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

by Hank Umemoto and Naomi Hirahara

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597142026
• ISBN13: 9781597142021
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Heyday Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"