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The moth and the mountain : a true story of love, war and Everest  Cover Image Book Book

The moth and the mountain : a true story of love, war and Everest / Ed Caesar.

Caesar, Ed, (author.).

Summary:

From New Yorker writer Ed Caesar, 'The Moth and the Mountain' is a sweeping true story about one man's attempt to salve the wounds of war and save his own soul through an audacious adventure: flying his biplane five thousand miles across the world and attempting to become the first person to summit Mt. Everest.

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  • ISBN: 9781501143373 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: xxiv, 259 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Avid Reader Press, 2020.

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General Note:
Includes index.
Subject: Wilson, Maurice, 1898-1934.
Mountaineers > Great Britain > Biography.
Air pilots > Great Britain > Biography.
Mountaineering > Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)
Genre: Biographies.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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Ed Caesar is an author and a contributing writer to The New Yorker. Before joining The New Yorker, Caesar wrote stories for The New York Times MagazineThe Atlantic, OutsideThe Smithsonian MagazineEsquireThe Sunday Times (London), British GQ, and The Independent. He has reported from a wide range of countries, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kosovo, Russia, and Iran. He has won a number of awards for his journalism, including the 2014 Journalist of the Year from the Foreign Press Association of London. His first book, Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon, was awarded a Cross Sports Book of the Year award.

Ed Caesar is an author and a contributing writer to The New Yorker. Before joining The New Yorker, Caesar wrote stories for The New York Times MagazineThe Atlantic, OutsideThe Smithsonian MagazineEsquireThe Sunday Times (London), British GQ, and The Independent. He has reported from a wide range of countries, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kosovo, Russia, and Iran. He has won a number of awards for his journalism, including the 2014 Journalist of the Year from the Foreign Press Association of London. His first book, Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon, was awarded a Cross Sports Book of the Year award.


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