Brotherhood of the Rope: The Biography of Charles Houston - Couverture souple

McDonald, Bernadette

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0898869420 ISBN 13 : 9780898869422

Editeur : Mountaineers Books, 2007

Synopsis

Book by Bernadette McDonald

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The biography of Charles Houston, M.D., famed for leading the heroic K2 expedition of 1953 and his pioneering research in high-altitude medicine.In Brotherhood of the rope, Bernadette McDonald traces the development of an American hero. Houston is a mountaineer whose groundbreaking medical experiments on altitude and the human body helped calibrate the nation's WWII air-assault strategy and shorten the war. This is the man personally recruited by Sergeant Shriver to lead the first Peace Corps programs in India; the friend who Bill Moyers credits with saving his life; the physician who built some of the first artificial-heart prototypes in his garage. Houston is still a leading authority in high-altitude medicine, and serves as a mentor for troubled teens.

Biographie de l'auteur

Bernadette McDonald is former Vice President of Mountain Culture at The Banff Centre, where she directed the Banff Mountain Film Festival, and was a founder of the Banff Mountain Book Festival. Bernadette is the co-editor of ''Voices From the Summit: The World's Great Mountaineers on the Future of Climbing,''published by National Geographic, and the editor of ''Extreme Landscape,''released in 2002, and co-editor of ''Whose Water Is It,'' released in 2003.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mountaineers Books
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0898869420
• ISBN 13: 9780898869422
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 250
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• Personne responsable: non disponible