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer (2011) — Voorwoord — 216 exemplaren
The mountain of my fear {and} Deborah : a wilderness narrative (1991) — Voorwoord, sommige edities — 65 exemplaren
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- Geboortedatum
- 1954-04-12
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
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- Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
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- Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
Corvallis, Oregon, USA
Seattle, Washington, USA
Boulder, Colorado, USA - Opleiding
- Hampshire College (1977 | Environmental Studies)
- Beroepen
- mountaineer
journalist
editor, Exploration series - Organisaties
- Outside
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1999)
- Agent
- John Ware
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