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Into The Silence
Wade Davis
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Description for Into The Silence
paperback. 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. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: BGH; WSZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 136 x 43. Weight in Grams: 748.
**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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
672
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099563839
SKU
V9780099563839
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99-99
About Wade Davis
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Into The Silence
Maybe the prime minister should read it
Stephen Frears
Guardian
I was enthralled by Wade Davis’s Into the Silence, an account of three failed Everest expeditions leading up to the death of Mallory in 1924, which brilliantly places those feats of endurance in the context of British imperialism and the psychological aftermath of the First World War ... Read more
Stephen Frears
Guardian
I was enthralled by Wade Davis’s Into the Silence, an account of three failed Everest expeditions leading up to the death of Mallory in 1924, which brilliantly places those feats of endurance in the context of British imperialism and the psychological aftermath of the First World War ... Read more