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.
At age 16 Chris Kopczynski carved the words ';Everest/Eiger' into the handle of his ice axe, marking his goal to climb the two mountains known as the highest and the hardest.
Covering the time period from 1807, when John Colter first discovered the wonders of the Yellowstone Plateau to the 1920s when tourists sped between luxury hotels in their automobiles, these tales of Wonderland come from the letters, journals, and diaries kept by early visitors and later tourists.
In Standoff at High Noon, the sequel to Old West Showdown, coauthors Kellen Cutsforth and Bill Markley again investigate ten well-known, controversial stories from the Old West.
In the nineteenth century people could gain fame and fortune by ';discovering' and documenting things that were already known to exist like the source of the Nile and the North Pole.
Over the course of twenty years of delivering sailboats to far-flung quaysides, John Kretschmer has had innumerable adventures, both humorous and terrifying.
Devastating and compellingDAILY MAILPoignant TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT____________________________________________________________________________________________ The extraordinary story of Bep Voskuijl, Anne Frank's closest friend during the 761 days she spent in the Secret Annex.
ANEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER *SELECTED AS ONE OFBARACKOBAMASFAVOURITE BOOKS OF2023*Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig'sKing is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.
The incredible account of Sister Betty Jeffrey OAM and the Australian war nurses who survived the bombing of evacuation ship SS Vyner Brooke in February 1942, and subsequently spent three years in Japanese prison camps in Sumatra.
En este nuevo libro, quizás el más ambicioso y heterodoxo de los que ha escrito, Ana María Briongos nos sumerge en un mar de recuerdos por sus viajes de ida y vuelta en ese mundo tan personal y, a la vez tan universal.
