Títulos en Aventureros, exploradores y supervivencia

Jeff Appelquist has traveled to all 50 of the United States, myriad foreign countries, and six continents. He has survived three years in the Marine Corps infantry; a violent rock slide on Mount Kilimanjaro; a Force Nine gale in a sailboat on the Atlantic Ocean; a frozen regulator while wreck-diving deep in icy Lake Superior; and a ghostly encounter with a Confederate soldier on Little Round Top at Gettysburg. He is a student of history who teaches leadership. He is an international sportsman who loves the outdoors. And he is deeply concerned about the state of our beloved Earth.

When John and Jean Silverwood, both experienced sailors, decided to give their four children a taste of life on the high seas, they hoped the trip would offer important learning experiences - not only about the natural world but about the beauty of human life stripped down to its essence, far from civilization. But the adventure that awaited them would surpass anything they could have imagined.

Brought to you by Penguin. Beautifully written and full of wonderful descriptions and intriguing tales, In Patagonia is an account of Bruce Chatwin's travels to a remote country in search of a strange beast and his encounters with the people whose fascinating stories delay him on the road. 

Brought to you by Penguin. The year is 1735. Twelve unruly men board ships bound for South America. Their mission? To discover the true shape of the earth. They will be exposed to a wilderness of dangers none can imagine. The survivors won't return for ten years. An almost forgotten moment in...

In 1955, García Márquez was working for El Espectador, a newspaper in Bogota, when in February of that year eight crew members of the Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were washed overboard and disappeared. Ten days later one of them turned up, barely alive, on a deserted beach in northern Colombia. This book, which originally appeared as a series of newspaper articles, is García Márquez’s account of that sailor’s ordeal. 

Lola Montez was one of the most celebrated and notorious women of the nineteenth century. A raven-haired Andalusian who performed her scandalous “Spider Dance” in the greatest performance halls across Europe, she dazzled and beguiled all who met her with her astonishing beauty, sexuality, and shocking disregard for propriety. But Lola was an impostor, a self-invention. Born Eliza Gilbert, the beautiful Irish wild child escaped a stifling marriage and reimagined herself as Lola the Sevillian flamenco dancer and noblewoman.

Durante siglos, los europeos situaron la legendaria ciudad de El Dorado en la selva más grande y densa del mundo: la del Amazonas. La obsesión por encontrar ese paraíso dejó la jungla impenetrable sembrada de cadáveres, lo que no fue impedimento para el explorador británico Percy Fawcett. Después de emprender una expedición tras otra sin éxito, en 1925 desapareció sin dejar rastro. En 2005, David Grann se adentró en el «infierno verde» para averiguar qué había ocurrido allí. El resultado es una reconstrucción magistral dela aventura de Percy Fawcett.

Esta obra presenta la vida del Ernesto Guevara Lynch, el “Che”, en un género de comedia musical que utiliza temas pertenecientes a distintos géneros musicales de América Latina para explorar la vida de uno de los mitos más grandes de Occidente. ¿Quién fue el Che? ¿Un revolucionario que encontró la aventura? ¿O un aventurero que encontró la revolución? ¿Es lícito moralmente vivir y morir en la utopía?

In Polish: This is a story about the journey of two brothers who travelled through the largest river in the world on...bikes. But not ordinary bikes - they were "Amazonian” bikes. The story is as bodacious as the trip itself, which seemed like an unachievable madness, but turned out to be a great adventure and a valuable life lesson. For one of its heroes it was a dream come true, for another the last chance for salvation. The book is written by Piotr Chmieliński - the first person on Earth who sailed through the Amazon River in a kayak.

Agatha Christie’s personal memoirs about her travels to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan, where she worked on the digs and wrote some of her most evocative novels. Think you know Agatha Christie? Think again! To the world she was Agatha Christie...

De 1934 à 1935, Paul-Emile Victor séjourna au Groenland avec une petite équipe de scientifiques. En 1936, il traversa la calotte glacière du Groenland. Il hiverna ensuite seul avec une famille esquimau de la côte Est. De 1936 à 1946, il parcourt les Alpes, la Laponie, la Suède, la Finlande, l'Alaska, les iles Aléoutiennes, selon les nécessités de l'époque. Démobilisé en juillet 1946, il rentre en France et organise les Expéditions Polaires Françaises. En 1953, ces Expéditions comptaient à leur actif cinq campagnes d'été et 2 hivernages au Groenland, et 5 campagnes d'été et 3 hivernages en Terre Adélie.

Full Tilt is the inspiring true story of Dervla Murphy's 1963 journey from Ireland to India on an Armstrong Cadet bicycle, and the trials, landscapes, and cultures she encountered along the way. The route takes her through the valleys and snowy mountain passes of Europe and India to the scorching deserts of Afghanistan and Pakistan, where the metal of her bicycle, Rozinante (named after Don Quixote's steed), becomes too hot to touch.

The inspiring true story of one man’s treacherous boyhood journey from a rural village in Ghana to the streets of Barcelona - and the path that led him home.

Mais do que judeu, Eddie Jaku sempre se considerou alemão. Ele sentia orgulho do seu país natal. Mas, em novembro de 1938, tudo mudou: dez nazistas invadiram sua casa e o espancaram quase até a morte. Naquela noite, que ficou conhecida para sempre na história como a Noite dos Cristais, Eddie foi preso e levado a um campo de concentração.

Nava, a sud di Kabul. Gli uomini di un ricco mercante bussano alla porta...

Claire wasn’t looking for a different life. She already had one. Then a ticket showed up in her inbox. What followed wasn’t a plan. It wasn’t a fantasy. It was movement. Fast. Reckless. Undeniable. Las Vegas. Europe. A connection she couldn’t explain and couldn’t control. A life waiting back home. A choice she didn’t plan to make. This is not a story about what it all meant. It’s about what it felt like to live it. Just the moments as they happened,before the meaning settled. Based on a true story too wild to be fiction. The gamble wasn’t Vegas. It was him.

Forget “How much money do you have?” Ask “What kind of life are you living?” You want more. You dream of accomplishments that mean far more to you than mere money in the bank—but aren’t sure where to start. Start here. Instead of chasing wealth as a measurement of success, Mike...

"I felt like killing myself." That's the sentence Paula Axelrod couldn't say out loud, until a poster taped to a dormitory wall gave her somewhere to go. What followed was twenty years of therapy spent unpacking a childhood ruled by an alcoholic father, a mother's own eating disorder, and a family that made love feel dangerous. It's the story of a miscarriage, a lost sense of self, and the slow, unglamorous work of finding her way back, through psychoanalysis, through painting, and eventually into a forty-year marriage and a son adopted from Romania. This isn't a polished self help book.

In July of 1993 a particularly heavy monsoon drenched the foothills of the Himalayas, and extended even into the ‘rainshadow’ – the area beyond the lush hills and into the drier mountains. Roads collapsed into rivers, new lakes formed behind landslides, and people generally got wet! A little band of motor-bikers rode up into that weather and that wild country, and met with delays, discomforts, and… well... relationship troubles! This is the diary of the girlfriend of the ‘leader of the pack’, as she suffers, and bounces on the bike, and gasps for air at high altitudes...

A deeply moving and intimate story that reveals how the ravages of history that tore one family apart echo across continents nearly a century later. "A memoir which ranks alongside The Hare with Amber Eyes."—The Times (London) "Brilliant."—The Economist Sorting through papers and photographs...