Biography: adventurers and explorers Books
Center Street The Whistleblowers vs. the Big Guy
£999.99
Flatiron Books A Dream Deferred
£23.24
BenBella Books The Onion Story
£22.94
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Sir Charles Wogan
£19.80
HarperCollins Braving the Truth
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£22.80
Cambridge University Press Neil MacCormick
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£28.49
Dunbar Publications The Most Isolationist Foreign Secretary
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£17.00
The Hmm Foundation Some Miraculous Promised Land In search of James Dickson Innes
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£999.99
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Mary Queen of Scots Downfall
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£14.24
Shambhala Women in Love with the Divine
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£16.19
She Writes Press Maya Blue
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£15.29
She Writes Press Inc Whispers of the Mind
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£15.29
Gallery Books Midnight Flyboys
£24.67
Mountaineers Books Against the Wind
£22.46
Sparkpress Restrung
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£15.29
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC What Will the Neighbors Think
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£9.49
Penguin Random House Australia The Consultant
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£16.19
ECW Press,Canada Madness
£17.09
Drawn & Quarterly Over Easy
£17.20
Medicine Wheel Publishing Restorying Your Story
Book SynopsisThe stories we tell ourselves about our lives matter.How we make sense of the past affects how we make sense of the present— it can mean the difference between continuing patterns of harm and being the one to break the cycle. Scholar and author Michael Gauthier, PhD, knows this struggle intimately. As a young Indigenous man grappling with the lasting effects of colonialism and intergenerational trauma, Michael turned to addiction to ease the pain and found himself in the prison system. In the intervening years, Michael has worked to understand how Indigenous people can find empowerment through the act of restorying their own lives. Gauthier draws on his PhD research in which he carried out Restorying circles using the Medicine Wheel as a guide to help formerly incarcerated Indigenous men map a new future by looking to their past. Now in Restorying Your Story, Gauthier invites readers to explore the universal application of restorying, and how it can be a powerful tool for all of us to build a good life.
£14.80
Biteback Publishing Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Book SynopsisBrimming with charming anecdotes about Millicent's life from cradle to grave, this is the definitive biography of an extraordinary activist and campaigner who changed Britain's political landscape for ever.
£17.00
Biteback Publishing Hair Apparent
Book SynopsisAn inspirational hairmoir',Hair Apparentembraces the powerful legacy of Afro hair across several countries and seven decades of social, political and cultural change. Right now, Afro hair is living its best life, and Tina's manifesto of survival, resilience and identity helps us praise it like we should.
£17.09
Reaktion Books Alexander the Great
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£14.39
Michael O'Mara Books Ltd Young Elizabeth
Book SynopsisElizabeth I is one of England's most famous monarchs, whose story as the ‘Virgin Queen’ is well known. But queenship was by no means a certain path for Henry VIII’s younger daughter, who spent the majority of her early years as a girl with an uncertain future.Before she was three years old Elizabeth had been both a princess and then a bastard following the brutal execution of her mother, Anne Boleyn. After losing several stepmothers and then her father, the teenage Elizabeth was confronted with the predatory attentions of Sir Thomas Seymour. The result was devastating, causing a heartbreaking rift with her beloved stepmother Katherine Parr.Elizabeth was placed in further jeopardy when she was implicated in the Wyatt Rebellion of 1554 - a plot to topple her half-sister, Mary, from her throne. Imprisoned in the Tower of London where her mother had lost her life, under intense pressure and interrogation Elizabeth adamantly protested her inno
£21.25
Karnac Books The Forgotten Analyst
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£26.59
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Catherine de Medici
