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Into The Silence

- The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest
Af: Wade Davis Engelsk Paperback

Into The Silence

- The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest
Af: Wade Davis Engelsk Paperback
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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 - now serialised in the BBC R4 documentary The Crowning of Everest.

''The price of life is death''


For 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 George Mallory was the first to reach the summit of Everest, but rather why he kept climbing on that fateful day.

''An extraordinary book on an extraordinary generation'' Joe Simpson, author of Touching the Void

''An instant classic of mountaineering literature'' Guardian

A moving, epic masterpiece'' The Times

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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 - now serialised in the BBC R4 documentary The Crowning of Everest.

''The price of life is death''


For 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 George Mallory was the first to reach the summit of Everest, but rather why he kept climbing on that fateful day.

''An extraordinary book on an extraordinary generation'' Joe Simpson, author of Touching the Void

''An instant classic of mountaineering literature'' Guardian

A moving, epic masterpiece'' The Times

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 672
ISBN-13: 9780099563839
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0099563835
Udg. Dato: 4 okt 2012
Længde: 43mm
Bredde: 136mm
Højde: 216mm
Forlag: Vintage Publishing
Oplagsdato: 4 okt 2012
Forfatter(e): Wade Davis
Forfatter(e) Wade Davis


Kategori 20. århundrede, 1900 til 1999


ISBN-13 9780099563839


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 672


Udgave


Længde 43mm


Bredde 136mm


Højde 216mm


Udg. Dato 4 okt 2012


Oplagsdato 4 okt 2012


Forlag Vintage Publishing

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