Ray Zahab was once a pack-a-day smoker, but through dedication & persistence, he managed to achieve a level of fitness that allowed him to run in some of the world's toughest tests of endurance, including the crossing of the entire Sahara Desert on foot. This autobiography follows Zahab's travels down the roads to destruction & redemption. ...

A premier resource that is dedicated to running mechanics & injury prevention. Referencing over 250 peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts, it is a comprehensive review of the most recent research & clinical concepts related to gait & injury analysis. ...

At the age of sixty, & having lived with Parkinson’s disease for over ten years, Guy Deacon CBE set out on one last adventure: to drive solo from his home in the UK 18, 000 miles & through twenty-five countries to Cape Town on the southern tip of Africa. This incredible journey, across Europe & down the full length of Africa, took the former British Army officer over twelve months. Along the way, he broke down five times, underwent one emergency evacuation, & took 3, 650 prescription pills. There are only a handful of vehicles each year which attempt this difficult journey; many never complete it. Ongoing conflicts in Libya, South Sudan, Mozambique & many other countries make any journey exceptionally dangerous. In central Africa, road conditions, particularly in the rainy season, often make the going treacherous. Further hazards include illegal checkpoints, extortion, contaminated fuel & a lack of services. Guy drove, lived & slept in his VW Transporter, often in remote... ...

Beginning in summer with clouds of breeding seabirds in Shetland & ending with crepuscular nightjars like giant moths in the heart of Engl&, this title maps the author's own observations & encounters over the years of tracking birds across the globe. It tells of near-global birds like sparrows, starlings & ravens, & exotic species. ...

Beginning in summer with clouds of breeding seabirds in Shetland & ending with nightjars like giant moths in the heart of Engl&, the author maps his encounters with birds. He covers birds like sparrows, starlings & ravens, & exotic species like electrically coloured hummingbirds in California & bee-eaters in Africa. ...

In 1995, a film called I.D., about an ambitious young copper who was sent undercover to track down the ‘generals’ of a football hooligan gang, achieved cult status for its sheer brutality & unsettling insight into the dark & often bloody side of the so-called beautiful game.

The film was so shocking it was hard to believe the mindless events that took place could ever happen in the real world. Well, believe it now...

Almost twenty years on, the man behind the film has explosively revealed that the script was largely a true story.

That man, James Bannon, was the ambitious undercover cop. The football club was Millwall F.C. & the gang that he infiltrated was The Bushwackers, among the most brutal & fearless in English football.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9780091951528
• Author: James Bannon
• Publisher: Ebury Press
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 326
• Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2cm













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After years of watching Kenyan athletes win the world's biggest long-distance races, Runner's World contributor Adharanand Finn set out to discover what it was that made them so fast
- & to see if he could keep up. Packing up his family, he moved to Iten, Kenya, the running capital of the world, & started investigating. Was it running barefoot to school, the food, the altitude, or something else? At the end of his journey he put his research to the test by running his first marathon, across the Kenyan plains.
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When Jonny Bealby's fiancee died of a mysterious virus, he decided to try & exorcise his demons by going on an adventure, & in ' Running with the Moon' he describes how he travelled alone from the top of Africa to the bottom, & back again, on a motorbike. ...

Running is one of the most popular activities worldwide, & provides an incredible feeling of achievement as well as offering an enjoyable & accessible way to get fit. This is a guide for beginners, with easy-to-follow advice & guidance on getting started, staying motivated, & improving your performance. ...

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On leaving school a sixteen-year-old boy goes to live with his uncle on a remote Welsh hill-farm. His aunt

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