Cowboy Now: Life and Death in the Dim Light of a Patagonian Snow Cave
Language: English
Published by Everyman Publishing, Menlo Park, CA, 2003
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: The Book Shelf, Salem, OR, U.S.A.The Book Shelf
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Condition: Used - Near fine
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Signed by the author on the title-page. Former owner name and date on front endpaper. In january of 1996 nine men ventured into Patagonia.
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- Title
- Cowboy Now: Life and Death in the Dim Light of a Patagonian Snow Cave
- Author
- Carlson, Brett E.
- Publisher
- Everyman Publishing, Menlo Park, CA
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0972791019
- ISBN 13
- 9780972791014
- Edition
- Presumed First Edition
Carlson describes core survival, drastic change, and self-examination, all while trapped in a man made snow cave for two weeks in a horrendous South American blizzard. The resulting novel is a fast moving, stripped raw, symbolic mountain journey about survival, struggle and change. Numerous climbers in the region died during the blizzard.
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About the Author
Carlson has traveled and explored fifty countries on six continents. His love of mountain climbing has put him on icy peaks in Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Morocco, Spain, France, Turkey, Canada, and America. In addition, Carlson is an avid runner, cyclist, and a staunch chess enthusiast. Carlson has recently begun working on his next novel.
Monthly, he speaks at juvenile detention facilities on various motivational topics. He lives in northern California.
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