HEMPLEMAN-ADAMS, DAVID WITH UHLIG, ROBERT

Walking on Thin Ice - in Pursuit of the North Pole

London, Orion / Daily Telegraph. 1998, First Edition. (ISBN: 0752817973). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 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. Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 005344

Catalogue: True Life / Adventure

Keywords: Explorers, Grand Slam, North Pole, South Pole, Everest, Mountaineers 0752817973

FIENNES, RANULPH

Mind over Matter - the Epic Crossing of the Antarctic Continent

London, Sinclair Stevenson. 1993. (ISBN: 0856193756). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 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. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 011258

Catalogue: True Life / Adventure

Keywords: Antarctic Crossing 0856193756

HAYDEN, TOREY

Ghost Girl - a True Story

London, Macmillan. 1992, First Edition. (ISBN: 0333567900). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 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. Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 002591

Catalogue: True Life / Adventure

Keywords: 0333567900

HILL, CATHERINE

Dancing in the Sea - Once the Hijack Was over

Edinburgh, Mainstream. 2004, First Edition. (ISBN: 1840188774). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 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 attempted to build her life. The title refers to an epiphany she had whilst on holiday in the Caribbean where she and her boyfriend danced together for the first time since the hijack. 22 photographs. 21. Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 003216

Catalogue: True Life / Adventure

Keywords: 1986 Pan Am Plane Hijack in Pakistan, Plo 1840188774