Synopses & Reviews
The fourth edition of publishing's only adventure annual offers another exhilarating collection of the year's most gripping and entertaining adventure storiesfrom the world's coldest waters to its scariest wildfire. Drawn from the year's most memorable adventure book titles, magazine pieces, and websites, these stories focus on men and women pushing beyond their limitsfrom the woman who swam to Antarctica to the seven snowboarders who tried to ride out an avalanche in British Columbia's untracked Selkirk Mountains, to the biologist trying to survive his search for a new species of bear. Including new work by David Roberts, Sy Montgomery, Peter Leschak, and Tim Cahill, these selections prove once again that today's best adventure literature ranks among the best writing anywhere.
About the Author
Clint Willis is the series editor of Adrenaline Books. His thirteen anthologies for the series include Epic: Stories of Survival from the Worlds Highest Peaks, Rough Water: Stories of Survival from the Sea, and Adrenaline 2002: The Years Best Stories of Adventure and Survival. He lives in Maine.
Table of Contents
Little sister, big mountain / Michael Finkel -- from No visible horizon / Joshua Cooper Ramo -- from The iron road / James Mawdsley -- Man-eaters / Robert Frump -- This is not a rodeo story / Chris Heath -- from American ground / William Langewiesche -- The forest primeval / Peter Canby -- Kidnapped in the gap / Robert Young Pelton -- from A sword for Mother Nature / Terry Grosz -- These pants saved my life / Natasha Singer -- A thin white line / Ted Kerasote -- Avalanche: a survival story / Evan Weselake as told to Mike Grudowski -- The journalist and the terrorist / Robert Sam Anson -- Terror in paradise / David Case -- The slipping point / Laurence Gonzales -- Five who survived / Steve Howe.