At only seventeen, Monica Seles became the number one female tennis player in the world. As she won championship after championship, leaving established stars in her wake, it seemed nothing could stop her. Nothing, but a nine-inch knife wielded by a crazed fan of Steffi Graf.

As one of the most successful coaches in world rugby history, Rod MacQueen did it all, coaching the Australian Wallabies to beating the 'unbeatable' Lions, and bringing home the most coveted prize of all - the World Cup. MacQueen reveals how he took the lessons he learned from life and running his own multimillion dollar business and applied them to coaching rugby teams

A mountaineering travelogue of dazzling variety, the story moves from the camaraderie of deprived Russian climbers in the little-known peaks in the Tien Shan to the awesome experience of the North Face of the Eiger, from a rumbustious motorbike ride across Asia to hitch hiking across Australia with a psychotic lorry driver.