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Charles Waterton - Creator of the First Nature Reserve (Paperback): Barbara Phipps Charles Waterton - Creator of the First Nature Reserve (Paperback)
Barbara Phipps
R628 Discovery Miles 6 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Good Hunting - In Pursuit of Big Game in the West (Paperback): Theodore Roosevelt Good Hunting - In Pursuit of Big Game in the West (Paperback)
Theodore Roosevelt
R257 R210 Discovery Miles 2 100 Save R47 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Written in the late nineteenth century and first published in Harper's Round Table magazine in 1896, this collection of articles details turn-of-the-century America's rugged wilderness. Good Hunting is an engaging read for those whose interests lie in hunting sports, and nature. Roosevelt, being the first president to begin many of the national park conservation programs in twentieth-century America, was a lover of the outdoors, and his writings are filled with notations and observations of the lands that he explored. From hunting elks, wolves, and bucks, Roosevelt provides stunning insight into some of northwestern America's most well-known inhabitants. Good Hunting is a fascinating historical portal through which we can view a celebrated sportsman, president, and keen observer of the outdoors. The seven chapters in this book range from classic hunting articles, memorable anecdotes from other outdoorsmen, and even a detailed piece on the specifics of ranching a topic of much interest at the turn of the century. This is a classic read for anyone wanting to learn more about a man who was so loved by a country, and to escape to the America of yesteryear. Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for hunters and firearms enthusiasts. We publish books about shotguns, rifles, handguns, target shooting, gun collecting, self-defense, archery, ammunition, knives, gunsmithing, gun repair, and wilderness survival. We publish books on deer hunting, big game hunting, small game hunting, wing shooting, turkey hunting, deer stands, duck blinds, bowhunting, wing shooting, hunting dogs, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Love Dream (Paperback): Lillian Bosnack Love Dream (Paperback)
Lillian Bosnack
R334 R280 Discovery Miles 2 800 Save R54 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Look At Me - Recollections Of A Childhood (Paperback): Nataniel Look At Me - Recollections Of A Childhood (Paperback)
Nataniel
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R340 R292 Discovery Miles 2 920 Save R48 (14%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

With this singular book Nataniël tells the story of a childhood in three small towns and one large suburb, in an era during which rules were seldom questioned and of a young boy’s overwhelming fear of the ordinary. Look At Me is Nataniël's first full-length memoir. 

Ethel Rosenberg - An American Tragedy (Paperback): Anne Sebba Ethel Rosenberg - An American Tragedy (Paperback)
Anne Sebba
R511 R424 Discovery Miles 4 240 Save R87 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ladies Get Paid - The Ultimate Guide to Breaking Barriers, Owning Your Worth, and Taking Command of Your Career (Paperback):... Ladies Get Paid - The Ultimate Guide to Breaking Barriers, Owning Your Worth, and Taking Command of Your Career (Paperback)
Claire Wasserman
R477 R395 Discovery Miles 3 950 Save R82 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Full Out - Lessons in Life and Leadership from America's Favorite Coach (Hardcover): Monica Aldama Full Out - Lessons in Life and Leadership from America's Favorite Coach (Hardcover)
Monica Aldama
R747 R618 Discovery Miles 6 180 Save R129 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
There I Am - The Journey from Hopelessness to Healing--A Memoir (Paperback): Ruthie Lindsey There I Am - The Journey from Hopelessness to Healing--A Memoir (Paperback)
Ruthie Lindsey
R426 R352 Discovery Miles 3 520 Save R74 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
On Pilgrimage - The Sixties (Paperback): Dorothy Day On Pilgrimage - The Sixties (Paperback)
Dorothy Day; Edited by Robert Ellsberg
R760 R632 Discovery Miles 6 320 Save R128 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Twee Kinders Later (Afrikaans, Paperback): Charme Kriel Twee Kinders Later (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Charme Kriel
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R265 R228 Discovery Miles 2 280 Save R37 (14%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Charmé word met pre-eklampsia gediagnoseer toe sy 27 weke swanger is met Lisa. Klein Lisatjie word met ’n noodkeisersnee gebore en Charmé se lewe verander heeltemal. Lisa weeg 850 gram, en sy veg elke dag om haar lewe. Charmé se reis tot ma-word was nie maklik nie. Maar Charmé vertel haar storie met humor en deernis: ‘n universiële storie van oorlewing van elke modern ma.  Charmé se storie help ons om te weet dat ons nie alleen is nie, die ma langs jou het dieselfde pyne, vreugde, angs en vrae.

