An acclaimed mountaineer delivers an exhilarating chronicle that brings the reader inside the daredevil world of those who risk their lives to climb, in this exciting introduction to Laurel's Expedition series. "Krakauer has taken the literature of the mountains onto a higher ledge".--New York Times Book Review.
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An acclaimed mountaineer delivers an exhilarating chronicle that brings the reader inside the daredevil world of those who risk their lives to climb, in this exciting introduction to Laurel's Expedition series. "Krakauer has taken the literature of the mountains onto a higher ledge".--New York Times Book Review.
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Good in Good jacket. 8vo-7¾"-9¾" Tall. Jacket has light edgewear, a trace of tanning. Boards have minor shelfwear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound.
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Very Good. 1990 Lyons & Buford hard cover-1st edition 3rd printing-minor staining to page edge-slight corner ding to front cover-otherwise dust jacket like new (now in mylar cover) binding strong contents clean-enjoy.
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F in F- jacket. F/F-. 8vo. original two tone blue papered boards gilt (tiny label mark to front pastedown, v. occ. small spot, else clean & bright throughout) in dustwrapper (trifling spine fade, minor rubbing/marks); pp. xvi (last blank), 186. A fine copy of the true first printing, reputedly limited to 2000 copies.
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Fine in Fine jacket. First edition. 186 p. Fine in Fine dust jacket. An unread copy. Contemporary (early '90s) bookstore sticker on back panel, easily removable. A truly excellent copy of the Into Thin Air and Into the Wild author's first book.
This collection of stories is at once a wonderful account of a very narrow slice of humanity that does things involving great risk for ambiguous reasons and a search by Krakauer for an understanding of why he does similar things. All of the tales lead to his final essay where he offers some self-realizations..