Jon Krakauer

Missoula, Montana, is a typical college town, home to a highly regarded state university whose beloved football team inspires a passionately loyal fan base. Between January 2008 and May 2012, hundreds of students reported sexual assaults to the local police. Few of the cases were properly handled by either the …

Into the Wild é um livro do escritor, jornalista e alpinista estadunidense Jon Krakauer, publicado em 1996. O livro conta a história verídica de Christopher McCandless. Into the Wild é um livro não ficcional escrito em 1996 por Jon Krakauer. O livro retrata a viagem de dois anos pela vida selvagem feita por …

No Ar Rarefeito: um Relato da Tragédia no Everest é um livro escrito por Jon Krakauer, lançado em 1997. Relata a expedição do autor na escalada ao Monte Everest em 10 de Maio de 1996, neste ano ocorreu uma grande tempestade de neve, matando oito das pessoas que estavam no grupo de Jon e deixando muitos outros feridos. …

Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains is a non-fiction collection of articles and essays by Jon Krakauer on mountaineering and rock climbing. Eleven out of twelve of the chapters were initially published between 1982 and 1989 in the magazines Outside, Smithsonian, and New Age Journal. It concerns a variety of …

Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way is a 2011 e-book written by Jon Krakauer about Three Cups of Tea and Stones into Schools author Greg Mortenson. In it, Krakauer disputes Mortenson's accounts of his experiences in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and accuses him of mishandling funds …

This extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities, where some 40,000 people still practice polygamy. Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like theocracies are …

This edition has been updated to reflect new developments and includes new material obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. Pat Tillman walked away from a multimillion-dollar NFL contract to join the Army and became an icon of post-9/11 patriotism. When he was killed in Afghanistan two years later, a legend …