JENNIFER JORDAN |
--RESCHEDULED FROM AUGUST 16TH--
Award-winning author, filmmaker, and screenwriter, most known for her book, Savage Summits, Jennifer Jordan visits this evening with her new tale of Himalayan adventures in days of yore (1939), The Last Man on the Mountain: The Death of an American Adventurer on K2 (W.W. Norton). "The Last Man on the Mountain is a page-turning account of one of mountaineering's most intriguing mysteries: what happened to Dudley Wolfe and the three Sherpas sent to rescue him on K2 in 1939? Jennifer Jordan has great respect for the legend and the lives she examines; she also has a novelist's eye for character and for the telling detail. What emerges in this wonderful book is a story of ego, hubris, and the price of passion in the world's highest arena." - Greg Mortenson. "The Last Man on the Mountain will finds its place in the adventure canon of man versus the mountains, when wool, hemp, and hobnails ruled, and class and national differences roiled beneath the surface ... Jordan has done a great job." - Peter Porterfield.
- Street:
- The Elliott Bay Book Company
- Additional:
- 1521 Tenth Avenue
- City:
- Seattle ,
- Province:
- Washington
- Postal Code:
- 98122
- Country:
- United States
