Publication date: 1997-06-01
Dewey code: 900
RRP: £34.50
Price: £32.77
Review Wake of the Invercauld: Shipwrecked in the Sub-Antarctic - A Great-granddaughter's Pilgrimage / McGill-Queen's University Press:
Authors
- Stephen G. Michaud
- Beck Weathers
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £16.99
Price: £36.99
Review Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest / Little, Brown:
Publication date: 2004-12-31
RRP: £15.99
Price: £17.69
Review Na Bhuto Na Bhavisyati: Novelization of Life of Swami Vivekanand in Hindi / Vani Prakashan:
Publication date: 2002-03-18
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £10.99
Price: £9.57
Review Report from Ground Zero / Doubleday:In Report from Ground Zero Dennis Smith, a retired New York City fire-fighter, writes, "There is no centre to this day, no middle or end. All its remaining minutes and hours will be collapsed into that single instant at 8:48 am when September 11, 2001 became the saddest day of our history. " Shortly after the two planes hit the World Trade Centre towers, he volunteered to help in the rescue effort. In this diary of the three months following the attack, Smith combines his own observations with interviews of those involved in the work, creating a detailed day-by-day history of the massive effort to find life among the ruins. His 18 years of experience in the field and considerable writing skills (he is the author of Report from Engine Co 82 and nine other books) make him uniquely qualified to cover these events. To say the book is moving is an understatement-it is often overwhelming and difficult to read. Report from Ground Zero exacts an emotional toll on the reader; writing it must have been heartbreaking. In chronicling the hope, courage and compassion embodied by all of the rescue workers, Smith has performed yet another service to his country. Note: a portion of the proceeds from sales of the book will be contributed by the author to the Foundation for American Fire-fighters. -Shawn Carkonen.
Authors
- Sir Francis Younghusband
- Patrick French
Publication date: 2000-10-06
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £7.99
Price: £15.95
Review The Epic of Mount Everest / Pan Books:
Creator: Tim Pigott-Smith
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2000-04-20
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £12.99
Price: £19.95
Review Endurance (Tape): The True Story of Shackleton's Incredible Voyage to the Antarctic / Orion:When Alfred Lansing's Endurance was first published in 1959, few people in this country-or anywhere else for that matter-had heard of Shackleton or the Imperial Transantarctic Expedition of 1914. Britain's polar history had been rewritten with Shackleton airbrushed out and Captain Scott taking centre stage as the archetypal English hero who died on the Great Barrier on his long haul back from the South Pole. If Scott's deification was almost instantaneous, Shackleton's descent into obscurity was more of a slow fade than a sudden death. He achieved a certain amount of acclaim when South, his own account of the Expedition, was published, but his legend seemed to die with him when he suffered a fatal heart attack on another trip south in 1922. His memory deserved much better. Not only was he a far better explorer than Scott, both in terms of his technical and man management capabilities, but the story of the Transantarctic expedition read like an epic out of a Boys Own annual. With his boat crushed, he led his men across the pack-ice, sailed them in open boats to Elephant Island. Once he realised there was no chance of rescue, he and four crew mates sailed a further 600 miles across the southern ocean to South Georgia where they were shipwrecked. The five men then made the first crossing of the island to reach the whaling station at Stromness. Three attempts and three and a half months later, Shackleton returned to Elephant Island to pick up the remaining men. [+]Not a single member of either party was lost. So we have Lansing to largely thank for Shackleton's rehabilitation. But herein lies the problem. Shackleton's story has been now been so well told both in books-especially Roland Huntford's definitive biography, and in film and TV, that even though Lansing's thrilling account, making liberal use of the diaries of several expedition members, was the first to be published it now feels all terribly familiar and adds nothing to what we already know. Even Frank Hurley's exquisite photographs which illustrate the book now engender a slight feeling of déjà vu-not least because they have already been better reproduced in a single volume published by Bloomsbury. But Lansing deserves his day in the snow and no polar library would be complete without this book. And if, by any chance, you've never previously read a word about Shackleton, this is as good a place as any to start. -John Crace.
Publication date: 2004-05-20
Dewey code: 306.362092
RRP: £13.50
Price: £8.90
Review Recollections of a Former Slave (Classics in Black Studies) / Prometheus Books:
Publication date: 2000-12-31
RRP: £15.00
Price: £10.00
Review Borrowed Lands: A Novel / Rubin Mass:
Publication date: 1995-08-15
Dewey code: 823.914
Price: £7.99
Review "Titanic" / Minerva Press:
Creator: Terry Murphy
Publication date: 2007-09
RRP: £7.50
Price: £9.49
Review Martyrs of Magadan: Memories of the Gulag / Aid to the Church in Need (United Kingdom):
Publication date: 2007-07-21
RRP: £18.50
Price: £18.50
Review The Thoughts of Chairman Grey / Tagman Press, an Imprint of Tagman Worldwide Ltd.:
Creator: et al
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2001-06-14
Dewey code: 796.5220954914
RRP: £23.49
Price: £15.93
Review High: Stories of Survival from Everest and K2 (Extreme Adventure) / Listen & Live Audio:
Publication date: 1995-02-06
Price: £9.99
Review A Match to the Heart / Fourth Estate:
Publication date: 2006-07
RRP: £4.95
Price: £6.94
Review Mallory Myths and Mysteries: The Mallory Clothing Replica Project / Mountain Heritage Trust:
Authors
- Desmond Lowden
- Raymond Keene
RRP: £20.00
Price: £21.99
Review Grandmaster / Impala Film Division:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2006-01-24
Dewey code: 940.5318092
RRP: £14.95
Price: £9.86
Review Through Blood and Tears: Surviving Hitler and Stalin (Library of Holocaust Testimonies) / Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd:
Publication date: 2003-11-03
RRP: £6.99
Price: £0.49
Review It's a Miracle: Real Life Inspirational Stories, Extraordinary Events and Everyday Wonders / Element Books:
Publication date: 2001-10-11
Dewey code: 919.804
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.60
Review Negro Explorer at the North Pole: The Autobiography of Matthew Henson / Invisible Cities Press,US:
Publication date: 1999-11-30
Price: £21.00
Review On Floating Ice: Two Years on an Antartic Ice-shelf South of 75'S / The Pentland Press:
Authors
- John Silverwood
- Jean Silverwood
Review Black Wave / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd:
| Models & Brands:
Wake of the Invercauld: Shipwrecked in the Sub-Antarctic - A Great-granddaughter's Pilgrimage, Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest, Na Bhuto Na Bhavisyati: Novelization of Life of Swami Vivekanand in Hindi, Report from Ground Zero, The Epic of Mount Everest, Endurance (Tape): The True Story of Shackleton's Incredible Voyage to the Antarctic, Recollections of a Former Slave (Classics in Black Studies), Borrowed Lands: A Novel, "Titanic", Martyrs of Magadan: Memories of the Gulag, The Thoughts of Chairman Grey, High: Stories of Survival from Everest and K2 (Extreme Adventure), A Match to the Heart, Mallory Myths and Mysteries: The Mallory Clothing Replica Project, Grandmaster, Through Blood and Tears: Surviving Hitler and Stalin (Library of Holocaust Testimonies), It's a Miracle: Real Life Inspirational Stories, Extraordinary Events and Everyday Wonders, Negro Explorer at the North Pole: The Autobiography of Matthew Henson, On Floating Ice: Two Years on an Antartic Ice-shelf South of 75'S, Black Wave |
