The New Age of Adventure: Ten Years of Great Writing - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1426205465 ISBN 13: 9781426205460

Publisher: National Geographic, 2009

Synopsis

National Geographic Adventure has published the best work by today’s finest writers, and this tenth anniversary anthology assembles an elite corps of authors that includes Sebastian Junger, Peter Matthiessen, Philip Caputo, and two dozen others. These reporters have voyaged to the ends of the earth to bring back the decade’s most thrilling, eccentric, and extraordinary tales. But the pieces collected here do more than paint a portrait of the world’s most extreme and fascinating environments they also explore important questions about adventure in the 21st century.

These stories rocket readers across the roof of the world on the new high-speed railway in Tibet, describe the tension between Indian farmers and the sacred elephants besieging their villages, and introduce them to a shaman whom some believe can cure the most serious depressions. We meet the great Afghan warlord Ahmed Shah Massoud said to have been the finest guerrilla fighter since Ho Chi Minh encounter a yeti with legendary mountaineer Reinhold Messner, and much more.

This is a wide-ranging collection for every road warrior and adventurer armchair or otherwise culled from the much acclaimed journal that in its first ten years has won millions of devoted readers and garnered more than a dozen prestigious prizes for excellence in journalism.

About this title

About the Author:

John Rasmus is the founding editor-in-chief of National Geographic Adventure magazine. He is the former founding editor of Men’s Journal and former editor of Outside.

About this edition

• Publisher: National Geographic
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1426205465
• ISBN 13: 9781426205460
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432
• Editor: Rasmus John