Reception
The book has sold over 11 million copies, as of 2000, more than any other mountaineering title. Maurice Isserman in Fallen Giants (Yale University Press, 2010), a history of Himalayan climbing, consider Annapurna to be the "most successful expedition book of all times". In the United States it was published as a Book-of-the-Month Club selection which increased its circulation and popularity. National Geographic in its list of all-time 100 greatest adventure and exploration books ranked Annapurna #6 out of 100, saying the book "conveys the essential spirit of climbing as no popular book had before and earns its place here as the most influential mountaineering book of all time."
Annapurna served as an inspiration for the parody novel The Ascent of Rum Doodle (1956) which pokes gentle but pointed fun at Herzog's sometimes pompous writing style.
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