Royal Geographical Society: Mountaineers: Great tales of bravery and conquest [2019] hardback ZCOOK The prospect of laying siege

The prospect of laying siege to this ancient fortress makes the battle-weary Malaz 14th Army uneasy - for it was here that the Empire's greatest champion Dassem Ultor was slain and a tide of Malazan blood spilled

From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse Virginia Woolf constructs a remarkable and moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life

these works reveal the full range of emigre writing and are presented here in masterly translations by Bryan Karetnyk and others

with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication

the journal teenaged Anne Frank kept while living in an attic with her family and four other people in Amsterdam during World War II

Royal Geographical Society: Mountaineers: Great tales of bravery and conquest [2019] hardback ZCOOK The prospect of laying siegeCelebrating a tradition of bravery, thirst for knowledge, and pursuit of glory, this book tells the stories of the most famous mountaineers in history and explores the climbs that they conquered. Mountaineers is filled with stirring tales of adventure and intriguing characters, from the Brits who insisted on hauling cases of vintage champagne up to Everest base camp in 1924, to the Italian Duke of the Abruzzi who took 10 iron bedsteads up Alaska's