Davis Wade: Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest
Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: 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-six British climbers who, on three expeditions (1921-24), walked 400 miles off the map to find and assault the highest mountain on Earth, twenty had seen the…