Frigid Women

By Sue Riches and Victoria Riches

Foreword by Dawn French

In 1997, 50-year-old cancer survivor Sue Riches and her daughter

Victoria joined 18 other women to embark on the world’s first all female expedition to the North Pole. Incredibly intimate, inspirational and often hilarious, Frigid Women traces the team’s incredible journey through the snowy expanses of the world’s most hazardous terrain.

ISBN: 9781903070741

We certainly believed in the groundbreaking and ‘revolutionary’ Mission:Explore book which Can of Worms published this April 1st. But it wonderful to receive such an endorsement for the great work of The Geography Collective and Tom Morgan-Jones’s humourous illustrations. And if you haven’t got a copy yet, you can order by clicking here: Mission:Explore or through your local bookstore on online retailer.

The wonderfully inventive and incorrigibly curious crew at The Geography Collective have launched a new blog to track stories in the media about risk aversion. Our recently published book: Mission:Explore, written by The Geography Collective and illustrated by Tom Morgan-Jones is the purest antidote known to man*(kind) and beast for the cotton wool culture that our children are being enveloped in.

Do please go and take a look at their blog: http://thegeographycollective.wordpress.com/ as well as the book, and please tell your friends.

* for man please also read woman, boy, girl, child, etc. etc

It all started with The Geography Collective in 2008, and Mission:Explore is about to be released into the wild:

“For all our sakes we need more children falling off branches, getting lost in forests and getting stuck inside trees. The message is simple; it is more risky not to go into the woods. It is dangerous for not only the health of the individual but the world.

Recently the media has been wrapped up in a blanket of stories about cotton-wool kids.”

This was the beginning of a fascinating blog post on the Stanfords Bookstore website, written by Daniel Raven-Ellison of The Geography Collective. You can read the entire blog here: http://www.stanfords.co.uk/articles/blog/the-geography-collective-get-lost-kids,229,AR.html

And please pre-order your copy/ies of MIssion:Explore off these pages as well. For every two you buy a third copy WILL be donated to kids who can’t afford their own copy.

In The Letter from Death, Lillian Moats constructs an astonishing appraisal of humanity through the eyes of Death itself. As an insightful, philosophical and surprisingly witty narrator, Death takes a tour through the follies of human past, present and future to approach seemingly complex matters with a simple clarity. At once unsettling and comforting, tragic and comic, provocative and wise, The Letter from Death is an insightful examination of humanity that will give thoughtful readers quite a lot to think about.

Praise for The Letter from Death

“Moats uses death not as a threat, but as a prism through which to examine the most profound questions that confront the human race today.” from the forward by Howard Zinn

“…In her fourth book, Moats performs an astonishing feat. By imagining Death as a patient and suffering entity fluent in human affairs, she broaches matters of daunting complexity with galvanizing directness…this clarion critique offers an arresting perspective on religion, our ‘growing militarism,’ our ‘inexhaustible genius for denial,’ and our paradoxical failure to nurture our best qualities…Moats has created a wise, unsettling, and beautiful book.” Donna Seaman, Booklist

“…The Letter from Death is an intelligent and delightful exploration of the human comic tragedy. It has the light flavor, wit, and prick of Praise of Folly and Screwtape Letters but the deep insights and jabs come more from the perspective of Epicurus. This is a book that thoughtful people will want to give to thoughtful friends.” Philip Regal, Author of The Anatomy of Judgement, Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota