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Adventures of a Young...

In 1954, a young David Attenborough was offered the opportunity of a lifetime: to travel the world to find rare and elusive animals for the London Zoo's collection and to film the expeditions for the BBC's new show, Zoo Quest. This memoir chronicles those legendary voyages. From trekking in search of giant anteaters in Guyana and Komodo dragons in Indonesia, to battling cannibal fish and unpredictable weather, Attenborough records the incredible beauty and biodiversity of these regions. 

Author: David Attenborough

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Life On Air

The witty, fascinating autobiography of David Attenborough, tracking fifty years of broadcasting milestones and wildlife adventures. Life on Air pulls back the curtain on the early, experimental days of the BBC and documents Attenborough's transition from studio executive to global documentary icon. Filled with accounts of dangerous expeditions to wild corners of the earth—and encounters with everything from tribal leaders to royalty—this elegantly told memoir showcases the unrelenting curiosity and charm of a true natural history legend.

Author: David Attenborough

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A Sprat To Catch A Mackerel

In A Sprat to Catch a Mackerel: Key principles to build your business, Raymond Ackerman shares the basic tenets behind his business philosophy – timeless principles that have guided him through some of South Africa's most turbulent times.

Author: Raymond Ackerman

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My Thoughts Exactly

So, this is me. Lily Allen. I am a mother, and I was a wife. I'm also a singer and a songwriter. I have loved and been let down. I've been stalked and assaulted. I am a success and a failure. I've been broken and full of hope. I am all these things and more. I'm telling my truth because when women share their stories, loudly and clearly and honestly, things begin to change for the better.

Author: Lily Allen

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The Last Rhinos

The true story of one man's battle to save a species from the brink of extinction. When South African game reserve owner Lawrence Anthony learned that only a handful of northern white rhinos remained in the wild—deep in a Congo jungle controlled by the infamous Lord's Resistance Army rebel group—he was determined to save them. What follows is a dangerous, extraordinary adventure as Anthony heads directly into the jungle to enlist the help of the rebels to protect the rhinos, all while battling a terrible drought back home to keep his own animals alive. 

Author: Lawrence Anthony

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Stoked

This is the story of how a skinny little kid from Kenilworth in Cape Town managed to travel halfway around the world without sponsorship, and then outwit, outsmart and outperform the world's best-paid professional athletes on a day that changed his life, and the sport of big-wave surfing, forever... Big-wave surfer Chris Bertish was the first South African to brave the monster waves of Mavericks, winning the Mavericks Big Wave Invitational surfing event in the biggest and heaviest waves ever recorded in the history of the sport. That same year, he finished third on the Big Wave World Tour, despite only surfing three of the five events.

Author: Chris Bertish

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Running With Scissors

An unforgettable, darkly funny, and deeply bizarre memoir about an unconventional childhood. The true story of a boy who wanted to grow up with the Brady Bunch but instead found himself living with the Addams Family, this book chronicles the time his mother gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist—a man who was a "certifiable lunatic". In a dilapidated Victorian house where the Christmas tree stayed up until summer and there were no rules, Augusten navigated a strange world of eccentric patients, Valium-popping, and electroshock therapy machines.

Author: Augusten Burroughs

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My Left Foot

The miraculous, deeply moving true story that inspired the Academy Award-winning film. In My Left Foot, Christy Brown shares his extraordinary journey growing up in Dublin with severe cerebral palsy. Labeled as mentally incapacitated by a world that couldn't understand him, he used his left foot—his only functional limb—to learn to paint, write, and express a brilliant creative voice. This classic autobiography is a powerful, heartwarming celebration of determination and the strength of the human mind.

Author: Christy Brown

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R30.00
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Stronger

Jeff Bauman was an ordinary twenty-seven-year-old with a job, a girlfriend, and a love of sports—until he stood at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon. In a single, horrific moment, a terrorist's bomb changed his life forever. Stronger is the deeply moving, unvarnished, and ultimately triumphant story of Jeff’s recovery.

Author: Jeff Bauman

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Six Men

Alistair Cooke shares his unique, often startling, personal vision of the six men whom he has known and found most fascinating in a lifetime of journalistic encounter with the great and the famous. They are Charlie Chaplin, Edward VIII, H.L. Mencken, Humphrey Bogart, Adlai Stevenson and Bertrand Russell - each one of them touched with a legendary meaning for this century.

Author: Alistair Cooke

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Salvador Dali: Diary Of A...

"This book, then, is the first diary written by a genius." — From the Author's Introduction

Diary of a Genius stands as one of the seminal texts of Surrealism, offering an unvarnished, intimate look into the mind of Salvador Dalí—the legendary eccentric polymath who became the living embodiment of the 20th century's most subversive art movement.

Author: Salvador Dali

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