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PAGE 6 Wednesday <strong>July</strong> <strong>17</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />
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Many a Close Run Thing<br />
by Tom enright<br />
A New Zealand squadron leader, flying-boat captain and airliner pilot<br />
on a life of aerial adventure Planes were rarely seen above the small<br />
Central Otago sheep-farming town of Ranfurly in the 1940s. Yet as a<br />
young boy, Tom Enright had a fascination with the skies that quickly<br />
developed into a longing to become a pilot. He joined the RNZAF as<br />
an engineer in 1951, and was sent to England at just 16 to attend the<br />
revered Royal Air Force college in Cranwell.<br />
Returning to New Zealand to join the Vampire fighter squadron in<br />
Ohakea, Tom became a famed member of the RNZAF aerobatic team.<br />
Later he became a flying commander at Wigram air base, before<br />
captaining a Sunderland flying boat to isolated communities in the vast<br />
South Pacific, often to the upper limits of the plane’s endurance.<br />
From the near-catastrophic opening of Wellington airport to flying<br />
Boeing 747s into the world’s biggest airports, this is Tom Enright’s<br />
story of the mishaps, misadventures and high-altitude drama of a<br />
45-year flying career.<br />
Into the Raging Sea<br />
Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and<br />
the Sinking of el Faro by rachel Slade<br />
On October 1, 2015, Hurricane Joaquin barreled into the Bermuda<br />
Triangle and swallowed the container ship El Faro whole, resulting<br />
in the worst American shipping disaster in thirty-five years. No one<br />
could fathom how a vessel equipped with satellite communications, a<br />
sophisticated navigation system, and cutting-edge weather forecasting<br />
could suddenly vanish—until now.<br />
Relying on hundreds of exclusive interviews with family members<br />
and maritime experts, as well as the words of the crew members<br />
themselves—whose conversations were captured by the ship’s data<br />
recorder—journalist Rachel Slade unravels the mystery of the sinking<br />
of El Faro. As she recounts the final twenty-four hours onboard, Slade<br />
vividly depicts the officers’ anguish and fear as they struggled to carry<br />
out Captain Michael Davidson’s increasingly bizarre commands, which,<br />
they knew, would steer them straight into the eye of the storm. Slade<br />
also reveals the truth about modern shipping—a cut-throat industry<br />
plagued by razor-thin profits and ever more violent hurricanes<br />
fueled by global warming.<br />
Surfing - Water is Freedom<br />
by Anthony Pancia, russell Ord<br />
(Photographer)<br />
Russell Ord’s spectacular images have won him worldwide<br />
recognition, and deservedly so. Based in Western Australia,<br />
Russell is renowned for his awesome images of super-thick<br />
empty peaks and heavy sessions at reefs like The Box and The<br />
Right. You can pick up any surf magazine in the country and find<br />
Russell’s work on the front and back covers, and filling out entire<br />
spreads and the pages in-between.<br />
In ‘Surfing: Water is Freedom’, Russell teams with noted local<br />
writer Anthony Pancia to tell the story ‘behind the waves’ … the<br />
people who surf them, those who make their livelihoods from them, and who follow the culture with a passion. It is<br />
an extraordinary book for the new millennium. And Anthony Pancia’s words bring the images to life with wonderful<br />
stories of passion and adventure.<br />
Russell Ord’s photography stands alone. Nobody else in the world swims in the heaviest slab waves in the world,<br />
putting life, limb and limb on the line to capture such dramatic and fantastically composed photos. ‘It’s more than<br />
just moments in time,’ Ord says, ‘It’s about the connection with people and the environment, creating content that<br />
reflects this very essence’<br />
Factfulness<br />
Ten reasons We’re Wrong About The World -<br />
And Why Things Are Better Than you Think<br />
by Hans rosling<br />
This book is my last battle in my life-long mission to fight devastating<br />
ignorance, and my final attempt at making an impact on the world. It<br />
has been my daily inspiration and joy. In my previous battles I armed<br />
myself with huge data sets, beautiful software, an energetic lecturing<br />
style and a Swedish bayonet for sword swallowing. It wasn’t enough.<br />
But I hope that this book will be.When you ask people simple questions<br />
about global trends, they systematically get the answers wrong. How<br />
many young women go to school? What’s the average life expectancy<br />
across the world? What will the global population will be in 2050?<br />
Do the majority of people live in rich or poor countries? In Factfulness,<br />
Hans Rosling and his two lifelong collaborators, Ola Rosling and Anna<br />
Rosling-Rönnlund, show why this happens. Based on a lifetime’s<br />
work promoting a fact-based worldview, they reveal the ten dramatic<br />
instincts, and the key preconceptions, that lead to us consistently<br />
misunderstanding how the world really works. Inspiring and revelatory,<br />
Factfulness is a book of stories by a late legend, for anyone who wants<br />
to really understand the world.<br />
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