Any of the books about the Uruguayan Rugby team's plane crash in 1972 are excellent, but I enjoyed "They Lived on Human Flesh" the most, if you can find it. Also, Nando Parrado's "Miracle in the Andes" is an outstanding book. He was one of the survivors of the ill-fated flight.

I heartily recommend the following adventure-filled biographical work:

"Captain Marryat: Seaman, Writer and Adventurer" by Tom Pocock (2000)

Batavia's Graveyard by Mike Dash is an excellent read. It's about a Dutch ship that gets wrecked in the Indian Ocean in the 17th century. The man leading the survivors was a psychopath.

Yes, Batavia's Graveyard was excellent! I also highly recommend that one.

"Red Watch" by Gordon Honeycombe - Amazon précis: "this is the best selling story of the London firemen who fought a fatal blaze at the Worsley Hotel, London. It is a true story of raw courage and determination".

"Escape from Colditz" by Pat Reid - one of the prisoners of war held there in WWII.

"Apollo 13:Lost Moon" by Jim Lovell, the mission commander. The film was based on this book.

"The Innocent Man" by John Grisham. the true story of murder and small town justice gone horribly wrong. [I like Grishams fiction stories so I didn't read the blurb on the back of the book and was half way through before I realised this was a true story. Grisham is an excellent writer].

I hope you enjoy these stories as much as I did.

Not technically an adventure more an autobiography of a women who has had a "different" childhood and turbulent early adulthood: Infedel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali.