Adventurers, Explorers & Survival

From Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring—and surviving—an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him.

From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook’s death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day....

Laura Hernández, periodista puertorriqueña, publica su libro y cuenta su proceso de ser acusada injustamente de un delito que no cometió. De ser ancla y reportera de televisión a ser encerrada en las peores cárceles del mundo, como lo son las de la República Dominicana.

On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood....

Into Thin Air is the definitive, personal account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest...

Meriwether Lewis and his partner, William Clark, endured incredible hardships and witnessed astounding sights on their 1803 cross-country trip to unexplored West....

Even among iconic frontiersmen like John C. Fremont, Kit Carson, and Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger stands out. A mountain man of the American West, straddling the fur trade era and the age of exploration, he lived the life legends are made of....

The River of Doubt brings alive extraordinary events in a powerful nonfiction narrative thriller that happens to feature one of the most famous Americans who ever lived....

Three friends, women in their fifties, set out to hike "the most beautiful long-distance trail in the world," the John Muir Trail....

I was born and broken in Birkenhead, abused from infancy by a network of every kind of pervert from ‘thinks it’s love’ to ‘show it hurts’. I was unwanted, beaten, sold, swapped, photographed, filmed, left for dead, corrupted, blamed, betrayed, ignored and orphaned....

In this thrilling memoir of a life spent exploring the most incredible places on Earth—from the Great African Seaforest to the crocodile lairs of the Okavango Delta—Craig Foster reveals how we can attend to the earthly beauty around us and deepen our love for all living things....

In the tradition of Educated and The Glass Castle, this shattering and poetic memoir from a brave new voice tells the story of the author’s experience in an apocalyptic cult, and how understanding the natural world was her key to escape—and survival....

Paul Rosolie’s extraordinary adventure in the uncharted tributaries of the Western Amazon - a tale of discovery that vividly captures the awe, beauty, and isolation of this endangered land....

Never-before-told details of underground operations during the Vietnam War told through one airman's inspiring story of true love, honor, and courage....

The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told through the improbable life of one man....

For millennia the location of the Nile River’s headwaters was shrouded in mystery. In the 19th century, there was a frenzy of interest in ancient Egypt. At the same time, European powers sent off waves of explorations intended to map the unknown corners of the globe....

Susan Casey is our premiere chronicler of the aquatic world. For The Underworld she traversed the globe, joining scientists and explorers on dives to the deepest places on the planet....

438 Days is the miraculous account of the man who survived alone and adrift at sea longer than anyone in recorded history....

One of the highest-ranking defectors from Scientology exposes the secret inner workings of the powerful organization in this remarkable memoir....

Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Anker—this vivid and authoritative adventure history chronicles one of the least likely industries on Earth: guided climbing on Mount Everest....

The Last Season examines the extraordinary life of legendary backcountry ranger Randy Morgenson and his mysterious disappearance....

The incredible true story of the entrepreneur turned conservationist - the founder of the iconic company The North Face who used his fortune to protect more than 25 million acres of land from development and exploitation and “foster peace between people and wild nature”....

The true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry—with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter....

In this follow-up to Clanlands Sam & Graham document their journey across New Zealand, a country Graham calls home and that Sam has longed to visit since learning it was a popular destination for Scottish immigrants to settle back in the 19th century....

After years of physical and mental abuse, Jade thought her kindly foster mother would be the answer to her prayers. She was wrong...this is her staggering true story....

Immerse yourself in the captivating life of Horst Dietrich Rüttinger through the pages of "Elephants Have the Right of Way: A UNICEF Memoir." This heartfelt account takes you on a down-to-earth adventure, as Horst shares his extraordinary experiences working with UNICEF and the cherished moments he spent with his family. Prepare to be inspired by the remarkable stories of a man who embodied compassion, resilience, and the unwavering belief in making a positive impact on the world. Join Horst on this intimate journey and discover the power of a life well-lived.

Embark on a captivating adventure with "It Is What It Is", a remarkable book that delves into the profound thoughts and experiences of a man who didn't ignore the whisper...errr uhh...scream, to write. Authored and Narrated by the same, this introspective expression takes listeners on a transformative voyage through the intricate threads of life, exploring the realms of God, family, friends, and self.

"Wild Bill From Boston" is a gripping novella that transports readers to 1944, into the heart of World War II's aerial battles. It follows Sergeant William "Wild Bill" O’Roarke, a left waist gunner on the B-17 bomber, The Spirit of Valley Forge. Stationed at Rougham Airfield in England, Bill and his crew navigate the perilous skies over Nazi-occupied Europe, forging unbreakable bonds amidst the chaos of war. This tale is a vivid portrayal of the courage, camaraderie, and emotional turmoil experienced by these young men. As Bill grapples with the realities of combat, personal loss, and ...

