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An Eye at the Top of the World : (Signed)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Signed
- Yes
- ISBN
- 9781560258452
- Book Title
- Eye at the Top of the World : Tracing the Steps of the Cold War's Most Daring Covert Cia Operation
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Genre
- Nature, History
- Topic
- Asia / India & South Asia, Ecosystems & Habitats / Mountains
- Item Width
- 5.8in
- Item Weight
- 19 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
About this product
Product Information
At some point during the inhumanly cold Himalayan winter straddling 1965 and 1966, a peculiar collection of box-shaped objects -- one sprouting a six-foot, insect-like antenna -- plummets nine thousand feet down the sheer flanks of a remote peak. Ripped from its moorings by an avalanche, the jumbled apparatus slides down a funnel-shaped hourglass of hard snow and shoots over a black cliff band, careening a vertical distance six times the height of the Empire State building. The boxes come to rest on the glacier at the mountain's base. One, an olive-drab casing the size of a personal computer, begins to sink. Then, trailing a robotic dogtail of torn wires, it slowly burns through the snow, melting into solid blue glacial ice, eventually disappearing beneath the surface, and never seen again. No one actually witnessed this event. But as you read these words, nearly four pounds of plutonium -- locked in the glacier's dark unknowable heart -- are almost certainly moving ever closer to the source of the Ganges River. Eye at the Top of the World, provides a harrowing present-day account of Takeda's expedition to solve the mystery of Nanda Devi.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Basic Books
ISBN-10
1560258454
ISBN-13
9781560258452
eBay Product ID (ePID)
57005462
Product Key Features
Book Title
Eye at the Top of the World : Tracing the Steps of the Cold War's Most Daring Covert Cia Operation
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Asia / India & South Asia, Ecosystems & Habitats / Mountains
Publication Year
2006
Genre
Nature, History
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
19 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ub256.H56t35 2006
Copyright Date
2006
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2007-274479
Dewey Decimal
327.1273051/09/046
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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