Autobiography: adventurers and explorers Books
FriesenPress Sons of the Greatest Generation
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iUniverse Callsign
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Simon & Schuster Ltd Daring to Drive
Book SynopsisTHE STORY OF THE WOMAN WHO INSPIRED CHANGE WITH HER CALL FOR GREATER FREEDOMS FOR WOMEN. FROM THE WINNER OF THE 2018 UN PEACE PRIZE THE GUARDIAN: 'MANAL AL-SHARIF BECAME A GLOBAL FIGUREHEAD OF A CAUSE THAT DREW THE ATTENTION OF GLOBAL LEADERS WHO URGED THE [SAUDI] KINGDOM TO OVERTURN THE BAN' ON WOMEN DRIVING. 'Future generations will marvel at Manal al-Sharif. Her gripping account of homegrown courage will speak to the fighter in all of us. Books like this one can change the world' Deborah Feldman, New York Times bestselling author of Unorthodox 'Manal al-Sharif is following in a long tradition of women activists around the world who have put themselves on the line to expose and challenge discriminatory laws and policies' Malcolm Smart, Amnesty International NewsManal al-Sharif was born in Mecca the year fundamentalismTrade Review'Future generations will marvel at Manal al-Sharif, whose voice is laden with quiet dignity even at its most urgent. Her gripping account of homegrown courage will speak to the fighter in all of us. Books like this one can change the world.' -- Deborah Feldman, New York Times bestselling author of Unorthodox'Manal is no Chanel-draped, chauffeur-driven Saudi princess. Her account of why a single working mother’s life compelled her to confront the kingdom’s fiercely patriarchal ways is touching and revealing in equal measure. This is such an astonishing, humble, truthful book, more illuminating than a hundred newspaper stories on Saudi Arabia.' -- Azadeh Moaveni, author of Lipstick Jihad'A captivating read. Manal al-Sharif refuses to hide her scars, unveiling what she endured and sacrificed to become a professional who has fearlessly pushed the boundaries of tradition.' -- Elena Gorokhova, author of Russian Tattoo
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Simon & Schuster Ltd Rakes Progress
Book SynopsisA unique, revealing and entertaining insight into the political dramas of recent times.Rachel Johnson was born into what has been described by some as the UK’s most famous political family, and by others as ‘Poundshop Kennedys’. She was always keen to avoid the family business at all costs and plough her own furrow as a broadcaster, novelist and journalist. But, after the referendum to leave the EU in 2016, she felt the heavy hand of fate. When an insurgent centre party burst onto the scene in 2019, she felt compelled to stand for something rather than nothing – which happened to be just as her own older brother, Boris, was making his final assault on Downing Street. As some joked, she went into politics to spend more time with her family. Rake’s Progress tells the extraordinary story of what happened next. From long silences on the radio when asked tricky policy questionTrade Review'God I wish Rachel was prime minister. She is at her funniest telling jokes against herself, and this story is packed with them on every page. In fact, I shrieked throughout her clever book, which is populated by some of the ghastliest people in the country, several of whom are not members of her own family. Reading it is like being invited to a deliciously gossipy party, with the wonderful benefit of not having to actually meet in person any of the complete horrors involved. Rachel is one of my very favourite picaresque heroines, who sees the humour in every situation – a gift as much as a necessity in her life.' -- Marina Hyde'Fabulously indiscreet and funny...I should have loathed this book, but I'm afraid I loved it. It is sheer gossipy joy, the perfect escape from a fug of coronavirus anxiety...The definition of guilty pleasure' -- Gaby Hinsliff * Observer *'There will be weightier political tomes this year than Rake’s Progress, but you will not read one more entertaining. Johnson is a gifted writer, playful, self-deprecating and far more talented than she gives herself credit for....a wonderfully funny account of Rachel’s arrival into political activism as a passionate pro-European.' -- Roger Alton * Daily Mail *'I’m bats about her marvellous writing' -- Jilly Cooper'Spectacular. The only honest thing I've ever read about political campaigning. Rachel Johnson, compelled by broad moral principle and close personal involvement, descends from the bright air of feature journalism to the dark ground of practical politics... After reading Rake’s Progress you’ll never think of running for office the same way. Indeed, you’ll never think of running for office at all.' -- P.J.O'Rourke'A terrific read' -- Emily Maitlis'A riot and a riveting read about one woman's doomed battle against Brexit from within the Prime Minister's own family.' -- Amanda Craig'This memoir is remarkable for its radical honesty.' -- David Sexton * Evening Standard *'Reads more like a romp than a political tome...There is a lot of fun here, though, largely because Rachel is not worried about causing offence.' -- Rosamund Irwin * Sunday Times *'Incredibly funny and indiscreet' -- India Knight'Love them or loathe them, the British answer to the Kennedys...are never beige. Entertaining.' -- Patrick Kidd * The Times *'Rake’s Progress is about how she failed to get herself elected at the same time as her brother Boris strolled effortlessly into Number 10. It’s full of slapstick and faux pas and nearly-missed planes...What she gives us is a wildly entertaining look at the workings of British democracy' -- Frances Wilson * The Oldie *'Very funny and self deprecating and there's a lot about the Johnson family, who provide a lot of entertainment for the author and us all. Highly recommended.' -- Iain Dale
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Little, Brown Book Group Friends and Enemies
Book SynopsisIncluded in The Times and Daily Telegraph Book of the Year round-ups''Friends and Enemies is an extraordinary read showing unflinching candour from a truly remarkable woman'' Elton John''Blistering . . . shockingly candid . . . stiletto-sharp memoir of the year'' Daily Mail''Magnetic and magnificent . . . Amiel is superb, furious and, best of all, funny. Say what you like about her - and many have - but the Black Lady can write'' The TimesBarbara Amiel''s long-awaited memoir is shockingly honest, richly detailed and pulls few punches. An instinctive feminist and now a foe of feminism''s political correctness, her own memoirs cover a formidable array of experiences - political, sexual, marital and material. Born in London during the Blitz, the only consistent strain in her early life was a fierce belief in her identity as a Jew even as the Jewish community disowned her and an unquestioned vTrade ReviewFriends and Enemies is an extraordinary read showing unflinching candour from a truly remarkable woman * Elton John *Magnetic and magnificent . . . Amiel is superb, furious and, best of all, funny. Say what you like about her - and many have - but the Black Lady can write -- Quentin Letts * The Times *Blistering . . . shockingly candid . . . stiletto-sharp memoir of the year * Daily Mail *Extraordinary -- Camilla Long * Sunday Times *Utterly gripping . . . [Amiel] has raised the bar stratospherically for the celebrity memoir -- Carol Midgley * The Times *Frighteningly, hilariously, gob-smackingly honest book . . . whatever you do, read this brilliant book -- Anna van Praagh * Evening Standard *I could go on reading about her life for ever . . . frank and funny -- Jan Moir * Daily Mail *A fabulous tale of sex and high society . . . 608 gloriously indiscreet pages of elegant vitriol -- Hilary Rose * The Times *A scorching memoir exposing the cut-throat world of the one per cent -- Chantal Clarendon * Daily Telegraph *Amiel is capable of taking one's breath away with her searing frankness, and, from the evidence so far presented, her book is grisly and gripping in almost equal measure . . . an absorbing historical document . . . a salacious read -- Simon Kelner * i news *Full of passion and fury . . . What a woman -- Sarah Sands * Mail on Sunday *An observant and unforgiving account of a life that "has always been a precarious mix of gutter and ballroom, of intense work and absolutely unhealthy play". Packed with enough memorable characters, household moves, dinner parties, and jewelry shopping excursions to fill at least three typical memoirs. A celebrity memoir with an uncompromising kick * Kirkus Reviews *Extraordinary . . . jaw-dropping candour . . . a terrific writer * Jewish Chronicle *Neither holds a candle to Barbara Amiel's sizzling sexpot-and-shopping extravaganza . . . entirely riveting -- Judith Woods * Mail on Sunday *Fabulously furious, frequently jaw-dropping book . . . This raging, splendid, defiant, crazy tigress of a book said it all -- Allison Pearson * Sunday Telegraph *I don't think I've enjoyed a book as much as Barbara Amiel's autobiography in years . . . Pure, wicked joy -- Anna van Praagh * Evening Standard *A beautifully written memoir that I could not put down . . . her memoir sets a new standard as an unreserved, self-deprecating narrative . . . Deploying her uncommon talent as a wordsmith, she has written a memoir that is a testament to her fearlessness in facing and admitting her own demons as well as in exposing the foibles, cruelty and failings of others -- Diane Francis * Financial Post *This is undoubtedly the autobiography of the decade. Barbara Amiel's searing - and sometimes brutal - honesty, both about herself and others, leaves the reader staggered. The fact that she has for decades been the most sexually attractive female public intellectual on either side of the Atlantic, and certainly knew it, got her into extraordinary scrapes which she describes with a political incorrectness that is as refreshing as it will be highly controversial. How