True Stories
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£16.95Always At Sea - - Paperback
Based on Mary Wardle's father's own account, this book recounts the exploits of William Donald, who went to sea as a boy in 1912 and stayed in the Merchant Navy for almost 50 years. -
£9.99And There Was Light: The Autobiography Of A Blind Hero In The French Resistance - - Paperback
This is the story of Jacques Lusseyran, a blind French resistance leader who was interned at Buchenwald. -
£9.99The Barnsley Whale: The True Story Of The World's First Inland Whale Hunt - - Hardback
The blue whale is the largest creature to have ever lived on this planet. Remember when one came to your town - on the back os a lorry? Steve Deput does, but why was it never recorded? Along with a handful of others, Deput set sails on the world's first inland whale hunt to uncover the truth. -
£15.95Beyond The Harbour Lights - - Paperback
This volume supplements a selection of contemporary newspaper articles, mainly from the 1920s and 1930s, with background information from other sources such as extracts from ships' log books. The stories are all firmly based on true events as reported and recorded at the time. -
£7.99Broke Through Britain: One Man's Penniless Odyssey - - Paperback
During the summer of 1998, Mortimer set off on the 500-mile journey from Plymouth to Edinburgh, accompanied by his dog Sam. Broke Through Britain is a record of both the physical and mental demands such an undertaking placed on Mortimer. -
£7.99A Bunch Of Sweet Peas - - Paperback
Based upon a true story, Henry Donald describes how a young parish minister wrote to the Daily Mail for entry forms for its competition to find the finest bunch of sweet peas in Britain in 1911. The top prize was £1000! Just two weeks before the deadline a drought threatened the whole country. -
£8.50By Yon Bonnie Banks, By Yon Bonnie Braes: A Tayside Childhood - - Paperback
Vera Milne writes about life and customs in the post war years in the Tayside area where she was born and bred. -
£9.99Chasing The Sixpence: The Lives Of Bradford Mill Folk - - Paperback
Covering the period from 1920 to the 1970s, this work includes true-life stories of men and women who made their living in the Bradford mills. -
£9.99Climb: Stories Of Survival From Rock, Snow And Ice - Paperback
From the rigours and risks of high-altitude climbing on Everest to the challenges of scaling El Captain's 3000 vertical feet, this volume examines the subject of mountaineering through the eyes of gifted writers with great stories to tell. -
£7.99A Dangerous Devotion - - Paperback
After escaping from the Germans for the second time during the war, Christopher Portway met and fell in love with the daughter of a Czech family who offered him protection. This is a story of adventure, frustrated love and determination as he spent years following the armistice trying to find and reach her beyond the Iron Curtain.
