"e;The Man Who Sang Sorrow Into Legend"e;Gram Parsons, the boy who inherited privilege and heartbreak, the musician who fused country and rock into a new, luminous language, lived fast, loved fiercely, and burned too brightly.
Recounted for the first time and in detail, this is the unbelievable true story of the Edwardian confidence trickster who fooled the world - three times.
The Girl who Killed a Nation is a fast-paced tale that is deeply reflective, readable and down to earth, and will draw in lovers of travel, history, and personal memoir.
Join Peter Clutterbuck as he journeys across the edge into a fascinating and often untouched world, where dust storms, blizzards and breaking ocean waves rule.
Roaming Wild details the unconventional and pioneering lives of Anna and Peter Roberts, a British couple who were instrumental in making the animal welfare movement a respectable, highly-impactful and worldwide organisation.
This under-documented expedition was a pivotal moment in the annals of polar exploration and was the starting point, in historical terms, of revealing the great unknown continent of Antarctica.
Uncover the Whisper Behind the Legend: The Untold Story of Elliott SmithStep into the life of Elliott Smith, the hauntingly brilliant songwriter whose quiet voice reshaped alternative music forever.
Safari guide Jeff Williams has brought together a treasure-trove of stories of dramatic events that occurred whilst guides were leading parties through the bush on foot.
William Balfour Baikie was a surgeon, naturalist, linguist, writer, explorer, and government consul who played a key role in opening Africa to the Europeans.
In October 1942, thirteen-year-old Rozia Handelsman (Rose Lipszyc) manages to escape certain death as her family is being deported from their home near Lublin, Poland.
In October 1942, thirteen-year-old Rozia Handelsman (Rose Lipszyc) manages to escape certain death as her family is being deported from their home near Lublin, Poland.
JOINT WINNER OF THE 2002 NED KELLY AWARD FOR TRUE CRIME NON-FICTIONCOMMENDED FOR THE 2003 NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY AWARDRonald Joseph Ryan was hanged in Melbourne on 3 February 1967, following his conviction for the shooting murder of a prison warder during a daring escape from the maximum-security Pentridge prison thirteen months before.
Although Jews and other ethnic and racial minorities were uncommon in the more remote regions of the frontier American West, this did not mean that early settlers lacked an interest in these groups, their behaviors, their cultures and their beliefs, as shown in the press.
