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Author:
Davis, Wade.
Title:
Into the silence : the Great War, Mallory, and the conquest of Everest / Wade Davis.
Publisher:
Vintage Books,
Copyright Date:
2012
Description:
655 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Subject:
Leigh-Mallory, George Herbert,--1886-1924.
Mountaineers--Great Britain--Biography.
Mount Everest Expedition--(1924)
World War, 1914-1918--Great Britain--Influence.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
ISBN:
0375708154
9780375708152
Locations:
HPPD845 -- Orange City Public Library (Orange City)

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