Authors
- Stephen Richards
- Caroline Roberts
Publication date: 2005-04-08
Dewey code: 362.88092
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.80
Review The Lost Girl: How I Triumphed Over Life at the Mercy of Fred and Rose West / Metro Books,London:
Publication date: 2008-09-01
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.35
Review For the Love of Julie: A Nightmare Come True. A Mother's Courage. A Desperate Fight for Justice. / Harper Element:
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
Publication date: 2008-03-20
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.62
Review Total Loss: Dramatic First-hand Accounts of Yacht Losses at Sea / Adlard Coles Nautical:
Publication date: 2009-05-04
RRP: £12.99
Price: £12.34
Review The Saddest Girl in the World / Harper Element:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2005-06-02
Dewey code: 960
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.56
Review The Caliban Shore: The Fate of the Grosvenor Castaways / Faber and Faber:
Publication date: 2008-02-04
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.99
Review Street Kid Fights on: She Thought the Nightmare Was Over / Harper Element:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2003-07-31
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £8.99
Price: £0.94
Review Fatal Storm: The 54th Sydney to Hobart Race / Adlard Coles Nautical:
Publication date: 2008-02-04
RRP: £6.99
Price: £0.42
Review Tell Me Why, Mummy: A Little Boy's Struggle to Survive. A Mother's Shameful Secret. The Power to Forgive. / Harper Element:
Publication date: 1998-04
Dewey code: 796.522092
Price: £5.23
Review Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Everest Disaster / Anchor Books:Into Thin Air is a riveting first-hand account of a catastrophic expedition up Mount Everest. In March 1996, Outside magazine sent veteran journalist and seasoned climber Jon Krakauer on an expedition led by celebrated Everest guide Rob Hall. Despite the expertise of Hall and the other leaders, by the end of summit day eight people were dead. Krakauer's book is at once the story of the ill-fated adventure and an analysis of the factors leading up to its tragic end. Written within months of the events it chronicles, Into Thin Air clearly evokes the majestic Everest landscape. As the journey up the mountain progresses, Krakauer puts it in context by recalling the triumphs and perils of other Everest trips throughout history. The author's own anguish over what happened on the mountain is palpable as he leads readers to ponder timeless questions.
Authors
- Eric R. Simonson
- Jochen Hemmleb
- Larry A. Johnson
Publication date: 2000-10-06
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £7.99
Price: £1.49
Review The Ghosts of Everest: The Authorised Story of the Search for Mallory and Irvine / Pan Books:It is one of the most famous and powerful stories of humanity pitting itself tragically against the elements. In 1924, when Mallory and Irvine set out to make history by reaching of the summit of Everest and become the first men to stand on the world's tallest mountain, their place in the history books was already assured. But then Odell, also climbing with them, saw the two vanish within 800 feet of the summit-and they were never seen again. Ever since, many have wondered what really took place in the rarefied air at 28,000 feet. Did they in fact reach the summit and perish on the way down? Or were Hilary and Norgay the first men to reach the summit three decades later? In April 1999, the Mallory and Irvine Research Expedition team set out to retrace the steps of the 1924 expedition. Their aim was to find out the truth behind the many theories about what happened on that fateful first climb. The Ghosts of Everest describes in carefully researched detail the two expeditions, weaving together both climbs with blow- by-blow accounts of the challenges and dangers encountered. Combining a lucid text with archive photographs of the original expedition and breathtaking colour shots of the new climb, this is a fascinating book of considerable power. -Barry Forshaw.
Creator: Tim Pigott-Smith
Publication date: 2005-06-13
RRP: £18.99
Price: £17.08
Review Endurance: True Story of Shackleton's Voyage in the Antarctic / CSA WORD: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.
