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Into the silence

the Great War, Mallory and the conquest of Everest

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An edition of Into the silence (2011)

Into the silence

the Great War, Mallory and the conquest of Everest

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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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Bodley Head
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Subjects
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, influence
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George Mallory (1886-1924)
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Everest, Mount (China and Nepal), Asia, Mount Everest
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Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
2012, Penguin Random House
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Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
Sep 27, 2011, Brand: Knopf Canada, Knopf Canada
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Into the silence: the Great War, Mallory and the conquest of Everest
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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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
796.522092
Library of Congress
GV199.92.M356 D38 2011, , GV199.44

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Pagination
1 volume

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL28413560M
Internet Archive
intosilencegreat0000davi
ISBN 10
1847921841, 184792185X, 1448113970
ISBN 13
9781847921840, 9781847921857, 9781448113972
OCLC/WorldCat
751745018

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