Classic Krakauer: 'Mark Foo's Last Ride,' 'After the Fall,' and Other Essays from the Vault Free Audiobook Download by Jon Krakauer

Jon Krakauer has been writing about the outdoors for decades, and in his latest book, Krakauer revisits some of the most interesting tales from his career. In Mark Foo's Last Ride, Krakauer visits Mark Foo, the last person to ride a motorcycle across America. The author reveals what happened after Mark finished his journey - and how he finally found peace in death.

Krakauer is known for his nonfiction books about dangerous sports, like Into Thin Air and Into the Wild. But he has written about some of the most important topics for readers. In 'Mark Foo's Last Ride,' Krakauer writes about how he met Mark Foo, a mountain biker who was killed in a cross-country race. Krakauer explores how our obsession with building speed in mountain biking led to tragedy. He also wrote 'After the Fall,' which traces the human reaction to an airplane crash that crashes while landing at LAX airport. Finally, he wrote 'The Day I Die,' which contains stories from around the world of people who have died on Krakauers watch.

Jon Krakauer's classics--Mark Foo's Last Ride, After the Fall, and Into Thin Air--are among his best works. The clarity of description and reflection in these essays is astounding.

It's a privilege to hear Jon Krakauer speak. His narration of "Mark Foo's Last Ride", "After the Fall," and other essays from the forthcoming volume Classic Krakauer: Mark Foo's Last Ride, After the Fall, and Other Essays from the Vault is going to be an audiobook for the ages. This is a book about climbing Mount Everest in 1996, but it is also about so many other things - family and love, life and death, fear and pain, trust and betrayal - that it's a story about us all.

Jon Krakauer was an avid author who chronicled many different topics including mountain climbing and the outdoors in his works. His books were mostly non-fiction but he also wrote some fictional novels that are now out of print. One such novel is After the Fall, which is available through audible.com as a free audiobook download.