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Manzanar to Mount Whitney : the life and times of a lost hiker / Hank Umemoto.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Umemoto, Hank.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Umemoto, Hank.
- Japanese Americans--California--Biography.
- Japanese Americans.
- Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
- Manzanar War Relocation Center.
- Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal narratives, American.
- Korean War, 1950-1953.
- Mountaineering.
- Businesspeople.
- California.
- Businesspeople--California--Biography.
- Mountaineering--California--Whitney, Mount.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives -- American.
- Biographies.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 195 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, Calif. : Heyday, [2013]
- 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 hikers diary, Manzanar to Mount Whitney gives an intimate, rollicking, poignant account of Japanese American life in California before and after World War II. As he wanders through the mountains of California's Inland Empire, Umemoto recalls pieces of his childhood on a 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 with unfailing dignity and honesty, and considerable whimsy as well. And all along, the peak of Mount Whitney casts its shadow, a symbol of freedom, beauty, and survival. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Icehouse Canyon 1
- Chapter 2 Bare Hands, Pure Guts, and Determination 11
- Chapter 3 A Day in the Life of a Hobo 28
- Chapter 4 The Night I Slept with Daisy 45
- Chapter 5 "Because we're Japs, that's how come" 63
- Chapter 6 Hello, Manzanar 78
- Chapter 7 Twenty-Five-Dollar Stipend 100
- Chapter 8 A Life in Skid Row 116
- Chapter 9 The Turbulent Years 140
- Chapter 10 Slum Venture 162
- Chapter 11 Black Outhouse Beacon 173
- Chapter 12 Closure 184.
- ISBN:
- 9781597142021
- 1597142026
- OCLC:
- 798263896
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