Author:Charlie Norton
The Bumper Book of Bravery recounts tales of incredible courage the world over, from the mythical to the modern, and from New York to New Zealand:
Take to the seas and marvel at the first voyage around the world. Dare to go deeper and discover record-setting underwater feats, as well as the French free-diver who refused to learn her limits.
Stay on land with Samurai warriors, Roman emperor gladiators and Genghis Khan's lethal Mongolian army.
Reach for the skies through balloonists, fantastic flying machines and female fighter pilots.
Go underground with the ultimate masters of espionage, including Russian spies, honey-traps and ruthless CIA-trained Tibetan agents.
From ocean depths to giddy heights and everything in between, The Bumper Book of Bravery will awaken the adventurer and hero inside of us all.
You really must read ... The First Detective: the extraordinary life and times of a career-criminal
—— Sunday TimesMorton has done Vidocq a service by removing him from his unfair tabloid image and giving him his due as an important social innovator
—— Sunday TimesEntertaining
—— Sunday TelegraphA clear and exciting account of these momentous times, written by... one of the great reporters of our age
—— Peter Hitchens , Daily MailA riveting read... rich in humour and humanity and replete with assured judgments
—— Judith Devlin , The Irish TimesExcellent new history of Italian Fascism
—— Ian Thomson , Financial TimesAn elegantly written study that is the work of a historian at the height of his powers
—— History TodayFluid and absorbing
—— Times Literary SupplementDraws on a vast range of private letters and diaries to find out what ordinary people thought about the regime that ruled them between 1922 and 1945
—— Christopher Silvester , Daily ExpressDraws on a vast range of private letters and diaries
—— Christopher Silvester , Scottish Sunday ExpressPankaj Mishra has produced a riveting account that makes new and illuminating connections. He follows the intellectual trail of this contested history with both intelligence and moral clarity. In the end we realise that what we are holding in our hands is not only a deeply entertaining and deeply humane book, but a balance sheet of the nature and mentality of colonisation
—— Hisham MatarHighly readable and illuminating ... Mishra's analysis of Muslim reactions is particularly topical
—— David Goodall , TabletEnormously ambitious but thoroughly readable, this book is essential reading for everyone who is interested in the processes of change that have led to the emergence of today's Asia
—— Amitav Ghosh , Wall Street JournalSophisticated ... not so much polemic as cri de coeur, motivated by Mishra's keen sense of the world, East and West, hurtling towards its own destruction
—— Tehelka, New DelhiOutstanding ... Mishra wears his scholarship lightly and weaves together the many strands of history into a gripping narrative ... The insights afforded by this book are too many to be enumerated ... Mishra performs a signal service to the future - by making us read the past in a fresh light
—— The Hindu, New Delhi[Full of] complexity and nuance
—— Mail TodaySubtle, erudite and entertaining
—— Financial ExpressMishra allows the reader to see the events of two centuries anew, through the eyes of the journalists, poets, radicals and charismatics who criss-crossed Europe and Asia
—— Free Press JournalA vital, nuanced argument ... prodigious
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