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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...

Award-winning broadcasters and travel writers Jon Holmes and Antonia Windsor take to the travelogue in a brand news series of podcasts. First stop is Caribbean island of Saint Lucia where, in 5 episodes, they take on everything from ziplining through the tree canopy to bathing in hot springs, via rum tasting, chocolate making, driving inside a volcano and encountering giant guinea pigs in the jungle. (They also fit in some beach time). Glossy travel brochures are SO yesterday. Glossy travel podcasts are the future, so close your eyes and let us inspire you... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/...

Father and son - who are on a casual quest to hit as many ballparks as possible - talking baseball, travel and the lessons learned along the way.

No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant victories and hardships more brilliantly than Jon Krakauer. . In this collection of thirteen of his finest essays and reporting – including the essay, “Is Yosemite Going To The Dogs” – Krakauer writes of mountains from the memorable...

Spanning an extraordinary range of subjects and locations, these ten gripping essays show why Jon Krakauer is considered a standard-bearer of modern journalism. His pieces take us from a horrifying avalanche on Mount Everest to a volcano poised to obliterate a big chunk of Seattle; from a...

An award-winning author and photographer returns to the Arctic to document the effects of climate change. Forty years ago, the park ranger Jon Waterman took his first journey into the Alaskan Arctic, to the Noatak headwaters. He was astonished by the abundant wildlife, the strange landscape, and...

Můžeme utéct před něčím, co potřebujeme k životu nejvíc? Autor líčí příběh mladého muže z dobře situované rodiny, který tragicky zahynul při své osamělé pouti Amerikou v syrové aljašské divočině. Chtěl nalézt sám sebe, utéct před svazující společností, oprostit se od všeho zbytečného a dokázat, že člověk může žít v souladu s přírodou. Kultovní kniha Jona Krakauera, který líčí mladíkovu strastiplnou i osvobozující cestu a zároveň se snaží odhalit motivy jeho extrémního rozhodnutí, se stala předlohou stejnojmenného filmu v režii Seana Penna.

Par l'auteur d'"Into the wild" et de "Tragédie à l'Everest". Fou d'alpinisme, Jon Krakauer nous offre ici le récit de douze aventures en montagne. Il nous entraîne ainsi dans l'ascension du sommet de l'Eiger, de cascades de glace mais aussi sur les parois d'un canyon du Colorado, nous livrant au passage sa vision personnelle -et quelque peu critique- de Chamonix, cette "capitale mondiale de l'alpinisme".

In April 2008, Jon Faine and his son Jack closed the door on their Melbourne home and, leaving jobs, studies, family and friends, took six months and went overland to London in their trusty 4-wheel-drive. This intelligent and funny recount of the countries they visited, people they met, and trouble they got into, is also the story of a tender father-son relationship.

In thinking about her native land, Julia Reed quotes another Southern writer, Willie Morris, who said, “It’s the juxtapositions that get you down here.” These juxtapositions are, for Julia Reed, the soul of the South and in her warmhearted and funny new audiobook, South Toward Home, she chronicles her adventures through the highs and the lows of Southern life - the Delta hot tamale festival, a masked ball, a rollicking party in a boat on a sand bar, scary Christian billboards, and the southern affection for the lowly possum.

This classic essay from Jon Krakauer is now available as an unabridged audiobook download. This essay is also included in the Classic Krakauer collection. From the bestselling author of Missoula and Into the Wild: a selection of the singular investigative journalism that made Krakauer famous...

This classic essay from Jon Krakauer is now available as an unabridged audiobook download. This essay is also included in the Classic Krakauer collection. From the bestselling author of Missoula and Into the Wild: a selection of the singular investigative journalism that made Krakauer famous...

This classic essay from Jon Krakauer is now available as an unabridged audiobook download. This essay is also included in the Classic Krakauer collection. From the bestselling author of Missoula and Into the Wild: a selection of the singular investigative journalism that made Krakauer famous...

This classic essay from Jon Krakauer is now available as an unabridged audiobook download. This essay is also included in the Classic Krakauer collection. From the bestselling author of Missoula and Into the Wild: a selection of the singular investigative journalism that made Krakauer famous...

This classic essay from Jon Krakauer is now available as an unabridged audiobook download. This essay is also included in the Classic Krakauer collection. From the bestselling author of Missoula and Into the Wild: a selection of the singular investigative journalism that made Krakauer famous...

This classic essay from Jon Krakauer is now available as an unabridged audiobook download. This essay is also included in the Classic Krakauer collection. From the bestselling author of Missoula and Into the Wild: a selection of the singular investigative journalism that made Krakauer famous...

This classic essay from Jon Krakauer is now available as an unabridged audiobook download. This essay is also included in the Classic Krakauer collection. From the bestselling author of Missoula and Into the Wild: a selection of the singular investigative journalism that made Krakauer famous...

On the Blue Ridge features conversations with creative and intrepid individuals making an imprint on the Blue Ridge Mountains. Guests include writers, artists, makers, chefs, visionaries, entrepreneurs, and citizens living in and around the region.

The official podcast from - and for - The British Guild Of Travel Writers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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