High Adventure: The True Story of the First Ascent of Everest (Hillary Edmund)(Paperback)

High Adventure: The True Story of the First Ascent of Everest (Hillary Edmund)(Paperback)

Fear lives among Everest's mighty ice-fluted faces and howls across its razor-sharp crags. Gnawing at reason and enslaving minds, it has killed many and defeated countless others. But in 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay stared into its dark eye and did not waver. On May 29, they pushedspent

Everest: The Remarkable Story of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay (Stewart Alexandra)(Pevná vazba)

View from the Summit: The Remarkable Memoir by the First Person to Conquer Everest (Hillary Edmund)(Paperback)

THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE STORY OF AN ORDINARY MAN WHO BECAME THE CENTURY'S MOST IMPORTANT EXPLORER Adventurers the world over have been inspired by the achievements of Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man ever to set foot on the summit of Mount Everest. In this candid, wry, and vastly entertaining

View From The Summit (Hillary Sir Edmund)(Paperback / softback)

The first man to set foot on the summit of Everest, the man who led a team of tractors to the South Pole, the man who jetboated up the Ganges from the ocean to the sky has, for the first time, gathered all the remarkable adventures of a long life into one

Everest - The First Ascent - The untold story of Griffith Pugh, the man who made it possible (Tuckey Harriet)(Paperback / softback)

A doctor and physiologist, Griffith Pugh revolutionised almost every aspect of British high-altitude mountaineering, transforming the climbers' attitude to oxygen, the clothes they wore, their equipment, fluid intake and acclimatisation. Yet, far from receiving the acclaim he was due, he was met

Everest 1953 - The Epic Story of the First Ascent (Conefrey Mick)(Paperback / softback)

Discover one of Britain's greatest triumphs, drawing on never-before-seen diaries and exclusive

Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage - The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer (Padua Sydney)(Paperback / softback)

White Spider (Harrer Heinrich)(Paperback / softback)

A classic of mountaineering literature, this is the story of the harrowing first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger, the most legendary and terrifying climb in

Hold On Edna! - The heartwarming true story of the first baby born on the NHS (Thomas Aneira)(Paperback / softback)

THE TRUE STORY OF THE FIRST NHS BABY Hold On, Edna is a nostalgic tale of community spirit, hardship and family ties, culminating in the greatest change to ordinary working families in modern history. The birth of the National Health Service - the UK's greatest asset - coincided with the birth of

Moth and the Mountain - A True Story of Love, War and Everest (Caesar Ed)(Paperback / softback)

Coast to Coast (Morris Jan)(Paperback / softback)

Fresh from her successful scoop reporting the first ascent of Everest in 1953, Jan Morris spent a year journeying across the United States, by car, train, ship and

Ogre - Biography of a mountain and the dramatic story of the first ascent (Scott Doug CBE)(Paperback / softback)

'One of the greatest mountaineering survival stories never told.' - The Sunday TimesSome mountains are high; some mountains are hard. Few are both.On the afternoon of 13 July 1977, having become the first climbers to reach the summit of the Ogre, Doug Scott and Chris Bonington began their long

Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective - Secrets and Lies in the Golden Age of Crime (Stapleton Susannah)(Paperback / softback)

The enthralling true story of the curious life and career of Maud West, one of Britain's first and best-known female

Everest Files - A thrilling journey to the dark side of Everest (Dickinson Matt)(Paperback / softback)

The Everest Files a thrilling journey to the dark side of Everest.In the deepest Himalaya a story is spreading like wildfire. The story of an Everest expedition unlike any other.An expedition that ended with mysterious disappearances ... and death.This is the mystery that eighteen-year-old Ryan

The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women in Space - Loren Grush

The remarkable true story of America's first women astronauts - six extraordinary women, each making history going to orbit aboard NASA's Space Shuttle. When NASA sent astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s the agency excluded women from the corps, arguing that only military test pilots - a

Geisha of Gion - The True Story of Japan's Foremost Geisha (Iwasaki Mineko)(Paperback / softback)

Bestselling novels about geisha life abound - but this is the first true story by a leading

El Chino (Say Allen)(Paperback)

A true story of Billy Wong, the first Chinese

Ben Franklin's Big Splash: The Mostly True Story of His First Invention (Rosenstock Barb)(Paperback)

Here is the story of Ben Franklin's first invention, his journey through the scientific method, and the surprising successes that result when you're willing to make mistakes. Every inventor has to start somewhere, and one of the greatest innovators in our history was no exception. Ben Franklin

Mud, Blood and Poppycock: Britain and the Great War (Corrigan Gordon)(Paperback)

The true story of how Britain won the First World War. The popular view of the First World War remains that of BLACKADDER: incompetent generals sending brave soldiers to their deaths. Alan Clark quoted a German general's remark that the British soldiers were 'lions led by donkeys'. But he made it

Proud: My Autobiography (Thomas Gareth)(Paperback)

The inspiring true story of one of the first professional athletes to come out while still playing Gareth Thomas had it all. He was a national hero and a sports icon. He was a leader of men, the captain of Wales and the British Lions. To him, rugby was an expression of cultural identity, a sacred

On the Edge of Nowhere (Huntington James)(Paperback)

For sheer excitement and adventure, few novels match the true-life story of James Huntington. The son of a white trapper and Indian mother, Huntington learned early to fight for survival in Alaska's remote Kuskokwim region, where life was hard. Huntington's mother once walked 1,000 miles in the

Sprouting Wings: The True Story of James Herman Banning, the First African American Pilot to Fly Across the United States (Jaggar Louisa)(Pevná vazba)

The inspirational and true story of James Herman Banning, the first African American pilot to fly across the country, comes to life in this picture book biography perfect for fans of Hidden Figures and Little Leaders. Includes art from a Coretta Scott King award-winning illustrator. James Herman

Hunter's Icy Adventure - A True Story About The Global Problem Of Climate Change (Jackson Ellie)(Paperback / softback)

The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling: A Hardcore, High-Flying, No-Holds-Barred History of the One True Sport (Sitterson Aubrey)(Paperback)