Book Recommendations

[jordanseagull]

I am currently buying a couple of presents on Amazon (through NSC) and am looking to buy my Father a book.

Not really looking for a novel/fiction, but more on the exploration/factual/non fictional side. Anything intellectually interesting really.

Thanks in advance!

 

[porkypie]

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[Hercules Rockerfeller]

I am currently buying a couple of presents on Amazon (through NSC) and am looking to buy my Father a book.

Not really looking for a novel/fiction, but more on the exploration/factual/non fictional side. Anything intellectually interesting really.

Thanks in advance!

heard the rugger player, Brian Moore, talking about his Autobio om Sunday and I am going to get me that. Sounds like a dam fine, honest read. Worth a look?

 

[Notters' Dad]

Try "Operation Mincemeat" by Ben Mcintyre; the story of a wartime deception of the Germans about allied invasion plans.
I enjoyed it.

 

[Bakero]

Maybe

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0141030429/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=1278548962&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0140154957&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0F50RYGP5CF3ZG78YPGS

Or

http://www.amazon.com/Short-History-Nearly-Everything-ebook/dp/B000FBFNII/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1291909084&sr=1-1

 

[Stat Brother]

A favourite recommendation of NSC.

 

[Don Quixote]

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis. It will not disappoint.

 

[seagull_special]

A favourite recommendation of NSC.

Arabian Sands - Wilfred Thesiger or Shadow of the Sun by Ryszarrd Kapuscinski - 2 fantastic books

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

If he is interested in politics - get him this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/My-Traitors-Heart-African-Explores/dp/0099749009/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1291913900&sr=8-1

My Traitors Heart by Rian Malin. It is a liberal white South African telling it like it is about his nation. It is not light reading - but a fascinating insight into the politics of race in the modern South Africa.

 

[happypig]

Diver by Tony groom

 

[ATFC Seagull]

Its done the rounds now so you have probably come accross it already, but Blood River by Tim Butcher is excellent.

 

[brunswick]

Trinity of Wisdom on amazon.