G140 Manzanar to Mount Whitney; The Life and Times of a Lost Hiker
Title: Manzanar to Mount Whitney; The Life and Times of a Lost Hiker Author: Hank Umemoto First copyright date: 2013 Type of book: Issei and Nisei, World War II, hiking, Japanese-American, racism, Japanese-American life before WWII, struggle, work General subject matter: Nature, hiking, internment camp life, Nisei life, Asian-American, World War II, life after World War II Special features: Umm none, sorry to say. Price: $16.95 dollars ISBN: 978-1-59714-202-1 Summary: 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. 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. As he wanders through ...