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Argues that each individual's life is a never-ending story, and uses the elements of a story to show readers how to understand their lives better, showcasing the "big picture" God writes in each person's story.

A companion to "A Field Guide for Getting Lost." Rebecca Solnit explores the ways we make our lives out of stories, and how we are connected by empathy, by narrative, by imagination. In the course of unpacking some of her own stories--of her mother and her decline from memory loss, of a trip to Iceland, of an illness. Solnit revisits fairytales and entertains other stories: about arctic explorers, Che Guevara among the leper colonies, and Mary Shelley's Dr. Frankenstein, about warmth and coldness, pain and kindness, decay and transformation, making art and making self.

The diary of a World War One U-Boat commander. As well as being a fascinating glimpse of life on the German U-boats during the intense submarine blockade, this also reminds us there were humans involved - on both sides of the action - as we read too of the intimate thoughts and intense love of a man longing for his sweetheart.

First published in 1900, Joshua Slocum's autobiographical account of his solo trip around the world is one of the most remarkable, and entertaining travel narratives of all time. Setting off alone from Boston aboard the thirty-six foot wooden sloop Spray in April 1895, Captain Slocum went on to join the ranks of the world's great circumnavigators (Magellan, Drake, and Cook).

A personal account of life in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Indonesia and of working on the infamous Burma railway. An Australian classic.

Lucy Ching was blinded as an infant and she struggled alone apart from the selfless help of her amah. With her support, Lucy attained education and independence and she went on to become a great benefactor of the blind in China.

Sister Burchill tells of her experiences at Innamincka and of the early days of the Inland Mission Nursing Sisters.

Of the medium who as a child often saw things that others could not. She grew up knowing she possessed an amazing gift with which she has helped and comforted people around the world.