Biographies

Fighting For My Life

The Confession of a Violent Offender

Author J J Joseph says :-

"My book is about losing my family because of my violent ways and having to dig deep down inside myself to come up with reasons why I behave like I do, which takes me to places and times in my life I had almost forgotten. I had a lot of bad early teachings from my parents on how to behave in a relationship, but through counselling and a ‘Living Without Violence’ course I learned a proper way of dealing with my emotions and anger."

From Venus to Antarctica

The Life of Dumont D'Urville (1790 - 1842)
D'Urville undertook three global voyages of exploration and is the navigator who made the single greatest contribution to perfecting the map of the Pacific in the nineteenth century.

Storms and Dreams

Louis de Bougainville: Soldier, Explorer, Statesman
Louis-Antoine Comte de Bougainville (1729-1811) is best known for his circumnavigation of the globe from 1766 to 1769. Throughout a long and distinguished life, however, he participated in many of the turning points of world history: the birth of the United States, the fall of French Canada, the opening of the Pacific, the French revolution and the Revolutionary Wars, the crowning of Napoleon and the modernisation of France .

Where Fate Beckons

The Life of Jean-François de La Pérouse
The mystery of the disappearance of Jean François de La Pérouse in 1788 during his long voyage of discovery in the Pacific was solved almost 40 years later, yet it still fascinates people and expeditions continue to search for his body and the remains of his ships. What was it about this man that has exerted such an influence over so many generations?