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If the quest for Mount Everest began as a grand imperial gesture, as redemption for an empire of explorers that had lost the race to the Poles, it ended as a mission of regeneration for a country and a people bled white by war.
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World War, 1914-1918, Description and travel, Mountaineering expeditions, Travel, Influence, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.), Mountaineers, Psychology, Mallory, george, 1886-1924, Mountaineering, World war, 1914-1918, Everest, mount (china and nepal), World war, 1914-1918, great britain, World war, 1914-1918, influencePeople
George Mallory (1886-1924)Showing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
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Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
2012, Penguin Random House
in English
0099563835 9780099563839
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Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
Sep 27, 2011, Brand: Knopf Canada, Knopf Canada
hardcover
067697919X 9780676979190
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Into the silence: the Great War, Mallory and the conquest of Everest
2011, Bodley Head
in English
1847921841 9781847921840
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Table of Contents
1. Great Gable
2. Everest imagined
3. The plan of attack
4. Hink's watch
5. Enter Mallory
6. The doorway to the mountain
7. The blindness of birds
8. Eastern approaches
9. The North Col
10. The summit of their desires
11. Finch's triumph
12. The thread of life
13. The price of life is death
Epilogue.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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