one person could have lived so many starkly different lives - bikini model, gangster's moll, first female editor, TV provocateur, multi-married sexual adventuress, proud Zionist, poet's muse, Cold War warrior, titled society hostess, assiduous prison visitor, and more - is truly extraordinary. There is not a hint of self-pity despite endless opportunities for it - including a rape, an abortion, depression, and three divorces - but instead we get many abandoned, laugh-out-loud scenes and witticisms that will live with the reader for a long time. No-one expected a discreet memoir from Barbara Amiel, but few could possibly have imagined that it would be quite this powerfully, dangerously, profoundly self-revelatory * Andrew Roberts *Fabulously gutsy and revealing memoir (Daily Mail memoir of the year) -- Ysenda Maxtone Graham * Daily Mail *An operatic reckoning -- Sarah Sands * Spectator *
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Headline Publishing Group Taking Command
Book SynopsisGeneral Sir David Richards is one of the best known British generals of modern times. In 2013 he retired after over forty years of service in the British Army and a career that had seen him rise from junior officer with 20 Commando to Chief of the Defence Staff, the professional head of the British Armed Forces.He served in the Far East, Germany, Northern Ireland and East Timor. He was the last Governor of Berlin''s Spandau Prison, when Rudolf Hess, Hitler''s deputy, was its sole prisoner. In 2005 he was appointed Commander of the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps in Afghanistan and as commander of NATO forces became the first British General to command US Forces in combat since the Second World War.In 2000, Richards won acclaim when he brought together a collation of forces in Sierra Leone to stop the ultra-violent Revolutionary United Front from attacking the capital, Freetown. In so doing he ended one of the bloodiest civil wars to bedevil the region. He did so without Trade ReviewThis is a most engaging account, both characteristically direct and controversial, of a life of soldiering from the post-imperial era, through the Cold War, Iraq and Afghanistan right up to the age of Jihadists and cyber-warfare. - Antony BeevorNot for many years has there been a CDS with comparable operational experience, nor one who has thought as much about defence. - Allan Mallinson, Times Defence CommentatorA brilliant memoir by the UK's most significant soldier-scholar-statesman of the new century; a compelling, thoughtful, and thought-provoking read by one who played a key role in virtually every military endeavor of the past decade - General David H. Petraeus (U.S. Army, retired)He has seen just about every combat zone since Sandhurst. One is in the hands of a consummate soldier. - Frederick ForsythNot the usual dry treatise on the use of force, his memoir is a highly readable account from someone involved in all the key theatres of our recent history - The Sunday TimesA fascinating book on the British Army from the 1970s to today - The Spectator
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iUniverse The Life Story of a Soldier
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Skyhorse Publishing Always Enough
Book SynopsisA memoir of global travel and the 175 recipes it inspired.Always Enough: A Global Food Memoir is a storied cookbook, a love letter to the author's tables in America, Europe, and Africa. From Philadelphia to Paris, Morocco to the Ivory Coast, Bologna to Greece to London, Always Enough tracks the cultural insights the author absorbed by shopping, cooking, and eating across the world, and provides 175 recipes learned across those kitchens. Always Enough's meals model adapting to one's environment and what ingredients are available; its recipes capture a broad swath of international cuisines while also promoting flavours and ingredients not emphasised in traditional Western cooking; its approach encourages sustainable and healthy eating, with health-conscious dishes for vegetarians and meat-eaters alike.Always Enough shares good food and good stories of how one
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Manchester University Press My Voice Leo Stein
Book SynopsisLeo's book is part of the My Voice Project, a collection of firsthand accounts of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK. Leo Stein grew up in Germany, witnessed the horrors of Kristallnacht and later escaped to England thanks to a scholarship from a Jewish School in Liverpool. -- .
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Manchester University Press My Voice Marianne Philipps
Book SynopsisMarianne's book is part of the My Voice Project, a collection of firsthand accounts of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK. Marianne Phillips began life in Berlin in 1924, came to England on the Kindertransport, and went on to run a dressmaking business and volunteer for many Jewish causes. -- .
