Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest - Tapa dura

9780375408892: Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
Ver todas las copias de esta edición ISBN.
 
 
Book by Davis Wade

"Sinopsis" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Críticas:

"Davis's book, ten years in the writing, is highly absorbing narrative . . . A heroic attempt to capture the scale of the undertaking to conquer the highest mountain on earth."
--Michael Jeffries, The Newark Star-Ledger

"A magnificent, audacious venture . . . Into the Silence is quite unlike any other mountaineering book. It not only spins a gripping Boy's Own yarn about the early British expeditions to Everest, but investigates how the carnage of the trenches bled into a desire for redemption at the top of the world. Many of those Himalayan explorers, including Mallory, had served in the corpse-ridden fields of northern France. Indeed, of the 26 men who climbed in the three expeditions, 20 had seen front-line action. Six had been severely wounded, two others hospitalized by disease at the front, and one treated for shell shock. All had seen dozens of friends and countrymen die. For these veterans, the author argues, death had lost its power . . . At its heart, Into the Silence is an elegy for a lost generation."
--Ed Caesar, The Sunday Times (Front cover)

"A gripper of a read . . . Silence revives the cliff's-edge drama of those Jazz age climbs and drives home the tragedy of Mallory's death."
--Bruce Barcott, Outside

"The men in this story had, for the most part, been young in 1914, bright and energetic and full of dreams. By 1918 those who had survived had seen and done things that no one should have to know about, and Davis does a magnificent job detailing their experiences, setting up the rest of the story--the expeditionary saga--as a logical response, even an inspired rejoinder to the soul-destroying realities of war. . . it is perhaps the book's signature achievement that [Davis] keeps the narrative zipping along toward its inexorable and tragic conclusion while so thoroughly and persuasively contextualizing key events."
--Christina Thompson, The Boston Globe

"This profoundly ambitious book aims high itself, because it sets the subject of Everest in a specific historical context . . . . Davis's monumental work ranges . . . widely through the matter of Everest, both on and off the mountain, with harrowing descriptions of life and death on the Western Front, with frank dissections of rivalries, motives, inadequacies and confusions, and measured character studies."
--Jan Morris, The Telegraph

"A meticulous recreation . . . The death in 1912 of Captain Scott and his companions in the Antarctic set a precedent of sacrifice for the generation of young British men who, a few years later, would hurl themselves into the maelstrom of the Great War. That Scott's expedition was, according to later accounts, doomed by incompetent leadership only makes its failure seem more prophetic. Now, in Wade Davis's magnificent new book, the remaining goal of imperial exploration is seen as an outcome of--and response to--the First World War. While Scott's expedition was, in some ways, an exercise in heroic futility, the conquest of Mount Everest could help to exorcise the massed ghosts of the dead."
--Geoff Dyer, The Guardian

"[A] meticulous history . . . Culminating in detailed accounts of the ascents that astutely weigh events and controversies, this vital contribution to Everest literature should rivet readers."
--Gilbert Taylor, Booklist

"The First World War, the worst calamity humanity has ever inflicted on itself, still reverberates in our lives. In its immediate aftermath, a few young men who had fought in it went looking for a healing challenge, and found it far from the Western Front. In recreating their astonishing adventure, Wade Davis has given us an elegant meditation on the courage to carry on."
--George F. Will

"I was captivated. Wade Davis has penned an exceptional book on an extraordinary generation. They do not make them like that anymore. And there would always only ever be one Mallory. From the pathos of the trenches to the inevitable tragedies high on Everest this is a book deserving of awards. Monumental in its scope and conception it nevertheless remains hypnotically fascinating throughout. A wonderful story tinged with sadness."
--Joe Simpson, author of Touching the Void

"Into the Silence is utterly fascinating, and grippingly well-written. With extraordinary skill Wade Davis manages to weave together such disparate strands as Queen Victoria's Indian Raj, the 'Great Game' of intrigue against Russia, the horrors of the Somme, and Britain's obsession to conquer the world's highest peak, all linking to that terrible moment atop Everest when Mallory fell to his death. The mystery of whether he and Irving ever reached the summit remains tantalizingly unsolved."
--Alistair Horne, author of The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916

"Into the Silence is a breathtaking triumph. An astonishing piece of research, it is also intensely moving, evoking the courage, chivalry, and sacrifice that drove Mallory and his companions through the war and to ever greater heights."
--William Shawcross, author of The Queen Mother

"Wade Davis's mesmerizing telling of George Mallory's fabled story gives new and revealing weight to the significance of this post-war era and to his dazzlingly accomplished and courageous companions. Into the Silence succeeds not only because Davis's research is prodigious, but because every sentence has been struck with conviction, every image evoked with fierce reverence--for the heartbreaking twilight era, for the magnificent resilience of its survivors, for their mission, for Mallory, for his mountain. An epic worth of its epic."
--Caroline Alexander, author of The Endurance and The War That Killed Achilles

Reseña del editor:
On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge just below the lip of Mount Everest’s North Col. George Mallory, thirty-seven, was Britain’s finest climber. Sandy Irvine was a young Oxford scholar of twenty-two with little previous mountaineering experience. Neither of them returned.
 
