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We stock a wide range of books online, including fiction, nonfiction and travel guides. Whilst commanding the royal scots greys in italy fiennes father trod on a german antipersonnel smine and died of his wounds eleven days later in naples on 24 november 1943. The transglobe expedition 19791982 was the first expedition to make a longitudinal northsouth circumnavigation of the earth using only surface transport. Ranulph fiennes has published eight books, two of which have been in the sunday times bestseller list.
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