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Hell's Angels (Modern Classic) by Hunter S. Thompson
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Penguin Magnum Collection
The Hell's Angels erupted into 1960s America, paralysing whole towns with fear. Determined to discover the truth behind the terrifying reputation of these marauding biker gangs, Hunter S. Thompson spent a year on the road with the Angels, documenting his hair-raising experiences with Charger Charley, Bi ...Show more
In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences by Truman Capote
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Penguin Magnum Collection
Controversial and compelling, "In Cold Blood" reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on those involved. At ...Show more
Man on the Moon - The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts A by Andrew Chaikin
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Penguin Magnum Collection | Reading Level: very good
Through the windows of the slowly turning spacecraft they looked out at the place where the sun had once been, and there was the moon- a huge, magnificent sphere bathed in the eerie blue light of earthshine, each crater rendered in ghostly detail.'The race to the moon was won spectacularly by Apollo 11 ...Show more
The Fight by Norman Mailer
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Penguin Magnum Collection
In 1975, at the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship in Kinshasa, Zaire, Muhammad Ali met George Foreman in the ring. Foreman's genius employed silence, serenity and cunning. He had never been defeated. His hands were his instrument, and 'he kept them in his pockets the way a hunter lays his rifle back ...Show more
The Penguin Magnum Collection: A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Penguin Magnum Collection
The race to the moon was won spectacularly by Apollo 11 on 20 July 1969. When astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their 'giant step' across a ghostly lunar landscape, they were watched by some 600 million people on Earth 250,000 miles away. "A Man on the Moon" is the definitive account of the ...Show more
The Penguin Magnum Collection: Hellfire by Nick Tosches
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Penguin Magnum Collection
The dramatic and tormented life of Jerry Lee Lewis is the most fabled in rock 'n' roll history. "Hellfire" is a wild, riveting, and beautifully written biography that received universal acclaim on its original publication and is now an American classic. Born in Louisiana to a family legacy of great cour ...Show more
The Penguin Magnum Collection: Hiroshima by John Hersey
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Penguin Magnum Collection
When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, it was the beginning of a terrifying new episode in human history. Written only a year after the disaster, John Hersey brought the event vividly alive with this heart-rending account of six men a ...Show more
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