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Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 1989. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. A near Fine uninscribed copy which has the top right corner of the front endpaper neatly clipped. Dustjacket is complete with some chipping to top. In March 1984 Jerry Levin, bureau chief for CNN, was kidnapped in Beirut but no one knew who did it or why. His wife Sis, at first waiting for quiet diplomacy as advised by the State Department, then realised after the Iran-Contra affair that the US government's idea of quiet diplomacy was neither diplomatic nor effective. In the following months, as more Americans were kidnapped, she would travel to Syria and talk about peace, reconciliation and her concern for the children of the war. Her life tuned into a spy novel with strange meetings with Jesse Jackson, Syria's Foreign Minister, Lebanon's Shiite army leader and many more. 13. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Beirut Diary - A Husband Held Hostage and a Wife Determined to Set Him Free
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Crowning The Dragon - Adventures in the Chinese Karakoram
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London: Grafton Books, 1989. Silver title on blue boards which are clean and has very light bumping to lower edge. Internally very clean, uninscribed and unmarked. A Very Good + copy. Dustjacket has light creasing to top and is complete VG+. The author Major Hugh McManners' account of joining an Army expedition to climb the world's third highest unclimbed peak. In 1982 he returned from active duty in the Falklands, subsequently suffering from depression and decided to join the ten man team led by Captain Henry Morgan to climb the 7,500 metre crown in August 1987. He was appointed 'official' cameraman and joined the group in Hong Kong, getting to know his colleagues on the long journey through China, struggling with bureaucracy and a long trek by foot and camel. They failed to reach the summit by a whisker but he learnt a great deal about himself. 61 coloured photographs and 4 maps. *** NOT EX LIB *** C3D. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾"…
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Dancing In The Sea - Once The Hijack Was Over
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Edinburgh: Mainstream, 2004. A Fine uninscribed copy with near Fine complete dustjacket. The moving account of the author's experience in 1986 when she and her Italian boyfriend were hijacked by PLO terrorists on a Pan Am flight from Bombay to Germany when it stopped in Pakistan, enduring 17 hours of terror. The terrorists were convinced that Pakistani troops were about to storm the plane and forces as many as possible into the aisle to massacre them and in the slaughter that followed 21 people were dead and over 100 injured. Catherine was near fatally wounded, her left buttock blown off by a grenade and in spite of his own injuries, her boyfriend Picci saved her life by dragging her, bleeding heavily, from the plane. Over the years that followed she endured over 20 operations to heal her mutilated body and also began two major lawsuits, one against Pan Am and the other for medical negligence. She had to call on every resource she had, physical, psychological, emotional and financial as she…
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End of the Spear
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Illinois: Salt River, 2005. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine non priceclipped dustjacket. The author was only five years old when his father was brutally killed by Waodani warriors in Ecuador, men from the most savage culture ever known, but in a story almost too amazing to be true, Steve Saint eventually comes to know and even love the very ones who drove the spears into his father's body. Decades after the spearing, Steve and his family make the difficult choice to leave behind a comfortable life in the United States and return to the jungle to live among the Waodani people. An adventure story that is part Indiana Jones, part time travel, part romance, and part spiritual quest, and also the inspiration for a motion picture. 26 illustrations. 15. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Toronto: Penguin Viking, 2002. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine complete dustjacket. In January 1999 the author, West Africa Bureau Chief for Associated Press, was ambushed on the streets of Sierra Leone's besieged capital of Freetown, shot in the head by armed rebels, he survived against all odds. A fascinating in depth look at the extraordinary day to day life of a war correspondent which offers a disturbing portrait of the often surreal world that war reporters inhabit, as they bear witness to violence and give voice to the unspeakable. C3A. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Ghost Girl - A True Story
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London: Macmillan, 1992. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which has one small crease to one inner flap. A true story of a young girl, Jadie, who is so wounded by events in her life that she believes that she is a ghost. An elective mute, her body is so contorted as to make her appear crippled and when her new teacher, the author, who specialises in disturbed children, persuades her to speak, Jadie explains that her posture is to 'keep my insides from falling out'. The child's preoccupation with strange cultish symbols and perverted sexual acts points to an interpretation that the author's colleagues are unable to accept and are the vividly described episodes the bleak truth or the tortured imaginings of a seriously disturbed child. A gripping account of the problems of dealing with suspected child abuse and a psychological horror story. B2C. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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The Heart Must Break - The Fight for Democracy and Truth in Burma
