Títulos en Aventureros, exploradores y supervivencia

In 4 Wochen vom südlichsten Punkt bis hoch über den Polarkreis und weiter auf Vesteralen und Lofoten – das ist die Route von Guidos Radreise im Abenteuer NORWEGEN. Mit allen Winden und Wettern konfrontiert, erlebt er Norwegen im wahrsten Sinne hautnah. Guido überwindet Passtraßen und wird mit einzigartigen Bildern belohnt, er sitzt mit einer Familie eine helle Nacht zusammen am Fjord und beginnt, das Land zu verstehen.

‘Incredible individual, incredible book, incredible story.’ CHRIS HEMSWORTH ‘A hero who is as humble as he is resilient… testament to a “never give up” spirit!’ BEAR GRYLLS ‘From reading this book, the message that comes shining through is this: you can achieve anything.’ ANT...

Joe Simpson, with just his partner Simon Yates, tackled the unclimbed West Face of the remote 21,000 foot Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in June 1995. But before they reached the summit, disaster struck. A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frostbitten, to tell...

David Livingstone was a Scottish missionary and one of the greatest European explorers who ever lived. He fought all his life against slavery, and is remembered as a national hero for opening up the interior of the so-called "Dark Continent"; his expeditions had a tremendous influence on the colonization of Africa and the relation between Europeans and Africans. The son of a Christian missionary himself, Livingstone felt a spiritual calling to reach people in the interior of Africa in order to find new commercial routes and thus free the Africans from the plague of slavery.

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER The epic account of the storm on the summit of Mt. Everest that claimed five lives and left countless more—including Krakauer's—in guilt-ridden disarray. “A harrowing tale of the perils of high-altitude climbing, a story of bad luck and worse judgment and of...

Devastated by the unexpected end of her decades-long marriage, renowned spiritual teacher and intuitive guide Sonia Choquette undertook an equally unexpected move and relocated to Paris, the scene of many happy memories from her life as a student and young mother. Arriving in the aftermath of...

A Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, Angela’s Ashes is Frank McCourt’s masterful memoir of his childhood in Ireland—now with a new introduction by Patrick Radden Keefe. “When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a...

Frenchman Lionel Terray is one of mountaineering history's greatest alpinists, and his autobiography, Conquistadors of the Useless, stands among the "100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time", according to National Geographic Adventure magazine. Following World War II, when France desperately needed successes to heal its wounds, Terray emerged as a national hero, conquering summits atop the planet's highest mountains.

El 20 de julio del 1969, el astronauta estadounidense Neil Armstrong pisó por fin la superficie lunar. Uno de los grandes sueños de la humanidad se hacía realidad ante la atenta mirada de millones de personas que asistían emocionadas a aquella cita con la historia a través de sus...

When life threatens to collapse, you can still choose your comeback. For most of my life, I’ve dealt in chaos. I was a retail turnaround specialist, and I knew how to bring order to the mayhem and fix anything that was broken. Except, as it turned out, my own sense of invincibility. For years, I lived with the quiet knowledge that cancer ran in my family like an inherited storm—my sister, my mother, and my grandmother were taken by the disease. I spent a decade fortifying my body and hoping against all odds that I wouldn’t have to battle the tempest.

Buckle up and get ready to embark on an adrenaline-fueled journey inside All In Adventure Stories. With heart-racing accounts of his past 25 years of pushing the limits of adventure in his hometown of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the iconic Grand Teton National Park, and across the globe, Tim Walther...

This anthology of survival stories covers the craziest and most enthralling wilderness encounters in American history. After mining our 126-year archive, we uncovered 10 tales of adventure and near tragedy that include close calls with aggressive grizzly bears, epic blizzards, hungry wolves, and much more. The thread that ties all of these narratives together is the authors’ grit and will to preserve — and then tell the tale.

Francis Pretty was a diarist and sailor who wrote detailed accounts of his two separate circumnavigations of the globe. The first was with Sir Francis Drake (1577-1580) and the second with Thomas Cavendish (1588).

Eben Etzebeth is die Springbokrugbyspeler wat al die meeste toetswedstryde in Suid-Afrikaanse rugbygeskiedenis gespeel het. Met hom in die span was die Bokke vir twee agtereenvolgende Wêreldbekers onoorwinlik. In hierdie eerlike vertelling deel Eben sy aangrypende reis van ‘n Afrikaanse laaitie van Goodwood tot wêreldkampioen.

From the detective who caught the Parking Lot Rapist comes the inside true account of a massacre that shook a California community. On the morning of July 12, 1976, Edward Charles Allaway walked into the library of California State University, Fullerton, where he worked and opened fire, killing...

During the Age of Exploration, some of the most famous and infamous individuals were Spain's best known conquistadors. Naturally, as the best known conquistador, Hernán Cortés (1485-1547) is also the most controversial. Like Christopher Columbus before him, Cortés was lionized for his successes for centuries without questioning his tactics or motives, while indigenous views of the man have been overwhelmingly negative for the consequences his conquests had on the Aztecs and other natives in the region.

Three months into her new career as a Delta flight attendant, Margaret McCallum has two goals: survive probation and manifest a magical twenty-fifth birthday. Airport standby delivers more than she asked for. Margaret is sent to Rome with Dane Whitfield, the handsome first officer who appeared...

A dying warrior's last testament on the extraordinary power hidden in every human mind.They gave him two weeks. He gave them a legend.When terminal cancer returned to finish what it started, Bryan Silman, the grandfather who had already defeated death twice, did not go quietly. He sat down to...

He was almost gone. But his story wasn't over. In February 2011, Robert B. Routt came frighteningly close to death. After years of pain, dependence, and choices that slowly pulled his life apart, his body finally gave out. Days passed before his daughter and former brother-in-law found him. When...

Conquistador español de Puerto Rico y descubridor de Florida, y eterno buscador de la 'fuente de la eterna juventud', fue paje en la corte de Fernando el Católico y combatió en la conquista del reino de Granada. Sin embargo, tras su primer viaje a América lo con Cristóbal Colón en 1493, alcanzaría la inmortalidad histórica.