Биографии и Мемуары
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Award-winning journalist Sylvia Vollenhoven tells the story of her life and how it's been turned upside down by an Ancestor: //Kabbo, a Bushman storyteller and revolutionary. She writes of being «too black» for her coloured school mates, working as one of the early female journalists in the misogynistic '70s and of the constant struggle to find an identity that fits. Finally, she unearths a history that speaks to her: first in the language of a long, nameless illness without...
| Автор | Sylvia Vollenhoven |
Hulle is supersoldate wat hoogs geheime, lewensgevaarlike operasies diep in vyandelike gebiede aanpak… Die Recce's het nog altyd mense se verbeelding aangegryp, maar weens die sensitiewe aard van hul werk is daar min oor hierdie elite-eenhede van die Suid-Afrikaanse Weermag bekend. Nou vertel een van hulle van die naelbytaksie en dramatiese gebeure wat hy eerstehands in die Grensoorlog beleef het. Koos Stadler het in die vroeë 1980's die legendaries strawwe keuringsproses vir die...
| Автор | Koos Stadler |
Shrouded in secrecy due to the covert nature of their work, the legendary Recces have fascinated South Africans for years. Now one of these elite soldiers has written a tell-all book about the extraordinary missions he embarked on and the nail-biting action he experienced in the Border War. Shortly after passing the infamously gruelling Special Forces selection course in the early 1980s, Koos Stadler joined the so-called Small Teams group at 5 Reconnaissance Regiment. This subunit was made up of...
| Автор | Koos Stadler |
When Robert McBride was sentenced to death, he turned to the public gallery in court and said: ‘Freedom is just around the corner. I am leaving you at the corner – and you must take that corner to find freedom on the other side.’ As the guard moved in, he raised his fist and shouted: ‘The struggle continues till Babylon falls!’ It was 1987: the time of ‘total onslaught’. The trial of the MK unit that planted the Magoo's bomb on the Durban beachfront dominated the news but few knew the real...
| Автор | Bryan Rostron |
To know each other and understand the whole of our reality, we must hear each other's stories. Journalist Ruda Landman, widely known for her compelling interviews, talks to prominent South Africans about their life choices and how change has affected them. A colourful mosaic of experience emerges as people share stories – from changing careers to coming out, losing a partner or following a calling. The book includes insights by the likes of John Kani, Ferial Haffajee, Pieter-Dirk Uys,...
| Автор | Ruda Landman |
When Lesley Smailes set off from Port Elizabeth for a gap year, her mother joked: «Whatever you do, don't get married. And don't join a cult.» But within months, Lesley was part of a notorious American sect, married to a man she hardly knew and allowed only minimal contact with her family. Despite rape, home births and a forced abortion, her belief was unshakeable. Until she was faced with the terrifyingly real threat of losing her children… Harrowing at times, but also funny and wise,...
| Автор | Lesley Smailes |
'There are a lot of good things about getting older. When you’re young you want everyone to like you and to make an impression. When you’re old you don’t give a damn.' Kate Turkington is fearless and fun, even now in her 80s. Actually, more so! From the war-worn East End of London to raising a young family in a remote part of eastern Nigeria and then building a career as one of SA's most loved broadcasters, Kate's story is remarkable and revealing. You'll laugh....
| Автор | Kate Turkington |
In this shockingly brilliant debut memoir, a young girl grows up in Joburg in a space of pure chaos. With a crack-devouring father and a pot-smoking mother, her childhood is peppered by crack excursions to Hillbrow at 3 am, courtesy of her father, while observing her mother disappear into clouds of smoke. Unleashing a Millennial’s unapologetic take on our world, Chilimigras is a new voice that shakes perspectives and demands to be read.
| Автор | Christy Chilimigras |
When the Cradock Four’s Fort Calata was murdered by agents of the apartheid state in 1985 his son, Lukhanyo, was only three years old. Thirty-one years later Lukhanyo, now a journalist, becomes one of the SABC 8 when he defies Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s reign of censorship at the public broadcaster by writing an open letter that declares: my father didn’t die for this. With his wife, Abigail, Lukhanyo brings to life the father he never knew and investigates the mystery that despite two high-profile...
| Автор | Lukhanyo Calata |
A fresh, nuanced look at an extraordinary woman and her lifelong fight for justice. Defying the constraints of her gender and class, Emily Hobhouse travelled across continents and spoke out against oppression. A passionate pacifist and a feminist, she opposed both the 1899-1902 Anglo-Boer War and World War One, which led to accusations of treason. Despite saving thousands of lives in two wars, she died alone – an unsung hero in her own country. Elsabé Brits travelled in Emily Hobhouse's...
| Автор | Elsabé Brits |
Hykie Berg is 'n bekende film- en TV-akteur, geliefd en gewild reg oor Suid-Afrika vir sy rol in Binnelanders en as wenner van Survivor. Hy is ook 'n verslaafde. Op die kruin van sy suksesloopbaan verloor Hykie alles en draai by die dood om. Hier vertel hy sy verhaal openhartig, van die dwelmhole van Hillbrow tot in 'n maksimum-sekuriteitsel in die Weskoppieshospitaal, waar God hom van 'n gewisse dood red. Hykie nooi jou uit om te onthou dat God se liefde ook vir jou bedoel...
| Автор | Hykie Berg |
‘Successful people who pretend they have it all worked out and have executed flawless plans to get to their objective – are not being truthful. Be careful of these posers … In reality, business and life is a series of successes and setbacks.’ After bailing out of the corporate world, new-media journalist Matthew Buckland built a digital-marketing and media business, Creative Spark, that employed 70+ people and counted top global and local brands as clients. He fulfilled many an entrepreneur’s...
