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The Hard Way: Stories of Danger, Survival, and the Soul of Adventure
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 790
EAN: 9780743249416
ISBN: 0743249410
Label: Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: October 01, 2003
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Studio: Simon & Schuster
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Editorial Review:
Adventure writer Mark Jenkins has journeyed around the world, crossing wild country, probing the hinterlands, getting arrested over a dozen times. He has made a life out of doing things the hard way.
The result is a book that dives headfirst into adventure and experience. Jenkins transports the reader with him as he climbs the ice-encrusted Italian Ridge of the Matterhorn, sea kayaks from battlefield to battlefield along the Turkish coast of Gallipoli, sneaks across Tibet to reach Buddhism's holiest lake, descends unexplored canyons in Australia, and traverses the war-torn Simen Mountains of northern Ethiopia.
If you've ever dreamed of escaping, lighting out for the unknown, read this book. In a world increasingly vicarious and secondhand, we all long to make decisions that matter, decisions of consequence. This is precisely what the outdoor life still requires. The Hard Way is a book about doing, not watching -- about leaping before you look.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Led me to this superb author
This is my second favorite book. My first is Off the Map and my third is To Timbuktu. Jenkins is an outstanding author.
Rating: - Great read
A great read for anyone that enjoys adventure stories. It may make you want to write your letter of resignation.
Rating: - the real soul of adventure
A truly superb book. As a longtime reader of Mark Jenkins' articles in Outside magazine i was always going to buy any book he produced. After reading this book I will continue to buy everything he writes. No other writer out there has the techinque Jenkins does. He not only makes you want to get out and go on an adventure of your own, but he lets you in on his own thoughts while he was out there. He brings the meaning of adventure, the soul of it, right to you. While he is clearly a highly talented ... Read More
Rating: - Exciting, moving accounts of adventure travel
Mark Jenkins has one of the most honest and direct writing styles in nonfiction. This book is a collection of his columns from his years at Outside Magazine as well as other publications. When you read his unflinching accounts of his travels you are confronted with not only his exhilaration for whatever his predicament, but also his fears and self-doubt. His type of travel is not the package tour but definitely off-the-beaten-path. It's an unadorned and authentic view of humanity in the midst of challenge, ... Read More
Rating: - Fun and inspiring adventure-laden book to read
This was a very cool and exciting book to read. I have never read any of Jenkins's columns but I was intrigued by the premise of the book when listening to him on a radio interview. Jenkins sounds like the guy I want to be, but without the guts. He attacks life....he attacks nature, but he's turned his sojourns all over the world into a sort of an art form.
The book is a collection of adventures and I like the fact that he threw in other different stories in there including an encounter with a thief ... Read More
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