Don't fret, I'll be back (Paperback): Alan Cale Don't fret, I'll be back (Paperback)
Alan Cale
R340 Discovery Miles 3 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The true story of a young lady's escape to better things. Of love, marriage and children. A tale of death and despair in a foreign land. Of fate taking a hand and joining two people in a deep and lasting love. The author has used letters and anecdotal evidence from family members who are the lead players in this story. He hopes he has done justice to the tale of their lives.

David Gillanders - I do all the talking! (Paperback): Jack Davidson David Gillanders - I do all the talking! (Paperback)
Jack Davidson
R513 Discovery Miles 5 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is about my lifetime of adventure and inside I explain how I overcame a hand disability from birth to become a British and Scottish Rally Champion, but my story is not just about motor sport: I have also worked for a top Hollywood film producer and shared breakfast with one of the world's top female film stars. I have also interacted with two US presidents, and met many other wonderful people. My book also delves into the realms of working with top world rally constructor as well as major motor manufacturer. The many and varied characters I have met during my lifetime has also made my life so much more colourful, and you can meet many of these characters within the pages of this book. Yes, I have met all of life's challenges to date.

Yellow And Confused - Born In Taiwan, Raised In South Africa And Making Sense Of It All (Paperback): Ming-Cheau Lin Yellow And Confused - Born In Taiwan, Raised In South Africa And Making Sense Of It All (Paperback)
Ming-Cheau Lin 1
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R350 R301 Discovery Miles 3 010 Save R49 (14%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Ming-Cheau Lin’s family emigrated to South Africa from Tainan, Taiwan when she was just three years old and stayed in Bloemfontein with a small East Asian community. Seen as an outsider, she struggled to understand her identity as a minority and immigrant and faced harsh realities of being ‘yellow’ in the western world in addition to the legacy of South Africa’s history.

After assimilating to the surrounding society, she is deemed ‘not Asian enough’ when she is unable to conform to the rules of first-generation Asian elders, yet too Asian for everyone else. Taiwanese or South African, teenager or rebel, creative or disappointment.. she shares her story and journeys to uncover the reasons why yellow people are treated the way they are in a space that doesn’t recognise them as part of the population

Leave It as It Is - A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt's American Wilderness (Paperback): David Gessner Leave It as It Is - A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt's American Wilderness (Paperback)
David Gessner
R507 R420 Discovery Miles 4 200 Save R87 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Listen To Your Footsteps - Reflections & Essays (Paperback): Kojo Baffoe Listen To Your Footsteps - Reflections & Essays (Paperback)
Kojo Baffoe
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R310 R242 Discovery Miles 2 420 Save R68 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Kojo Baffoe embodies what it is to be a contemporary African man. Of Ghanaian and German heritage, he was raised in Lesotho and moved to South Africa at the age of 27. Forever curious, Kojo has the enviable ability to simultaneously experience moments intimately and engage people (and their views) sincerely, while remaining detached enough to think through his experiences critically. He has earned a reputation as a thinker, someone who lives outside the box and free of the labels that society seeks to place on us.

Listen to Your Footsteps is an honest and, at times, raw collection of essays from a son, a father, a husband, a brother and a man deeply committed to doing the internal work. Kojo reflects on losing his mother as a toddler, being raised by his father, forming an identity, living as an immigrant, his tussles with substance abuse, as well as his experiences of fatherhood, marriage and making a career in a fickle industry. He gives an extended glimpse into the experiences that make boys become men, and the battles that make men discover what they are made of, all the while questioning what it means to be ‘a man’.

