Synopses & Reviews
For the past decade,
Mens Journal has set the standard for travel and adventure writing by publishing the work of Americas finest authors and literary journalists.
Wild Stories collects thirty-two of the best pieces to appear in the magazine, written by its most esteemed contributors, including Jim Harrison, Sebastian Junger, P. J. ORourke, Rick Bass, Thomas McGuane, George Plimpton, Hampton Sides, Doug Stanton, Tim Cahill, and Mark Bowden.
Each of the four chapters in Wild Stories showcases Mens Journals diversity and taut storytelling power. “The Adventures” is a series of razor-sharp travel narratives, from a road trip across India on the perilous Grand Trunk Road to a search for grizzlies in Romania. “The Sporting Life” is a look into obscure corners of the sports world, where golfs bush-league wannabes try to make it to the PGA and a group of cyclists out-suffer one another in pursuit of the mythic Hour Record. “Mens Lives” includes profiles of singular adventurers such as Yvon Chouinard and Ned Gillette, and captures the rewards of such quintessentially male traditions as building a cabin on your own plot of land. And “The Reporting” collects definitive accounts of the most newsworthy disasters, as well as riveting dispatches from war zones in Somalia, Sudan, and Colombia, and from environmental hot spots in Alaska and Montana.
Commemorating Mens Journals tenth anniversary, Wild Stories is a diverse and entertaining anthology that explores the magazines basic creed: Life is an adventure. From the first page to the last, these are stories youll never forget.
Synopsis
For the past decade, Men's Journal has set the standard for travel and adventure writing by publishing the work of America's finest authors and literary journalists. Wild Stories collects thirty-two of the best pieces to appear in the magazine, by its most well-known and respected contributors: Sebastian Junger reports on a kidnapping in Kashmir, P. J. O'Rourke road-trips down India's wild "Grand Trunk Road, " Rick Bass communes with Romanian grizzlies, George Plimpton visits a porn convention, and much more.
Sometimes funny, sometimes terrifying, but always intelligent, these stories take us on thrilling explorations into the heart of the new global wild.
Table of Contents
pt.1. Theadventurers --As long as we were together, nothing bad could happen to us /Scott Anderson --Weird karma /P.J. O'Rourke --Creatures of the dictator /Rick Bass --X-rated /George Plimpton --TheCajun road /Charles Gaines -- Alone /Philip Caputo --Themost dangerous friend in the world /Tim Cahill --Cutting Horse road /Thomas McGuane --pt. 2. Thesporting life --Thehour and the glory /John McLaughlin --They might be giants /John Paul Newport --Starting over /Jim Harrison --Hairball carcass tossing in the chugach /Charles M. Young --Blunder road /Roy Blount --Crazy in the desert /Hampton Sides --Far North /John Balzar --pt. 3.Men's lives --Amountain of trouble /David Roberts --How it feels to be Yvon Chouniard /Doug Stanton --Much about this world /Chip Brown --Aman's land /Rick Telander --Something wild in the blood /Bob Shacochis --Thelast trip /Todd Balf --Forty years in Acapulco /Devin Friedman --Thebaby goat murders /Larry Brown --pt. 4. Thereporting --Escape from Kashmir /Sebastian Junger --Thedeath zone /Peter Wilkinson --Sunk /Doug Stanton --Killing Libby /Mark Levine --Buried at sea /Ramsey Flynn --Rebels of the Apocalypse /Rory Nugent --After the spill /Charles Siebert --Black Hawk down /Mark Bowden --Thefirefighters.