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After Everest - Tenzing Norgay & Malcolm BarnesAfter Everest: An Autobiography by Tenzing Norgay & Malcolm Barnes is the autobiography of Tenzing Norgay, the uneducated Sherpa who had a lifelong ambition to conquer Mount Everest who eventually, with Edmund Hillary, returned from the summit as hero. |
ZAR 1,250.00 |
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Playing With Fire - Gordon RamsayPlaying With Fire by Gordon Ramsay is the bestselling follow-up to Humble Pie. When he was struggling to get his first restaurant in the black, Gordon Ramsay never imagined he'd be famous for a TV show about how to run profitable eateries, or that he'd be head of a business empire. But he is and he did. This is Gordon Ramsay at his raw, rugged best. |
ZAR 60.00 |
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Between Man and Beast - Monte ReelBetween Man and Beast: An unlikely explorer, the evolution debates and the African adventure that took the world by storm by Monte Reel contains all the elements of an enthralling adventure story. In 1856, Paul Du Chaillu ventured into the African jungle in search of a mythic beast, the gorilla. |
ZAR 135.00 |
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Scream - Jonathan RendallScream: The Tyson Tapes by Jonathan Rendall presents an oral history of Tyson's life, built around statements from those who knew him intimately from the beginning, including trainers, gym-mates and press agents. This compelling short biography chronicles the meteoric rise and fall of one of the most controversial figures in world sport. |
ZAR 130.00 |
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Tibetan Peach Pie - Tom RobbinsTibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life by Tom Robbins delivers the long awaited tale of his wild life and times, both at home and around the globe. |
ZAR 115.00 |
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Joseph Beuys - Mark RosenthalJoseph Beuys: Actions, Vitrines, Environments by Mark Rosenthal is essential for those interested in the life, work, and legacy of one of the art world's most intriguing figures. Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) - a German sculptor and performance artist - became one of the most influential figures in modern and contemporary art. |
ZAR 320.00 |
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Love is a Mix Tape - Rob SheffieldLove is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time by Rob Sheffield is a stunning memoir in which a the author tells the story of his musical coming of age, and how rock music, the first love of his life, led him to his second, a girl named Renee. |
ZAR 60.00 |
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Beethoven - John SuchetBeethoven: The Man Revealed by John Suchet illuminates the composer's difficult childhood, his struggle to maintain friendships and romances, his ungovernable temper, his obsessive efforts to control his nephew's life, and the excruciating decline of his hearing. |
ZAR 155.00 |
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Nelson - John SugdenNelson: The Sword of Albion by John Sugden is the most authoritative and intimate portrait written of Horatio Nelson In this epic biography of history's most celebrated naval commander, acclaimed historian John Sugden separates fact from myth to offer a powerful portrait of the hero of Trafalgar. |
ZAR 225.00 |
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Beethoven - Jan SwaffordBeethoven: Anguish and Triumph by Jan Swafford peels away layers of legend to get to the living, breathing human being who composed some of the world's most iconic music. |
ZAR 220.00 |
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No Future Without Forgiveness - Desmond TutuNo Future Without Forgiveness: A Personal Overview of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission by Desmond Tutu is a quintessentially humane account of an extraordinary life. Desmond Tutu describes his childhood and coming of age in the apartheid era in South Africa. |
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On the Wild West - Mark TwainOn the Wild West by Mark Twain concentrates on his journey through America's Wild West, tapping into the perennial interest in this period in history. From 1861 to 1867, a young Mark Twain travelled through the Wild West.. Priceless anecdotes detail the amusing mishaps and bad judgement calls that ensure that the author's riches are kept at arm's length. |
ZAR 85.00 |
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Michelangelo - Miles J UngerMichelangelo: A life in six masterpeices by Miles J Unger is the life of one of the most revolutionary artists in history, told through the story of six of his greatest masterpieces. Among the immortals--Leonardo, Rembrandt, Picasso--Michelangelo stands alone as a master of painting, sculpture, and architecture. |
ZAR 150.00 |
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Bob Dylan and Philosophy - Peter Vernezze and Carl J PorterBob Dylan and Philosophy: It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Thinking) edited by Peter Vernezze and Carl J Porter lets eighteen philosophers analyse Dylan’s ethical positions, political commitments, views on gender and sexuality, and his complicated and controversial attitudes toward religion. |
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Kurt Vonnegut: Letters - Dan WakefieldKurt Vonnegut: Letters edited by Dan Wakefield is an extraordinary collection of personal correspondence which has all the hallmarks of Kurt Vonnegut's fiction. Written over a sixty-year period, these letters, the vast majority of them never before published, are funny, moving, and full of the same uncanny wisdom that has endeared his work to readers worldwide. |
ZAR 175.00 |
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Rasputin - Frances WelchRasputin: A short life by Frances Welch is an eye-opening short biography, which draws on previously unpublished material. Grigory Rasputin, the Siberian peasant-turned-mystic, was as fascinating as he was unfathomable. |
ZAR 60.00 |
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Naturalist - Edward O WilsonNaturalist by Edward O Wilson describes, for the first time, both his growth as a scientist and the evolution of the science he has helped define. Throughout "Naturalist", we see Wilson's mind and energies constantly striving to help establish many of the central principles of the field of evolutionary biology. Illustrated with b&w drawings and many photos. |
ZAR 120.00 |
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal - Jeanette WintersonWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal by Jeanette Winterson is a memoir about a life’s work to find happiness. |
ZAR 85.00 |
