Alan Burgess Libri

A full length portrait of a headstrong, working, loving and ambitious woman.

Ingrid Bergman - winner of three Academy Awards - tells her own story both onstage and off. The book describes her relationships with the characters she knew and worked with, including Selznick, Garbo, Bogart, Gary Cooper and Ingmar Bergman. Above all, she reveals the story of her personal life - her childhood in Sweden, her marriages (including her dramatic and controversial elopement with Roberto Rossellini), and, in more recent years, her battle against cancer. She died in 1982.

In this pioneering anthology, Clint Willis presents 75 years of great writing -- from Neil O'Dell to Jon Krakauer -- on the fabled peaks. Here are stories of two British expeditions to Everest in the 1920s; a piece on the 1939 K2 attempt that claimed four climbers' lives; a firsthand account by the Sherpa who reached the summit of Everest in 1953 with Edmund Hillary; the story of the first successful American assault on K2 in 1978; a British photographer's view of the calamitous 1996 storm on Everest; and many more -- a cornucopia of mountaineering thrills for adventurous readers.

Nur einen Berufswunsch hat die junge Engländerin Gladys Aylward: Missionarin in China zu werden. Allen Widerständen zum Trotz und ohne Unterstützung der Missionsgesellschaft tritt sie im Oktober 1930 die abenteuerliche Reise nach Osten an. Wie sie das Misstrauen der Chinesen besiegt, die Achtung des Mandarins und die Liebe eines jungen chinesischen Offiziers erringt, schildert Alan Burgess in diesem Tatsachenbericht, der mit Ingrid Bergman und Curd Jürgens verfilmt wurde.§§

Das Lied der Elefanten/Die Herberge zur sechsten Glückseligkeit/Schnee in der Karibik/Gefährliche Wege - bk675; Verlag "Das Beste"; Wilbur Smith/Alan Burgess/Bernard Cornwell/Monica Hughes; Paperback; 1993