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John Lazarus The Thyroid Man
Book SynopsisAutobiography, medical bias
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Heyday Books Becoming Story
Book SynopsisNow in paperback: a gently powerful memoir about deepening your relationship with your homeland."A fascinating and evocative memoir in essays."—Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewTribal chairman and celebrated storyteller Greg Sarris—whose novels are esteemed alongside those of Louise Erdrich and Stephen Graham Jones—invites us into intimate and contemplative scenes from his own life in Becoming Story. With this memoir-in-essays he asks: What does it mean to be truly connected to the place you call home—to walk where innumerable generations of your ancestors have walked? And what does it mean when you dedicate your life to making that connection even deeper?Moving between his childhood and the present day, Sarris creates a kaleidoscopic narrative about the forces that shaped his early years and his eventual work as a tribal leader. He considers the fathomless past, historical traumas, and possible futures of
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Edge of Sports Bobbitos Book of BBall Bong Bong
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£23.99
Amplify Publishing The Table of Life Nourishing the Soul with Food Love and Faith
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Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Compelling Encounters
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Shambhala Publications Inc At Hells Gate
Book SynopsisIn this raw and moving memoir, Claude Thomas describes his service in Vietnam, his subsequent emotional collapse, and his remarkable journey toward healing. At Hell''s Gate is not only a gripping coming-of-age story but a spiritual travelogue from the horrors of combat to the discovery of inner peace?a journey that inspired Thomas to become a Zen monk and peace activist who travels to war-scarred regions around the world. Everyone has their Vietnam, Thomas writes. Everyone has their own experience of violence, calamity, or trauma. With simplicity and power, this book offers timeless teachings on how we can all find healing, and it presents practical guidance on how mindfulness and compassion can transform our lives. This expanded paperback edition features: ? Discussion questions for reading groups ? A new afterword by the author reflecting on how the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are affecting soldiers?and offering advice on how to help returning soldiers to cope with their combat experiences
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Boydell and Brewer In the Realm of Tones A Composers Memoir
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New Holland Publishers Cocaine Cassie
Book SynopsisOn Wednesday, 12 April 2017, 22-year- old Cassandra Sainsbury, a personal trainer from Adelaide, South Australia was arrested at Eldorado International Airport in Bogota, Columbia.In her luggage she had been carrying 5.8 kilograms of cocaine. She was looking at up to 30 years incarceration for drug trafficking. It was to be the beginning of a harrowing ordeal of survival in El Buen Pasor - one of the world’s most notorious prisons and the setting of a tale of violence and abuse as a young woman struggled to make sense of the madness all around her. At the centre of an international media circus, the woman who the world would come to know as “Cocaine Cassie” survived beatings, stabbings and rape while her story played out in public, distorted by lies and exaggerations that played out over years. Now, in her own words, Cocaine Cassie sets the record straight in this raw and harrowing account of what it was really like. Bruised, battered and scarred she tells of how she was forced into becoming a drug mule. It is a story of pain and loss of hope for a future. But it is also a story of her rise to forgiveness and redemption - to creating a life where a woman’s past does not define her future.I am not ‘Cocaine Cassie’. I am Cassie Sainsbury.
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Biteback Publishing Breaking the Taboo
Book SynopsisIn Breaking the Taboo, as well as telling her own story, Theo Clarke presents the stories and experiences of mothers and fathers from all different backgrounds that show the undiscussed realities of childbirth trauma and poor maternity care. This urgent book will start a conversation that is as essential as it is overdue.
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Vanguard Press A Short Journey...So Long
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SilverWood Books Ltd Finding Mac
Book SynopsisThe story of bringing up a wonderful boy called Mac. Tragically, Mac was killed in a motorbike accident just a few months after his sixteenth birthday. This is a celebration of his life, and the enduring love he inspired.
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Troubador Publishing Yes Lad But Byways
Book SynopsisAn entertaining and witty memoir from an author who has had a long and interesting life. The author has insightful views on a wide and diverse range of subjects such as what a possible side effect might be to the cure for malaria and why the UK population might be getting progressively more stupid.
£11.25
Olympia Publishers Young Frankenstein
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Y Lolfa Running Through My Life
Book SynopsisRunner Ron Jones was one of the all-time greats of Welsh athletics, with 28 Welsh sprint records, 12 Welsh titles, and four Commonwealth Games to his name. He captained the British athletics team at the 1968 Olympics, before going on to become the first Chief Executive of an English soccer club.
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Y Lolfa Ffermio ar y Dibyn
Book SynopsisBiography of the presenter and farmer Meinir Howells who is a familiar figure in the agricultural world in Wales.
