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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Davis, Wade.
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Mallory, George, 1886-1924.
Mount Everest Expedition (1924)
Mountaineers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain -- Influence.
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Into the silence : t...
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Into the silence : the Great War, Mallory, and the conquest of Everest / Wade Davis.
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Davis, Wade.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2011.
Subjects
Mallory, George, 1886-1924.
Mount Everest Expedition (1924)
Mountaineers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain -- Influence.
ISBN:
9780375408892
0375408894
Description:
xiv, 655 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
Contents:
Great Gable -- Everest imagined -- The plan of attack -- Hinks's watch -- Enter Mallory -- The doorway to the mountain -- The blindness of birds -- Eastern approaches -- The North Col -- The summit of their desires -- Finch's triumph -- The thread of life -- The price of life is death.
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Describes British climbers' attempts to scale Mount Everest in the early 1920s, discussing such topics as the role of imperial ambition in the expedition and the way in which the ascent reflected England's post-World War I redemption efforts.
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796.52209 Mallory Da
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