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London: Century, 2001. A Fine copy with a Fine complete dustjacket. Map endpapers and 38 photographs. The author's very harrowing tale of being imprisoned in Insein prison just 10 hours after entering Burma and distributing pro-democracy leaflets, receiving a 17 year sentence. It was the third time he had been detained and he used his time in prison to challenge and defy the ruling regime, suffering torture, hunger strikes and over a year in solitary. A very compelling account of his four years in and out of Burma and his witnessing of the genocidal persecution of it's people as publicised in the West by Aung San Suu Kyi. A1E. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Lashed But Not Beaten
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Surrey: Morning Mist Publications, 1995. A clean and unmarked copy VG+ with complete dustjacket which has some light creasing. The true account of a British expatriate working in Qatar who tried to sell his car and found himself to be part of an elaborate set up and accused of selling alcohol illegally. He was tried by an Islamic Sharia Court and despite lack of evidence and protestations from Amnesty International and the European Union was sentenced to six months imprisonment and fifty lashes of the cane. 14 photographic illustrations and map endpapers. A1E. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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The Master Book of Spies - The World of Espionage, Master Spies, Tortures, Interrogations, Spy Equipment, Escapes, Codes and How You Can Become a Spy
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London: Hodder- Causton, 1973. A Very Good+ unmarked copy with complete dustjacket. A whole inside history of spying and how each nation tackles it, together with how one becomes a spy, what spying is like and how it all works. The author, whilst limiting what he can confess to, does note that in 1942 he made an unauthorised entry into the Kasbah of Algiers to work out a detailed street map of the enemy infested area, and for whom? None other than Ian Fleming, at that time Deputy Director of British Naval Intelligence. Illustrated with photographs, contemporary illustrations, in colour sepia and black and white. 16. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Mind Over Matter - The Epic Crossing of the Antarctic Continent
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London: Sinclair Stevenson, 1993. A near Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is price-clipped. 326 pages. 12 maps and diagrams and 32 photographs. Map endpapers. On November 1992 Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Dr. Michael Stroud set out from the Filchner Ice Shelf to attempt the first unassisted crossing of the Antarctic continent. It was to be a journey of epic proportions, and one that was to capture the imagination of the entire world. For 97 days the two men fought pain, starvation and snowblindness, dragging 500-pound sledges across the frozen roof of the world. They plunged into cavernous crevasses, struggled through bitter blizzards, and raced against the onset of ferocious winter. 15. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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My Favourite Escape Stories
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London: Lutterworth Press, 1975. A Very Good copy with foxing to closed edges with a dustjacket which is price clipped. 17 escape stories ranging in setting from the Tower of London in the 16th century to a Shanghai gaol in World War II, from a Barbados slave planatation to the swamps and forests of the Finnish border. American officers tunneling out of a civil war prison, British officers struggling over the Taurus mountains during World War I, a German pilot bluffing his way on to an English airfield and many more. *** NOT EX LIB *** 11. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by John Lea. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Our Story - 77 Hours Underground
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London: Ebury Press, 2003. First UK Edition, First Printing. A Fine uninscribed copy with Fine complete dustjacket. The story of the nine Pennsylvania coal miners trapped two miles below ground for 77 hours and told by them in a dramatic first person account of their actions and emotions. A moving and harrowing story of their ordeal as each faced the prospect of death by drowning and the belief that they would not see their loved ones again, then the joy of rescue and emotion. A1C. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Pavement for My Pillow
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London: Orion, 1997. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from age darkening to page edges) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. x + 197 pages. Introduction by Robin Waterfield. Interspersed with joyful diary notes about her present life - studying for her MA, walking her dogs and living on her boat and then back in All Saints' Convent in Oxford - this is the remarkable story of a woman who has succeeded in transforming herself from pitiful baglady to scholar and writer. Chris Kitch was born illegitimate and brought up in the rough streets of Bradford. Her step-father did not want her, all three of her children were taken into care soon after each was born. In and out of prison with no home, she existed in a twilight world of drugs and alcohol, prostitution and homelessness. Chris survived but her beloved friend Jean didn't, dying of drug abuse. With the pavement her pillow, Piccadilly toilets her 'home' and narcotics her only friend, she dragged herself out of the…
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Skeletons on The Zahara - A True Story of Survival
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London: William Heinemann, 2004. A Fine unmarked copy with a Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped.. First Edition, First Printing. 353 pages. Map endpapers. Illustrations and maps in the text. On 28 August 1815 the US brig Commerce was dashed against the rocks of Cape Bojador off the Western coast of the Sahara.and lost, although through bravery and quick thinking the ship's captain, James Riley, managed to lead all of his crew to safety. Or at least to safety from the immediate threat of death by drowning. What followed was an extraordinary and desperate battle for survival in the face of human hostility, hunger, dehydration and despair, as the crew were captured, robbed and enspaved. Sometimes together, more often apart, the sailors were dragged or driven through the desert by their new owners, who neither spoke their language nor cared for their plight - except insofar as they represented a financial investment in their own fantastically impoverished circumstances. An unforgettable…