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Y Lolfa Dal i Fod yn Fi
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Troubador Publishing Glimpses
Book SynopsisMost of one's life is not always memorable. I spent a fair amount of my past just chasing the wind, however, I can recall certain events, some of which I will share. I'll stick to glimpses. This is what could be described as a fragmented autobiography; a story told through noteworthy events that have occurred during a colourful life. Some are mystical, some inexplicable. Short stories that involve humour, but most of all love, like threads of gold that run through a lifetime.
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Olympia Publishers French Letters
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers MORE WHEN I STORIES
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Troubador Publishing Tell Me About It
Book SynopsisTell Me About It is an autobiographical narrative from birth, through infancy during World War Two, post-war schooldays, play and advancement to manhood, in 1960. Recalled through the indelible mind of a man of Kent, eighty-three years of age, it concerns Hellfire Corner' and Folkestone in southeast Kent. The narrative compares an epoch in time with the lifestyle today. Author Paul Anthony Greenstreet reminisces with total clarity of mind, despite his motor neuron disease.
£14.39
Olympia Publishers The Gift
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Olympia Publishers Spirit Can You Hear Me
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Vera Moore Pianist From Dunedin to JouyEnJosas
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£6.99
Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers The Man who Screamed with Seagulls
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers We are all children at the end
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£11.69
Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers A Glass of Albarino and a Pillowcase of Bones
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£11.69
Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers In the Time of Bodley
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Chasing Extraordinary Publications With A Little Dash Of Crazy: The 63 marathons in
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Gwasg Carreg Gwalch O na fyddain Haf o hyd
Book SynopsisHaf Thomas of Llanrug is quite a character! She has competed on the Urdd stage, has been an extra on Pobol y Cwm, she has switched the Christmas lights on in Caernarfon and has raised sixty thousand pounds for various charities. This is the inspiring story of a young lady who will not be overcome by life''s difficulties.
£11.12
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Lycian Shore: A Turkish Odyssey
Book Synopsis'There are not so many places left where magic reigns without interruption and of all those I know, the coast of Lycia was the most magical.' Lycia, on the southwestern coast of Turkey, is an ancient land steeped in mystery, myth and legend. Home to the fiery chimera and to the great heroes Sarpedon and Penderus; heartland of worship for the goddess Leto and her children Apollo and Artemis; old ally of Troy, lure to conquering Cyrus and Alexander and to centuries of travellers, artists and writers - Lycia, part of the 'Turquoise Coast' now attracts more tourists to her glimmering shores than any other part of Turkey. In the early 1950s, following the trail of ancient Persian and Greek traders, Freya Stark set out by boat to explore the Lycian coast. She was guided by the traces of Lycia's rich history and cultural heritage. For all those who now follow in her wake, there can be no better, more evocative or knowledgeable guide to this, Turkey's most enchanting coast.Trade ReviewShe has written the best travel books of her generation and her name will survive as an artist in prose. * The Observer *Table of ContentsIllustrations Maps Foreword by Colin Thubron 1. The Voyage of Elfin 2. Chios: The Defeat of Athens 3. Samos: The Double Code 4. Patmos to Calymos: Time 5. Island Pirates: Adventure 6. Cos to Halicarnassus: Captivity 7. Cnidus: The Persian Governor 8. The Doric Peninsula: Decadence or Transition 9. Loryma: The Persia Gold 10. The Rhodian Peraea: Civilisation and the Middle Class 11. Caunus: Alexander's Road 12. Xanthus: The Lycian Federation 13. Aperlae: Loyalty and the Mercenaries 14. Myra: The Fold 15. The Chelidonian Cape: Magic 16. Chimaera to Phaselis: The Pool of Time Dates References Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Minaret of Djam: An Excursion in Afghanistan