Book SynopsisA new biography of Catherine de'' Medici, the most powerful woman in sixteenth-century Europe, whose author uses neglected primary sources to recreate the life and times of a remarkable and remarkably traduced woman.History is rarely kind to women of power, but few have had their reputations quite so brutally shredded as Catherine de' Medici, Italian-born queen of France and influential mother of three successive French kings during that country's long sequence of sectarian wars in the second half of the sixteenth century. Thanks to the malign efforts of propagandists motivated by religious hatred, history tends to remember Catherine as a schemer who used witchcraft and poison to eradicate her rivals, as a spendthrift dilettante who wasted ruinous sums of money on building and embellishment of monuments and palaces, and most sinister of all, as instigator of the St Bartholomew's Day massacre of 1572, in which thousands of innocent Protestants were slaughtered by Cat
£24.00
Olympia Publishers Adventures and Misadventures of Antoine Leroi
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£20.24
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Endurance: 100 Tales of Survival, Adventure and
Book Synopsis100 of the most astonishing stories of human survival, adventure and exploration, chosen by Levison Wood. We are always captivated by tales of courage and bravery, of world-firsts and death-defying experiences. In this anthology, explorer and bestselling author Levison Wood has gathered 100 of the most fascinating accounts of human endurance throughout history. From the heroism of Antarctic explorers to pioneering women in the Middle East; from record-breaking athletes to survivors of war and torture, this wide-ranging collection embraces both classics of the genre, as well as new and neglected voices. The extracts are organised around a range of themes; you will find those who sought out new frontiers, or who purposely tested their physical limits in full knowledge of the dangers or risks they might face, but also those who endured persecution and suffering, or were thrust into life or death situations yet defied the odds to survive. Endurance is packed full of you-couldn't-make-it-up true stories and adventure fiction classics, from the high seas to the poles, from inhospitable jungles and deserts to the unknown realms of space, through physical and mental despair to euphoric highs. Yet all of these extraordinary stories celebrate the enduring nature of the human spirit, and show the mental and physical determination it sometimes takes to achieve one's aims. This varied and compelling collection will take you on an adventure around the world, but also on an emotional journey exploring what it means to be human. Includes extracts about and by Ernest Shackleton, Robert Falcon Scott, Sir Edmund Hillary, Tenzing Norgay, Amelia Earhart, Marie Colvin, John Krakauer, Solomon Northrup, Ella Maillart, Freya Stark, Ed Stafford, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Aron Lee Ralston, María Elena Moyano, Gertrude Bell, Isabelle Eberhart, Nellie Bly, Alex Honnold, Nelson Mandela, David Nott, Jules Verne, Neil Armstrong and Scott Kelly.Trade ReviewRediscover old familiar classics, but then be blown away by a new adventure you've never heard of before (and wish you'd known about sooner) * Adventure 52 *PRAISE FOR LEVISON WOOD: 'Levison Wood has breathed new life into adventure travel' Michael Palin. 'Levison Wood is a great adventurer and a wonderful storyteller' Ranulph Fiennes. 'Britain's best-loved adventurer... He looks like a man who will stare danger in the face and soak up a lot of pain without complaint' * The Times *
£17.00
The History Press Ltd Mountains before Mountaineering
Book SynopsisToday, mountains are spaces for adventure: treasured places for people to connect with nature, encounter the sublime and challenge themselves, whether it be skiing in the Italian Alps or scaling the heights of the Matterhorn in Switzerland. Some regard our love of mountains as relatively new, claiming that before modern mountaineers planted flags upon the peaks, the average European was more likely to revile and avoid a mountainous landscape than to admire it.Mountains Before Mountaineering tells a different narrative. It reveals the way mountains inspired curiosity and fascination and how they were enjoyed in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe. It gives voice to the early modern travellers who climbed peaks and passes with fear and delight; to the real mountaineers' who lived and died upon the mountain slopes; and to the scientists who used mountains to try to understand the origins of the world.This book invites you on a journey through the mountains, long before Everest was discovered' as the highest mountain in the world or before the first recorded ascent of Mont Blanc. It is the story of how our love of the mountains has been a part of us from the very beginning.
