 | The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Penguin Modern Classics) by Thornton Wilder
Buy new: £6.74 / Used from: £1.24 A bridge collapses in Peru and five people die. This beautiful short novel tells the tale of how each one came cross the bridge on that day and meet their destiny.
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 | Longitude by Dava Sobel
Buy used from: £0.01 Absorbing book of how a simple capenter came to change the course of naval history by building a clock that would work at sea
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 | The Diving-bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
Buy new: £3.49 / Used from: £2.59 How a stroke victim with locked-in syndrome learns to communicate letter by letter by blinking his eye. No self pity just plenty of patience and black humour.
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 | Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa by Mungo Park
Buy new: £17.09 / Used from: £8.10 18th century gentleman traveller departs Scotland to find out which way the Niger flows. Romantic ideals turn to gruelling reality in this ultimately doomed mission..
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 | The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £1.49 Hemingways Nobel-winning story of a Cuban fisherman coming to terms with his twilight years.
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 | The Kon-Tiki Expedition by Thor Heyerdahl
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £4.44 An insanely wreckless journey in a balsa wood raft across the Pacific in order to bolster the author's anthropological theories. There is a palpable sense of vunerability on the sea.
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 | Wind, Sand and Stars (Penguin Modern Classics) by Antoine Saint-Exupery
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £4.25 Self discovery comes when a man measures himself against an obstacle...
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 | Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex by Owen Chase
Buy new: £8.00 / Used from: £0.01 The original 1821 narrative that inspired Moby Dick. An epic three month journey in open boats ends in a spot of cannibalism.
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 | Moving Mountains by Claire Bertschinger
Buy new: £10.49 / Used from: £1.74 Compelling autobiography about the Ethiopian famine and working with the Red Cross in several conflict zones.
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 | Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain by Roger Deakin
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £5.27 A delightful account of swimming in the streams and tarns of britain with only the odd eel for company.
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 | The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz
Buy used from: £3.45 A truely absorbing story of a Polish soldier's imprisonment in Siberia. But is it true?
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