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In 2001, martial arts-trained biker Glen Heggstad began a journey from California to the tip of South America on his motorcycle and made it as far as Colombia, where he was kidnapped by local rebels and held captive. Undeterred by more than a month of traumatic incarceration, the 'Striking Viking' finished his trip after being released. Three years later he set out into the world on his bike again, this time searching for truth on his own terms in a world that had become strangled by a climate of fear.

With his Pulitzer Prize-winning Annals of the Former World, John McPhee explores not only the richly varied surface of the United States, but the geological wonders hidden deep beneath our feet. In this final book of the series, he embarks on a fascinating journey across the basement of the continent - the land masses forming Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, and thereabouts - with a professor and geochronologist acting as a guide.

WINNER - National Indie Excellence Book Awards FIRST PLACE - Next Generation Indie Book Awards FIRST PLACE - Independent Publisher Living Now Book Awards SILVER HONOREE - Benjamin Franklin Digital Award SECOND PLACE - Reader Views Reviewers Choice Award SECOND PLACE - Great Southwest Book Festival SECOND PLACE - CIPA EVVY Awards An engaging and reflective story woven around the western half of Hanson's bicycle journey from the Pacific to the Atlantic, exploring an America that can only be discovered on winding backroads from the saddle of a bicycle. More than just a travelogue of a bike ...

Das neue Abenteuer des "deutschen Forrest Gump". Bei 45 Grad durch die Mojave-Wüste. Über fast 4000 Meter hohe Gebirgspässe in den Rocky Mountains. Mitten durch die Häuserschluchten von Millionenmetropolen. Und hunderte Kilometer entlang endloser Maisfelder in Nebraska. Dieser Herausforderung stellt sich Extremsportler Jonas Deichmann.

Deep Water Dreams picks up with Hank and Julie as they, after sailing briefly in the Caribbean, prepare their boat for an Atlantic crossing with the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers, or ARC.

Claudio aveva tutto, un buon lavoro, una casa, una fidanzata. All'età di 27 anni sente però che la vita che stava vivendo non è più giusta per lui, che le sta stretta. Così decide di seguire il suo sogno più grande: viaggiare all'avventura, con lo zaino in spalla.