Publication date: 2003-07-01
Dewey code: 355
RRP: £10.99
Price: £2.38
Review In the Company of Heroes / Bantam Press:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2002-09-02
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £6.99
Price: £44.47
Review Report from Ground Zero / Corgi Books: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.
Creator: Simon Chandler
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 1996-03
RRP: £9.99
Price: £0.10
Review Touching the Void / Random House Audiobooks:
Publication date: 2002-04-25
RRP: £14.99
Price: £1.31
Review Hunted: A Struggle for Survival Between Man and Bear / Constable:
Publication date: 2008-09-01
Price: £7.35
Review How Starbucks Saved My Life / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:
Authors
- Charlie Pearson
- Daniel Liebowitz
RRP: £17.99
Price: £1.95
Review The Last Expedition: Stanley's Fatal Journey Through the Congo / Portrait:
Publication date: 2007-03-15
Dewey code: 364
RRP: £17.99
Price: £5.36
Review Reunited in the Desert / John Blake Publishing Ltd:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2005-10-01
Dewey code: 940.531835092
RRP: £13.50
Price: £8.91
Review In Hiding: Surviving an Abusive Protector and the Nazi Occupation of Holland (Library of Holocaust Testimonies): Surviving an Abusive Protector and the ... Holland (Library of Holocaust Testimonies) / Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd:
Publication date: 2002-06-13
RRP: £17.99
Price: £35.53
Review Voyaging the Pacific: In Search of the South / John Murray Publishers Ltd:
Publication date: 2002-11-01
Dewey code: 970
RRP: £11.99
Price: £5.19
Review The Journey: The Overlanders' Quest for Gold / Horsdal & Schubart Publishers:
Creator: Kerry Shale
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 1998-07-20
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £10.99
Price: £0.01
Review The Perfect Storm / HarperCollins Audio:
Publication date: 2008-03-06
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £7.99
Price: £0.65
Review Loss of Innocence: A Daughter's Addiction. A Father's Fight to Save Her / Virgin Books:
Publication date: 2004-03-01
Dewey code: 968
RRP: £13.95
Price: £8.53
Review They're Burning the Churches / Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd:
Authors
- Lynette Gould with Stephen Richards
Dewey code: 362.76092
RRP: £7.99
Price: £1.96
Review Heart Of Darkness / John Blake Publishing Ltd:
Publication date: 2000-11-10
RRP: £16.99
Price: £1.50
Review The Ice Master / Macmillan:Eighty-five years after a famous, but ill-equipped, Canadian Arctic expedition of 1913 had sacrificed 16 lives, some artefacts appeared on an Internet auction site. They had originated at a "ghost camp" discovered i n 1924 where four of the expedition's 28 men, one woman and two children had perished. Jennifer Niven has completed the unfulfilled mission of survivor William McKinlay to produce a "more honest and revealing account" of the wreck of the Karluk and its aftermath. The explorers became split into several dispersed groups living "in the shadow of death". Their simultaneous grim and gruesome experiences are interwoven in this minutely detailed and atmospheric retelling, created by combining and comparing separate first-hand accounts and other sources. The characters are vividly recreated, from the expedition's self-interested leader, whom McKinlay named "a consummate liar and cheat", to the heroic ship's master who struggled over 700 miles to organise a rescue. Supplemented by haunting and fascinating photographs, The Ice Master can be harrowing and touching. It makes exciting and compulsive reading. This is a momentous story of the Arctic; of adventure, misadventure and the heights of human endurance. But it is also a story of human failings and the waste of young lives, as poignant now as it was when it was big news in 1914. [+]-Karen Tiley.
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2005-04-01
Dewey code: 797.14092
RRP: £7.99
Price: £0.01
Review Around Alone / Pan Books:
Creator: William Garvey
Publication date: 2001-03-22
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.16
Review Wild Blue: Stories of Survival from Air and Space (Adrenaline) / Mainstream Publishing:
Creator: et al
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2001-06-14
Dewey code: 796.5220954914
RRP: £23.49
Price: £15.95
Review High: Stories of Survival from Everest and K2 (Extreme Adventure) / Listen & Live Audio:
Publication date: 2007-03-19
Dewey code: 956.70430922
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.23
Review High Tea in Mosul: The true story of two Englishwomen in war-torn Iraq / Cyan Books:
Publication date: 2004-02-19
Dewey code: 960
RRP: £16.99
Price: £1.59
Review The Caliban Shore: The Tale of the "Grosvenor" Castaways / Faber and Faber:
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In the Company of Heroes, Report from Ground Zero, Touching the Void, Hunted: A Struggle for Survival Between Man and Bear, How Starbucks Saved My Life, The Last Expedition: Stanley's Fatal Journey Through the Congo, Reunited in the Desert, In Hiding: Surviving an Abusive Protector and the Nazi Occupation of Holland (Library of Holocaust Testimonies): Surviving an Abusive Protector and the ... Holland (Library of Holocaust Testimonies), Voyaging the Pacific: In Search of the South, The Journey: The Overlanders' Quest for Gold, The Perfect Storm, Loss of Innocence: A Daughter's Addiction. A Father's Fight to Save Her, They're Burning the Churches, Heart Of Darkness, The Ice Master, Around Alone, Wild Blue: Stories of Survival from Air and Space (Adrenaline), High: Stories of Survival from Everest and K2 (Extreme Adventure), High Tea in Mosul: The true story of two Englishwomen in war-torn Iraq, The Caliban Shore: The Tale of the "Grosvenor" Castaways |