In this magisterial work of history and adventure, based on more than a decade of prodigious research in British, Canadian, and European archives, and months in the field in Nepal and Tibet, Wade Davis vividly re-creates British climbers’ epic attempts to scale Mount Everest in the early 1920s. With new access to letters and diaries, Davis recounts the heroic efforts of George Mallory and his fellow climbers to conquer the mountain in the face of treacherous terrain and furious weather. Into the Silence sets their remarkable achievements in sweeping historical context: Davis shows how the exploration originated in nineteenth-century imperial ambitions, and he takes us far beyond the Himalayas to the trenches of World War I, where Mallory and his generation found themselves and their world utterly shattered.  In the wake of the war that destroyed all notions of honor and decency, the Everest expeditions, led by these scions of Britain’s elite, emerged as a symbol of national redemption and hope.
 
Beautifully written and rich with detail, Into the Silence is a classic account of exploration and endurance, and a timeless portrait of an extraordinary generation of adventurers, soldiers, and mountaineers the likes of which we will never see again.

"Sobre este título" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

  • EditorialKNOPF
  • Año de publicación2011
  • ISBN 10 0375408894
  • ISBN 13 9780375408892
  • EncuadernaciónTapa dura
  • Número de páginas672
  • Valoración
Comprar nuevo Ver este artículo

Gastos de envío: EUR 28,21
De Estados Unidos de America a España

Destinos, gastos y plazos de envío

Añadir al carrito

Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título

9780375708152: Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  ISBN 13:  9780375708152
Editorial: Vintage, 2012
Tapa blanda

  • 9780099563839: Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest

    Vintage, 2012
    Tapa blanda

  • 9781847921840: Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest

    Bodley..., 2011
    Tapa dura

  • 9780676979190: Title: Into the Silence The Great War Mallory and the Con

    Knopf ...
    Tapa dura

  • 9780676979206: Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis(2012-10-02)

    Tapa blanda

Los mejores resultados en AbeBooks

Imagen de archivo

Davis, Wade
Publicado por Knopf (2011)
ISBN 10: 0375408894 ISBN 13: 9780375408892
Nuevo Tapa dura Cantidad disponible: 1
Librería:
Front Cover Books
(Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America)

Descripción Condición: new. Nº de ref. del artículo: FrontCover0375408894

Más información sobre este vendedor | Contactar al vendedor

Comprar nuevo
EUR 24,23
Convertir moneda

Añadir al carrito

Gastos de envío: EUR 28,21
De Estados Unidos de America a España
Destinos, gastos y plazos de envío
Imagen de archivo

Davis, Wade
Publicado por Knopf (2011)
ISBN 10: 0375408894 ISBN 13: 9780375408892
Nuevo Tapa dura Cantidad disponible: 1
Librería:
Wizard Books
(Long Beach, CA, Estados Unidos de America)

Descripción Hardcover. Condición: new. New. Nº de ref. del artículo: Wizard0375408894

Más información sobre este vendedor | Contactar al vendedor

Comprar nuevo
EUR 25,11
Convertir moneda

Añadir al carrito

Gastos de envío: EUR 28,21
De Estados Unidos de America a España
Destinos, gastos y plazos de envío
Imagen de archivo

Davis, Wade
Publicado por Knopf (2011)
ISBN 10: 0375408894 ISBN 13: 9780375408892
Nuevo Tapa dura Cantidad disponible: 1
Librería:
LibraryMercantile
(Humble, TX, Estados Unidos de America)

Descripción Condición: new. Nº de ref. del artículo: newMercantile_0375408894

Más información sobre este vendedor | Contactar al vendedor

Comprar nuevo
EUR 25,65
Convertir moneda

Añadir al carrito

Gastos de envío: EUR 29,13
De Estados Unidos de America a España
Destinos, gastos y plazos de envío
Imagen de archivo

