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Mountain: A Novel
Mountain: A Novel
Mountain: A Novel
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"Mountain" is an absorbing novel by American writer, Clement Wood. Readers will enjoy the gripping storyline, unique characters and vivid descriptions presented in this work.
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"High places have always held for a man a spell and a mystery. He could not traverse the windy ways of air, the spacious trails of the birds; but he could climb these rocky steeps, as hard-won steps toward the billowing mountains of clouds, and the beaconing stars, and the sky-homed mystery of mysteries. The hills were a fastness to daring souls, yielding far vistas of shrunken valleys. They were a menace to the low-dwellers: out of the heights fierce warriors darted, like plunging eagles or swooping hawks, to plunder the placid wealth below. Men were their bone-whitened victims, and their lengthened, pliable arms."
LanguageEnglish
PublisherGood Press
Release dateApr 26, 2021
ISBN4064066171810
Mountain: A Novel

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