True Life / Adventure from Goldring Books

London: William Heinemann, 2004. A Fine unmarked copy with a Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped.. First Edition, First Printing. 353 pages. Map endpapers. Illustrations and maps in the text. On 28 August 1815 the US brig Commerce was dashed against the rocks of Cape Bojador off the Western coast of the Sahara.and lost, although through… Read more about this item

Washington: Counterpoint, 2002. An As New copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price-clipped. First Edition, First Printing. xii + 308 pages. Part travelogue, part history, part reportage this is a vivid account of Sir George Scott, the unsung Victorian adventurer, who hacked, bullied. and charmed his way through uncharted jungle to help establish Brotish colonial rule… Read more about this item

London: Sinclair Stevenson, 1993. 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… Read more about this item

London: Orion, 1997. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from age darkening to page edges) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. x + 197 pages. Introduction by Robin Waterfield. Interspersed with joyful diary notes about her present life - studying for her MA, walking her dogs and living on her boat and then back in… Read more about this item

London: Simon and Schuster, 2006. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First edition, first printing. 328 pages. Jane Tomkinson was just 26 when she was first diagnosed with breast cancer. A decade later, in 2000, she was told that the disease had spread to her bones and she had only six months to… Read more about this item

London: Orion / Daily Telegraph, 1998. 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… Read more about this item

Illinois: Salt River, 2005. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine non priceclipped dustjacket. The author was only five years old when his father was brutally killed by Waodani warriors in Ecuador, men from the most savage culture ever known, but in a story almost too amazing to be true, Steve Saint eventually comes to know and even love the… Read more about this item

London: Hodder- Causton, 1973. A Very Good+ unmarked copy with complete dustjacket. A whole inside history of spying and how each nation tackles it, together with how one becomes a spy, what spying is like and how it all works. The author, whilst limiting what he can confess to, does note that in 1942 he made an unauthorised entry… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan, 2004. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine complete dustjacket. A marvellous collection of stories from 'The Wide World' magazine, which ran from the late 19th century to the 1960's, each issue being filled with amazing but true tales of survival, catastrophe and derring-do gathererd from around the world. A thrilling testament to an age when men kept their… Read more about this item

Toronto: Penguin Viking, 2002. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine complete dustjacket. In January 1999 the author, West Africa Bureau Chief for Associated Press, was ambushed on the streets of Sierra Leone's besieged capital of Freetown, shot in the head by armed rebels, he survived against all odds. A fascinating in depth look at the extraordinary day to day life… Read more about this item

London: Viking, 1986. A Very Good + unmarked copy with price clipped dustjacket. Jan Little survived in the depths of the Amazon jungle for months after her family had died in mysterious circumstances, she was utterly alone and BLIND. Her story begins in the Mexican town of San Cristobal,where she meets Harry Little and is overwhelmed by his compelling personality.… Read more about this item

New York: William Morrow, 2004. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine complete dustjacket. The true story of John Malcolm, a hungry Princeton graduate who travelled half way round the world in search of the American dream and ultimately pulled off a trade that could be described as the biggest deal in the history of the financial… Read more about this item

London: Ebury Press, 2003. First UK Edition, First Printing. A Fine uninscribed copy with Fine complete dustjacket. The story of the nine Pennsylvania coal miners trapped two miles below ground for 77 hours and told by them in a dramatic first person account of their actions and emotions. A moving and harrowing story of their ordeal as each faced the… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Mainstream, 2004. 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… Read more about this item

Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1988. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First UK edition. This is the first book to examine closely the spy swaps, based on exclusive interviews with former American spies and counter intelligence agents as well as with Karl Koecher who was traded for Scharansky in 1986. Koecher was… Read more about this item

Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 1989. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. A near Fine uninscribed copy which has the top right corner of the front endpaper neatly clipped. Dustjacket is complete with some chipping to top. In March 1984 Jerry Levin, bureau chief for CNN, was kidnapped in Beirut but no one knew who did it or why. His wife Sis, at first… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan, 1992. 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… Read more about this item

London: Lutterworth Press, 1975. A Very Good copy with foxing to closed edges with a dustjacket which is price clipped. 17 escape stories ranging in setting from the Tower of London in the 16th century to a Shanghai gaol in World War II, from a Barbados slave planatation to the swamps and forests of the Finnish border. American officers tunneling… Read more about this item

London: Grafton Books, 1989. Silver title on blue boards which are clean and has very light bumping to lower edge. Internally very clean, uninscribed and unmarked. A Very Good + copy. Dustjacket has light creasing to top and is complete VG+. The author Major Hugh McManners' account of joining an Army expedition to climb the world's third highest unclimbed… Read more about this item

London: Century, 2001. A Fine copy with a Fine complete dustjacket. Map endpapers and 38 photographs. The author's very harrowing tale of being imprisoned in Insein prison just 10 hours after entering Burma and distributing pro-democracy leaflets, receiving a 17 year sentence. It was the third time he had been detained and he used his time in prison to challenge… Read more about this item