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.Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador
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by: Angelina Jolie

October 28, 2003
I bought this book and enjoy it. She explains very clearly and it's really true. She risk her life to go and see and help others, because it was dangerous. I recomend this book. If you want to read some of it e-mail me at jj_025@lycos.com
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.To the Frontier
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by: Geoffrey Moorhouse

September 03, 1998
I bought this book and enjoy it. She explains very clearly and it's really true. She risk her life to go and see and help others, because it was dangerous. I recomend this book. If you want to read some of it e-mail me at jj_025@lycos.com
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.K2, The Savage Mountain: The Classic True Story of Disaster and Survival on the World's Second Highest Mountain
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by: Charles S. Houston, Robert H. Bates

May 01, 2000
Following the tragic 1986 season on K2, Curran seems magically drawn to this mountain, and succeeds in masterfully recounting the major explorations of the peak and region.

The book spans over a century and half of explorations and expeditions in the region -- from early topographical work by the British survey, to turn of 20-th century expeditions by the Duke of Abruzzi, to the wonderfully described American expeditions by Charles Houston in the 1930s, to the first successful and controversial climb by the Italians in 1954 and finally the major climbs in the 1970s and 1980s!

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.Lonely Planet Istanbul to Kathmandu: Classic Overland Routes
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by: P. & Richard, S. Harding

June 29, 2001
Following the tragic 1986 season on K2, Curran seems magically drawn to this mountain, and succeeds in masterfully recounting the major explorations of the peak and region.

The book spans over a century and half of explorations and expeditions in the region -- from early topographical work by the British survey, to turn of 20-th century expeditions by the Duke of Abruzzi, to the wonderfully described American expeditions by Charles Houston in the 1930s, to the first successful and controversial climb by the Italians in 1954 and finally the major climbs in the 1970s and 1980s!

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.K2, Triumph and Tragedy
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by: Jim Curran

1989-02
Aside from being a great account of the tragic 1986 season at K2, Curran's book has the quality of masterfully weaving the author's sense of humor with his deeply felt emotions about lost friends.

While some may argue that Curran was not at the forefront of leading the climbing on any of the expeditions, his keen sense of a filmmaker allows him to tell a very human story. In the great tradition of English mountaineering tradition he tells with wit and humor about the scrambles in putting the expedition together. His storytelling about the trials and challenges in the walk-up to base camp is equaled in its jovial spirit perhaps only by Greg Child (see "Thin Air").

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.Among the Believers
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by: V S Naipaul

September 19, 2003
Aside from being a great account of the tragic 1986 season at K2, Curran's book has the quality of masterfully weaving the author's sense of humor with his deeply felt emotions about lost friends.

While some may argue that Curran was not at the forefront of leading the climbing on any of the expeditions, his keen sense of a filmmaker allows him to tell a very human story. In the great tradition of English mountaineering tradition he tells with wit and humor about the scrambles in putting the expedition together. His storytelling about the trials and challenges in the walk-up to base camp is equaled in its jovial spirit perhaps only by Greg Child (see "Thin Air").

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.Temptations Of The West: How To Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond
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by: Pankaj Mishra

June 12, 2007
Aside from being a great account of the tragic 1986 season at K2, Curran's book has the quality of masterfully weaving the author's sense of humor with his deeply felt emotions about lost friends.

While some may argue that Curran was not at the forefront of leading the climbing on any of the expeditions, his keen sense of a filmmaker allows him to tell a very human story. In the great tradition of English mountaineering tradition he tells with wit and humor about the scrambles in putting the expedition together. His storytelling about the trials and challenges in the walk-up to base camp is equaled in its jovial spirit perhaps only by Greg Child (see "Thin Air").

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.In the Zone: Epic Survival Stories from the Mountaineering World
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by: Peter Potterfield

August 31, 1996
Aside from being a great account of the tragic 1986 season at K2, Curran's book has the quality of masterfully weaving the author's sense of humor with his deeply felt emotions about lost friends.

While some may argue that Curran was not at the forefront of leading the climbing on any of the expeditions, his keen sense of a filmmaker allows him to tell a very human story. In the great tradition of English mountaineering tradition he tells with wit and humor about the scrambles in putting the expedition together. His storytelling about the trials and challenges in the walk-up to base camp is equaled in its jovial spirit perhaps only by Greg Child (see "Thin Air").

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.Forbidden Journey
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by: Ella K. Maillart

November 26, 2003
Aside from being a great account of the tragic 1986 season at K2, Curran's book has the quality of masterfully weaving the author's sense of humor with his deeply felt emotions about lost friends.

While some may argue that Curran was not at the forefront of leading the climbing on any of the expeditions, his keen sense of a filmmaker allows him to tell a very human story. In the great tradition of English mountaineering tradition he tells with wit and humor about the scrambles in putting the expedition together. His storytelling about the trials and challenges in the walk-up to base camp is equaled in its jovial spirit perhaps only by Greg Child (see "Thin Air").

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.High: Stories of Survival from Everest and K2
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from: Da Capo Press

December 22, 1998
I very much enjoyed and highly recommend this book. I've read many of the books from which these chapters are selected, yet there was much fresh material for me. The editing was so masterful that even though the chapters are from different writers, mountains, and times, they flowed together seamlessly

High does for climbing what the movie The Thin Red Line did for combat: It explores not the details of the event, but the inner thoughts of the participants. You read what it feels like to have a climber dying in a tent next to you. You learn about the humilation of having frostbite while back at home. You are with the widows who trek in the paths of their husbands to glimpse the mountain graves of their loved ones.

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