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Title: The Shameless Diary of an Explorer: A Story of Failure on Mt. McKinley by Robert Dunn ISBN: 0-679-78325-3 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 11 September, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant insights from a master
Comment: Dunn takes the cake from the grave! While the Crook Society scrambles to promote the old faker Dr. Cook, and Bryce tries to sue Washburn for his book about the McKinley fraud we have Dunn's magnificent work back in print.
Skip the modern intro (how ridiculous!) as Dunn's razor sharp writing needs nothing added. Was Cook a fake? Of course! And far worse than that - he is seen here as a sociopath, a failure, a miserable little worm who couldn't lead a horse to water.
It is wonderful that publishers are putting books back in print such as this one, or the Denali (Deception, etc.) triple reprint. In addition to this group we now have Washburn's brilliant images that say more in a few photos than Bryce did in 100 pages.
A fascinating study of an expedition gone to [junk], by the man who taught everyone else how to "tell it like it is".
Rating: 5
Summary: Predecessor to Into Thin Air
Comment: If you've read Krakauer's "Into Thin Air" you can only come away from reading "The Shameless Diary...." thinking how it must have been the model for the frankness and criticism he wrote of himself and his fellow climbers in his blockbuster Everest disaster story. Besides the no holds bared frankness of the author's daily reflections of the events of this expedition the reader is let into the authors inner mind as well as the levels of, what can only be considered, animal brutality required to actually complete such a journey, and, which could have only been common, yet previously unexposed, to all such expeditions of it's age.
Throughout the reading I was constantly contemplating how I could have stood up to the rawness of nature that these men withstood. My own meager climbs of the major peaks of the White Mountains of Vermont, and the high peaks of the Adirondacks and Catskill Mountains of New York all paled in comparison to what these men accomplished during any one day of this expedition. A recent winter day hike to Windham High Peak, NY now seems like a child's day in the sun in reflection.
This is the sort of book that forces one to be constantly making those sorts of comparisons.
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Title: La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West (Modern Library Exploration) by Francis Parkman, Jon Krakauer ISBN: 037575475X Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Weird and Tragic Shores: The Story of Charles Francis Hall, Explorer by Chauncey C. Loomis, Andrea Barrett ISBN: 037575525X Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 04 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Starlight and Storm by Gaston Rebuffat ISBN: 0375755063 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: In the Shadow of Denali: Life and Death on Alaska's Mt. McKinley by Jonathan Waterman ISBN: 1558217266 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: In the Land of White Death by Valerian Albanov ISBN: 067978361X Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 17 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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