Publication date: 2007-07-03
RRP: £17.99
Price: £4.73
Review Out of Iraq... / Bantam Press:
Creator: Clemente Guzman
Publication date: 2006-10-15
Dewey code: 636.7527
RRP: £11.50
Price: £4.79
Review Scout, the Christmas Dog / Texas A & M University Press:
Publication date: 2006-01-30
RRP: £7.99
Price: £5.57
Review A Job with a Difference (Madrigal S.) / Stamford House Publishing:
RRP: £14.00
Price: £6.95
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 title
Publication date: 2008-07-01
Price: £6.98
Review Punished: A Mother's Cruelty. A Daughter's Survival. A Secret That Couldn't be Told. / Harper Element:
Publication date: 2007-03-30
Dewey code: 973.7115
RRP: £20.00
Price: £10.96
Review I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad: The True Story of Two Runaway Slaves Whose Flight to Freedom Changed History / Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc:
Publication date: 2002-10-03
Dewey code: 910.4
RRP: £12.50
Price: £0.01
Review The White Lantern and Other Pursuits / Pimlico:
Publication date: 1999-08-30
Dewey code: 920.02
RRP: £31.95
Price: £25.00
Review Young Heroes in World History / Greenwood Press:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2005-07-08
Price: £4.94
Review Losing Face: A Memoir of Lost Identity and Self-discovery / HarperCollins New Zealand:
Publication date: 2009-02-09
RRP: £7.99
Price: £7.99
Review Dancing on Ice: A Stirring Tale of Adventure, Risk and Reckless Folly / Old Street Publishing:
Publication date: 2007-09-01
RRP: £5.99
Price: £5.99
Review Whatever Gets You Through the Night / Pen Press Publishers:
Edition: Export Ed
Publication date: 1999-01-21
Review Cold Oceans / HarperCollins:
Edition: 1st Bluejacket Books Ed
Publication date: 2007-03-15
Dewey code: 363.12309163
RRP: £13.99
Price: £13.99
Review Until the Sea Shall Free Them: Life, Death, and Survival in the Merchant Marine (Bluejacket Books): Life, Death, and Survival in the Merchant Marine (Bluejacket Books) / Naval Institute Press:
Publication date: 2005-07-20
RRP: £8.99
Price: £7.19
Review Exile Child: Based on the Life of Sarah Bartmann / Vanguard Press:
Publication date: 2004-02-12
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £16.99
Price: £12.98
Review A Furnace Afloat: The Wreck of the Hornet and the 4,300-mile Voyage of its Survivors: The Wreck of the "Hornet" and the 4,300-mile Voyage of Its Survivors / Weidenfeld & Nicolson:
Publication date: 2008-07-31
Dewey code: 355
RRP: £15.00
Price: £11.49
Review What a Bloody Arrival: A Wartime Story of Survival / Book Guild Ltd:
Publication date: 2000-04-04
Dewey code: 797.140916478
RRP: £16.99
Price: £114.72
Review Knockdown: A True Story of Sailors and the Sea / Pocket Books:On December 26, 1998, 115 boats sailed out of Sydney Harbour at the start of the Sydney to Hobart race. The Syd-Hob is a gruelling, 735-mile race down the east coast of Australia, across the Bass Strait and down the length of Tasmania. Known as the toughest blue- water (open ocean) race on earth, it is also something of a rite of passage for sailors around the world-especially Australians. Aussie landlubbers also follow the race closely, greeting the winning boat with fireworks and a city-wide celebration. But the 1998 Syd-Hob was no party. Prior to the race, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology issued a warning for 55-mile winds in Bass Strait, later upping the severity and describing coming conditions as "atrocious. " Atrocious proved an understatement. The first storm hit the fleet around midnight, causing many boats to turn and sail for home. At 2 p. m. [+]on December 27 a rare phenomenon called a "weather bomb" hit Bass Strait as three massive weather systems collided. Over the next 24 hours mammoth waves of 90 feet and more combined with 100-mph winds to batter the remaining boats. By the end of the day on December 29, the results were in: six lives lost, five boats sunk, many more boats-and sailors-seriously damaged. In Knockdown, Martin Dugard captures the excitement-and horror-of the doomed race and its participants, though he does indulge in melodramatic foreshadowing at times. Dugard is quick to name heroes; he lays honours at the feet of the men and women of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority for their valiant efforts in rescuing more than 50 sailors. He also praises Iain Moray and the crew of the Siena, who turned around to help save the crew of Stand Aside. Explaining his actions afterwards, Moray said simply: "I certainly hope someone would do the same for me if I were in trouble. " Glyn Charles and the men of the Sword of Orion are not so lucky; Charles is lost overboard and the Sword sinks while another ship, the Margaret Rintoul II, sails within 150 metres, ignoring their maydays. This cowardly act, however, gets little mention in the book; for Dugard the real villains are the wind and the waves: "Together, they hunt for the fleet. Together, they hunt for a victim. " Though Dugard raises important questions-Why are sailors willing to take such risks? Why didn't more turn back as the storm hit? Why didn't the race organisers call it off when the weather reports came in? Should the public be responsible for paying the $650,000 price tag for the sea rescues?-he provides few answers beyond platitudes such as "The history of Syd-Hob is about storms as much as sailing" and the "brotherhood of the honour" of finishing the race. That said, Knockdown is compelling reading for those who like their adventure stories served raw. -Sunny Delaney.
Publication date: 2008-03-28
Dewey code: 940.5318092
RRP: £12.99
Price: £11.71
Review Our Only Hope: Eddie's Holocaust Story and the Weisz Family Correspondence (Studies in the Shoah) / University Press of America:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2006-05-02
Price: £0.01
Review The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Man Against the Sea / HarperPerennial:Meteorologists called the storm that hit North America's eastern seaboard in October 1991 a "perfect storm" because of the rare combination of factors that created it. For everyone else, it was perfect hell. In The Perfect Storm, author Sebastian Junger conjures for the reader the meteorological conditions that created the "storm of the century" and the impact the storm had on many of the people caught in it. Chief among these are the six crew members of the swordfish boat the Andrea Gail, all of whom were lost 500 miles from home beneath roiling seas and high waves. Working from published material, radio dialogues, eyewitness accounts and the experiences of people who have survived similar events, Junger attempts to re-create the last moments of the Andrea Gail as well as the perilous high-seas rescues of other victims of the storm. Like a Greek drama, The Perfect Storm builds slowly and inexorably to its tragic climax. The book weaves the history of the fishing industry and the science of predicting storms into the quotidian lives of those aboard the Andrea Gail and of others who would soon find themselves in the fury of the storm. Junger does a remarkable job of explaining a convergence of meteorological and human events in terms that make them both comprehensible and unforgettable. -Christine Buttery.
Publication date: 2009-04-06
RRP: £6.99
Price: £6.99
Review Punished: A Mother's Cruelty. A Daughter's Survival. A Secret That Couldn't be Told.: A Mother's Cruelty. A Daughter's Survival. A Secret That Couldn't Be Told. / Harper Element:
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