Wade Davis

Into The Silence

The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest

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Produktbeschreibung

WINNER OF THE 2012 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZEA monumental work of history, biography and adventure - the First World War, Mallory and Mount Everestà â Ë The price of life is deathà â â For Mallory, as for all of his generation, death was but à â Ë a frail barrier that men crossed, smiling and gallant, every dayà â â .

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 666047
• Seitenzahl: 672
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 136mm x 58mm
• Gewicht: 742g
• ISBN-13: 9780099563839
• ISBN-10: 0099563835
• Artikelnr.: 35204989

Autorenporträt

Wade Davis is a multi award-winning writer and acclaimed photographer whose work has taken him from the Amazon to Tibet, Africa to Australia, Polynesia to the Arctic. Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society from 2000 to 2013, he is currently Professor of Anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia. He is the bestselling author of 22 books, including One River, The Wayfinders and Into the Silence, which was awarded the 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize. In 2016, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. In 2018 he became an Honorary Citizen of Colombia.

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