View From The Summit by Edmund Hillary

View From The Summit by Edmund HillaryThe first man to set foot on the summit of Everest, the man who led a team of tractors to the South Pole, the man who jetboated up the Ganges from the ocean to the sky has, for the first time, gathered all the remarkable adventures of a long life into one volume. But there is more to Edmund Hillary than this. He is also the man who repaid his debt of fame to the Himalayas by inaugurating a programme of building schools, clinics, airstrips and bridges

Stephen Covey

full of Krasznhorkai's signature sense of foreboding and dark irony

whose life is dominated by two men - Adam Warner

Its heroes are people who have been broken by the world they live in and then rescued

and the professor's hitherto respectable life becomes a nightmare beyond endurance

idealistic American student had come to India to volunteer in women’s health programs

or not just one man's dreams

Our conception of Socrates has relied upon Plato and Xenophon - men who met him when he was in his fifties and a well-known figure in war-torn Athens

including Kathleen’s own story as a three-time breast cancer survivor whose dreams diagnosed her cancer even when it was missed by her doctors

Simon and Jenny Han's To All The Boys I've Loved Before

once known as the "yenan of Nepal"

so you never know whether the tyrant or the tyrannized will win in the end’ Daily Telegraph