ADeathful Ridge A Novel of Everest by Wainwright, Andy ( Author ) ON Jan-01-1997, Paperback

Wainwright, Andy

ISBN 10: 0889626502 / ISBN 13: 9780889626508

Editore: Mosaic Press, 1997

Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Codice articolo CHL10850867

Riassunto:

A Deathful Ridge rewrites the life and myth of George Mallory, who disappeared with Andrew Irvine near the summit of Mount Everest in 1924. Mallory was the greatest climber of his generation, but also a Cambridge graduate and friend of Rupert Brooke, Lytton Strachey, Viginia Woolf, Robert graves, and others. he moved in cultural circles that were at the heart of critical reassessments of the old empire, but was known among his friends and associates as Galahad. He was elevated to the patheon of British heroes at his death. A Deathful Ridge has Mallory found alive on the upper slopes of Everest, insisting that he has killed his younger climbing companion. Those who represent the old order close around him to prevent public discovery of a fall far greater than any he could have had on the mountain. He is taken back secretly to Britain, where he lives in silence for another twenty-two years but keeps a journal. The narrator of the novel becomes caught up in stories about Mallory, official and unofficial, and about the vagaries of historical truths.

Product Description: Book by Wainwright J A

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Titolo: ADeathful Ridge A Novel of Everest by ...
Casa editrice: Mosaic Press
Data di pubblicazione: 1997
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Used; Good