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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Manzanar to Mount Whitney: The Life and Times of a Lost Hiker

Manzanar to Mount Whitney: The Life and Times of a Lost Hiker

Umemoto, Hank

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Publisher Price: $20.00

ISBN10: 1597142026
ISBN13: 9781597142021
Publisher: Heyday Books
Published: Apr 1 2013
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

Part memoir and part hiker's diary, Manzanar to Mount Whitney gives an intimate, rollicking account of Japanese American life California before and after World War II.

In 1942, fourteen-year-old Hank Umemoto gazed out a barrack window at Manzanar Internment Camp, saw the silhouette of Mount Whitney against an indigo sky, and vowed that one day he would climb to the top. Fifty-seven years and a lifetime of stories later, at the age of seventy-one, he reached the summit. As he wanders through the mountains of California's Inland Empire, Umemoto recalls pieces of his childhood on a grape vineyard in the Sacramento Valley, his time at Manzanar, where beauty and hope were maintained despite the odds, and his later career as proprietor of a printing firm, all with grace, honesty, and unfailing humor. And all along, the peak of Mount Whitney casts its shadow, a symbol of freedom, beauty, and resilience.

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