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Into the silence
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Wade Davis |
A beautifully evocative exploration of the inchoate motives of a group of British climbers who attempted to scale Mount Everest in the early 1920s. There was patriotism, of course, but also a desire … |
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Book of peoples of the world
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Wade Davis,K. David Harrison,Catherine Herbert Howell |
"As cultures and languages disappear from the Earth at a shocking rate, it becomes all the more urgent for us to know and value the world s many ethnic identities. National Geographic's Book of Peopl… |
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Into the silence
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Wade Davis |
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… |
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Missing of the Somme
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Wade Davis,Geoff Dyer |
'Head bowed, rifle on his back, a soldier is silhouetted against the going down of the sun, looking at the grave of a dead comrade, remembering him. A photograph from the war, is also a photograph of… |
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