There is an overwhelming inclination to keep the unsavory particulars hidden from public view, to pretend the calamity never occurred. Thus it has always been, and probably always will be. As Aeschylu...
The religious literature handed out by the earnest young missionaries in Temple Square makes no mention of the fact that Joseph Smith--still the religion's focal personage-- married at least thirty-th...
The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light.
The LDS Church has annual revenues estimated at more than $6 billion, and it is currently the largest employer in the state of Utah.
The Call of the Wild, White Fang, To Build a Fire, An Odyssey of the North, The Wit of Porportuk.
Se essa aventura se revelar fatal e nunca mais tiver notícias de mim, quero que saiba que você é um grande homem. Caminho agora para dentro da Natureza Selvagem
McCandless’s contrived asceticism and a pseudoliterary stance compound rather than reduce the fault. . . . McCandless’s postcards, notes, and journals . . . read like the work of an above average, som...
It seems more than a little patronizing for Westerners to lament the loss of the good old days when life in the Khumbu was so much simpler and more picturesque. Most of the people who live in this rug...
In drum spre varf, Viesturs a trecut pe langa cadravele inghetate ale lui Fischer si Hall.-Jean (sotia lui Fischer) si Jan(sotia lui Hall) m-au rugat sa le aduc obiecte personale, poveste rusinat Vies...
If you get killed, she argued with a mix of despair and anger, it’s not just you who’ll pay the price. I’ll have to pay, too, you know, for the rest of my life. Doesn’t that matter to you?
I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more richly and intensely.
He never suspected that in so doing, he was crossing his Rubicon.
He did a lot of socializing. Sometimes I think it was like he was storing up company for the times he knew nobody would be around
Handwritten in neat block letters on a page torn from a novel by Nikolay Gogol, it read: S.O.S. I NEED YOUR HELP. I AM INJURED, NEAR DEATH, AND TOO WEAK TO HIKE OUT OF HERE I AM ALL ALONE, THIS IS NO...
From elementary school through high school, my siblings and I were hectored to excel in every class, to win medals in science fairs, to be chosen princess of the prom, to win election to student gover...
Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality.
Chastity and moral purity were qualities McCandless mulled over long and often. Indeed, one of the books found in the bus with his remains was a collection of stories that included Tol¬stoy’s The Kreu...
At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a world of abstraction and security and material excess, a world in which he felt grievously cut off fro...
Allison asked him, Has this happened before?… No! Never! Donaldson sobbed. This is the first time anything has ever happened to me like this. Ever!…I
A rapist, by definition, is only interested in gratifying his own desires. A rapist doesn’t care what a woman wants. If he did, he wouldn’t rape. —