Outside Magazine Editors
The man-eating proclivities of Komodo dragons. The complicated art of being a cowgirl. A picaresque ramble with a merry band of tree-cleaners. The big-wave crusaders of the world's best surfers. For the past twenty years, Outside magazine has set ... [... more]
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Into Thin Air
 From Amazon.com: "Intrinsically irrational" is how Jon Krakauer characterizes the compulsion to climb Mount Everest in his audiobook Into Thin Air. The highly publicized fates of the May 1996 Everest expeditions, including the tragic loss of 12 [... more]
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Daniel Coyle
Journalist Daniel Coyle writes for the New York Times sports magazine Play (including the March 2007 cover story upon which the book is based), is a contributing editor for Outside magazine, and the author of three books, including the New York ... [... more]
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Hampton Sides
A native of Memphis, Hampton Sides is editor-atlarge for Outside magazine and the author of the international best-seller, Ghost Soldiers (Doubleday), which was the basis for the 2005 Miramax film, The Great Raid. Ghost Soldiers won the 2002 PEN ... [... more]
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Donovan Webster
A former senior editor at Outside magazine, Webster has written for The New Yorker, National Geographic, and Smithsonian. From Landmines to Chemical Warfare--The Devastating Effects of Modern Combat Aftermath: The Remnants of War In riveting and ... [... more]
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Alex Heard
Alex Heard is an editor at Wired magazine. He has also edited and written for The New York Times Magazine, Outside, The New Republic, Slate, and many other publications. The inspired madness of America's apocalyptic and pre-millennial ... [... more]
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Bruce Barcott
Bruce Barcott, author of The Measure of a Mountain: Beauty and Terror on Mount Rainier, is a contributing editor at Outside magazine. His feature articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones, Sports Illustrated, Harper's, ... [... more]
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Peter Stark
An avid outdoorsman and regular contributor to Outside magazine, Peter Stark knows first-hand what it means to live on the edge. In A fascinating blend of adventure and science, LAST BREATH recreates in heart-stopping detail what happens to our ... [... more]
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The Best American Sports Writing of the Century
From Amazon.com: Given the overall vigor and volume of sports writing in America throughout the 20th century, the idea of compiling a single collection dubbed the "best" requires a daring balancing act of boldness and delicacy. And that's just [... more]
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The Sharks of Lake Nicaragua: True Tales of Adventure, ...
Wishin' I was with him: I've read all 3 of his "Outside" compilations. They all are, in my mind, great. Reading these books allows you to get lost, while you are in your living room. I wish there were more of them. If there is wanderlust in [... more]
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Into Thin Air
From Amazon.com: A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. [... more]
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The Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and His Family, ...
not girly but you'll love it: This isn't really my genre but when i started reading this story I couldn't put it down. It is incredibly inspiring and touching. It will touch your life and influence you in a positive way: a little like the book, [... more]
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