Good Hunting - An American Spymaster's Story (Paperback): Jack Devine, Vernon Loeb Good Hunting - An American Spymaster's Story (Paperback)
Jack Devine, Vernon Loeb
R483 R400 Discovery Miles 4 000 Save R83 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
No One Asked for This - Essays (Paperback): Cazzie David No One Asked for This - Essays (Paperback)
Cazzie David
R482 R400 Discovery Miles 4 000 Save R82 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
His Very Best - Jimmy Carter, a Life (Paperback): Jonathan Alter His Very Best - Jimmy Carter, a Life (Paperback)
Jonathan Alter
R697 R607 Discovery Miles 6 070 Save R90 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From one of America's most respected journalists and modern historians comes the highly acclaimed, "splendid" (The Washington Post) biography of Jimmy Carter, the thirty-ninth president of the United States and Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian. Jonathan Alter tells the epic story of an enigmatic man of faith and his improbable journey from barefoot boy to global icon. Alter paints an intimate and surprising portrait of the only president since Thomas Jefferson who can fairly be called a Renaissance Man, a complex figure-ridiculed and later revered-with a piercing intelligence, prickly intensity, and biting wit beneath the patented smile. Here is a moral exemplar for our times, a flawed but underrated president of decency and vision who was committed to telling the truth to the American people. Growing up in one of the meanest counties in the Jim Crow South, Carter is the only American president who essentially lived in three centuries: his early life on the farm in the 1920s without electricity or running water might as well have been in the nineteenth; his presidency put him at the center of major events in the twentieth; and his efforts on conflict resolution and global health set him on the cutting edge of the challenges of the twenty-first. "One of the best in a celebrated genre of presidential biography," (The Washington Post), His Very Best traces how Carter evolved from a timid, bookish child-raised mostly by a Black woman farmhand-into an ambitious naval nuclear engineer writing passionate, never-before-published love letters from sea to his wife and full partner, Rosalynn; a peanut farmer and civic leader whose guilt over staying silent during the civil rights movement and not confronting the white terrorism around him helped power his quest for racial justice at home and abroad; an obscure, born-again governor whose brilliant 1976 campaign demolished the racist wing of the Democratic Party and took him from zero percent to the presidency; a stubborn outsider who failed politically amid the bad economy of the 1970s and the seizure of American hostages in Iran but succeeded in engineering peace between Israel and Egypt, amassing a historic environmental record, moving the government from tokenism to diversity, setting a new global standard for human rights and normalizing relations with China among other unheralded and far-sighted achievements. After leaving office, Carter eradicated diseases, built houses for the poor, and taught Sunday school into his mid-nineties. This "important, fair-minded, highly readable contribution" (The New York Times Book Review) will change our understanding of perhaps the most misunderstood president in American history.

Vaccinated - From Cowpox to Mrna, the Remarkable Story of Vaccines (Paperback): Paul A. Offit Vaccinated - From Cowpox to Mrna, the Remarkable Story of Vaccines (Paperback)
Paul A. Offit
R473 R389 Discovery Miles 3 890 Save R84 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Slow Puncture: Living Well With Dementia (Paperback): Peter Berry, Deb Bunt Slow Puncture: Living Well With Dementia (Paperback)
Peter Berry, Deb Bunt
R314 R257 Discovery Miles 2 570 Save R57 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This is an account of a year in the life of Peter Berry, an ordinary man living in a sleepy Suffolk village. Happily married and running a successful business, Peter's life changes when, at the age of fifty, he is given a terminal diagnosis of early-onset dementia. Since that day, he has learned to live with his very own 'dementia monster'. From depression and suicide attempts through to his determination to confront his dementia, Peter has embarked on a series of challenges to show that 'life isn't over with dementia, it's just a little different'. Peter has now raised thousands of pounds for dementia charities, cycling hundreds of miles in his quest to show that life is always worth living. When Peter meets Deb, recently retired, they embark on regular cycle rides and, as their friendship grows, Deb is able to look at her own life through the lens of Peter's dementia. In 'Slow Puncture', Peter tells the world what it is really like to live with a terminal condition and Deb learns to enjoy each day more fully. With a foreword by best-selling author Wendy Mitchell, author of 'Somebody I Used to Know', this is an inspirational look at both living in the present and coping with dementia.

