Títulos en Aventureros, exploradores y supervivencia

Kit Carson: The Life of an American Border Man strikes a balance between prevailing notions about this quintessential Western figure. Whereas the dime novelists exploited Carson's popular reputation, Remley reveals that the real man was dependable, ethical, and - for his day - relatively open-minded. Remley sees Carson as a complicated man struggling to master life on America's borders, where people of different races, cultures, and languages met, mixed, and fought, sometimes against each other, sometimes together, for the possession of home, hunting rights, and honor.

The battlefield didn't end when he left the war. It followed him home.In this raw and unflinching memoir, a former Army Ranger captain and combat sniper takes you inside two invisible wars: the one he fought overseas and the one still raging inside his mind. From the chaos of Mogadishu to the...

IntroductionUpon Awakening is the story of a life changed by questions that refused to go away. It is a memoir about searching for truth through pain, recovery, fear, curiosity, and self-reflection. As my perception of the world deepened, I began to question the beliefs I had inherited, the...

Das lustige Logbuch geht weiter!Ulli ist zurück und natürlich ist sie noch immer fest davon überzeugt, dass auf der Knulli ohne sie überhaupt nichts funktionieren würde.Wer Ulli bereits kennt, weiß: Sie ist klein, grau, hat vier Hufe und eine ausgesprochen große Meinung zu praktisch...

Der er sjældent vindstille omkring Rane Willerslev. Heller ikke da han som nyudnævnt direktør for Nationalmuseet gik i gang med at transformere nationens historieformidling med kedsomhedsknapper og provokerende udstillinger. Men Rane Willerslev er ikke en mand, der vender om på halvvejen...

They came for an aoudad. Getting everyone off the mountain became the real hunt.Jared, Brad, and Brads seventeen-year-old son, Caden, head into the Big Bend country of Southwest Texas for a self-guided hunt. They know the terrain, they have done this before, and they believe they are ready. Then...

He grew up without a father, raised by a woman who worked sixty hours a week and never let her children feel the weight of what they lacked. Her grit became his inheritance. Victor Bretting carried it from the football fields of Texas to the concrete floors of nuclear power plants, from the...

From the moment he ran away from school before his 13th birthday, Frank Hurley carved a path as one of the greatest adventurers of all time. A visionary photographer and filmmaker, Hurley journeyed to the farthest corners of the earth, capturing images of people and places few had ever seen. Time and again he risked his life, in both peace and war, to take pictures that would astonish the world. Hurley traversed every continent. He made five perilous expeditions to Antarctica, sharing a hut with Douglas Mawson and a tent with Ernest Shackleton.

From the moment he ran away from school before his 13th birthday, Frank Hurley carved a path as one of the greatest adventurers of all time. A visionary photographer and filmmaker, Hurley journeyed to the farthest corners of the earth, capturing images of people and places few had ever seen. Time and again he risked his life, in both peace and war, to take pictures that would astonish the world. Hurley traversed every continent. He made five perilous expeditions to Antarctica, sharing a hut with Douglas Mawson and a tent with Ernest Shackleton.

The dramatic, high-stakes account of Artemis II, the first human journey into deep space in fifty years, told from the perspective of astronaut Jeremy Hansen, with a foreword by Chris Hadfield The historic Artemis II mission was celebrated around the world and broke the record for the farthest...

Marilyn Johnson's Lives in Ruins is an absorbing and entertaining look at the lives of contemporary archaeologists as they sweat under the sun for clues to the puzzle of our past. Johnson digs and drinks alongside archaeologists, and chases them through the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, and even Machu Picchu. Her subjects share stories about slaves and Ice Age hunters, ordinary soldiers of the American Revolution, Chinese woman warriors, sunken fleets, and mummies.

An awe-inspiring narrative about the power of nature and our place within it, from the creator of My Octopus Teacher, filmmaker Craig Foster “Amphibious Soul is an important book. . . . This book isn't about learning how to be wild but rather a guide to recognizing and reconnecting with the...

Nick Bullock is a climber who lives in a small, green van, flitting between Llanberis, Wales, and Chamonix in the French Alps. Tides, Nick’s second work, is the much-anticipated follow-up to his critically acclaimed debut, Echoes. Tides is a gripping memoir that captures the very essence of what it means to dedicate one’s life to climbing.

Turning her back on her privileged life in Victorian England, Gertrude Bell (1868-1926), fired by her innate curiosity, journeyed the world and became fascinated with all things Arab. Traveling the length and breadth of the Arab region, armed with a love for its language and its people, she not...

"To boldly go where no man has gone before" was a phrase made popular by Gene Rodenberry in a science fiction setting, but it was certainly the creed of countless explorers during the Age of Discovery and afterwards. In fact, as recently as the mid-18th century, a young sailor named James Cook determined to go "farther than any man has been before me, but as far as I think it is possible for a man to go." And unlike so many others who tried, he did just that.

There comes a point in every woman's life when silence is no longer an option, a point where the floodgates give way to years of suppressed resentment, a point at which she finds herself marooned on an island with no sign of help in sight. For Brenda L. Tress, this moment came after enduring...

"Every Vietnamese person has stories to share, but Amy M. Le's story is both deeply personal and universally inspiring. From surviving unimaginable hardships to building a legacy that uplifts others, her journey reminds us that courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision to keep moving...

From the outside, everything looked polished. Inside, it was survival. Many people know Jennifer Walcott Archuleta as Playboy's Miss August 2001. They saw the photos and the glamour, the life behind the velvet ropes. They never saw the story. In this raw and honest memoir, Jennifer shares her...

What if "impossible" isn't a fact at all but simply a belief that has never been challenged?Every extraordinary achievement in history was once dismissed as impossible. Flight. Electricity. Breaking the four-minute mile. Crossing the Atlantic alone. Walking on the moon. Before these became...

In 1970, Caleb' s family hit the Hippie Trail from Amsterdam to India in search of nirvana and/or hash— whatever came first. Caleb' s disabled parents, Sam (a paraplegic professor who used a wheelchair) and Carol (a frustrated feminist with an undiagnosed bipolar disorder) dropped out of...