Biography: adventurers and explorers

'Windswept is a wonderful work, prose painted in bold, bright strokes like a Scottish Colourist's canvas' ROBERT MACFARLANE'An instant classic of British nature-writing' SUNDAY TELEGRAPHA few years ago, Annie Worsley traded a busy life in academia to take on a small-holding or croft on the west coast of Scotland.

The founder of POZ magazine shares ';a captivatingeyewitness account from inside the AIDS epidemic' (Next) and ';a moving, multi-decade memoir of one gay man's life' (San Francisco Chronicle).

';Every deploying adviser, and every American interested in how we are fighting our wars, should read Owen West's gripping and important book' (The Wall Street Journal).

Remarkable Treks is a compendium of exhilarating long-distance walks from around the planet - some lasting weeks, some lasting just a few days, but all of them set against spectacular backdrops.

A coming-of-age memoir of addiction, ambition and redemption in the high-stakes world of Michelin star kitchens.

In this groundbreaking memoir, My Darkest Hour: The Day I Realized I Was Abusive, Harold L.

James Grants enthralling biography of Thomas B.

When a Chinese monk broke into a hidden cave in 1900, he uncovered one of the world's great literary secrets: a time capsule from the ancient Silk Road.

';In this outstanding memoir, chef and restaurateur Matsuhisa.

This book is a fascinating and detailed chronicle of over two years spent in the American merchant service during the early 1800s.

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller Mrs.

The incredible life story of the trauma surgeon who helped save Congresswoman Gabby Giffordsfrom his upbringing in South Korea and Africa to the gripping dramas he faces in a typical day as a medical genius.

This edition includes a packet of Andrew Hudgins's favorite jokes, plus original commentary by the author.

A profound rumination on the concept of freedom from the New York Timesbestselling author of Tribe Throughout history, humans have been driven by the quest for two cherished ideals: community and freedom.

This new edition of this classic collection of stories about Abraham Lincoln includes rewritten introductions to each story that draw relevancies and lessons from this great man of leadership and apply them to the political climate of today.

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CHLO GRACE MORETZ A ';captivating' (The New York Times Book Review), award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on Fire is a powerful account of one woman's struggle to recapture her identity.

David Greenway, a journalists journalist in the tradition of Michael Herr, David Halberstam, and Dexter Filkins.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg's final book offers an intimate look at her extraordinary life and details her lifelong pursuit for gender equality and a ';more perfect Union.

Acclaimed after the Second World War as England's greatest historian, Sir Lewis Namier was an eastern European immigrant who came to idealise the English gentleman and enjoyed close friendship with leading figures of his day, including Winston Churchill.

';An elegiac yet exuberant new memoir' (The New York Times Book Review)Bill Walton's New York Times bestselling memoir about his recovery from debilitating physical injury and how lessons from John Wooden at UCLA (and the music of the Grateful Dead) inspired his darkest hours.

A brilliant polymath and part of the 'first wave' of British Romanticism, Thomas Manning was one of the first Englishmen to study Chinese language and culture.

William Lewis Manly was a forty-niner, explorer, and humanitarian whose story most people have never heard.

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READ ABOUT THE HEROIC RESCUE, AS SEEN IN RON HOWARDS THIRTEEN LIVES,FROM THE MAN AT THE HEART OF THE SEARCH.

An exhilarating true story that reads like a spy thriller about a former CIA operative recruited out of Iran, while he served as a member of the secretive and highly feared Revolutionary Guards of Iran.

From the bestselling author of Annapurna: A Woman's Place, comes a revealing memoir about the mountaineering feats that made Arlene Blum one of America's most famous female climbers and her tumultuous journey to adulthood that inspired her to become the risk-taker she is today.

Fifty years after the Apollo 11 mission made history, this book tells the epic story of the astronauts, flight controllers and engineers who made it happen.

"e;A layered inquisition and a reportorial forcea technicolor mystery.

In January 2008, movie star Patrick Swayze was given the worst news of his life.

With forty accessible essays on the key intellectual contributions to Pan-Africanism, this volume offers readers a fascinating insight into the intellectual thinking and contributions to Pan-Africanism.

An inspiring book about love in its purest form.

Inspiring and rivetingvivid and harrowing (Sean Parnell, author of Outlaw Platoon), Danger Close is the first memoir of active combat by a female helicopter pilot in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Para los cuarenta y seis ocupantes del avión Fokker 50 de Avianca, que volaba de Bucaramanga a Bogotá, el 12 de abril de 1999 se convirtió en una pesadilla.

"e;While its well known that food and stories make for a great combination, Muffins & Mayhem takes their relationship to a whole new level.

When she arrived in Iraq in May 2004 as the most junior member of the Washington Post bureau staff, Jackie Spinner entered a war zone where traditional reporting had become impossible.

This book is about one of the most remarkable European politicians of recent decades, Silvio Berlusconi, and about his contribution to the dramatic changes that have overtaken Italian politics since the early 1990s.

This vintage book contains the fascinating and insightful story of a Frenchman called Louis Romanet who lived with a tribe of Eskimos in the Arctic for many years.

The funny, sad, and heartwarming memoir by Leonard Nimoy's son Adam Nimoywho bounces back after suffering through severe drug addiction, multiple career changes, and a devastating divorce.

In a searingly candid memoir which he authored himself, Grammy Award-winning pop icon Rick Springfield pulls back the curtain on his image as a bright, shiny, happy performer to share the startling story of his rise and fall and rise in music, film, and television and his lifelong battle with depression.

In this brilliantly received memoir, former senator James Webb has outdone himself.

In 2005, Jose Canseco blew the lid off Major League Baseball's steroid scandal -- and no one believed him.

In this remarkable tale of hope and survival, Hannah Luce tells how, as the sole survivor of a terrible plane crash, she came to grips with her faith: a calamitous, fascinating memoir, written with surprising spiritual sophistication (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

From first-day nerves to first-year grades, from bizarre job interviews to bar exam insanity, Ivy Briefs pulls back the curtain on the marbled halls of law school, revealing the absurdity often bubbling beneath the surface.

Joe DiMaggio was, at every turn, one man we could look at who made us feel good.

New York Times bestselling author, comedian, and Chelsea Lately writer Heather McDonalds hilarious true story of finding herself in the predicament of being an unwilling virgin at the age of twenty-seven.

Foreword by Levison Wood, bestselling author of Walking the NileA comprehensive, fascinating and inspiring gallery of the great adventures that changed our world.

Fatherless, friendly 31yoF looking for intrepid M50s-70s who wants to try being a father figure (not sugar daddy).

The New York Times bestselling reinterpretation of the Ten Commandments from the larger, louder half of the world-famous magic duo Penn & Teller.