num_pages: 418
description: 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 Armstrongtheir unparalleled success has made their stories into legend.But what if one man had such a dream and once hed achieved it there was no proof that he had fulfilled his ambition?Jeffrey Archers new novel Paths of Glory is the story of such a manGeorge 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 youve turned the last page of Archers 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.
language: English
title: Paths of Glory
publisher: St. Martin's Press