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BL
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| Record Number
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582921
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| Doc. No
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b412140
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| Main Entry
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Davis, Wade
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| Title & Author
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Into the silence : : the Great War, Mallory, and the conquest of Everest /\ Wade Davis
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Vintage Books,, 2012
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655 pages :: illustrations, maps ;; 21 cm
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| ISBN
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9780375708152
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: 0375708154
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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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
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| Abstract
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In this work of history and adventure Wade Davis asks not whether George Mallory was the first to reach the summit of Everest, but rather why he kept on climbing on that fateful day. His answer lies in a single phrase uttered by one of the survivors as they retreated from the mountain: 'The price of life is death'
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| Subject
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Mallory, George,1886-1924
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Mount Everest Expedition, (1924)
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Mountaineers-- Great Britain, Biography
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World War, 1914-1918-- Great Britain-- Influence
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| Dewey Classification
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796.522092
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| LC Classification
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GV199.92.M356D38 2012
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