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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Into the silence Into the silence 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 … OL15933318W
Book of peoples of the world Book of peoples of the world 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… OL18737080W
Into the silence Into the silence 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… OL20975787W
Missing of the Somme Missing of the Somme 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… OL21128959W