Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
by Jon Krakauer
- Used
- Fine
- first
- Condition
- Fine/N
- ISBN 10
- 0679457526
- ISBN 13
- 9780679457527
- Seller
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Wakefield, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
First Edition. 1997 best seller. Hardcover with dust jacket. D.j. has minor bumping on top spine edge. All corners are
crisp. No worn corners, no tears or nicks. Price clipped. Hardcover, fine, with white binding and silver lettering on
light grey front board. Detailed topographical map of Mt. Everest, Nepal (Southeast ridge route), indicating the
exact route taken, on inside front and back covers. Plates from photos of climbers and views of Mt. Everest.
With the exception of several slightly creased page corners before Chapter One, this is in
'as new' condition. Tight binding, with crisp, clean deckled pages. 293 pages.
This book details the author's presence at Mount Everest during the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, when eight climbers were killed and several others were stranded by a "rogue storm". The author's expedition was led by the famed guide Rob Hall.
crisp. No worn corners, no tears or nicks. Price clipped. Hardcover, fine, with white binding and silver lettering on
light grey front board. Detailed topographical map of Mt. Everest, Nepal (Southeast ridge route), indicating the
exact route taken, on inside front and back covers. Plates from photos of climbers and views of Mt. Everest.
With the exception of several slightly creased page corners before Chapter One, this is in
'as new' condition. Tight binding, with crisp, clean deckled pages. 293 pages.
This book details the author's presence at Mount Everest during the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, when eight climbers were killed and several others were stranded by a "rogue storm". The author's expedition was led by the famed guide Rob Hall.
Synopsis
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster is a bestselling non-fiction book written by Jon Krakauer.
Reviews
On Feb 28 2017, a reader said:
very suspenseful. Interesting and sounds dangerous.
On Oct 2 2010, AngelaAndrews said:
The book arrived in excellent condition. It was like-new!
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Details
- Bookseller
- Adventures in Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50
- Title
- Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
- Author
- Jon Krakauer
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- N
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardback
- ISBN 10
- 0679457526
- ISBN 13
- 9780679457527
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1997-04-22
- Keywords
- nonfiction, adventure, Mt. Everest, Nepal
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nonfiction;
- Size
- 9.5 H X 6.5 W
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