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Wade Davis - Into The Silence, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

Into The Silence

The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest

Av Wade Davis

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**Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Winner of Winners Award**A monumental work of history, biography and adventure - the First World War, Mallory and Mount Everest. For George Mallory, as for all of his generation, death was but 'a frail barrier that men crossed, smiling and gallant, every day'. As climbers they accepted a degree of risk unimaginable before the war. What mattered now was how one lived, and the moments of being alive. While the quest for Mount Everest may have begun as a grand imperial gesture, it ended as a mission of revival for a country and a lost generation bled white by war. In a monumental work of history and adventure, Davis asks not whether Mallory was the first to reach the summit of Everest, but rather why he kept climbing on that fateful day. ‘A moving, epic masterpiece' The Times 'An extraordinary book on an extraordinary generation' Joe Simpson, author of Touching the Void 'An instant classic of mountaineering literature' Guardian
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2012-10-04
  • Mått: 135 x 215 x 50 mm
  • Vikt: 683 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 688
  • Förlag: Vintage Publishing
  • ISBN: 9780099563839
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An Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society, Wade Davis holds degrees in anthropology and biology and received his Ph.D. in ethnobotany, all from Harvard University. Davis is the author of 15 books including The Serpent and the Rainbow, One River, and The Wayfinders. His many film credits include Light at the Edge of the World, an eight-hour documentary series produced for the National Geographic Channel. In 2009 he received the Gold Medal from the Royal Canadian Geographical Society for his contributions to anthropology and conservation, and he is the 2011 recipient of the Explorers Medal, the highest award of the Explorers' Club, and the 2012 David Fairchild Medal for Plant Exploration, the most prestigious prize for botanical exploration.

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