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Tel Aviv non è Middle East, è Middle West. A metà strada tra Oriente e Occidente, Mediterraneo e Asia. Una via di mezzo tra Europa e Stati Uniti, con i caffè di quartiere in cui trascorrere giornate tra elucubrazioni politiche e letterarie, ma anche Startup Nation: la più alta percentuale di startup per abitante al mondo. Un crocevia tra passato e futuro: una città “giovane”, fondata nel 1909 dai primi pionieri sionisti in fuga dall’Europa dei pogrom, le cui radici, tuttavia, affondano nel porto di Jaffa, ancor più antica di Gerusalemme.

For Tel Aviv Noir, Etgar Keret and Assaf Gavron have masterfully assembled some of Israel's top contemporary writers into a compulsively readable collection. Featuring brand-new stories by: Etgar Keret, Gadi Taub, Lavie Tidhar, Deakla Keydar, Matan Hermoni, Julia Fermentto, Gon Ben Ari, Shimon Adaf, Alex Epstein, Antonio Ungar, Gai Ad, Assaf Gavron, Silje Bekeng, and Yoav Katz.

Year after year, climbers return to the world's most difficult mountains. At these places, even the most cautious climber is vulnerable to mistakes, bad weather, and bad luck, which often leads to death. This collection offers harrowing accounts of extreme mountaineering and its potentially fatal consequences.

Tim Cahill's adventures typically include equal parts farce and discovery. "Cahill Among The Ruins of Peru" is no exception. Here Cahill sets out to find undiscovered pre-Incan ruins in northeatern Peru. Oily beaueaucrats, superstitious locals, a know-it-all companion and the Peruvian wilderness did not daunt him. Though they were annoying.

Published in Rock and Ice Magazine in 1986, this essay, co-written by John Long and Dwight Brooks, tells the story of a hair-raising caving adventure in Papua New Guinea.