£18.70
The History Press Ltd The Last Women of the Durham Coalfield
Book Synopsis''As this book shows, the women of the Durham coalfield played an equal role in shaping daily life and trajectories of history in the region, just as women today are building their own futures in communities around the world.'' - Hillary Rodham ClintonThe Second World War took its toll on every part of society. The appeal for women to work outside the home in the ammunition factories supporting the war effort was taken up by many women throughout the colliery villages. They worked for eight hours a day at the factory, taking up their caregiving and home-making roles when they returned home. Their days continued to be long and strenuous.After the war, the government introduced a series of initiatives intended to improve the lives of the nation. A reformed education system was implemented in 1944, nationalisation in 1947 and a national health service in 1948. At last things were looking up for coal-mining families.At the
£14.39
The History Press Ltd Watching Monty
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£16.19
The History Press Ltd Beyond the Spitfire
Book SynopsisWas R.J. Mitchell truly a genius? Delving into the projects that remained stuck on the drawing board
£23.38
Gill Ballybunion to the River Kwai
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£17.09
Atlantic Books Graveyard of the Pacific: Shipwreck and Survival
Book SynopsisOff the coast of Oregon, the Columbia River flows into the Pacific Ocean and forms the Columbia River Bar: a watery collision so turbulent and deadly that it's nicknamed the Graveyard of the Pacific.Two thousand ships have been wrecked on the bar since the first European ship dared to try to cross it in the late 18th century. Since then, the commercial importance of the Columbia River has only grown, and the bar remains a site of shipwrecks and dramatic rescues as well as power struggles between small fishermen, powerful shipowners, local communities, the Coast Guard and the Columbia River Bar Pilots - a small group of highly skilled navigators.When Randall Sullivan and a friend set out to cross the bar in a two-man kayak, they're met with scepticism and concern. But on a clear day in July 2021, when the tides and weather seem right, they embark. As they plunge through the currents that have taken so many lives, Randall commemorates the brave sailors that made the crossing before him - including his own abusive father - and reflects on toxic masculinity, fatherhood and what drives men to extremes.Trade ReviewA riveting story of maritime tragedies and a personal passage...it is Sullivan's gripping, vividly detailed accounts of nautical disasters at the Columbia Bar that make the book such an achievement for the three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee...A strikingly rendered tale of the hard and lasting costs of courage. * Kirkus Reviews *Vividly evoking Sullivan's deep fascination with the Pacific Northwest and thirst for friendship and adventure, this is a thrill ride * Publishers Weekly *
£15.29
Greenhill Books The Solitary War of a Sniper
Book SynopsisGrowing up in a working-class family in Manchester, Harry Furness joined the army in 1939 at the age of 16. Having always been captivated by the stories of First World War snipers, he immediately volunteered for sniper training when the army began to recruit soldiers in 1941. He did exceptionally well, qualifying as a marksman whilst a pre-war army cadet and was quickly promoted to lance corporal. Just prior to D-Day, he was promoted to corporal in the Green Howards Regiment and landed at Gold Beach on 6th June 1944. Together, he and his comrades began a hard fight across North-West Europe, gradually moving through Northern France, Belgium, Holland and eventually into Germany as they pushed the Germans back towards the Rhine. The manifold dangers and occasional humour of Harry Furness's experiences of war come across in a very matter-of-fact but compelling way in the dozens of previously unpublished letters, personal interviews and images that make up Martin Pegler's fascinating, moving biography of Furness and his extraordinary life.
£21.25
Olympia Publishers The Ordained The Life Story Of Stryvelle Gray
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£7.59
Troubador Publishing A Happy Man
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£11.69
Troubador Publishing The Grandfather Paradox
Book SynopsisA story which blends fiction and fact in attempting to trace a lost and forgotten past life. It uses recovered fragments about this past life to link events, people and experiences from 100 years apart.
£11.69
Troubador Publishing LEAN ON NO ONE
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£10.99
Reaktion Books Gaston Bachelard
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£21.25
Icon Books How to Rob the Bank of England
Book SynopsisOn a sunny May morning in 1990, a bank courier strode out of the Bank of England and, minutes later, was robbed at knifepoint of 301 bearer bonds valued at 292 million. It was the biggest theft in British history. The thing is... when Keith Cheeseman received a call from a disbarred lawyer connected to London's underworld and attended a meeting on the night of the robbery, he counted 427 million in bonds - 135 million more than the Bank of England had reported. As Keith set out to launder the bonds, Scotland Yard and the FBI were always one step ahead in tracking them down. Over the next eighteen months, two gangland figures were shot dead and more than eighty people were arrested. Keith was the only man ever jailed for the crime. Keith Cheeseman is the last of the old-time gangsters, a con man who detests violence, wears Savile Row suits and gold watches, and loves classic cars and good dining. He bought non-league Dunstable Town football club and signed Manchester United star G