Book SynopsisThe 12th century minaret of Djam is one of Afghanistan's most celebrated treasures, a magnificent symbol of the powerful Ghorid Empire that once stretched from Iran to India. The second tallest brick minaret in the world, Djam lies in the heart of central Afghanistan's wild Ghor Province. Surrounded by 2,000 metre-high mountains and by the remains of what many believe to have been the lost city of Turquoise Mountain - one of the greatest cities of the Middle Ages - Djam is, even today, one of the most inaccessible and remote places in Afghanistan. When Freya Stark travelled there, few people in the world had ever laid eyes on it or managed to reach the desolate valley in which it lies. Her journey from Kabul to Kandahar and Herat was difficult and often dangerous but her account shines with humour and is adorned with beautiful descriptions of the land she journeyed through and the people she encountered. A celebrated portrait of Afghanistan and its history, "The Minaret of Djam" is a poignant reminder that this was once far more than just a country ravaged by war and the political games of the world's superpowers.Trade Review'It was rare to leave her company without feeling that the world was somehow larger and more promising. Her life was something of a work of art... The books in which she recorded her journeys were seductively individual... Nomad and social lioness, public servant and private essayist, emotional victim and mythmaker.' - Colin Thubron, NY Times; 'Few writers have the capacity to do with words what Faberge could do with gems - to fashion them, without violating their quality. It is this extraordinary talent which sets Freya Stark apart from her fellow craftsman in the construction of books on travel.' - The Daily Telegraph; 'Freya Stark remains unexcelled as an interpreter of brief encounters in wild regions against the backdrop of history.' - The Observer; 'It is... as the writer of beautiful, measured prose rather than as a traveller or as an exotic 'character' who wore Dior in the wilder reaches of Asia and Arabian dress in London, that Freya Stark will ultimately be remembered.' - The Independent; 'One of the finest travel writers of our century.' - The New Yorker; 'A Middle East traveler, an explorer and, above all, a writer, Freya Stark has, with an incomparably clear eye, looked toward the horizon of the past without ever losing sight of the present. Her books are route plans of a perceptive intelligence, traversing time and space with ease.' - Saudi Aramco WorldTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Author's Note 1 Four Roads 2 Enhancements of Life 3 Sheep 4 Heroism and Tradition 5 Landscape in Asia 6 The Herat Wind 7 The Mineret 8 The Second Threshold 9 Nomads 10 The Western Road to Kabul Index
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Merlin Unwin Books Rift Valley Fever
Book SynopsisTrained as a vet in Edinburgh, Hugh Cran moved to Kenya and spent the next 50 years at the sharp end, treating cattle of Maasai herdsmen, wild animals, horses and pets of ex-pats and the military, government and everyone in-between. Travelling miles on rough roads, performing impromptu surgery by torchlight, this is Hugh's colourful adventure.
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Unicorn Publishing Group Stepping Stones: A Life of Art and Adventure
Book SynopsisThese memoirs reflect the momentous changes that have taken place over the last century through the prism of Flavia Ormond’s experiences: first as an evacuee in Canada during the Second World War, then as a returned exile travelling and working in unusual circumstances in Egypt and Italy, where she lived for many years; and finally her love affair with art which led to a rewarding career as an art dealer in London, New York and Paris, moving amongst leading collectors and museums. Early chapters are profiles of Flavia Ormond’s forebears, John Lubbock, an acolyte of Charles Darwin, Augustus Pitt Rivers, founder of the eponymous museum in Oxford, George Agnew of the notable art dealing firm in Bond Street, and the Grant Duffs, her immediate family. The author pursued her passion for cultural history and travel during a long marriage to John Ormond, great nephew of John Singer Sargent.
£17.00
Orenda Books Three Years On Fire
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Whitefox Publishing Ltd From Biplanes to Fast Jets
Book SynopsisA fascinating and richly full-colour illustrated memoir, from a Royal Air Force pilot detailing his personal experiences during a golden age of British military aviation from the Second World War to the 1970s.Ken Aedy joined the Royal Air Force in 1942, aged eighteen, having had his medical in the Long Room at Lord's Cricket Ground. He was taught to fly in Oklahoma in 1942 and 1943, returning to the UK on the converted Queen Mary troop ship. He first went solo on a Tiger Moth, a biplane, and subsequently transferred to heavy bombers, learning on Wellingtons before becoming operational in Lancasters during the Second World War. He also dropped food supplies to the Dutch in Operation Manna and flew returning former PoWs back home to the UK. He was only twenty years old when the war ended in May 1945.Ken elected to remain in the Royal Air Force after the war. He was posted to Egypt at the time of Israel's independence in 1948 and subsequently to Singapore
£45.00
Candy Jar Books Jill Curzon 2023 A.D. My Eventful Life
Book SynopsisJill Curzon writes her memoirs with absolute candour, detailing the highs and lows of her professional and private life. Within these pages are reflections on her life along with reminiscences on those who have mattered the most. The book highlights Jill''s absolute zest for life and a great love of humour both professionally and personally.
£999.99
Simon & Schuster An Honest Woman
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Pentagon Press LLP No Mission Impossible
Book SynopsisYadava does not just recount these events-he provides insights into the socio-political, economic, and military contexts that shaped them, offering a comprehensive, multi-dimensional view of the tumultuous periods that shaped modern India.
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