This award-winning work of narrative nonfiction is a raw and haunting account of one girl’s journey through madness, loss, and a broken child welfare system in Los Angeles in the 1980s. Seven-year-old Leslie has a serious problem. Someone is trying to kill her. Her mother Roberta suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, and she writes rambling manifestos and forces her children to live on the run to evade capture by the Russian spies she believes are after them. With every psychotic break, Leslie and her younger brother face terrifying circumstances despite the fact that Roberta’s only wish...

Gypsy Jane Finley wandered on the road full-time solo RVing for five years in a tiny pickup camper starting in the year 2000 at the age of sixty-three. Thereafter for the rest of her life from 2005 to 2017 she stayed true to her dream living in a mobile home in Quartzsite, Arizona – the very heart of Nomandlandia – for the winter half of each year and doing on-the-road RVing the other half. Gypsy Jane was a minimalist solo RVer in terms of things but a maximalist in terms of living life to the fullest. This book is the story about both Gypsy Jane Finley’s wandering life on the road ...

As paramedic Kathy Harms navigates the devastation in the aftermath of the catastrophic 2005 Kashmir Earthquake as a first-time medical aid worker, she is confronted by the scale of suffering she observes in the region, and her own lack of experience in the area of humanitarian work.

At the height of the California gold rush in the late-1840's, a wagon train of men, women, children, and their animals stumbled into a 130-mile-long valley in the Mojave Desert through a "shortcut" to the California coast. What ensued was an ordeal that divided the camp into remnants and struck them with hunger, thirst, and a terrible sense of being lost and beyond hope, until one of their party volunteered to cross the desert to get help. This young hero was one of the survivors of the tragedy, and he lived to tell the tale in this gripping autobiographical account. In a time of unmarked ...

From the court of Imperial Russia to Foxley Manor in Herefordshire, the story begins with the First World War. Part One takes the listener through the Russian Revolution to the formation of the Second Polish Republic and the Polish-Bolshevik war. Part Two begins at the outset to World War Two with the German invasion on September 1st, 1939, and the subsequent invasion by the Soviet Union on the 17th of the same month. The listener is taken through the early months of soviet occupation and then on to the first wave of Polish deportations to Siberia.

She was 17 years old on a Christmas Eve flight 40 years ago to join her father for Christmas when the unimaginable happened. The Lockheed L-188A Electra, on the way from Lima to Pucallpa, flew directly into a thunderstorm. A strike of lightning left the plane incinerated and Juliane Diller (Koepcke) still strapped to her plane seat falling through the night air two miles above the Earth. Her survival is unexplainable and considered a modern-day miracle. Her mother was among the 91 dead and Juliane the sole survivor.

Sparkling with suspense and vulnerability, Tap Dancing on Everest is a true survival story about the risks we take to become our most authentic selves. In this inspiring coming-of-age travel memoir that includes solo hiking through Nepal, Zieman weaves her childhood as the daughter of Jewish immigrants raised in 1970's New York City, her father a Holocaust survivor, with adventure, medicine, and empowerment. She captures the curiosity and awe of a young woman as she faces down messages to stay small and safe and ventures into the unknown.

On average, around 350,000 U.S. students, and nearly one million students worldwide, study abroad every year. Yet since its inception in 1963, only about 73,000 total students from over 1500 colleges and universities have participated in Semester at Sea. It is a truly unique, exclusive, and intimate experience, where students and faculty study, work, and travel to the farthest reaches of the globe.

A memoir of homecoming—Heidi Across America is a gritty story of how opening our hearts to others enables us to open our hearts to ourselves and love what we find there.

Martin Hibbert was left paralysed from the waist down by the Manchester Arena bombing which killed twenty-two people on 22 May 2017. Martin’s teenage daughter Eve was one of the 940 injured, in Eve’s case, gravely. The dad from Bolton has since become a leading campaigner both for victims of the atrocity and those with spinal cord injuries. Determined to make a difference he took on the ultimate challenge, scaling Kilimanjaro in a wheelchair, becoming the second paraplegic to do so, and raising a million pounds for charity.

The generation of young men who grew up in the shadow of World War II but were too young to fight came of age idealizing patriotism and adventure. They burned to live life to the fullest and do their part in the Cold War. In 1951, when BAYARD FOX graduated from Yale, the CIA promised a unique opportunity to do both by serving as a double agent. Assigned to Europe, the Congo, and Iran, Fox—who spoke several languages and was always game to learn new ones—grew disillusioned and resigned after 12 years. Soon after, a horse he was riding cartwheeled on him, shattering his hip.

Have you ever wondered what you would do if you found yourself lost and stranded in the middle of the wilderness on your next hunting trip? The Most Incredible Hunting Stories Ever Told details the intense struggles and the incredible determination to survive of more than ten hunters across the world who found themselves in the kinds of harrowing situations that all hunters fear and dread will never happen to them. You’ll read about: Jeremy Dickson, who was brutally attacked and mauled by a Grizzly Bear while elk hunting in the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming. Dan, a duck hunter who was ...