A challenge - please suggest a book for my dh

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He's bookless at the moment and getting restless - apparently none of the many unread books in the house will do. He claims to not want a novel - he wants "a ripping adventure yarn based on truth" and extra points will be given for the inclusion of food and or fishing. To give you some more clues , other books he has enjoyed are everything by Mark Kurlansky, Into the Heart of Borneo by Redmond O Hanlon and Waterlog by Richard Deakin.

life of pi.?

Touching The Void?

a ripping adventure yarn which Yann Martell cleverly makes you think is based on truth.

five go to Smugglers Top

DH says the patrick o'brian master and commander series will hit the spot

Blood River by Tim somebody. Butcher i think.

kitchen confidential

not sure there's much fishing in it, but food.. yep, deffo food

dp started to read the master & commander series and enjoyed it

He's read Life of Pi and Kitchen Confidential. He's seen the film of Touching the Void - will check out Master and Commander and Blood River looks promising....

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bordain is a great shout, squonk! One of the handfull of book my DP has read.

What about "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad?

I second Touching the Void (a true story), absolutely brilliant, terrifying. Pretty sure it's got food in it somewhere.

x-posted. If he liked Touching the Void there's also The Death Zone by Matt Dickinson (along similar lines)

there's a sequel to Kitchen Confidential if he enjoyed that.

"a cooks tour" I think it's called.

yes, it is called A Cooks Tour (don't know why I couldn't have looked for the link in my first post

Sorry Squonk - too good a call he's read that too!

Assume he's read Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger?

has he also read The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers? (novel - but great stuff all the same).

My dh is very excitedly about to start Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household - classic thriller (sorry, another novel).

A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby (more of a giggle than a ripping adventure but non-fiction, and good).

the White Nile and The Blue Nile are great books - erm, who by? (googles) Alan Moorehead

The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry Garrard

has he read the lonely sea and the sky?

DH read 'Trawler' and thought it was OK. It ticks the 'fish' box.

Oh! Also 'The Reason Why' by Cecil Woodham Smith, about the Charge of the Light Brigade. Wonderful.

Thanks for these! They 're obviously right up his alley because he's read most already! But I'll be sure to check the rest and any others out.

This is a brilliant bookj : food writer describing foods, tastes and his adventures trying them
here

Hmm, was also going to suggest Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential!

Failing that, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is hilarious.

yup read those last 2 too, fear and loathing one of his favourites!

DH says the Flashman novels are good for ripping adventure - but they are fiction.