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Hinterland 2019 - Spring (Paperback): Andrew Kenrick, Freya Dean Hinterland 2019 - Spring (Paperback)
Andrew Kenrick, Freya Dean; Rebecca Stott, Ian Thomson; Interview of Damian Le Bas; …
R359 R281 Discovery Miles 2 810 Save R78 (22%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
At the Coalface - The Memoir of a Pit Nurse (Paperback): Joan Hart At the Coalface - The Memoir of a Pit Nurse (Paperback)
Joan Hart; As told to Veronica Clark 1
R472 Discovery Miles 4 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A heart-warming story of a woman who devoted her life to helping others. This is the memoir of Joan, who started nursing in the 1940s and whose experiences took her into the Yorkshire mining pits and through the tumult of the 1984-85 miners' strike. Joan Hart always knew what she wanted to do with her life. Born in South Yorkshire in 1932, she started her nursing training when she was 16, the youngest age girls could do so at the time. She continued working after she married and her work took her to London and Doncaster, caring for children and miners. When she took a job as a pit nurse in Doncaster in 1974, she found that in order to be accepted by the men under her care, she would have to become one of them. Most of the time rejecting a traditional nurse's uniform and donning a baggy miner's suit, pit boots, a hardhat and a headlamp, Joan resolved always to go down to injured miners and bring them out of the pit herself. Over 15 years Joan grew to know the miners not only as a nurse, but as a confidante and friend. She tended to injured miners underground, rescued men trapped in the pits, and provided support for them and their families during the bitter miners' strike which stretched from March 1984 to 1985. Moving and uplifting, this is a story of one woman's life, marriage and work; it is guaranteed to make readers laugh, cry, and smile.

Lockington Crash at the Crossing (Paperback): Richard M. Jones Lockington Crash at the Crossing (Paperback)
Richard M. Jones
R323 Discovery Miles 3 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

On 26th July 1986 a train derailed after striking a van at an open level crossing in a remote East Yorkshire village. The resulting carnage killed nine people, injured 42 and left dozens of survivors and families reeling from the shock for the rest of their lives. Now for the first time the full story of that tragedy can be told by the people who were there. The horror of the survivors, the bravery of the rescuers and the heartache for the people left behind. From one disaster came a campaign to have open crossings banned and to make sure a disaster like Lockington will never happen again. Richard M Jones is a researcher who has made it his life's ambition to record forgotten disasters and events lost to history. His achievements include writing the first book about the Great Gale of 1871 and placing a memorial for the Lockington victims. A serving member of the Royal Navy, he lives in Bridlington.

The Devil's Teeth - The True Story of Great White Sharks (Paperback): Susan Casey The Devil's Teeth - The True Story of Great White Sharks (Paperback)
Susan Casey 1
R479 R432 Discovery Miles 4 320 Save R47 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

A New York Times Bestseller. Great white sharks are enigmas. They ruled the oceans long before dinosaurs inhabited the earth, yet we know surprisingly little about them. Scientists speculate they can live for 60 years and grow to a massive 20 feet long. They heal miraculously from severe injuries and can sense a heartbeat from miles away. There is one place on earth where it is possible to study great whites in the wild: a spooky outcrop of jagged rocks off the coast of San Francisco. This godforsaken island is home to a handful of shark-obsessed scientists, ready to endanger their lives just to get close. This is a riveting adventure about great white sharks and the power they have over us.

Compass - A Story of Exploration and Innovation (Paperback, Revised): Alan Gurney Compass - A Story of Exploration and Innovation (Paperback, Revised)
Alan Gurney
R589 Discovery Miles 5 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Compass" chronicles the misadventures of those who attempted to perfect the magnetic compass so precious to sixteenth-century seamen that, by law, any man found tampering with it had his hand pinned to the mast with a dagger. From the time man first took to the seas until only one thousand years ago, sight and winds were the sailor's only navigational aids. It was not until the development of the compass that maps and charts could be used with any accuracy even so, it would be hundreds of years and thousands of shipwrecks before the marvelous instrument was perfected. And its history up to modern times is filled with the stories of disasters that befell sailors who misused it. In this page-turning history of man's search for reliable navigation of treacherous sea routes around the globe, Alan Gurney brings to life the instrument Victor Hugo called "the soul of the ship."

Wie die Bilder ins Museum kamen - Biografien von Kunstwerken aus dem Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Koeln (German, Paperback):... Wie die Bilder ins Museum kamen - Biografien von Kunstwerken aus dem Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Koeln (German, Paperback)
Rainer Pabst
R536 R386 Discovery Miles 3 860 Save R150 (28%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Pictures often tell stories. But pictures also have a story themselves when they have passed through many hands on their way into a museum. The author, who supports his views with the results of relevant provenance research, goes on a search for traces of these descriptions of the lives of artworks from the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne: the city of Cologne thus had to litigate against the daughter of Hermann Goering for nineteen years in connection with a painting by Cranach; a high price had to be paid for the acquisition of another painting because it was not wanted as a gift; and a courageous museum director made his acquisitions of art despite great resistance. In this book for all museum visitors and readers who would like to learn more about the exhibits, the stories behind the pictures come to life.

Stories of the Great Turning (Paperback): Peter Reason, Melanie Newman Stories of the Great Turning (Paperback)
Peter Reason, Melanie Newman; Foreword by Joanna Macy
R664 Discovery Miles 6 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book tells stories of how ordinary people in their everyday lives have responded to the challenges of living more sustainably. In these difficult times, we need stories that engage, enchant and inspire. Most of all, we need stories of practical changes, of community action, of changing hearts and minds. This is a book that takes the question, "What can I do?" and sets out to find some answers using one of our species' most vital skills: the ability to tell stories in which to spread knowledge, ideas, inspiration and hope. Read about the transformation of wasteland and the installation of water power, stories about reducing consumption and creating sustainable business, stories from people changing how they live their lives and the inner transformations this demands.

Last Flight out - True Tales of (Hardcover): Randy Wayne White Last Flight out - True Tales of (Hardcover)
Randy Wayne White
R552 R460 Discovery Miles 4 600 Save R92 (17%) Out of stock

Whether he's looking for wild orangutans on Borneo or diving off the coast of South Africa, Randy Wayne White is one of America's most adventurous travelers. Now Randy's back in Last Flight Out, a brand-new collection of essays keeping us up to date on his latest excursions.Randy White is a "mover" and has no time for people who can't keep up. Join him as he dives in the infamous lake called the Bad Blue Hole on the desolate Cat Island in the Bahamas. Search for the perfect hot pepper in Colombia, and closer to home, go raccoon hunting in Pioneer, Ohio, where the hunted almost always outsmart the hunters. Get in the ring with Shine Forbes, an eighty-year-old fighter in prime condition and Ernest Hemingway's former sparring partner, and go on a secret mission to steal back General Manuel Noriega's bar stools. Though he rarely finds what he's looking for - such as the half-human, half-alligator creature known as "Gatorman" - he cultivates his unique ability to revel in the unique and comical situations of each exotic trip.From a jungle survival school in Panama to a week at a professional wrestler's training camp, White leaves the reader mesmerized by the potential of undiscovered places and the promise of endless adventure in unfamiliar territory. An icon of the new breed of thick-skinned, high-endurance travelers, Randy White is the real deal. (6 x 9 /4, 266 pages)Randy Wayne White is a former fly-fishing guide. He wrote the "Out There" column for Outside magazine for many years, and is the author of The Sharks of Lake Nicaragua and Batfishing in the Rainforest. He is also the author of the popular "Doc Ford" mystery series. He is a monthly columnist for Men's Health.

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