The character of Rabbi Harvey also contains elements of the author's own father, David Sheinkin. The eclectic stories, which combine Jewish legends and frontier legends, sprung from Sheinkin's own eclectic childhood as a Jewish-American boy raised on both Jewish folktales and American Westerns. The books, which were published through Jewish Lights Publishing, consist of The Adventures of Rabbi Harvey, Rabbi Harvey Rides Again, and Rabbi Harvey vs. Sheinkin has written and illustrated three fictional graphic novels about Rabbi Harvey, a fictional Jewish rabbi who also functions as an Old West sheriff, using Jewish rabbinical wisdom to solve problems usually solved with firearms in the fictional Rocky Mountain town of Elk Spring, Colorado. His work has been praised for making historical information more accessible. A former textbook writer, Sheinkin began writing full-time nonfiction books for young readers in 2008. Filled with displays of incredible strength and heart-stopping danger, Into the Clouds is the thrilling story of the men whose quest to conquer a mountain became a battle to survive the descent.Steve Sheinkin is an American author of suspenseful history books for young adults. Three attempts at K2, one of the most grueling challenges the planet has to offer. Three expeditions and a high-mountain rivalry. With the summit in their grasp, a vicious storm and a sudden illness puts their own expedition on the edge of disaster, turning their quest to conquer a mountain into one of the most daring rescue missions ever. Now, Houston's team follows in their tracks. Since then, another American expdition has fallen apart on the remote, windswept mass of rock and ice. Four Houston, reaching the top of K2 is a lifelong dream, an obsession that began 15 years earlier on his first expedition there.
Everest for the first time, Charlie Houston and a team of mountaineers carve a path up the second-highest peak on Earth: the deadly K2. A nail-biting tale of survival and brotherhood atop one of the deadliest mountains on Earth.
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