Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2001-11-16
Dewey code: 796
Price: £7.99
Review This Accursed Land / Birlinn Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2002-09-02
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £6.99
Price: £38.37
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.
Publication date: 2004-04-02
Dewey code: 910
RRP: £18.99
Price: £20.00
Review Facing the Frozen Ocean: One man's dream to lead a team across the treacherous North Atlantic / Macmillan:
Creator: Clint Willis
Publication date: 2000-09-21
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £9.99
Price: £9.24
Review Ice: Stories of Survival from Polar Exploration (Adrenaline) / Mainstream Publishing:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2004-04-05
Dewey code: 133
RRP: £10.99
Price: £14.00
Review The Toe Bone and the Tooth: An Ancient Mayan Story Relived in Modern Times - Leaving Home to Come Home / Thorsons:
Publication date: 2002-04-25
RRP: £14.99
Price: £1.49
Review Hunted: A Struggle for Survival Between Man and Bear / Constable:
Publication date: 2002-01-01
Dewey code: 917.12332042092
RRP: £13.99
Price: £8.75
Review No Ordinary Woman: The Story of Mary Schaffer Warren / Rocky Mountain Books,Canada:
Publication date: 2001-12-05
RRP: £21.99
Price: £29.80
Review September 11: A Testimony / Reuters:
Publication date: 2008-03-07
RRP: £14.99
Price: £9.49
Review A Mountain to Climb on Timor / Matador:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2006-10-27
Dewey code: 796.4252092
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.51
Review The Last Pick / Rodale Press:
Authors
- Wensley Clarkson
- Carl Merritt
Dewey code: 790
RRP: £16.99
Price: £36.56
Review Inside the Cage: My Life in the World's Deadliest Fight Game / HarperCollins Entertainment:
Edition: Airside Ed
Publication date: 2004-07-01
Price: £10.99
Review Sky Burial / Chatto and Windus:In the world of fiction reviewing, extraordinary is an over-used word. Yet there really is no other way to describe Chinese author Xinran's second book, Sky Burial. It is extraordinary in so many ways-the subject matter, the setting, the central character, but mostly its authenticity and the author's continuing search for the woman whose life is told here. Sky Burial is the true story of a Chinese woman's 30-year search through Tibet for news of her lost, presumed dead, husband. Xinran is working as a radio journalist on a women's programme when a listener calls in to tell her about Shuwen. Xinran travels hundreds of miles across China to interview her and, over two days, Shuwen opens her heart and reveals her tragic, scarcely imaginable life story. Xinran returns to her life and spends the subsequent 10 years trying to find Shuwen again, researching her story and writing this book-a homage to an ordinary woman's extraordinary life-long search for the truth. The story is a simple one: Shuwen meets her intelligent, idealistic husband-to-be while they are both training to be doctors. After less than 100 days of marriage, Kejun travels to Tibet as a Chinese army doctor and before long, Shuwen is notified that he has died in an "incident". Shuwen decides to join the army herself, travel to Tibet and find out if he really is dead, and if so, how and why he died. [+]And then, as if travelling to a closed country like Tibet as a young woman in the 1950s is not difficult enough, Shuwen quickly becomes separated from her unit and, close to death herself, is taken in by a family of Tibetan nomads. Her transformation from Chinese doctor to nomadic Buddhist is a long, painful and at many turns, deeply distressing one. Sky Burial is a slight book-little more than an extended short story-and yet the ground it covers is immense, not just because of the fascinating glimpse it offers into a land and a people still largely unknown in the West. Despite its tragic themes of loss and survival in one of the world's harshest landscapes, it is an uplifting tale of unwavering loyalty and immeasurable inner strength. -Carey Green.
Publication date: 2007-08-02
RRP: £10.99
Price: £0.01
Review For a House Made of Stone: Gina'sstory / Vision:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2002-10-07
Dewey code: 070.433092
RRP: £6.99
Price: £0.01
Review Fire / Fourth Estate:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2005-10-10
Dewey code: 362.70922
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.00
Review Little Survivors / Blake Publishing:
Publication date: 1993-10-25
RRP: £16.99
Price: £12.40
Review Mind Over Matter: Epic Crossing of the Antarctic Continent / Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1998-05-28
Dewey code: 363.123091631
Price: £6.99
Review The Night Lives on / Penguin Books Ltd:
Authors
- Norma Cobb
- Charles W. Sasser
Publication date: 2003-03-13
Dewey code: 508
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.39
Review Arctic Homestead / Saint Martin's Press Inc.:
Creator: Nikolaus Wachsmann
Publication date: 2008-01-03
RRP: £17.99
Price: £7.50
Review Under Two Dictators: Prisoner of Stalin and Hitler / Pimlico:
Publication date: 2004-07-01
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £14.99
Price: £4.30
Review Sky Burial / Chatto and Windus:In the world of fiction reviewing, extraordinary is an over-used word. Yet there really is no other way to describe Chinese author Xinran's second book, Sky Burial. It is extraordinary in so many ways-the subject matter, the setting, the central character, but mostly its authenticity and the author's continuing search for the woman whose life is told here. Sky Burial is the true story of a Chinese woman's 30-year search through Tibet for news of her lost, presumed dead, husband. Xinran is working as a radio journalist on a women's programme when a listener calls in to tell her about Shuwen. Xinran travels hundreds of miles across China to interview her and, over two days, Shuwen opens her heart and reveals her tragic, scarcely imaginable life story. Xinran returns to her life and spends the subsequent 10 years trying to find Shuwen again, researching her story and writing this book-a homage to an ordinary woman's extraordinary life-long search for the truth. The story is a simple one: Shuwen meets her intelligent, idealistic husband-to-be while they are both training to be doctors. After less than 100 days of marriage, Kejun travels to Tibet as a Chinese army doctor and before long, Shuwen is notified that he has died in an "incident". Shuwen decides to join the army herself, travel to Tibet and find out if he really is dead, and if so, how and why he died. [+]And then, as if travelling to a closed country like Tibet as a young woman in the 1950s is not difficult enough, Shuwen quickly becomes separated from her unit and, close to death herself, is taken in by a family of Tibetan nomads. Her transformation from Chinese doctor to nomadic Buddhist is a long, painful and at many turns, deeply distressing one. Sky Burial is a slight book-little more than an extended short story-and yet the ground it covers is immense, not just because of the fascinating glimpse it offers into a land and a people still largely unknown in the West. Despite its tragic themes of loss and survival in one of the world's harshest landscapes, it is an uplifting tale of unwavering loyalty and immeasurable inner strength. -Carey Green.
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This Accursed Land, Report from Ground Zero, Facing the Frozen Ocean: One man's dream to lead a team across the treacherous North Atlantic, Ice: Stories of Survival from Polar Exploration (Adrenaline), The Toe Bone and the Tooth: An Ancient Mayan Story Relived in Modern Times - Leaving Home to Come Home, Hunted: A Struggle for Survival Between Man and Bear, No Ordinary Woman: The Story of Mary Schaffer Warren, September 11: A Testimony, A Mountain to Climb on Timor, The Last Pick, Inside the Cage: My Life in the World's Deadliest Fight Game, Sky Burial, For a House Made of Stone: Gina'sstory, Fire, Little Survivors, Mind Over Matter: Epic Crossing of the Antarctic Continent, The Night Lives on, Arctic Homestead, Under Two Dictators: Prisoner of Stalin and Hitler, Sky Burial |
