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Книга известного американского журналиста, писателя и альпиниста Джона Кракауэра "В разреженном воздухе" написана по горячим следам трагедии, разыгравшейся во время экспед...
A book of travel and natural history, recounting a journey into the Himalayan massif in search of the snow leopard.
Just as Norman Maclean writes at the end of "A River Runs through It" that he is "haunted by waters," so have readers been haunted by his novella. A retired English profes...
Документальный роман классика американской литературы Тома Вулфа в доступной и увлекательной форме рассказывает о событиях конца 1950-х - 1960-х годов, когда "холодная вой...
A classic of travel writing, ‘A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush’ is Eric Newby’s iconic account of his journey through one of the most remote and beautiful wildernesses on ea...
n 1996 Roger Deakin, the late, great nature writer, set out to swim through the British Isles. From the sea, from rock pools, from rivers and streams, tarns, lakes, lochs,...
"Bruce Chatwin's death from AIDS in 1989 brought a meteoric career to an abrupt end. His reputation as a storyteller has grown over the last decade, and his exquisite, sub...
It's 1941. Escaping from China as the Japanese invade, Ashley and Uncle Sung embark on a dangerous journey across the Himalayas towards India.
Combining accounts of legendary mountain ascents with vivid descriptions of his own forays into wild, high landscapes, Robert McFarlane reveals how the mystery of the worl...
Originally published in 1954, The Wilder Shores of Love is the classic biography of four nineteenth-century European women who leave behind the industrialized west for Ara...