The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback): Frantz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
Frantz Fanon; Introduction by Cornel West; Translated by Richard Philcox; Foreword by Homi K. Bhabha; Preface by Jean-Paul Sartre
R465 R377 Discovery Miles 3 770 Save R88 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The sixtieth anniversary edition of Frantz Fanon's landmark text, now with a new introduction by Cornel WestFirst published in 1961, and reissued in this sixtieth anniversary edition with a powerful new introduction by Cornel West, Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth is a masterfuland timeless interrogation of race, colonialism, psychological trauma, and revolutionary struggle, and a continuing influence on movements from Black Lives Matter to decolonization. A landmark text for revolutionaries and activists, The Wretched of the Earth is an eternal touchstone for civil rights, anti-colonialism, psychiatric studies, and Black consciousness movements around the world. Alongside Cornel West's introduction, the book features critical essays by Jean-Paul Sartre and Homi K. Bhabha. This sixtieth anniversary edition of Fanon's most famous text stands proudly alongside such pillars of anti-colonialism and anti-racism as Edward Said's Orientalism and The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

All I Ever Wanted - A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir (Paperback): Kathy Valentine All I Ever Wanted - A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir (Paperback)
Kathy Valentine
R541 R446 Discovery Miles 4 460 Save R95 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Runner-up, Carr P. Collins Award for Best Book of Non-Fiction, 2021 Go-Go's bassist Kathy Valentine's story is a roller coaster of sex, drugs, and of course, music; it's also a story of what it takes to find success and find yourself, even when it all comes crashing down. At twenty-one, Kathy Valentine was at the Whisky in Los Angeles when she met a guitarist from a fledgling band called the Go-Go's-and the band needed a bassist. The Go-Go's became the first multi-platinum-selling, all-female band to play instruments themselves, write their own songs, and have a number one album. Their debut, Beauty and the Beat, spent six weeks at the top of the Billboard 200 and featured the hit songs "We Got the Beat" and "Our Lips Are Sealed." The record's success brought the pressures of a relentless workload and schedule culminating in a wild, hazy, substance-fueled tour that took the band from the club circuit to arenas, where fans, promoters, and crew were more than ready to keep the party going. For Valentine, the band's success was the fulfillment of a lifelong dream-but it's only part of her story. All I Ever Wanted traces the path that took her from her childhood in Texas-where she all but raised herself-to the height of rock n' roll stardom, devastation after the collapse of the band that had come to define her, and the quest to regain her sense of self after its end. Valentine also speaks candidly about the lasting effects of parental betrayal, abortion, rape, and her struggles with drugs and alcohol-and the music that saved her every step of the way. Populated with vivid portraits of Valentine's interactions during the 1980s with musicians and actors from the Police and Rod Stewart to John Belushi and Rob Lowe, All I Ever Wanted is a deeply personal reflection on a life spent in music.

Called to be Amish My Journey from Head Majorette to Old Order (Paperback, 2015th ed.): Marlene C Miller Called to be Amish My Journey from Head Majorette to Old Order (Paperback, 2015th ed.)
Marlene C Miller
R421 R355 Discovery Miles 3 550 Save R66 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Queen of Denver - Louise Sneed Hill and the Emergence of Modern High Society (Paperback): Shelby Carr The Queen of Denver - Louise Sneed Hill and the Emergence of Modern High Society (Paperback)
Shelby Carr; Foreword by Thomas J Dr Colorado Noel
R591 R490 Discovery Miles 4 900 Save R101 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Knowing Mandela - A Personal Portrait (Paperback): John Carlin Knowing Mandela - A Personal Portrait (Paperback)
John Carlin
R381 R310 Discovery Miles 3 100 Save R71 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Equal parts freedom fighter and statesman, Nelson Mandela bestrode the world stage for the past three decades, building a legacy that places him in the pantheon of history's most exemplary leaders.

As a foreign correspondent based in South Africa, author John Carlin had unique access to Mandela during the post-apartheid years when Mandela faced his most daunting obstacles and achieved his greatest triumphs. Carlin witnessed history as Mandela was released from prison after twenty-seven years and ultimately ascended to the presidency of his strife-torn country.

Drawing on exclusive conversations with Mandela and countless interviews with people who were close to him, Carlin has crafted an account of a man who was neither saint nor superman. Mandela's seismic political victories were won at the cost of much personal unhappiness and disappointment.

Knowing Mandela offers an intimate understanding of one of the most towering and remarkable figures of our age.

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