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About the author
Michael Cooper
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. His memoir chronicling his many near-fatal expeditions, <em>Miscalculated Risks: Attacked, Crippled, Paralyzed, Drowning, Unconscious and Freezing in The Wild (Just Not All at Once)</em>, was the Winner of the American Writing Awards for Best New (Debut) Nonfiction and Winner of the Literary Global Book Awards for Narrative Nonfiction. Miscalculated Risks has also been selected as a Finalist for the Foreword INDIES' Adventure, Sports and Recreation Book of the Year and has been nominated for the Eric Hoffer Awards' Montaigne Medal recognizing the year's "most thought-provoking books"—distinctions prompting <em>National Today</em> to recognize Cooper as "a leading voice in adventure literature." <br> <br><em>Miscalculated Risks</em> has been the #1 bestseller of print books in the SPORTS and RECREATION/Extreme Sports category since the book was launched in October, 2025 [source: IngramSpark Global Distribution Network]. Leading literary critics have heaped glowing praise on <em>Miscalculated Risks</em>: <em>Midwest Book Review</em> says <em>Miscalculated Risks</em> "will leave readers on the edges of their seats . . . Libraries seeking adventure stories of mountaineering and outdoors encounters will want to add <em>Miscalculated Risks</em> to their collections. . . . Nothing short of remarkable." <em>Kirkus</em><em> Reviews</em> says, "The wilderness comes alive on the page in this (literal) trailblazer's memoir. . . . Cooper portrays his adventures in immersive detail. OUR VERDICT: GET IT." And <em>Readers' Favorite</em> calls Miscalculated Risks "terrifying . . . a gripping, cautionary book that definitely stays with you after you finish it."<br> <br>Michael 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 eight national and international magazines. He has served as Contributing Editor for the recording industry's preeminent magazine, <em>Mix</em>, since 1996. Michael Cooper lives with his wife in Central Oregon.<br><br>To view documentary photos and video of Michael Cooper’s wilderness expeditions, go to https://michaelcooperadventurer.com/. Information about his memoir <em>Miscalculated Risks</em> can be found on Larrea Press’ website: https://soloist.ai/larreapress.<br> <br><br>
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