Publication date: 2008-10
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.36
Review The Voyage of Shackleton's Endurance / Gill & Macmillan Ltd:
Publication date: 1995-01-26
RRP: £16.99
Price: £4.75
Review Sacred Games / Hamish Hamilton Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-01-15
Dewey code: 976.366064
RRP: £25.50
Price: £20.84
Review Holding Out and Hanging on: Surviving Hurricane Katrina / University of Missouri Press:
Publication date: 2002-06-01
Dewey code: 940.53180922439
RRP: £11.99
Price: £7.90
Review Escape from Pannonia: A Tale of Two Survivors / Granville Island Publishing:
Authors
- Tami Oldham Ashcraft
- Susea McGearhart
Price: £15.99
Review Red Sky in Mourning: The True Story of a Woman's Courage and Survival at Sea / Simon & Schuster Ltd:
Authors
- Jean Silverwood
- John Silverwood
Price: £15.07
Review Black Wave / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd:
Publication date: 2004-08-01
Dewey code: 959.6042
RRP: £23.95
Price: £18.49
Review Leaving Year Zero: Stories of Surviving Pol Pot's Cambodia / University of Western Australia Press:
Publication date: 2006-05-16
RRP: £10.00
Price: £30.00
Review No More Lies! / Privatforlaget:
Edition: Large Print Ed
Publication date: 1998-06-01
Price: £16.99
Review Saved (Windsor Selections) / Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C:
Publication date: 1999-06-30
Price: £14.99
Review Flirting with Mermaids: The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery Skipper (Sheridan House) / Adlard Coles Nautical:
Creator: Sean Barrett
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1999-04
Price: £31.95
Review Close to the Wind: An Extraordinary Story of Triumph Over Adversity: Complete & Unabridged / ISIS Audio Books:On December 25, 1996, Pete Goss turned his 50-ft yacht Aqua Quorum back into a hurricane- force headwind to rescue French sailor Raphael Dinelli. He risked his life and any chance of winning one of the world's great yachting challenges-the Vendeé Globe non-stop, single- handed, round-the- world race. Instead, he was awarded France's highest honour-the Legion d'Honneur-and an MBE in the 1998 New Year's Honour List. Close to the Wind is Goss's story. He starts with the years of preparation as a merchant seaman and skipper on one of the 10 yachts in Chay Blyth's British Steel Challenge. He describes how he attempted to get sponsorship but was constantly rebuffed and he discusses the hardships he faced-nights spent sleeping on platforms before business meetings because there was no money to spare for a room. The drama of the Vendee is recounted in detail, down to Goss's having to operate on his elbow without anaesthetic and with the assistance only of faxed instructions. And will he race again? He plans to set off on in a 115-ft catamaran in The Race, December 2000.
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2007-01-18
Dewey code: 362
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.99
Review The Family Friend: A Child and the Damage One Man Can Cause... / Ebury Press:
Creator: Gary Telles
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2001-04-26
Dewey code: 790
RRP: £23.49
Price: £16.01
Review Explore: Stories of Survival from Off the Map (Extreme Adventure) / Listen & Live Audio:
Authors
- Vivian Fowle
- Andrew Fowle
- Roger Day
RRP: £4.99
Price: £0.01
Review The Boy Doctors Wrote Off: Ashley Fowle's Fight for Life / Lion Hudson Plc:
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.
Publication date: 2002-05-24
Dewey code: 970.01
RRP: £25.50
Price: £16.82
Review Explorers and the New World / Nova Biomedical:
Edition: Large type edition
Publication date: 2006-04-03
RRP: £17.95
Price: £13.21
Review The Little Prisoner: How a Childhood Was Stolen and a Trust Betrayed / Harper Element:
Publication date: 2005-04-01
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £17.99
Price: £62.95
Review PS Julia: Missing a Piece of Your Mind Can Be Puzzling / Pinhead Press:
Publication date: 2007-07-03
RRP: £17.99
Price: £4.61
Review Out of Iraq... / Bantam Press:
Authors
- Daniel Paisner
- Krystyna Chiger
Dewey code: 940.5318092
RRP: £17.99
Price: £8.58
Review The Girl in the Green Sweater / Saint Martin's Press Inc.:
| Models & Brands:
The Voyage of Shackleton's Endurance, Sacred Games, Holding Out and Hanging on: Surviving Hurricane Katrina, Escape from Pannonia: A Tale of Two Survivors, Red Sky in Mourning: The True Story of a Woman's Courage and Survival at Sea, Black Wave, Leaving Year Zero: Stories of Surviving Pol Pot's Cambodia, No More Lies!, Saved (Windsor Selections), Flirting with Mermaids: The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery Skipper (Sheridan House), Close to the Wind: An Extraordinary Story of Triumph Over Adversity: Complete & Unabridged, The Family Friend: A Child and the Damage One Man Can Cause..., Explore: Stories of Survival from Off the Map (Extreme Adventure), The Boy Doctors Wrote Off: Ashley Fowle's Fight for Life, The Ice Master, Explorers and the New World, The Little Prisoner: How a Childhood Was Stolen and a Trust Betrayed, PS Julia: Missing a Piece of Your Mind Can Be Puzzling, Out of Iraq..., The Girl in the Green Sweater |
