Queenie, Letters from an Australian Army Nurse, 1915-1917    by Pat Richardson Anne Skinner
Price: $9.99 USD. 54100 words. Language: English. Published by Bookpal Australia  on June 10, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » Adventurers & explorers.
Queenie is the evocative, moving and at times entertaining story, told through her letters home, of a young Army nurse’s perceptions of the events, people and places she experienced during the cataclysmic years of the First World War. Queensland’s youngest hospital matron at the age of 25, Gympie-born Edith Florence Avenell, usually known by her nickname Queenie, enlisted in the Australian Army Nu

Adventures in Filmmaking    by Peter Rowe
Price: $8.95 USD. 96140 words. Language: English. Published on May 28, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » Adventurers & explorers.
Peter Rowe has made over 200 films and filmed movie stars, exploding nature, wild animals, features, documentaries, television series, politics and pop culture all over the world. He has now told the best, funniest and most entertaining stories of his long career in his book "Adventures in Filmmaking". “A must-read for anyone fascinated by the entertainment industry."-Jeff Willner, Traveledge

Regrets - Maybe Just A Few    by Murray Raynes
Price: $5.00 USD. 122260 words. Language: Australian English. Published on May 13, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » Adventurers & explorers.
After a normal adolescence; equally adept in the classroom and on the sporting fields, Murray moved out into the world with a feeling that whatever needed to be done, he could do it or at the very least he’d give it a try.

Bernard-Henri Lévy    by wikiverlag.com ebooks.wikiverlag.com
Price: $9.90 USD. 271160 words. Language: English. Published on April 12, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » Adventurers & explorers.
Bernard-Henri Lévy Imposteur intellectuel or the News French Fastfood Philosopy Lévy is a pre-eminent journalist, having started his career as a war reporter for Combat, the famous underground newspaper founded by Camus during the Nazi occupation of France.

A Way of Life    by Alec Rainey
Price: $4.99 USD. 89920 words. Language: English. Published by Austin Macauley  on March 21, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » Adventurers & explorers.
Alec Rainey, who is English, after training in cattle management with the 'gauchos' in Argentina, emigrated to Australia in 1966 to work as a jackeroo on a vast cattle station in the Northern Territory, in the Barkly Tableland. They also taught him the art of fashioning stone spearheads and other skills related to survival.He has used extensive notes he took at the time to write this book.

50 Tales of Flight: From Biplanes to Boeings    by Owen Zupp
Price: $3.95 USD. 60940 words. Language: English. Published on February 23, 2013. Nonfiction » Transportation » Aviation / History.
In “50 Tales of Flight”, the reader is not simply taken aloft in everything from biplanes to Boeings as the title may suggest. True, the flight deck door has been cracked ajar and the canvas cover pulled back from the open cockpit, but this book is built from the ground up. From the alarm clock buzzing to begin the airline pilot’s day to the sound of silence when a light aircraft engine fails...

Juan Patrón: A Fallen Star in the Days of Billy the Kid    by Paul Tsompanas
Price: $1.99 USD. 65080 words. Language: English. Published by Brandylane  Publishers on February 20, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » Historical biography.
Juan Patrón lived through one of the bloodiest chapters of the American West. Reputed for his heroics, Patrón tried to tame a frontier plagued with violence, illiteracy and greed - first as a teacher, then as a desperado hunter, and eventually as a speaker of the territorial house of New Mexico - before meeting his fate at the hands of a Texas cowboy in a dramatic showdown.

A Lifetime of Small Adventures    by Bill Birnbaum
Price: $0.99 USD. 56840 words. Language: English. Published on February 13, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir.
An adventurer’s stories from childhood to senior years including crash landing in a small plane in rural Mexico and surviving numerous close-call hitchhiking experiences. At age 64, when turned down by the Peace Corps’ medical department, Bill and his wife sold their home and moved to Peru where they created their own volunteer opportunities. If you love adventure, this book's for you.

Au delà des limites    by George Leblanc
Price: $9.99 USD. 73920 words. Language: French. Published by Richard Plourde  on January 26, 2013. Nonfiction » Sports & outdoor recreation » Sailing.
Afin de transmettre ce que j’ai vécu personnellement lors de quelques-uns des événements marquants et inoubliables de ma carrière de skipper, j’ai écrit « au-delà des limites » et «L’océan prédateur». Ces deux bouquins, indu-bitablement, en disent long sur mes états d’âme, mes bonheurs, mes malchances, ma manière d’aborder les problèmes, et de lutter contre les éléments déchaînés.

The Old Man in the Bag and Other True Stories of Good Intentions    by Ted Wells
Price: $2.99 USD. 77490 words. Language: English (New Zealand dialect). Published on January 18, 2013. Nonfiction » Social Science » Philanthropy & Charity.
This collection of true short stories (with old photographs and letters) is about a young American couple who spend two years in a tiny village of grass huts helping very poor Ethiopian farmers establish a new town in the lowland jungle of Ethiopia’s Rift Valley. The stories are about how life choices are never black and white and even selfless good intentions can sometime have a serious downside.