Davis, Wade
Publicado por Brand: Knopf (2011)
ISBN 10: 0375408894 ISBN 13: 9780375408892
Nuevo Tapa dura Original o primera edición Cantidad disponible: 1
Librería:
Ergodebooks
(Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America)

Descripción Hardcover. Condición: New. First Edition. On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge just below the lip of Mount Everests North Col. George Mallory, thirty-seven, was Britains finest climber. Sandy Irvine was a young Oxford scholar of twenty-two with little previous mountaineering experience. Neither of them returned.In this magisterial work of history and adventure, based on more than a decade of prodigious research in British, Canadian, and European archives, and months in the field in Nepal and Tibet, Wade Davis vividly re-creates British climbers epic attempts to scale Mount Everest in the early 1920s. With new access to letters and diaries, Davis recounts the heroic efforts of George Mallory and his fellow climbers to conquer the mountain in the face of treacherous terrain and furious weather. Into the Silence sets their remarkable achievements in sweeping historical context: Davis shows how the exploration originated in nineteenth-century imperial ambitions, and he takes us far beyond the Himalayas to the trenches of World War I, where Mallory and his generation found themselves and their world utterly shattered. In the wake of the war that destroyed all notions of honor and decency, the Everest expeditions, led by these scions of Britains elite, emerged as a symbol of national redemption and hope.Beautifully written and rich with detail, Into the Silence is a classic account of exploration and endurance, and a timeless portrait of an extraordinary generation of adventurers, soldiers, and mountaineers the likes of which we will never see again. Nº de ref. del artículo: DADAX0375408894

Más información sobre este vendedor | Contactar al vendedor

Comprar nuevo
EUR 43,52
Convertir moneda

Añadir al carrito

Gastos de envío: EUR 12,95
De Estados Unidos de America a España
Destinos, gastos y plazos de envío
Imagen de archivo

Davis, Wade
Publicado por Knopf (2011)
ISBN 10: 0375408894 ISBN 13: 9780375408892
Nuevo Tapa dura Cantidad disponible: 1
Librería:
GoldBooks
(Austin, TX, Estados Unidos de America)

Descripción Hardcover. Condición: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed. Nº de ref. del artículo: think0375408894

Más información sobre este vendedor | Contactar al vendedor

Comprar nuevo
EUR 29,49
Convertir moneda

Añadir al carrito

Gastos de envío: EUR 29,13
De Estados Unidos de America a España
Destinos, gastos y plazos de envío
Imagen de archivo

Davis, Wade
Publicado por Knopf (2011)
ISBN 10: 0375408894 ISBN 13: 9780375408892
Nuevo Tapa dura Cantidad disponible: 1
Librería:
GoldenWavesOfBooks
(Fayetteville, TX, Estados Unidos de America)

Descripción Hardcover. Condición: new. New. Fast Shipping and good customer service. Nº de ref. del artículo: Holz_New_0375408894

Más información sobre este vendedor | Contactar al vendedor

Comprar nuevo
EUR 24,66
Convertir moneda

Añadir al carrito

Gastos de envío: EUR 38,38
De Estados Unidos de America a España
Destinos, gastos y plazos de envío
Imagen del vendedor

Davis, Wade
Publicado por Knopf, New York (2011)
ISBN 10: 0375408894 ISBN 13: 9780375408892
Nuevo Tapa dura Original o primera edición Cantidad disponible: 1
Librería:
Dan Pope Books
(West Hartford, CT, Estados Unidos de America)

Descripción Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. New York, Knopf, 2011. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. Very Fine in a very fine jacket. A pristine unread copy, purchased new and never opened. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($32.50). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. Nº de ref. del artículo: CLS-Nonfiction

Más información sobre este vendedor | Contactar al vendedor

Comprar nuevo
EUR 47,63
Convertir moneda

Añadir al carrito

Gastos de envío: EUR 21,53
De Estados Unidos de America a España
Destinos, gastos y plazos de envío
Imagen de archivo

Davis, Wade
Publicado por Knopf (2011)
ISBN 10: 0375408894 ISBN 13: 9780375408892
Nuevo Tapa dura Cantidad disponible: 1
Librería:
BennettBooksLtd
(LOS ANGELES, CA, Estados Unidos de America)

Descripción Condición: New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 2.4. Nº de ref. del artículo: Q-0375408894

Más información sobre este vendedor | Contactar al vendedor

Comprar nuevo
EUR 56,73
Convertir moneda

Añadir al carrito

Gastos de envío: EUR 40,69
De Estados Unidos de America a España
Destinos, gastos y plazos de envío