Amphibious Soul – Finding the Wild in A Tame World by Craig Foster
In this memoir by the creator of the Academy award-winning film My Octopus Teacher, Craig shares his story of a life spent exploring incredible places. Drawing on his daily ocean dives and wisdom from indigenous mentors, animal teachers and scientists, he shares how the wonders of the natural world have helped him remain present in life, even when catastrophe strikes. Jonathan Ball Publishers
War Dogs by Shane Bryant with Tony Park
In Afghanistan, sometimes all that stands between coalition troops and death or serious injury is one of the highly trained dogs and their handlers. Shane is a former Australian Army dog handler, who spent 10 years in Afghanistan, working with elite American special forces alongside his dogs Ricky and Benny, and managing teams of dogs and handlers. It was a perilous job – often these dogs and handlers are right in the firing line, making them high-priority targets for the Taliban insurgents they are fighting. War Dogs is Shane’s story – one of the handlers and their dogs in combat, and of how decades as a contract warrior took its toll on his personal life and his mental health, and how he found home again. Rockhopper Books
Bwana – There’s a Body in the Bath by Peter Whitehead with Tony Park
Born in Shanghai and shipped to England as a child, Peter Whitehead made his way, solo, to Australia at the age of 13, where he worked in near slave-like conditions as a farm labourer. He learnt the art of breaking wild horses, beginning a lifelong love affair with animals. Since then he’s been a horsebreaker and gunner in the army, an agricultural officer, national parks ranger, big game hunter, animal wrangler and rancher. He’s worked on set of several big-name movies, handled lions for Born Free, survived two aircraft crashes as well as encounters with man-eating lions, zombie witches and killer hippos. To say his life has been eventful is putting it lightly … this is his story … one of nearly a century of incredible adventures. Rockhopper Books
Why We Travel – A journey into Human Motivation by Ash Bhardwaj
Here’s a book that promises to change how you think about wanderlust. It’s a personal memoir and evocative travelogue from an award-winning journalist, broadcaster and keynote speaker, with a dozen journeys, each with a motivation for travel … from curiosity to inspiration, healing to happiness, eroticism to hope. Bedford Square Publishers
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