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2001-11-01
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £7.99
Price: £0.87
Review Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest / Time Warner Paperbacks:
Publication date: 2006-10-23
Dewey code: 796.42092
RRP: £14.99
Price: £2.06
Review The Extra Mile: One Woman's Personal Journey to Ultra-Running Greatness / Rodale Press:
Publication date: 2008-04-03
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.32
Review A Life in Pieces: The Harrowing Story of a Woman with 17 Personalities / Vermilion:
Publication date: 2007-10-11
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.45
Review Frida: Chosen to Die, Destined to Live / Sovereign World:
Publication date: 1997-08-22
RRP: £16.99
Price: £37.49
Review Into Thin Air: Personal Account of the Everest Disaster / Macmillan:Into Thin Air is a riveting first-hand account of a catastrophic expedition up Mount Everest. In March 1996, Outside magazine sent veteran journalist and seasoned climber Jon Krakauer on an expedition led by celebrated Everest guide Rob Hall. Despite the expertise of Hall and the other leaders, by the end of summit day eight people were dead. Krakauer's book is at once the story of the ill-fated adventure and an analysis of the factors leading up to its tragic end. Written within months of the events it chronicles, Into Thin Air clearly evokes the majestic Everest landscape. As the journey up the mountain progresses, Krakauer puts it in context by recalling the triumphs and perils of other Everest trips throughout history. The author's own anguish over what happened on the mountain is palpable as he leads readers to ponder timeless questions.
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-04-06
Dewey code: 355.424
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.20
Review Animals in War / Corgi Books:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2000-10-05
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £7.99
Price: £4.79
Review The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom / Robinson Publishing:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2003-04-24
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.66
Review The Munros and Tops: A Record-setting Walk in the Scottish Highlands / Mainstream Publishing:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2004-02-02
Dewey code: 917.28740453
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.87
Review The Cloud Garden: A True Story of Adventure, Survival, and Extreme Horticulture / Corgi Books:At first glance The Cloud Garden seems a little unlikely: a pair of twentysomething former public school boys have a great time trekking through Central America and get caught up in a bit of bother. Tom is passionate about flowers and his family lives in a castle in Kent-"Isn't it just super?!". Paul, when he isn't "hacking his way through the jungle", works in the City. If you can get through the kissy kissy PR and the hooray Henry enthusiasm, The Cloud Garden is actually an exciting yarn. Adventurer Paul Winder and orchid enthusiast Tom Hart Dyke met up in Mexico and decided to trek through the Darién Gap-a narrow bit of jungle on the border of Panama and Colombia. Tom wanted to find some new flowers and Paul wanted a challenge. They had almost made it when they were taken captive by a band of FARC guerilla fighters with a grudge against just about everybody, a serious grunge problem and an eye for a juicy ransom for some rich boys. Our heroes survived for nine months and emerged after a harrowing ordeal with a combination of hard work, endurance and a pinch of good luck. This captivating book is well written with youthful zest, a sparky sense of humour and the scary sense that these two just might set off for another adventure next summer. -Dwight Longenecker.
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The Lost Girl: How I Triumphed Over Life at the Mercy of Fred and Rose West, For the Love of Julie: A Nightmare Come True. A Mother's Courage. A Desperate Fight for Justice., Total Loss: Dramatic First-hand Accounts of Yacht Losses at Sea, The Saddest Girl in the World, The Caliban Shore: The Fate of the Grosvenor Castaways, Street Kid Fights on: She Thought the Nightmare Was Over, Fatal Storm: The 54th Sydney to Hobart Race, Tell Me Why, Mummy: A Little Boy's Struggle to Survive. A Mother's Shameful Secret. The Power to Forgive., Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Everest Disaster, The Ghosts of Everest: The Authorised Story of the Search for Mallory and Irvine, Endurance: True Story of Shackleton's Voyage in the Antarctic, Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest, The Extra Mile: One Woman's Personal Journey to Ultra-Running Greatness, A Life in Pieces: The Harrowing Story of a Woman with 17 Personalities, Frida: Chosen to Die, Destined to Live, Into Thin Air: Personal Account of the Everest Disaster, Animals in War, The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom, The Munros and Tops: A Record-setting Walk in the Scottish Highlands, The Cloud Garden: A True Story of Adventure, Survival, and Extreme Horticulture |
