Six people lost their lives in the plane crash. Four men found theirs. On a wintry October night in 1984 a Piper Navajo commuter plane bound for remote communities in northern Canada set off into thick cloud & freezing rain. One hour later the plane smashed headlong into a high ridge of rugged forest. Of the ten people on board only four
- strangers from wildly different backgrounds
- survived the crash: Erik the young pilot who had never wanted to fly in such bad weather in the first place. Larry a respected politician & family man. Scott a rookie cop who against regulations had unshackled the prisoner he was escorting to face charges. & Paul: a criminal & the only one to escape the crash uninjured. The only one capable of keeping the other three alive
- should he choose to. Into the Abyss is an incredible story of tragedy & hope; of four lives changed for ever by the fierce crucible of a deadly night in the wilderness & by the events that followed.


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Still unsolved still baffling still claiming new victims
- Here are the untold stories. A pilot reports a strange haze enveloping
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Harry Barnett is a middle-aged failure. Leading a shabby existence in the shadow of a past disgrace he is reduced to caretaking a friends villa on the island of Rhodes & working in a bar to earn his keep. Then a guest at the villa
- a young woman he had instantly & innocently warmed to
- disappears on a mountain peak. Under suspicion of her murder Harry stumbles on a set of photographs taken in the weeks before her disappearance. Obsessed by the mystery that has changed his life & determined to clear his name he begins to trace back the movements & encounters that led to the moment when she vanished into the blue. The trail leads him back to England to a world he thought he had left for ever
- & a past he has tried desperately to forget.


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Catherine has been enjoying the single life for long enough to know a good catch when she sees one. Gorgeous charismatic spontaneous
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As lovely as one of the precious gems at her parents' jewellery store Amber Taylor is shy & introspective
- qualities misread by
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' The price of life is death'. For Mallory as for all of his generation death was but 'a frail barrier that men crossed smiling & gallant every day'. As climbers they accepted a degree of risk unimaginable before the war. What mattered now was how one lived & the moments of being alive. While the quest for Mount Everest may have begun as a grand imperial gesture it ended as a mission of revival for a country & a lost generation bled white by war. In a monumental work of history & adventure Davis asks not whether George Mallory was the first to reach the summit of Everest but rather why he kept climbing on that fateful day. ...

If the quest for Mount Everest began as a grand imperial gesture as redemption for an empire of explorers that had lost the race to the Poles it ended as a mission of regeneration for a country & a people bled white by war. Of the twenty-six British climbers who on three expeditions (1921-24) walked 400 miles off the map to find & assault the highest mountain on Earth twenty had seen the worst of the fighting. Six had been severely wounded two others nearly killed by disease at the Front one hospitalized twice with shell shock. Three as army surgeons dealt for the duration with the agonies of the dying. Two lost brothers killed in action. All had endured the slaughter the coughing of the guns the bones & barbed wire the white faces of the dead. In a monumental work of history & adventure ten years in the writing Wade Davis asks not whether George Mallory was the first to reach the summit of Everest but rather why he kept on climbing on that fateful day. His answer lies in a single phrase uttered by one of the survivors as they retreated from the mountain: The price of life is death. Mallory walked on because for him as for all of his generation death was but a frail barrier that men crossed smiling & gallant every day. As climbers they accepted a degree of risk unimaginable before the war. They were not cavalier but death was no stranger. They had seen so much that it had no hold on them. What mattered was how one lived the moments of being alive. For all of them Everest had become an exalted radiance a sentinel in the sky a symbol of hope in a world gone mad. ...

Paul Broks draws on his long experience as a neuropsychologist to create a unique mosaic of neurological tales metaphysical parables & autobiographical reflections. Interspersing real life stories with speculative fictions Into the Silent Land describes ordinary people whose extraordinary situations have much to teach us about chance compassion & human resilience in the face of adversity. It is a book that penetrates the readers imagination & lingers in the memory long after the final page. ...

By examining the true story of Chris Mc Candless a young man who in 1992 walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness & whose SOS note & emaciated corpse were found four months later internationally bestselling author Jon Krakauer explores the obsession which leads some people to explore the outer limits of self leave civilization behind & seek enlightenment through solitude & contact with nature. an astonishingly gifted writer: his account of Alex Supertramp is powerfully dramatic eliciting sympathy for both the idealistic anti-consumerist boy
- & his parents Guardian a compelling tale of tragic idealism The Times
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Take your first steps into the wilderness with Rusty the house cat as he leaves his home to go & live in the wild. A thrillling new feline fantasy series that draws you into a vivid animal world. When kittypet Rusty strays into the forest beyond his owners garden & is ambushed by a wild cat life as he knows it is over. After a brave fight he is invited to leave the twoleg world & join Thunderclan one of four cat tribes to train as a warrior. Rusty becomes Firepaw & learns laws of the wild
- hunting & fighting to protect the clans survival. When the fearsome Shadowclan threaten Thunderclans territory his warrior skills are put to the test. But how can he protect the clan when he suspects their own deputy of trechery?
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