£17.00
Atlantic Books Jack and Eve
Book SynopsisVera Holme, known as Jack, left a career as a jobbing actress to become Emmeline Pankhurst''s chauffeur and mechanic. Evelina Haverfield was a classic beauty, the daughter of a Scottish baron and fourteen years older than Jack. They met in 1908, fell in love, lived together, and became public faces of the suffragette movement, enduring prison and doing everything they could for the cause.The First World War paused the suffragettes'' campaign and Jack and Eve enrolled in the Scottish Women''s Hospital Service and soon found themselves in Serbia. Eve set up and ran hospitals for allied soldiers in appalling conditions, while Jack became an ambulance driver, travelling along dirt tracks under bombardment to collect the wounded from the front lines.Together, they carved radical new paths, demonstrating that women could do anything men could do, whether driving ambulances, running military hospitals, becoming prisoners of war or bearing arms. They refused to compromise in
£20.90
Quercus Publishing Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu
Book SynopsisIn September 1298, the rival Italian republics of Genoa and Venice fought a fierce sea battle at Curzola off the rocky coast of southern Dalmatia. Against the odds the Venetians, led by Admiral Andrea Dandolo, son of the Doge, were defeated. Among the thousands of Venetians captives was one Marco Polo, gentleman, merchant of Venice, and sometime traveller to East Asia. Incarcerated in a Ligurian fastness, he told his story to a fellow-prisoner, a writer of romances named Rustichello of Pisa. The account of his travels that Marco Polo dictated to Rustichello in captivity - Il Milione - would be exceptionally widely read and would stimulate European interest in the East and its riches. Marco Polo: from Venice to Xanadu is Laurence Bergreen's thrilling and masterly reconstruction of the life and wanderings of one the great adventurers of world history. Between 1271 and 1275 Marco Polo accompanied his father Niccolo and uncle Maffeo on a journey east from Acre into central Asia along the Silk Route, eventually reaching China and the court of the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, Kublai Khan. Entering the service of the Khan, he travelled extensively in the Mongol Empire. The three Venetians returned home by sea in 1292-5, calling at Sumatra and southern India before reaching Persia, and making the last part of their journey to Venice overland. Three years later came that fateful encounter with the Genoese fleet in the Adriatic...Trade Reviewa dazzling portrait of a remarkable man … a task that has been long overdue - Guardian * Guardian *Marco Polo comes to life! … a classic portrait that now surely cannot be bettered - Simon Winchester, author of 'The Map That Changed the World ' * Simon Winchester *Table of ContentsPrologue: The Commander BOOK ONE / EUROPA: The Merchants of Venice; The Golden Passport; The Apprentice; The Opium Eater; High Plains Drifters; The Secret History of the Mongols. BOOK TWO / ASIA: The Universal Emperor; In the Service of the Khan; The Struggle for Survival; The General and the Queen; The City of Heaven; The Divine Wind. BOOK THREE / INDIA: The Seeker; The Mongol Princess; The Prodigal Son. Epilogue: The Storyteller Acknowledgements Notes on Sources Select Bibliography Index
£13.49
Bodleian Library Kafka
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£33.25
Reardon Publishing Like English Gentlemen: to Peter Scott: The Death of Scott of the Antarctic
This book tells the tragic true story of the fate of Scott of the Antarctic and his companions on the return trip from the South Pole.It was written anonymously by Sir John Ernest Hodder-Williams, for Scott's son Peter, with the object at the time of raising funds for the child following his father's death.This facsimile has been created from an original 1913 edition, a now scarce work first published in the year of Scott's death during the Terra Nova expedition of 1910-1913.
£28.50
Luath Press Ltd On the Trail of Bonnie Prince Charlie
Book SynopsisPart of a series of guides on key figures and themes, this book follows the life of Charles Edward Stuart, the young pretender. The author sets out on his motorbike on the trail of Bonnie Prince Charlie from England to Scotland and the Isle of Skye, the locations shown with maps and drawings.
£8.54
Octopus Publishing Group Love and Care An honest and thoughtful memoir
Book Synopsis***''An honest and thoughtful memoir. Moving but, ultimately, full of hope. Beautiful.'' KATE MOSSE''Superb. Love & Care is a book about the unbreakable bonds of family, the cruelty of passing time and a love that never dies.'' TONY PARSONS''A beautiful, intimate story of love and understanding - candid and funny. This is a lyrical memoir of hope and forgiveness.'' RAYNOR WINN, author of The Salt Path ''He''s in hospital again . . . and he''s not eating. Perhaps you should think about coming back to the UK,'' Brenda said. ''I don''t think your dad will be going home again.'' Shaun''s mother is in a care home with Parkinson''s Dementia and now his father is dying. He should go back. And yet this was supposed to be his time. Shaun has relocated to a new country to make a fresh start. His two daughters are grown-up. He has moved on from the divorce. He is single a
£13.59
John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd John Henry Gurney
Book SynopsisJohnHenry Gurney: A Passion for Birdsdetails the life of JohnHenry Gurney (1819-1890), a successful banker whose wealth enabled him to indulge his passion for collecting natural historyspecimens, especially birds.
£31.99
