Resultados para "The Odyssey" en Aventureros, exploradores y supervivencia

An seinem 43. Geburtstag stieg Dick Conant, ein Goldjunge, der nie ganz so erwachsen wurde, wie es seine Umgebung erwartete, in ein selbstgebautes Boot, um trotz eines aufziehenden Schneesturms eine Reise anzutreten. Der Beginn einer gewaltigen Odyssee eines unkonventionellen Mannes durch die flüssigen Arterien Amerikas, eine Reise zu den unbekannten Rändern der Gesellschaft. »Riverman« ist das bewegende Porträt eines komplexen und faszinierenden Mannes.

In the summer of 1972, the open road beckoned best friends, nineteen-year-old Barry Johnson and twenty-year-old Bobby Young. Carrying backpacks with the essentials, staples of Kraft Mac and Cheese, dressed in jeans, Frye boots, with $100 each, they set off from their homes in Massachusetts. And so their cross-country adventure began during a time when the bond of trust between driver and hitchhiker was rarely questioned. Little did they know that this journey would shape their lives in ways they could never imagine.

Z’s Odyssey is a personal story of the struggle to find relief for intractable pain in a medical, legal, and political climate that restricts opioid doses that were once the standard of care. Z’s Odyssey spans the watershed year of 2016 when the Centers for Disease Control invited the members of an anti-opioid lobby to develop the pain guideline for the first time in near secrecy and have since been opposed by professional organizations representing half a million doctors.

I have my mother to thank for losing my mind. Her confession made me feel like I’d been released from her womb all over again. It answered all the questions about our family; but what about the mystery that was me? I thought I had everything, but the truth was missing. Her secret inspired a transatlantic voyage, followed by a nomadic lifestyle in Europe, in search of a home, and myself.

What does it take to run the world—literally and figuratively? For Robyn Godfrey, it meant logging thousands of miles and navigating one of the most transformative decades of her life. Running the World is more than a runner’s travelogue, it’s a memoir of reinvention, resilience, and the conviction that it’s never too late to redefine yourself.

“This quietly profound book belongs on the shelf next to Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild.” —The New York Times The riveting true story of Dick Conant, an American folk hero who, over the course of more than twenty years, canoed solo thousands of miles of American rivers—and then...

Seeker: A Sea Odyssey is the story of two people who meet in Mexico and fall in love. Rita is an American part-time English language teacher and freelance reporter for an English language tourist magazine struggling to raise two young boys on her own. Bernard is a French geologist under contract to the Mexican government to search for underground thermal springs.

Michel Adrien, né à Noirmoutier en 1933, est issu d’une famille de pêcheur. Dès l'âge de 14 ans, il embarque comme mousse à bord du "Fleur de Mai". Il y apprendra le dur métier de marin pêcheur dans les conditions ultra-précaires de l'époque, et connaitra même un naufrage, dont il sortira marqué à vie.

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2024 NATIONAL OUTBOOK AWARD FOR JOURNEYS SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 SPEAKER'S BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR THE BANFF MOUNTAIN BOOK COMPETITION FOR ADVENTURE TRAVEL From Canada’s most accomplished adventurer and storyteller comes a gripping journey into the...