This brilliantly written memoir takes the reader on a journey into the past, to a rural England long gone, when horses worked the fields and small boys spent most of their time outdoors.
The bestselling, heartfelt memoir from Sophie Cachia, whoreveals never-before-shared details of her marriage breakdown, and how delving into her feminine intuition and falling in love with a woman transformed her.
Libro de anécdotas y de memorias de viajes de exploración a lo largo del sureste de Coahuila, realizados por uno de los naturalistas y descubridores de patrimonio arqueológico y paleontológico más destacados de la entidad.
Cuando María Graham llegó a nuestras costas en abril de 1822 ya era una viajera incansable, una observadora aguda y una reconocida escritora en su propio país, Inglaterra.
This is the story of James Capen Adams, a mountain man born in 1807 who brought grizzlies to the city of San Francisco, and then New York, for exhibition.
Forty amazing places where you can escape reality and reconnect with natureThese unforgettable locations in Britain's wild corners range from lighthouses to cottages, from bothies to boats.
Israel Armstrong, one of literature's most unlikely detectives, returns for more crime solving adventure in this hilarious second novel from 'The Mobile Library' series.
"Un pueblo antiguo, el primero y legítimo dueño del continente americano, se deshace día a día como la nieve bajo los rayos del sol y, a la vista de todos, desaparece de la faz de la tierra.
Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year 2025A Financial Times best summer travel book of 2024Travel Book of the Year at the Inspire Global Media Awards'A powerfully delicate book of love, loss and discovery, along paths of emotional understanding and physical wonder.
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.
An ';extraordinarily brilliant' and ';pleasurably naughty' (Andr Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemyand who the Bard might really be.
Microsoft's associate general counsel shares a story that is ';as nuanced as it is hopeful' (Hakeem Jeffries, House Minority Leader) about his rise from childhood poverty in pre-gentrified New York City to a stellar career at the top of the technology and music industries in this stirring true story of grit and perseverance.
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2023'Grippingly vivid and pacey' THE TIMES'A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing' SIMON WINCHESTER'An astonishing almost day-by-day account of [a] hazardous journey and its legacy' TELEGRAPH'This is a story of an epic childhood journey, so exciting and so shocking it is hard to know whether you're reading about a dream or a nightmare.
Jack London: an American novelist, journalist, railroad hobo, gold prospector, sailor, poet, socialist, an oyster pirate, war correspondent, alcoholic, a rancher.
The story of a fifty-year relationship between a Vietnam veteran and a remote Aboriginal tribe: a miniature epic of human adaptation, suffering and resilience.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography 2023 Winner of the 2022National Book Critics Circle Award in BiographyWinner of the 2023 Bancroft Prize in American History and DiplomacyWinner of the American History Book Prize Shortlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyLonglisted for the CWAALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction When he became director of the FBI, J.
A ';captivating' (The Washington Post) true story of ';courage, resolve, and determination' (The Christian Science Monitor), author Ralph White's successful effort to save nearly the entire staff of the Saigon branch of Chase Manhattan bank and their families before the city fell to the North Vietnamese Army.
The remarkable and inspirational story of Oksana Masters, who was born with radiation-induced birth defects and suffered appalling abuse as an orphan, before being adopted and moving to the US, where she went on to triumph over her challenges to win ten Paralympic medals in four different sports.
An exuberant biography of the life of the iconic photographer and naturalist Peter Beard, whose life and work captured the cultural imagination Peter Beard lived an astonishing life.
Die bewegte Lebensgeschichte eines Heimatlosen zwischen Krieg, Kunst, Wissenschaft und Weltumseglung Als Flüchtling kam Adelbert von Chamisso in den Wirren der französischen Revolution nach Deutschland.
The Long Way is Bernard Moitessiers own incredible story of his participation in the first Golden Globe Race, a solo, non-stop circumnavigation rounding the three great Capes of Good Hope, Leeuwin, and the Horn.
In June 1898, three years and two months after departing Boston in his aged oyster sloop Spray, Captain Joshua Slocum made land fall in New England and became the first person ever to sail alone around the world.
'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.
Ellas emprendieron viajes extraordinarios en tiempos en los que los desplazamientos eran difíciles y la mayor parte de las personas no salían de sus pueblos.
Tales Behind the Tombstones tells the stories behind the deaths (or supposed deaths) and burials of the Old West's most nefarious outlaws, notorious women, and celebrated lawmen.
How 19th-century soldier, adventurer and scholar Henry Rawlinson deciphered cuneiform, the world's earliest writing, and rediscovered Iraq's ancient civilisations.
