In the Shadow of Denali

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"Stratosphencallif the finest in the genre.ith this liooli, Waterman has earned M Ip a place alongside such great modern American mountain writers as David J: ill Bohertsand Ion Krakauer"- Ereg Child, from the Foreword S
" Rising more than twenty thousand feet into tlieAlasjonskylsDenali, the tallest ^ V mountain in North America. In his exhilarating and stunning narratives, Jonathan Waterman paints a startlingly intimate portrait of the white leviathan >j and brings to vivid life men and women whose fates have entwined on its sheer icy peak.
Jonathan Waterman has forged an international reputation as an alpinist, adventurer, writer, and photographer. He has written or compiled six other books, including Kayaking the Vermilion Sea, A Most Hostile Mountain, The Quotable Climber, and Surviving DenaH.
"Personal, intense, gripping compelling book."—yi/os/ca '
"Masterful storytelling There is climbing in this book, but remarkably it is not... Tovább

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6 ^ $14.95 ia Canada)
"Stratosphencallif the finest in the genre.ith this liooli, Waterman has earned M Ip a place alongside such great modern American mountain writers as David J: ill Bohertsand Ion Krakauer"- Ereg Child, from the Foreword S
" Rising more than twenty thousand feet into tlieAlasjonskylsDenali, the tallest ^ V mountain in North America. In his exhilarating and stunning narratives, Jonathan Waterman paints a startlingly intimate portrait of the white leviathan >j and brings to vivid life men and women whose fates have entwined on its sheer icy peak.
Jonathan Waterman has forged an international reputation as an alpinist, adventurer, writer, and photographer. He has written or compiled six other books, including Kayaking the Vermilion Sea, A Most Hostile Mountain, The Quotable Climber, and Surviving DenaH.
"Personal, intense, gripping compelling book."—yi/os/ca '
"Masterful storytelling There is climbing in this book, but remarkably it is not a book about climbing, any more than/A R/Ver Runs r/iroug/7/f was a book about fishing. Waterman the wrker resembles that other Alaskan adventurer, Jack London. But in his storytelling, in the way he renders nonfiction close to fiction with its alien and thoughtful beatity,"he descends more directly from Norman
Maclean____He is our Ishmael, the eloquent witness to a profound journey."
—Jeff Long, Boulder Camera
"Tales from the mean side of Denali Arresting stories A pleasure to read." — Kirkus Reviews
"A magnificent book, beautifully written, a superb delineation, in the broadest sense, of one person's relationship to landscape."—Ann Zwinger
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