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false <![CDATA[Paths of Glory]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255685715m/4102763.jpg 4102763 10 Some people have dreams that are so magnificent that if they were to achieve them, their place in history would be guaranteed. People like Christopher Columbus, Isaac Newton, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Edison, Nancy Astor, Charles Lindbergh, Amy Johnson, Edmund Hilary and Neil Armstrong—their unparalleled success has made their stories into legend. But what if one man had such a dream, and once he’d achieved it, there was no proof that he had fulfilled his ambition? Jeffrey Archer’s new novel, Paths of Glory, is the story of such a man—George Mallory. Born in 1886, he was a brilliant student who became part of the Bloomsbury Group at Cambridge in the early twentieth century and served in the Royal Garrison Artillery during World War I. After the war, he married, had three children, and would have spent the rest of his life as a schoolteacher, but for his love of mountain climbing. Mallory once told a reporter that he wanted to climb Mt. Everest, “because it is there.” On his third try in 1924, at age thirty-seven, he was last seen four hundred feet from the top. His body was found in 1999, and it remains a mystery whether he and his climbing partner, Andrew Irvine, ever reached the summit. In fact, not until you’ve turned the last page of Archer’s extraordinary novel will you be able to decide if George Mallory should be added to that list of legends, while another name would have to be removed. Paths of Glory is truly a triumph. 4149926 3 3 2009 Paths of Glory total:417|5:21|4:21|3:16|2:3|1:0| 417 1606 651 138 3 2 false false Wed Apr 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 21:54:45 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 12:42:34 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 19:13:19 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 19:19:54 -0700 2009
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I have never understood man's need to climb mountains - so the pure enjoyment reading this book gave me was totally unexpected.

The story of George Mallory and his quest to conquer Mount Ever...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Apr 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 07:41:18 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 17 08:13:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jun 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 12:10:45 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 13:12:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jul 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 05:17:17 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 10:04:24 -0700 2009
Written with vivid imagination, Mr Archer relates the life and some of the events surrounding this historical man...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Apr 27 16:24:42 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 16:39:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 09:45:03 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 09:49:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 19:03:44 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 19:21:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 08:46:03 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 08:51:57 -0700 2009
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Although easy to read, one can imag...more...]]> 4 0 false true Sat Jun 06 11:47:31 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 11:47:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 19 13:53:56 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 09:59:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 19:22:32 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 15:51:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Aug 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 19:33:55 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 07:50:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Jun 17 21:57:01 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 22:03:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=4102763