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Brotherhood of the Rope: The Biography of Charles Houston: Easyread Large Bold Edition Book
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.Read More
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- 144296801X
- 9781442968011
- Bernadette McDonald
- 14 March 2009
- ReadHowYouWant
- Paperback (Book)
- 432
- Large Print
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