The New Age of Adventure: Ten Years of Great Writing

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National Geographic Adventure has published the best work by todayx2019;s finest writers, and this tenth anniversary anthology assembles an elite corps of authors that includes Sebastian Junger, Peter Matthiessen, Philip Caputo, and two dozen others. These reporters have voyaged to the ends of the earth to bring back the decadex2019;s most thrilling, eccentric, and extraordinary tales. But the pieces collected here do more than paint a portrait of the worldx2019;s most extremeand fascinating environmentsx97;they also explore important questions about adventure in the 21st century.These stories rocket readers across the roof of the world on the new high-speed railway in Tibet, describe the tension between Indian farmers and the sacred elephants besieging their villages, and introduce them to a shaman whom some believe can cure the most serious depressions. We meet the great Afghan warlord Ahmed Shah Massoudx97;said to have been the finest guerrilla fighter since Ho Chi Minhx97;encounter a yeti with legendary mountaineer Reinhold Messner, and much more.This is a wide-ranging collection for every road warrior and adventurerx97;armchair or otherwisex97;culled from the much acclaimed journal that in its first ten years has won millions of devoted readers and garnered more than a dozen prestigious prizes for excellence in journalism.

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John Rasmus is the founding editor-in-chief of National Geographic Adventure magazine. He is the former founding editor of Menx2019;s Journal and former editor of Outside.