Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest

Wade Davis

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

Wade Davis

655 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction biography history adventurous slow-paced
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* If the quest for Mount Everest began as a grand imperial gesture, as redemption for an empire of explorers that had lost the race to the Poles, it ended as a mission of regeneration for a country and a people bled white by war.* Of the twenty-si...

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adventurous: 90%

informative: 87%

reflective: 37%

sad: 37%

challenging: 34%

inspiring: 34%

tense: 34%

emotional: 21%

dark: 9%

hopeful: 9%

mysterious: 6%

funny: 3%


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61% of readers chose slow
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