Stories from the Dirt (eBook)

Indiscretions of an Adventure Junkie

John Long (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
240 Seiten
Falcon Guides (Verlag)
978-1-4930-3096-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Riding tubes in Venezuela. BASE jumping in Europe. Climbing big walls in Yosemite. Riding bulls in Texas. These first-person stories from acclaimed climber and adventurer John Long may be vastly different in content, but they share an identifiable emotional texture, tone and delivery, and fundamentally are of one piece. This is storytelling at its bestnonfiction that reads like fiction. In Stories from the Dirt, the action leaves you breathless, but it's the characters that really leave a lasting mark. Like all stories worth a damn, this collection is all about the people.

Autor

John Long is an acclaimed rock climber and author of more than forty books, including several in Falcon’s catalog. He is one of the most prolific adventure writers out there and has authored magazine articles, screenplays, documentary films, and television and movie scripts, as well as instructional rock climbing books.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Sport- / Aktivreisen
• Schlagworte: Adios, Cueva Humboldt • Adventure • adventure narrative • Bikpela Hol • Dr. Brown • Dream On, Iraian Jaya • El Tiburon • Gravity • Improbable Marksman • In from the Cold • John Long • King Kong Comes to Wabag • Last Place on No Map • Meltdown • My Friend Phil • Outdoor Recreation • outdoor stories • rats • Ripcord • Scorched Earth • Selama-Lamanya • stories from the dirt • The Bird's Boys • The Green Arch • The Howling • The Only Blasphemy • The Ride • Tirada Los Tubos • When Icarus Falls
• ISBN-10: 1-4930-3096-5 / 1493030965
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4930-3096-5 / 9781493030965