Manzanar to Mount Whitney HI a world that “rustles

a world that “rustles

A landmark history told with supreme narrative skill

in this candid new memoir

Cityscapes is part history

to lead two expeditions: the first to find a safe overland route to Monterey

Manzanar to Mount Whitney HI a world that “rustlesPart 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