| Автор | Matthew Buckland |
Growing up on the wrong side of the tracks in post-war Johannesburg, Carnie Matisonn learns of a great-uncle in occupied Norway murdered by Nazi soldiers as they looted his prized art collection. He starts a life-long quest to retrieve the art that takes him into the murky waters of apartheid sanctions-busting, Mossad agents, international art dealers and Nazi hunters. Matisonn's enthralling story – told here with journalist Charles Cilliers – embraces courage, wit and wisdom as he shows...
| Автор | Carnie Matisonn |
The Road to San Donato is an adventurous travel memoir of an American father and son tracing their Italian heritage by bicycle. With only the bare essentials on their backs, author Robert Cocuzzo and his sixty-four-year-old father, Stephen, embark on a torturous 425-mile ride from Florence, Italy, to San Donato Val di Comino, an ancient village hidden in the Apennine mountains from which their family emigrated a hundred years earlier. After getting lost, beaten down, and very nearly stranded,...
| Автор | Robert Cocuzzo |
In April 2015, Beth and Eric Jusino, laden with backpacks and nerves, walked out of a cathedral in the historic village of Le Puy, France, down a cobblestone street, and turned west. Seventy-nine days, a thousand miles, two countries, two mountain ranges, and three pairs of shoes later, they reached the Atlantic Ocean. <br><br>More than two million pilgrims have walked the Way of Saint James, a long-distance hiking trail familiar to most Americans by its Spanish name, the Camino de...
| Автор | Beth Jusino |
Wife and mother. Teacher and musician. Marathoner and rock climber. At 66, Dierdre Wolownick-Honnold became the oldest woman to climb El Capitan in Yosemite–and in <i>The Sharp End of Life: A Mother’s Story</i>, she shares her intimate journey, revealing how her climbing achievement reflects a broader story of courage and persistence.<br><br> Dierdre grew up under the watchful eyes of a domineering mother and realized early on that her parents’ plans for her future...
| Автор | Dierdre Wolownick |
This is the same amazing story as the current version, but with an updated cover and foreword. If you'd like to read Barbara Savage's two-year around the world bicycle trip now, you can order the current version <a href="https://www.mountaineers.org/books/books/miles-from-nowhere-a-round-the-world-bicycle-adventure-1">here.</a><br><br> <i>Miles from Nowhere</i> is the story of Barbara and Larry Savage’s sometimes dangerous, often zany, but...
| Автор | Barbara Savage |
“<i>The Starship and the Canoe</i> is neither a wilderness survival manual nor a book of blueprints. It is another of those rare books impossible to define: the kind that seeks you in time. And you will know it, live it, and consult it thereafter simply by name.” –<i>Chicago Sun-Times</i> <br><br> “Brower’s superbly written book clutches at one’s imagination.” –<i>Publishers Weekly</i> <br><br> “In the tradition of Carl Sagan and...
| Автор | Kenneth Brower |
Photographer Paul Souders considered himself a lucky guy. He traveled the world and got paid to take pictures. Yet at age fifty he seemed an unlikely explorer. Recently married, he was leading a generally contented life as an urban homebody, ending most days with a cold martini and a home-cooked meal. So how did he find himself alone aboard a tiny boat, enduring bad weather and worse cooking, while struggling to find his way across more than a thousand miles of of Hudson Bay?<br><br>...
| Автор | Paul Souders |
By age 25, Heather Anderson had hiked what is known as the «Triple Crown» of backpacking: the Appalachian Trail (AT), Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), and Continental Divide Trail (CDT)—a combined distance of 7,900 miles with a vertical gain of more than one million feet. A few years later, she left her job, her marriage, and a dissatisfied life and walked back into those mountains.<br><br> In her new memoir, <i>Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home</i>, Heather, whose trail name is...
| Автор | Heather Anderson |
The result of an illegal affair between a white British woman and black South African man, during apartheid, 'Karoline' is classified as 'white', but her true parentage soon emerges. At 6 weeks old she is secreted out of SA under the pretense of needing medical treatment in the UK. On returning, her biological mother says her newborn has died abroad. Karoline is adopted by a white British couple. Plagued by questions surrounding her identity, she returns 'home' at...
| Автор | Sara-Jayne King |
CLICK HERE to download sample chapters from Lighting Out “The contrast between the slacker-climbing crowd and the New Age poseurs is enhanced by a wonderfully deadpan writing style that is rarely too technical for those unfamiliar with the sport. Highly recommended.” – Library Journal “[Duane] explores with fine irony and rare depth his awakening into manhood, love, and conquest…” – Isabel Allende • Reissue of a well-regarded coming-of-age memoir about Yosemite and the West Coast in the...
| Автор | Daniel Duane |
CLICK HERE to download the first chapter from Psychovertical Psychovertical is the story of what happens to a nice lower-class kid with dyslexia who gains control over his circumstances by clinging to giant stone faces, thousands of feet in the air, for days at a time. In this case, Kirkpatrick uses his 12-day solo climb of the Reticent Wall on California's El Capitan as the experience that helps him understand how growing up poor and struggling with dyslexia and low self-confidence...
| Автор | Andy Kirkpatrick |
"Not only did Hornbein play a crucial role in one of the most extraordinary accomplishments in the history of mountaineering, his account of the feat is one of the finest things ever written about this peculiar, hazardous, and uncommonly engaging pursuit." —Jon Krakauer * Special anniversary edition to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first ascent of Mount Everest via the West Ridge * The West Ridge remains the least attempted and most deadly of recognized...
| Автор | Thomas F. Hornbein |