Adrenaline 2002: The Year's Best Stories of Adventure and Survival (Adrenaline Series)

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Summary: Great selections!
Review: Fourteen adventures: six stand alone articles and eight excerpts from longer works. Clearly Clint Willis did some homework finding these because I read most of the adventure mags and had only seen two of these during the year. Some of the excerpts come from books I would never have picked up otherwise, but now will look for - as the editor says in his intro, adventure comes in many forms, such as a foray into Golden Glove boxing or a black explorer's entry into an undiscovered African kingdom. Kira Salak's account of her capture in Rhodesia will have you sweating up to the last sentence and Rennicke's account of a trapped man journaling his last thoughts as he dies will force you to look inward, I'm sure. This is a strong collection that includes Lynn Hill as well as the controversial (and now deceased) Anatoli Boukreev, but unlike the editorial notes above it does not have a story on Willi Unsoeld or anything from Hampton Sides. Also, it isn't 364 pages - it's just under 300. This book makes a great intro to the series, or a great addition.

Rating:
Summary: Great selections!
Review: Fourteen adventures: six stand alone articles and eight excerpts from longer works. Clearly Clint Willis did some homework finding these because I read most of the adventure mags and had only seen two of these during the year. Some of the excerpts come from books I would never have picked up otherwise, but now will look for - as the editor says in his intro, adventure comes in many forms, such as a foray into Golden Glove boxing or a black explorer's entry into an undiscovered African kingdom. Kira Salak's account of her capture in Rhodesia will have you sweating up to the last sentence and Rennicke's account of a trapped man journaling his last thoughts as he dies will force you to look inward, I'm sure. This is a strong collection that includes Lynn Hill as well as the controversial (and now deceased) Anatoli Boukreev, but unlike the editorial notes above it does not have a story on Willi Unsoeld or anything from Hampton Sides. Also, it isn't 364 pages - it's just under 300. This book makes a great intro to the series, or a great addition.