Biography: adventurers and explorers

In late March of 1958 four men set sail in a thirty-foot ketch, the Golden Rule, for the nuclear-bomb-testing area in the Marshall Islands.

First published in 1930, this is the personal adventure narrative of Henri de Monfreid-nobleman, writer, adventurer and inspiration for the swashbuckling gun runner in the Adventures of Tintin.

First published in 1951, this is the autobiography of Admiral Lord Mountevans, and it is indeed a tale of high spirits.

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With his vast collection of photographs and memorabilia, combined with his skill as a writer, Newell truly makes the ships and memories of them become living personalities.

THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION-FROM THE TSARS TO THE SOVIETSThis economic, political, and social study by a distinguished Russian authority uses a wealth of contemporary evidence state documents, memoirs, correspondence, statistics to analyze "e;the forces which brought about the fall of the Tsars and paved the way for Bolshevism"e; in the crucial years 1914-1917.

First published in 1939, this is the gripping account of a voyage in a small sloop from Nova Scotia to the northern coast of Labrador.

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Alexander lived in Paris when he wrote his memoirs, Once a Grand Duke, which were first published in 1932.

In this book written in exile, Aleksandr Fyodorovich Kerensky, recounts his fascinating eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution and the victory of the extreme Bolshevik faction in 1917.

The reminiscences of a fiercely anti-Communist Petrograd professor, Pitirim A.

THE catastrophe which overwhelmed Europe in July, 1914, the effects of which made themselves felt more or less over the whole world, cannot yet be made the subject of scientific historical investigation.

The fateful twenty-three years following the accession of the last of the Romanov Tsars formed the prologue to the Russian Revolution, and foreshadowed the motives and mental attitudes of Russian policy today.

Originally published in 1956, this book is a memoir by Danish explorer Peter Freuchen, a close friend and travel companion of Arctic legend Knud Rasmussen, and ended up living in Greenland for fifteen years, 800 miles from the North Pole-adopting the native ways of life, marrying an Inuit woman, and having two children along the way.

Over the course of several months during 1931 and 1932, Robert Byron journeyed to three countries teetering on the brink of change.

First published in 1939, this book is a vivid account of Richard Maury's voyage from New York to Fiji in the small, 35-foot, Nova Scotia-built schooner Cimba.

THE DARK FRIGATE-Winner of the Newbery Medal.

More than 80 years ago, Caroline Mytinger, a portrait artist, and her childhood friend Margaret Warner set out by freighter from San Francisco with little more than $400 in their pocket and a tin of paints to their name.

The story of the tall frigates spans one of the most exciting eras of American history.

Like countless Gloucester fishermen before and since, Howard Blackburn and Tom Welch were trawling for halibut on the Newfoundland banks in an open dory in 1883 when a sudden blizzard separated them from their mother ship.

Described in graphic & amusing detail, making a living from the sea.

COMMANDER Gordon McGowan, cast in the role of master of a three-masted bark by order of the U.

This unique book covers the author, Clay Blair Jr.

Vincente Blasco Ibanez in Blood and Sand, wrote a novel that can never lose its popularity because it presents a blazing picture of Spanish life as it can be lived only in Spain.

At seventeen, he ran away to sea.

All his life Test Pilot Scott Crossfield has carried on a love affair with airplanes.

Denis Gorman's A Voyage to the Sea is an inspirational tale of following your dream, despite the set-backs that life can throw at you, and is delivered in a well-paced narrative that military historians and deep-water sailors will enjoy in equal measure.

A Royal Navy sailor recounts his adventuresome life at sea in this colorful memoir offering a rare look at early nineteenth century naval life.

On 2 August 1708 Captain Woodes Rogers set sail from Bristol with two ships, the Duke and Duchess, on an epic voyage of circumnavigation that was to make him famous.

A fascinating biography of the British explorer whose legendary expedition to the South Pole was shrouded in controversy and tragedy.

Ernest Gellner was a multilingual polymath who set the agenda in the study of nationalism and the sociology of Islam for an entire generation of academics and students.

Born in Martinique, Frantz Fanon (1925-61) trained as a psychiatrist in Lyon before taking up a post in colonial Algeria.

The life and work of Ryszard Kapu?

Growing up in the small town of Maden in Turkey, Fethiye ,etin knew her grandmother as a happy and respected Muslim housewife called Seher.

If I Am Not For Myself is a passionate, thought-provoking exploration of what it means to be Jewish in the twenty-first century.

A fascinating biography of the British explorer whose legendary expedition to the South Pole was shrouded in controversy and tragedy.

No one sees clearer than an individual whose life is hanging by the finger tips on the edge of an abyss.

Exciting, funny, and occasionally heart-stopping readers can stay home and dry, but feel like they are on the high seas.

From the acclaimed author of In Praise of Paths comes a humorous and modest Walden for modern times.

Three women, three voices, three generations: the Silbery family share their most personal memories and lessons learned.

The Australia Director at Human Rights Watch shares her experiences defending human rights from human trafficking in Nepal to the drug war in the Philippines to treatment of detainees in Papua New Guinea and in Australia offering an extremely involving personal account of how far we've come, and how far we've got to go.

Trust me, there is life and love (and plenty of laughter) after divorce, even when your ex is one of Australia's highest profile sport stars.

Axedcharts the dramatic decline of the magazine industry in Australia from the million-selling highs of the 1990s to the recent round of mergers, closures and mass-redundancies.

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

From prison to premiership glory; this is Marlion Pickett's extraordinary story.

In the tradition of THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ, a heartbreaking true story of love, loss and survival against all odds during the Second World war.

To mark Bob Hawke's extraordinary life and legacy, this master work brings together the story of the man in full in a definitive hardback commemorative biography.

The matriarch of Australia's most violent and notorious criminal family, and allegedly the inspiration for the award-winning film Animal Kingdom, tells her side of the story.

Seven shots ring out in the silence of Victoria's rolling Barrabool Hills.

Techno-Sapiens gathers together leading scholars of technology, theology, and religion in order to explore the ways in which modern technology is neither solely a dehumanizing force in the world nor a mere instrument for evangelizing the world, but rather the very means by which incarnation happens--the media in and through which humans love the (digital) other.