![]() ![]() ![]() According to a spokesperson from Random House of Canada, the hardcover version of Into Thin Air has sold 40,000 copies in this country. In both accounts, men and women face brutal extremes of nature in both, courage, luck, and death play a role in the outcomes.Īnd, because they skillfully transport readers out of their easy chairs and into hostile realms as foreign to most people as the moon, both books have received widespread popular acclaim. The Perfect Storm recreates a devastating North Atlantic storm in 1991 that drowned fishermen at sea and thwarted the heroic efforts of rescuers. Into Thin Air describes the ill-fated 1996 mountaineering season on Mount Everest, during which eight climbers from multiple expeditions died on the south side of the mountain. Not since then has real-life adventure been so hot. That year, Alive, Piers Paul Read’s account of a Uruguayan soccer team’s remarkable survival of a plane crash in the Andes, captured the popular imagination and shot to the top of the bestseller heap. In May 1997, Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm appeared on bookstore shelves and rekindled interest in a genre that had lain dormant since 1974. In recent years, baby boomers hoping to live long and prosper have fuelled prolific sales of books about health, diet, and personal finance. Sometimes simple demographics make it possible to predict what books are going to top the non-fiction bestseller lists. ![]()
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