Miscalculated Risks

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Presentation by author Michael Cooper

Join Michael as he shares a slideshow of his pioneering expeditions through sun-scorched deserts, dangerous jungles, and wicked whitewater. Hear his harrowing stories of survival from his award-winning memoir Miscalculated Risks: Attacked, Crippled, Paralyzed, Drowning, Unconscious and Freezing in The Wild (Just Not All at Once). Following the slideshow, Michael will read an excerpt from his gripping memoir recounting one of his most ambitious desert expeditions. 

Books will be available for sale following the presentaiton. 

Miscalculated Risks is the winner of both the American Writing Awards for Best New Nonfiction and the Literary Global Book Awards for Narrative Nonfiction, and is hailed by literary critics as “brazenly honest” and “nothing short of remarkable.” A finalist for Foreword INDIES' Adventure, Sports & Recreation Book of the Year, Michael’s memoir was also nominated for the Eric Hoffer Awards' Montaigne Medal recognizing the year's "most thought-provoking books"—distinctions prompting National Today to recognize Cooper as "a leading voice in adventure literature.”

About the Author:

A wilderness adventurer, mountaineer and backcountry navigator, Michael Cooper has explored over 8,000 miles of wild country—including places where nobody in recorded history had gone before. Cooper is also widely known as a recording engineer and producer, having worked with Academy Award-winning actor William Hurt, ABC World News anchor Barry Serafin, and Grammy-winning singer/songwriter Ashley Cleveland. A noted authority on music production and sound for film, Michael Cooper’s journalism has appeared over 500 times in seven pro-audio magazines and Wired. He has served as Contributing Editor for the recording industry’s preeminent magazine, Mix, since 1996 and composed music for feature-length film. Michael Cooper lives with his wife in Central Oregon.

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