The Captain's Extraordinary Account of How One of the World's Worst Air Disasters Was Averted
Author: Richard De Crespigny
In 2010, what began as a routine long-haul flight from Singapore to Sydney came within a knife-edge of becoming one of the world's worst ever air disaster. When a sudden mid-air explosion shattered engine no. 2 of the Qa ... |
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Stories from a Life Afloat
Author: Lindsay Wright
A salt-encrusted anthology of a writer in love with the sea, in the manner of Tessa Duder's bestselling sailing collections. The ideal gift for the sailor in the family, this book contains a selection of stories, and a ... |
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One Child's Desperate Fight for Survival
Author: Judy Westwater
John Peel first brought Judy's moving childhood story to light on 'Home Truths'. Abducted by her psychotic spiritualist father and kept like a dog in the backyard, she went on to suffer at the brutal hands of nuns in a M ... |
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Surviving 1,967 Days in the Colombian Jungle
Author: Marc Gonsalves & Tom Howes
On February 13, 2003, a plane carrying three American military contractors - Marc Gonsalves, Tom Howes, and Keith Stansell - crashed in the mountainous jungle of Colombia. Dazed and shaken, they awoke covered in blood wi ... |
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Author: Stutz & Scanlon
In December 2008, two abandoned pack horses, a young mare named Belle and an older gelding called Sundance, are spotted by snowmobilers in the remote mountains of the Canadian Rockies. Starving and exhausted, they've tra ... |
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Inside the Beaconsfield Mine Disaster
Author: Tony Wright, Todd Russell & Brant Webb
Bad Ground is the exclusive, authorised story of the 14-day entombment and rescue of Beaconsfield miners Brant Webb and Todd Russell and the fascinating aftermath. The blast and rock fall which occurred one kilometre und ... |
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Remembering the Long, Wet Summer of 2010-2011
Author: Matthew Condon
Fear, faith and hope are just three of the emotions felt by the people of Queensland during the long, wet summer of 2010-2011. The floods and cyclones of that wet season produced a natural disaster which will continue to ... |
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Toowoomba and the Lockyer Valley, 10 January 2011
Author: Amanda Gearing
Of all the extraordinary stories to emerge from the catastrophic Queensland floods of January 2011, the most starkly tragic and dramatic were those that came out of Toowoomba and the Lockyer Valley. An 'inland tsunami' h ... |
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The Terrifying True Story of a British Girl Forced into the Sex Trade
Author: Sophie Hayes
He'd been her friend for years. He said he loved her. Then she realised she didn't know him at all...When everything seemed to be falling apart in Sophie's life, she was thankful for her friend Kas, who was always at the ... |
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Lauren Huxley and Her Family - from Tragedy to Triumph
Author: Lisa Davies
It was a shocking crime that made headlines around Australia. An innocent young woman, violently attacked in her family home by a total stranger and left to die. Beaten repeatedly and soaked with petrol as her home burne ... |
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Amazing Stories of Survival Against the Odds
Author: Rob Mundle
Hell on High Seas chronicles some of the most remarkable stories of survival and daring that the world's oceans have hosted over the past half century. Bizarre, unbelievable accounts of people who went missing and were g ... |
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Author: Henri Charriere
An immediate sensation upon its publication in 1969, Papillon is a vivid memoir of brutal penal colonies, daring prison breaks and heroic adventure on shark-infested seas. Condemned for a murder he did not commit, Henri ... |
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Twenty-One Pioneering Women Whose Stories Changed History
Author: Susanna De Vries
Providing inspiration for today's women, in this book of profiles Susanna de Vries examines what it takes to be a truly heroic Australian. Women of grit and courage, women of integrity, resilience and resourcefulness, th ... |
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Author: Bill Marsh
"Where's your thumb?" the doctor asked the injured ringer. "Oh, we stuck it over there on the gatepost, fer safe keepin'." And just as the doctor turned around to the gatepost, he saw a crow heading skyward, thumb and al ... |
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1875 - A True Tale of Shipwreck and Survival in the Southern Seas
Author: Sylvie Haisman
The Scottish clipper Strathmore sailed from London in 1875, laden with gunpowder, iron and immigrants. Wrecked at night in furious seas, half her passengers struggled ashore to the bare, inhospitable rocks of the remote ... |
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Author: Conn Iggulden & David Iggulden
From the co-author of the bestselling 'The Dangerous Book for Boys', this is a book of heroes, new and old, known and sadly forgotten, now to be glorified as they ought to be. From Captain Scott to Joe Simpson, from Doug ... |
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A Nightmare Come True. A Mother's Courage. A Desperate Fight for Justice.
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Author: Ann Ming
In this incredible and moving memoir, a mother tells of her fight for justice to convict her daughter's murderer for a crime that he thought could never be punished. When her 22-year-old daughter, Julie, went missing in ... |
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Author: Frank Pope
August 5th 2005. On a secret mission to an underwater military installation thirty miles off the coast of Kamchatka, Russian Navy submersible AS-28 ran into a web of cables and stuck fast. With 600 feet of freezing water ... |
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Author: Jonathan Franklin
The epic inside story of how 33 men survived the worst mine disaster in history. On 12 October 2010 the world’s attention was fixed on a remote copper mine in the Atacama desert in Chile. Final preparations were ... |
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