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PATHS OF GLORY by Jeffrey Archer - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOK
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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.
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