True stories of wild places and extreme endeavors from the magazine that invented adventure writing as we know it. Ian Frazier goes to the woodsto do nothing; Mark Jenkins wrestles with adventure mortality; Bill Vaughn skates home backward; Paul Theroux reveals the allure of islands; Alison Wright recalls her near-death experience in deepest Laos; Peter Maass endures free-fire zones in Sudan and Somalia; Kate Wheeler braves an ancient, violent-unto-death...
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Allied Health Professions Alternative Medicine Basic Sciences Clinical Death Emergency Medical Services Emergency Medicine General Surgery Healing Health, Fitness & Dieting Health, Fitness & Dieting Internal Medicine Medical Medical Books Medicine Neurology Neuroscience Politics & Social Sciences SurgeryThirty five thrilling stories by the best adventure writers of our time. This is a collection of previously published articles from the last 25 years of "Outside Magazine". They have been chosen because they are all very good and cover a very wide spectrum of true life adventures. The great diversity is bound to please almost any reader, and I enjoyed them all immensely. Dancing on the Edge of an Endangered Planet
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Outside's 25 is a broad collection of subject matter that has been published in the magazine during the last 5 years or so. While I enjoyed the entire book, some of the narratives were especially good.
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Over the last decade or so "Outside" has repeatedly proven itself to be the magazine with the most compelling and well-written feature stories anywhere. For example, Jon Krakauer's "Into Thin Air" and Sebastian Junger's "The Perfect Storm" began as stories in the magazine. The definition of what constitutes an "Outside" article is very loose and there are stories here about animals, landscapes, extreme sports, exotic travels,...
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