Life on a thread : what doesn't kill you : my story /
by Hull, Jamie.
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BookPublisher: London : Ebury Spotlight, 2022Description: vi, 280 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (colour) ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9781529109672 (pbk.) :; 1529109671 (pbk.) :.Classification number: 362.1971 HULSubject(s): Hull, Jamie | Great Britain. Army. Special Air Service | Burns and scalds -- Patients -- Great Britain | Soldiers -- Great Britain | Health and Fitness | Health and Wellbeing | Memoirs | Social services & welfare, criminology | Self-help & personal developmentSummary: SAS trooper and trainee pilot Jamie Hull was flying solo when his aircraft caught fire. It should have been the end of his life, but it was the beginning of his story. With flames up to his chin, he brought the plane in, climbed out and jumped from the wing. As he lay on the ground, fully conscious, waiting for the emergency services, he could smell his flesh burn. Even if he survived, what would he have left to live for? But this man is made of stern stuff. He fought back from the brink of death, and created a new and profoundly meaningful life from the wreckage of his experience. Meet Jamie Hull, former Special Services soldier, now Ambassador for Help for Heroes and veteran of two marathons, a 3000-mile bicycle race across America and an expedition up Mount Kilimanjaro. His story will take to you to the furthest extremes of human endurance and endeavour.
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| 362.1968 ZOU Chocolate Rain : 100 Ideas for a Creative Approach to Activities in Dementia Care / | 362.1969 JON Lost without you : loving and losing Tanya / | 362.1969 NOL Stronger together : how we're living while fighting / | 362.1971 HUL Life on a thread : what doesn't kill you : my story / | 362.1982 KLA My bump & me: | 362.1989 YOS Raising children with Asperger's syndrome and high-functioning autism : championing the individual / | 362.2 BAT Book therapy in dementia care |
Originally published: 2021.
SAS trooper and trainee pilot Jamie Hull was flying solo when his aircraft caught fire. It should have been the end of his life, but it was the beginning of his story. With flames up to his chin, he brought the plane in, climbed out and jumped from the wing. As he lay on the ground, fully conscious, waiting for the emergency services, he could smell his flesh burn. Even if he survived, what would he have left to live for? But this man is made of stern stuff. He fought back from the brink of death, and created a new and profoundly meaningful life from the wreckage of his experience. Meet Jamie Hull, former Special Services soldier, now Ambassador for Help for Heroes and veteran of two marathons, a 3000-mile bicycle race across America and an expedition up Mount Kilimanjaro. His story will take to you to the furthest extremes of human endurance and endeavour.
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