Publication date: 2003-11-20
Dewey code: 797
RRP: £15.99
Price: £8.96
Review Into the Abyss: Diving to Adventure in the Liquid World / Mainstream Publishing:
Publication date: 2003-09-01
RRP: £12.76
Price: £3.43
Review The Real Heroes of Telemark: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Stop Hitler's Atomic Bomb / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
Publication date: 2007-02-01
RRP: £4.99
Price: £0.01
Review Escape from the Antarctic (Penguin Great Journeys) / Penguin Classics:
Edition: (Reissue)
Publication date: 2007-02-05
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.01
Review In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story That Inspired "Moby Dick" (Stranger Than...) / HarperPerennial:The appeal of Dava Sobel's Longitude was that it illuminated a little-known piece of history through a series of captivating incidents and engaging personalities. Nathaniel Philbrick's In The Heart of the Sea certainly covers the same area, by examining the 19th-century Pacific whaling industry through the arc of the sinking of the whaleship Essex by a boisterous sperm whale. The story which inspired Herman Melville's classic, Moby Dick, has a lot going for it-derring-do, cannibalism, rescue-and Philbrick proves an amiable and well-informed narrator, providing both context and detail. We learn about the importance and mechanics of blubber production-a vital source of oil-and we get the nuts and bolts of harpooning and life onboard whalers. Neither are we spared the nitty gritty of the open boats and sucking human bones dry. By sticking to the tried and tested Longitude formula, Philbrick has missed a slight trick or two. The epicentre of the whaling industry was Nantucket, a small island off Cape Cod; most of the whales were in the Pacific, a huge journey around the southernmost tip of America. We never learn the reason for this distance and why no one ever tried to create an alternative whaling capital somewhere nearer. Similarly, Philbrick tells us that the story of the Essex was well known to Americans for decades but he never explores how such legends fade from our consciousness. Philbrick would no doubt reply that such questions were beyond his remit and you can't exactly accuse him of skimping on his research; 50 pages of footnotes is impressive by any standards and to give him his credit he wears his learning light. [+]Unlike many academics, he doesn't get bogged down in turgid detail and the narrative rattles along at a nice pace. And when the story line is as good as this, you can't really ask for more. -John Crace.
Publication date: 2007-02-02
Dewey code: 362.76092
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.82
Review The Price of Love: Abused, Beaten, Trapped in a Terrifying Relationship - One Girl's Story of Survival / Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-02-11
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.44
Review Once Bitten / Ecademy Press:
Publication date: 1999-04-22
Dewey code: 914
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.80
Review Broke Through Britain: One Man's Penniless Odyssey / Mainstream Publishing:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1991-01-31
Dewey code: 910
RRP: £12.95
Price: £6.00
Review Desperate Voyage / Sheridan House:
Publication date: 2007-02-02
Dewey code: 362.76092
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.82
Review The Price of Love: Abused, Beaten, Trapped in a Terrifying Relationship - One Girl's Story of Survival / Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd:
Creator: Alan Sefton
Publication date: 2004-07-05
Dewey code: 797
RRP: £25.00
Price: £12.61
Review The Last Great Adventure of Sir Peter Blake: From the Antarctic to the Amazon / Adlard Coles Nautical:
Publication date: 2006-01-05
RRP: £7.99
Price: £1.93
Review Berserk in the Antarctic: Sailing to the World's Most Uninhabitable Continent / Summersdale Publishers:
Publication date: 2008-01-10
RRP: £6.99
Price: £0.01
Review Not Alone / Hodder & Stoughton:
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: 1997-08-22
RRP: £16.99
Price: £36.95
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 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: Reprint
Publication date: 1994-10
Dewey code: 910.45
RRP: £12.95
Price: £5.44
Review Survive the Savage Sea (Sailing Classics) / Sheridan House:
Publication date: 2006-04-27
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.99
Review I Escaped from Auschwitz / Robson Books Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-02-01
RRP: £4.99
Price: £0.01
Review Escape from the Antarctic (Penguin Great Journeys) / Penguin Classics:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-07-27
RRP: £12.99
Price: £0.98
Review The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family / Orion:"Winter 1970, Daly City, California-I'm alone. I'm hungry and I'm shivering in the dark. I sit on the top of my hands at the bottom of the stairs in the garage. My head is tilted backward. My hands became numb hours ago. My neck and shoulder muscles begin to throb. But that's nothing new-I've learned to turn off the pain. I'm Mother's prisoner. " In The Lost Boy, the sequel to Dave Pelzer's bestselling A Child Called It, Dave recounts the final days with his "family" before the intervention of a schoolteacher led to his being removed from hell and taken into foster care. As Pelzer explains, A Child Called It was told from the perspective of a child aged from 4 to 12; The Lost Boy recounts his years from 12 to 18. [+]The earlier account documents the extraordinary, painful and moving story of this young boy's "lifeless" existence with his alcoholic, abusive mother and a father who was so cowed by his sadistic wife that he could not help his son. Like its predecessor, Pelzer's account of his adolescant years is no easy read, as he takes us through the mixed, mixed-up world of the US care system, relentlessly pursued by his mother, to a final peace of sorts with a caring series of foster parents. An important, raw and exposing book, the Lost Boy's message is, as Pelzer quotes, that "it takes a community to save a child". -Kate Weaver.
Publication date: 2008-03-03
Dewey code: 362.1968520092
RRP: £17.99
Price: £9.91
Review The Butterfly Girl / John Blake Publishing Ltd:
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Into the Abyss: Diving to Adventure in the Liquid World, The Real Heroes of Telemark: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Stop Hitler's Atomic Bomb, Escape from the Antarctic (Penguin Great Journeys), In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story That Inspired "Moby Dick" (Stranger Than...), The Price of Love: Abused, Beaten, Trapped in a Terrifying Relationship - One Girl's Story of Survival, Once Bitten, Broke Through Britain: One Man's Penniless Odyssey, Desperate Voyage, The Price of Love: Abused, Beaten, Trapped in a Terrifying Relationship - One Girl's Story of Survival, The Last Great Adventure of Sir Peter Blake: From the Antarctic to the Amazon, Berserk in the Antarctic: Sailing to the World's Most Uninhabitable Continent, Not Alone, A Life in Pieces: The Harrowing Story of a Woman with 17 Personalities, Into Thin Air: Personal Account of the Everest Disaster, The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom, Survive the Savage Sea (Sailing Classics), I Escaped from Auschwitz, Escape from the Antarctic (Penguin Great Journeys), The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family, The Butterfly Girl |
