Mark Jenkins

Twenty years ago, when the author and his best friend, Mike Moe, were eighteen years old, they lit out from Wyoming to explore the world. They washed up in Africa and without forethought or planning set off for the most remote place on earth they could imagine: Timbuktu. Stopped by disease and the desert, they never reached the fabled city. Nonetheless, that first journey taught them the meaning of travel - that to be en route is more important than...

In this new compilation of his enthralling travel tales, Outside magazine columnist, intrepid adventurer, and critically acclaimed author Mark Jenkins deftly transports readers to the remotest corners of the earth. For the past six years, Mark Jenkins's Outside magazine column, "The Hard Way, " has explored the meaning and joy of the physical outdoor life. From clandestine journeys across Tibet to mountaineering in Bolivia, sea kayaking around Turkey's...