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Spy vs. Spy - Stalking Soviet Spies in America
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Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1988. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First UK edition. This is the first book to examine closely the spy swaps, based on exclusive interviews with former American spies and counter intelligence agents as well as with Karl Koecher who was traded for Scharansky in 1986. Koecher was a KGB agent who, following his phony defection in 1965, had infiltrated the CIA and was the main discloser of American state secrets. 11. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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The Survival of Jan Little
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London: Viking, 1986. A Very Good + unmarked copy with price clipped dustjacket. Jan Little survived in the depths of the Amazon jungle for months after her family had died in mysterious circumstances, she was utterly alone and BLIND. Her story begins in the Mexican town of San Cristobal,where she meets Harry Little and is overwhelmed by his compelling personality. Jan, partially sighted, has a 3 year old daughter, Rebecca and with her they follow Harry into the jungle and 12 years later, with Jan now totally blind and dependent on her patriarchal husband, they move to uncharted rainforest in northern Brazil. Tragedy strikes in 1979 when all three contract a mysterious disease and during a violent storm her life disintegrates, in an extraordinary effort of will she fights to survive in her world of darkness. 11 photographs and 3 illustrations. **** NOT EX LIB **** **** NOT BOOK CLUB **** A1E. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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The Trouser People - A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire
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Washington: Counterpoint, 2002. An As New copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price-clipped. First Edition, First Printing. xii + 308 pages. Part travelogue, part history, part reportage this is a vivid account of Sir George Scott, the unsung Victorian adventurer, who hacked, bullied. and charmed his way through uncharted jungle to help establish Brotish colonial rule in Burma. Scott was a die-hard imperialist with a fondness for gargantuan pith helmets and a bluffness of expression that bordered on the Pythonesque. He was also a writer and photographer who spent a lifetime documenting the tribes who lived in Burma's vast wilderness, like the Padaung 'giraffe women' and the headhunting Wild Wa, who claimed, curiously, to be descended from tadpoles. . First. Hard Cover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Ugly Americans - The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions
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New York: William Morrow, 2004. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine complete dustjacket. The true story of John Malcolm, a hungry Princeton graduate who travelled half way round the world in search of the American dream and ultimately pulled off a trade that could be described as the biggest deal in the history of the financial markets. After receiving a mysterious phone call he packed up his few belongings and went to Japan and with barely a penny in his pocket and without speaking a word of Japanese, was thrown into the bizarre, adrenaline fuelled world of the expat trader, quickly learning to survive in a cutthroat world. Malcolm was first an assistant trading huge positions for Nick Leeson, the 26 year old rogue trader who lost nearly 2 billion Dollars which brought down Barings Bank, then he was right hand man to Dean Carney, a brilliant hedge fund cowboy who grew into the biggest derivatives trader in all of Asia. Along the way Malcolm fell in love with the daughter of…
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Walking On Thin Ice - In Pursuit of the North Pole
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London: Orion / Daily Telegraph, 1998. A Fine unmarked copy with near fine complete dustjacket which is not price clipped. In March 1998 the author set off on a 600 mile journey which would take him into the record books as one of the most successful all rounf adventurers. Facing wind-chill down to minus 90 centigrade, he man hauled his sledge to the North Pole across the constantly shifting ice of the frozen Arctic Ocean. This completed the explorer's Grand Slam, a challenge which saw him conquer the North and South Magnetic Poles, become the first person to walk solo and unsupported to the South Pole, scale the highest mountain in each of the seven continents, including Everest. Illustrated with colour photographs. B2D. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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The Wide World - True Adventures for Men
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London: Macmillan, 2004. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine complete dustjacket. A marvellous collection of stories from 'The Wide World' magazine, which ran from the late 19th century to the 1960's, each issue being filled with amazing but true tales of survival, catastrophe and derring-do gathererd from around the world. A thrilling testament to an age when men kept their upper lips stiff and truth was more dangerous than fiction. Coloured illustrated endpapers of past magazine covers and illustrated with the original drawings from the magazine, together with original advertisements. 16. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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