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By: Ranulph Fiennes

ISBN: 9781444722468
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
UK Publication Date: 27th September 2012
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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National treasure and bestselling author, Ranulph Fiennes writes about the people who have inspired him - from explorers to policemen, soldiers to freedom fighters.


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By: Ed Stafford

ISBN: 9780753555057
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2015
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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Extreme adventurer Ed Stafford isnt sure, but hes about to find out as he pushes himself to the limit in this gripping and inspirational test of human survival.

For sixty days, with only his explorers instinct and a video camera to record his experiences, Ed faces the ultimate feat of physical and mental endurance.


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By: Dane Huckelbridge

ISBN: 9780008331764
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2020
UK Publication Date: 27th October 2020
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The deadliest animal of all time meets the world's most legendary hunter in a classic battle between man and wild. But this pulse-pounding narrative is also a nuanced story of how colonialism and environmental destruction upset the natural order, placing man, tiger and nature on a collision course.


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By: Graham Bowley

ISBN: 9780141044064
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2011
UK Publication Date: 20th January 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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K2, August 1st, 2008. Thirty climbers are attempting the summit of the most savage mountain on Earth. They make it. But before they start their descent an ice shelf collapses, sweeping away their ropes. It is dark. Their lines are gone. They are low on oxygen. And it is getting very, very cold. How many will make it down alive


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By: Marc Howes

ISBN: 9780061769535
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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On February 13, 2003, a plane carrying three American military contractors - Marc Gonsalves, Tom Howes, and Keith Stansell - crashed in the mountainous jungle of Colombia. This work presents their tale of survival, friendship, and rescue, revealing the details of their crash, what they witnessed, and how they survived their experiences.


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By: Holly Kyte

ISBN: 9780008423148
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 3rd March 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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'Extraordinary' Woman&Home

A Roaring Girl was loud when she should be quiet, disruptive when she should be submissive, sexual when she should be pure, 'masculine' when she should be 'feminine'.

Meet the unsung heroines of British history who refused to play by the rules.


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By: Mick Dawson

ISBN: 9781472140401
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
UK Publication Date: 5th September 2019
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The thrilling story of Mick Dawson's most challenging rowing feats in the open ocean, culminating in his greatest achievement: rowing 7,000 miles across the North Pacific Ocean, from Japan to San Francisco.


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By: Sam Goodwin

ISBN: 9781546007746
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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The incredible and true story of an American tourist who was captured and imprisoned in Syria while on a mission to visit every country in the World, with inspiring lessons about uncertainty, resilience, family, and faith.


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By: Dean King

ISBN: 9780099435921
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2005
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2005
Publisher: Cornerstone
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The western Sahara is a baking hot and desolate place, home only to nomads and their camels, and to locusts, snails and thorny scrub. On 28 August 1815 the US brig Commerce was dashed against Mauritania's Cape Bojador and lost, although through bravery and quick thinking the ship's captain, James Riley, managed to lead all of his crew to safety.


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By: Maggie Hartley

ISBN: 9781409177067
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
UK Publication Date: 20th September 2018
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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Only foster carer Maggie Hartley stands in the way of a young girl and the family determined to make her a child bride. A moving and inspirational true story from the Sunday Times bestselling author of TOO YOUNG TO BE A MUM and WHO WILL LOVE ME NOW


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By: Steve Walker

ISBN: 9781780720418
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2012
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
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Steve: Unwanted is a testament to the incredible power there is within all of us to break even the most hardened aspects of our habits and behaviour, and turn our lives around. It is a glimmer of light for anyone touched by addiction.


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By: Natalie Queiroz

ISBN: 9781789460650
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
Publisher: John Blake Publishing Ltd
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An unputdownable, inspirational memoir of survival and recovery after a truly savage attack.


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By: The RNLI

ISBN: 9780008395407
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
UK Publication Date: 10th June 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Theres water in the engine, he said. The engine has stopped.
This changed everything


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By: Alex Duncan

ISBN: 9781444708004
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2012
UK Publication Date: 24th May 2012
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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The action packed true story of the Chinook helicopter force in Afghanistan.


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By: Matt Gutman

ISBN: 9780062909923
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
UK Publication Date: 19th September 2019
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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By: David Sheff

ISBN: 9780008395476
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 26th May 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, an extraordinary story of redemption in the darkest of places.


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By: Anatoli Boukreev

ISBN: 9781509867998
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
UK Publication Date: 14th June 2018
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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A mountaineer's account of the fatal 1996 Everest climb which killed eight people.


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By: Michael Scott Moore

ISBN: 9780062449184
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
UK Publication Date: 11th July 2019
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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By: Clemantine Wamariya

ISBN: 9781786090508
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2019
UK Publication Date: 10th January 2019
Publisher: Cornerstone
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A riveting story of dislocation, survival, and the power of stories to break or save us

When Clemantine Wamariya was six years old, her world was torn apart.


(Hardback)

By: Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl

ISBN: 9781398518216
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
UK Publication Date: 8th June 2023
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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A riveting historical investigation and family memoir that reveals the untold story of Bep Voskuijl, the young Dutch woman who was Anne Franks closest confidante during the time she spent in the Secret Annex.


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By: Rod Nordland

ISBN: 9781473607026
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2017
UK Publication Date: 26th January 2017
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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A story of forbidden love. Zakia and Mohammad Ali are a modern day Romeo and Juliet. Two young Afghan lovers - he a Shia, she a Sunni - who defied their families risking their lives in order to be together.


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By: Ben Montgomery

ISBN: 9780316438063
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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Set against the backdrop of the Great Depression, the story of a Texas man who, in 1931, set out to walk backwards around the world.


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By: Robert Whitaker

ISBN: 9780553815399
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2005
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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In 1735 a team of French scientists set out on a daring expedition into the South American wilderness to resolve one of the great scientific challenges of the time: the precise size and shape of the Earth.


(Hardback)

By: Sophie Beresiner

ISBN: 9780008456863
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 27th May 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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