Hampton Sides
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Hampton Sides

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HAMPTON SIDES is the author of In the Kingdom of Ice, Ghost Soldiers, Blood and Thunder, Hellhound On His Trail, and other bestselling works of narrative history and literary non-fiction. His newest work, On Desperate Ground, will be published by Doubleday this October. Hampton is an editor-at-large for Outside magazine. His magazine work, collected in numerous published anthologies, has been twice named a Finalist for the National Magazine Awards in feature writing. A recent fellow of the Santa Fe Institute, he teaches literary journalism and narrative history at Colorado College. A native of Memphis with a BA in history from Yale, he lives in Santa Fe with his wife Anne.
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    • Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
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    • The Marines at the Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle
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    • Dispatches from the New Frontier
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    • Von einer unwiderstehlichen Sehnsucht, einem grandiosen Plan und seinem dramatischen Ende im Eis
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