The White Mountains Summary
John Christopher and Samuel Youd

The White Mountains Summary

Like most of Christopher's books for young readers, The White Mountains dramatizes painful truths about human nature and raises important questions about what makes life worth living.

Christopher believes that human beings are inevitably flawed, and that technological achievement is a mixed blessing in the hands of fallible people. Still, he holds out hope that strong individuals, bound together by a desire to protect freedom of thought and free will, may yet save...

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