Outside 25: Classic Tales And New Voices From The Frontiers Of Adventure

Hal Espen

W. W. Norton & Company, Oct 28, 2003 - Sports & Recreation - 624 pages

True stories of wild places and extreme endeavors from the magazine that invented adventure writing as we know it.

Sebastian Junger goes whaling; Jon Krakauer solves the fatal mystery of a lost hiker; David Quammen tracks big, bad wolves in Romania; Ian Frazier profiles the world's wiliest mushroom hunter; Susan Orlean goes native with Maui's surfer girls; Bill McKibben crosses the disappearing finish line; Peter Maass endures free-fire zones in Sudan and Somalia; Mark Jenkins explores the soul of mountaineering; Hampton Sides runs wild with skiing's fastest man; Bill Vaughn skates home backwards; Hodding Carter Jr. adopts a wild manatee; David Rakoff survives survival school; and more.

The editors of Outside bring together 36 stories that comprise some of the finest nonfiction gathered anywhere, works that take us to remote corners of the world and into distant realms of the imagination. By turns comical and sobering, whimsical and nerve-racking, the stories in this collection embody Outside's ability to hone the cutting edge, publishing the innovative, exhilarating, zany, wise voices of sport, travel, and adventure.

Contents

• The Very Short History of Nunavut WILLIAM T VOLLMANN: 29
• Another Day in the Drop Zone PETER MAASS: 47
• Here the Bear and the Mafia Roam BOB SHACOCHIS: 71
• Everest to the Left of Me Unrest to the Right EDWARD HOAGLAND: 90
• The Essential Nature of Islands PAUL THEROUX: 106
• The Last Days of the Mountain Kingdom PATRICK SYMMES: 120
• My Son the Manatee W HODDING CARTER: 143
• Does the Mushroom Love Its Plucker? IAN FRAZIER: 156
• 1 Nature Boy DAVID RAKOFF: 169
• The Whale Hunters SEBASTIAN JUNGER: 184
• And Old Views Shall Be Replaced by New MARK LEVINE: 198
• The PostCommunist Wolf DAVID QUAMMEN: 225
• One Nation Under Ted JACK HITT: 242
• Thinking About MachineMan HAMPTON SIDES: 265
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being the Boarder Queen SARA CORBETT: 291
• Its Gonna Suck to Be You STEVE FRIEDMAN: 308
• Mr Sunset Rides Again ROB BUCHANAN: 322
• Across the Disappearing Finish Line BILL MCKIBBEN: 339
• Death of an Innocent JON KRAKAUER: 361
• Fear of Falling GREG CHILD: 383
• The Boy Scout vs the Mutant BRUCE BARCOTT: 402
• The Climber Comes Down to Earth DANIEL DUANE: 419
• As Freezing Persons Recollect the Snow PETER STARK: 438
• Long Gone BRYAN DI SALVATORE AND DEIRDRE MCNAMER: 471
• The Captain Went Down with the Ship DANIEL COYLE: 494
• See a Little Silhouetto of a Man IAN FRAZIER: 515
• Dr Pepper RANDY WAYNE WHITE: 536
• The LowTech HighSpeed RetroManic: 560
• King of the Dirtbags MARK JENKINS: 572
• Skating Home Backward BILL VAUGHN: 583
• Contributors: 594

Bibliographic information

• Title: Outside 25: Classic Tales And New Voices From The Frontiers Of Adventure; Volume 0 of Outside Bks
• Editor: Hal Espen
• Edition: annotated
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2003
• ISBN: 0393325032, 9780393325034
• Length: 624 pages
• Subjects: Sports & Recreation / General; Travel / Special Interest / Adventure