Mostrando títulos en Supervivencia, Aventureros y Exploradores

Everest–the highest peak in the world, the ultimate challenge to a mountaineer's skill and endurance. It had been climbed before, but never like this. Chris Bonington and his team had ambitions to climb it–the hard way.

Until We Meet Again On Grief, Love, and the Science of Lasting Connections by Maria Baiu-Păvăleanu What happens when the person you love most disappears from your life? Until We Meet Again is a deeply moving and insightful book about grief, loss, and the enduring power of love. Written after the sudden death of the author’s husband, this book speaks to anyone who has lost someone dear—a partner, a parent, a child, a friend—and has struggled to understand what comes next. Blending personal memoir with modern psychology and neuroscience, Maria Baiu-Păvăleanu explores grief not as a ...

War Born is the true story of a soldier who beat the odds from birth and went on to serve in one of the longest wars in American history. From a premature baby doctors said wouldn’t survive to a battle-hardened Army veteran, Perris Sutton takes you through the defining moments of his life—from the streets of Aurora, Colorado to the war-torn sands of Iraq. With unfiltered truth, grit, and heart, War Born chronicles his rise through the ranks, his struggles with faith, loss, brotherhood, and the cost of combat—leading up to his final tour in Iraq. This isn’t just a war story. It’s his story.

At the tender ages of five and seven years old, sisters Judy and Cherie were removed from the loving home of their maternal grandparent's farm in Sycamore Illinois and put on a plane to go live in Southern California with their mother and soon to be stepfather; a sadistic perpetrator and child molester. Violence, torture, sexual abuse, and the unconscionable acts of their mother would be the theme of their lives for the next eleven years. Even though they were physically separated from their grandparents, the grandparents never forgot their granddaughters. Their continuous love and devotion...

A Child in Berlin is the true story of a mother, a daughter, and their courage in the face of Nazi terror. Käthe is a mother who must choose between her dreams as a rising star in the opera and her conscience. She discovers the truth about her Jewish friends around the time she attends a dinner party presided by Adolf Hitler himself. She realizes she cannot remain among Nazi society and makes the gut-wrenching choice to leave the opera. To support herself and young Heidi, she joins Berlin’s black-market network and ends up dealing with more than just food.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to find yourself strapped to a giant rocket that's about to go from zero to 17,500 miles per hour? Or to look back on Earth from outer space and see the surprisingly precise line between day and night? Or to stand in front of the Hubble Space Telescope, wondering if the emergency repair you're about to make will inadvertently ruin humankind's chance to unlock the universe's secrets? Mike Massimino has been there, and in Spaceman he puts you inside the suit.

Chronicles of Deplorabella traces Deplorabella’s journey from the horrors of an abusive first homelife to the optimism of the American dream. Laced with despair, trauma, and death, her life takes a winding road away from a dysfunctional path. Her memoir reveals how her husband, family, friends, and faith liberated her from parents indoctrinated in a dystopian ideology.

Few men can say they have known Africa as Capstick has known itleading safaris through lion country; tracking man-eating leopards along tangled jungle paths; running for cover as fear-maddened elephants stampede in all directions. And of the few who have known this dangerous way of life, fewer still can recount their adventures with the flair of this former professional hunter-turned-writer.

Ten harrowing firsthand tales of survival from the creators of the New York Times bestselling audio collection MeatEater's Campfire Stories: Close Calls. In Campfire Stories: Narrow Escapes & More Close Calls, storytellers take us from Florida to the Northern Rockies to the Arctic Ocean with...

Many people dream of escaping modern life, but most will never act on it. This is the remarkable true story of a man who lived alone in the woods of Maine for 27 years, making this dream a reality—not out of anger at the world, but simply because he preferred to live on his own. A New York...

Led by Brigadier-General Charles Granville Bruce, the 1922 Everest Expedition storms the unforgiving slopes of Mount Everest armed with pioneering bottled oxygen and unbreakable resolve. George Mallory and his comrades push beyond the limits of human endurance, shattering altitude records by reaching over 27,000 feet—whilst battling howling winds, treacherous ice, and a devastating avalanche that claims brave lives.

Le commandant Olivier Claux est commandant de bord depuis de nombreuses années. Seul maître à bord de son paquebot des airs, il a la responsabilité de gérer tous les imprévus pour amener ses passagers à bon port. Passagers en crise, problèmes techniques, imprévus météorologiques, avaries mécaniques... chaque vol a ses petites surprises ! Et dans 99 % des cas, tout est géré dans le secret du cockpit pour le plus grand bonheur des passagers. Olivier Claux nous dit tout de son quotidien dans lequel il est amené à gérer toutes sortes de soucis.

With the quick wit and dry humour of a true Irishman, David "Irish" Anderson documents his epic eighteen-month motorcycle adventure from Ireland to South Africa in this captivating memoir. What begins as a lofty idea in a pub becomes a reality after six years of planning when Irish and his wife purposefully set out with their two heavily loaded motorcycles. Somewhere along the way, Irish loses his wife, but amidst the heartbreak, turmoil, and challenges on the long and often bumpy road, he gains a whole new perspective on life.

Brought to you from the Peter Capstick Library. Major W. Robert Foran once killed a lion while "garbed in dinner clothes and patent leather shoes" in the days when it was still possible to meet simba in the streets of Nairobi. He hunted the big five of the dangerous game, experienced many close shaves in the process. Buckley served in the Boer War, and in the British East Africa Police, a paramilitary group that blazed a rough trail through Kenya's early days. He survived injury and disease, and covered Theodore Roosevelt's famous safari for the Associated Press.

The author was a cannoneer in the historic Rockbridge (Va.) Artillery, which made for itself, from Manassas to Appomattox, a reputation second to none in the Confederate service. No more vivid picture has been presented of the private soldier in camp, on the march, or in action. It was written evidently not with any commercial view, but was an undertaking from a conviction that its performance was a question of duty to his comrades.

Lovestruck and newly unemployed, Andrew Singer cashes in his savings to investigate a key question: Is #vanlife as awesome as it looks? After all, what could go wrong when two millennials—who have never used a saw before—attempt to convert a plumber’s van into a tiny home-on-wheels?

Lew spent most of his life preparing for the next great thing. He had finally arrived at his dream job in a perfect, sleepy community in Wisconsin. Pastor of an active church, varsity volleyball coach, and burgeoning leader in the community, life seemed to be falling into place. But the next great thing, a terminal diagnosis from pancreatic cancer, intercepted these plans. Follow him as he weaves a story facing unimaginable odds and unmentionable outcomes when his fight against cancer gave birth to an unlikely hope.

In this thought-provoking and illuminating memoir, the author weaves together the wisdom of ancient traditions with the discoveries of modern science, quantum physics, and neuroscience. The author takes listeners on a transformative journey not only across the world, but into the depths of the heart —exploring how thought, emotion, and energy shape human experience.

Archbishop Richard Rushman from Primal Fear perfectly epitomizes the American Irish Catholic Clergy: hearty, backslapping, self-intoxicated, glib, pedophile psychopaths enabled by abject slave-like parishioners shamelessly guffawing at their lame jokes. Archbishop Rushman, as a symbolic cipher, resonates with a comprehensive cultural and historical assessment that has come-to-light in survivor testimonies, and cultural analysis. Rushman has been interpreted as an accurate and chilling embodiment of pervasive clerical corruption: a man whose public persona disguises secret depravity, whose ...

La hija del guerrillero y la loca es la poderosa memoria de una niña exiliada en la Ciudad de México a causa de la guerra en su país natal.