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Getting High on the Himalayas

Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes

by Maurice Isserman and Stewart Weaver, with maps and peak sketches by Dee Molenaar

July 2, 2009 issue

On the Edge

A Treatise of Civil Power

by Geoffrey Hill

May 29, 2008 issue

The Trouble with Happiness

Tomorrow

by Graham Swift

November 22, 2007 issue

S & M at the Poles

Scott of the Antarctic: A Life of Courage and Tragedy

by David Crane

The Frozen Ship: The Histories and Tales of Polar Exploration

by Sarah Moss

The Last Explorer: Hubert Wilkins, Hero of the Great Age of Polar Exploration

by Simon Nasht

September 27, 2007 issue

It Happened One Night

On Chesil Beach

by Ian McEwan

July 19, 2007 issue

Letter

Mark Keshishian

The Birth of Portnoy

October 25, 2007 issue

Letter

The Editors

Correction

August 16, 2007 issue

The Man Who Rowed Away

Rapids

by Tim Parks

Talking About It

by Tim Parks

August 10, 2006 issue

The Best and the Brightest

One of a Kind: The Rise and Fall of Stuey "The Kid" Ungar, the World's Greatest Poker Player

by Nolan Dalla and Peter Alson, with a foreword by Mike Sexton

The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time

by Michael Craig

March 23, 2006 issue

Life Studies

Runaway

by Alice Munro

February 10, 2005 issue

A Double Bind

The Jews of Britain, 1656 to 2000

by Todd M. Endelman

A Double Thread: Growing Up English and Jewish in London

by John Gross

December 16, 2004 issue

Living Dangerously

Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life

by Caroline Moorehead

April 8, 2004 issue

Ted Hughes & Translation

December 18, 2003 issue

Making It New

The Short Sharp Life of T.E. Hulme

by Robert Ferguson

Wilfred Owen

by Dominic Hibberd

May 15, 2003 issue

A Light Black World

The Darkness and the Light

by Anthony Hecht

May 9, 2002 issue

Ice Capades

Barrow's Boys: A Stirring Story of Daring, Fortitude, and Downright Lunacy

by Fergus Fleming

Antarctica: Firsthand Accounts of Exploration and Endurance

edited by Charles Neider

Let Heroes Speak: Antarctic Explorers

by Michael H. Rosove

Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole

by Dr. Jerri Nielsen

The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk

by Jennifer Niven

In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic

by Valerian Albanov

Great Exploration Hoaxes

by David Roberts

The Mountains of My Life

by Walter Bonatti

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August 9, 2001 issue

The Prodigal Prodigy

Learning Human: Selected Poems

Les Murray

April 12, 2001 issue

Visions of Light

Tiepolo's Hound

by Derek Walcott

May 11, 2000 issue

High Rollers

Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss

by Frederick Barthelme and Steven Barthelme

March 9, 2000 issue

Memento Mori

The American Way of Death Revisited

by Jessica Mitford

Grave Matters: A Lively History of Death Around the World

by Nigel Barley

The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade

by Thomas Lynch

September 24, 1998 issue

High Flier

Burning the Days: Recollection

by James Salter

January 15, 1998 issue

A Magnificent Failure

The Worst Journey in the World

by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

June 26, 1997 issue