French Expedition

To understand the man who led a revolution, one must first understand the iron and the mud. Before he was a marble icon of American independence, George Washington was a creature of raw, untested ambition. At sixteen, he stepped into the suffocating rain of the Shenandoah wilderness armed only with a brass surveyor’s compass and the elegant "Rules of Civility". But the frontier was a relentless leveler, stripping away the varnish of Tidewater society to reveal a hard, pragmatic grit. In this visceral account, Washington’s transformation is measured not in decimals, but in survival. From...

From the internationally acclaimed author of The Whale Rider comes a novel about the pathways that guide us home. Sixteen-year-old Teva has grown up between worlds. Raised in France, he knows almost nothing of his father's Polynesian heritage - only that a family rift has kept them apart. But...

Toi, progéniture sans valeur... Un groupe d’archéologues à la poursuite d’un monstre maya assoiffé de sang obtient bien plus que prévu lorsqu’il découvre par hasard une cité antique au sommet d’une montagne au Honduras. Des gardes forestiers enquêtant sur la disparition de la professeure Rita Martínez et de son équipe de primatologues dans une montagne hondurienne découvrent les ruines d’une cité maya perdue et photographient involontairement l’empreinte mystérieuse d’un pied à trois doigts. Convaincu que l’empreinte appartient à Chac Xib Chaac, la créature ...

This seven month canoe journey through the remotest Amazon rainforest was over-ambitious, and a little bit insane. With no means of contacting the outside world and be rescued, John and his companion paddled 600 miles against the current of the river Jari, with the plan to carry the canoe 20 miles over the hills from Brazil to French Guiana. Malaria, leishmaniasis, hunger and constant hardship nearly killed them, but couldn't dent their enthusiasm. Adventure doesn't come better than this, immersed in unexplored wilderness, far from the destruction of the modern world. After seven canoeing ...

"MAGNIFICENT...I could not stop reading it. I loved it.” —Charlotte McConaghy, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING author of Wild Dark Shore “Armfield is an ERA-DEFINING writer.” —Kaliane Bradley, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING author of The Ministry of Time “Armfield writes the kind of books...

A one-of-a-kind space opera filled with action, mystery, and friendship. When a civilian space flight gets swept away to a distant part of the universe, Elise Lewis and Major Rick Clark are the only survivors. Stranded far from Earth, they find themselves amidst an alien crew, aboard a living ship. They cling to the hope of discovering a way home. Meanwhile, their presence begins to irreversibly alter the dynamics of the crew. As time passes and trust is tested, the Humans find they have unique roles to play in this foreign galaxy.

Dive into a suspenseful maritime history and doomed lost expedition that drove a desperate French king to the brink. Perfect for a focused commute or late-night listening, this haunting true mystery transports you from the opulent, anxious halls of Versailles to the unforgiving isolation of the...

Plunge into a gripping historical mystery of the high seas, where a legendary 18th-century maritime expedition vanishes. Ideal for an immersive commute, this atmospheric true history transports you to an age of imperial rivalry and uncharted waters. Feel the rising suspense as pioneering...

Un squelette de femme est découvert dans le désert du Nouveau-Mexique. Puis un second... Tout sauf un hasard, les deux jeunes femmes se connaissaient... La nouvelle aventure, la cinquième, de Nora Kelly et Corrie Swanson, du FBI, mêlant archéologie, suspense et enquête policière. La...

François Reynaert nous emmène dans ce que les Européens, en les découvrant, ont vu comme des "Nouveaux Mondes" : l'Amérique et l'Océanie. Lorsque l'on évoque l'histoire des Grandes Découvertes, les noms de Colomb, de Cortés ou de Moctezuma nous viennent à l'esprit.

Expedition, the explosive second novel in the Locus series.

The sins of the distant past echo far into the future.

An uneasy peace settles over the strange new world into which the M/S Atlantica has been thrust by the Locus. The cruise ship leads her war-weary fleet on its first, tentative steps beyond simple survival. But an expedition to the mainland changes everything, sparking a chain of events leading to a devastating new conflict.

"Oubliez Freida McFadden, cet éco-thriller psychologique est le roman de l’été". Grazia "La définition même du coup de coeur : ce thriller psychologique deviendra notre roman de l'été". Bibamagazine "Une œuvre dense et viscérale sur l’ambition, l’éthique scientifique et la rédemption que vous ne lâcherez pas avant de l’avoir terminé". L'Union 25 % des médicaments modernes sont issus des forêts tropicales, mais moins de 1 % des espèces végétales amazoniennes ont été étudiées. Le géant pharmaceutique Omnipharm décide de partir à la conquête de cet eldorado ...

1954. C'est dans un village perdu entre la France et l'Italie que Stan, paléontologue en fin de carrière, convoque Umberto et Peter, deux autres scientifiques. Car Stan a un projet. Ou plutôt un rêve. De ceux, obsédants, qu'on ne peut ignorer. Il prend la forme, improbable, d'un squelette. Apatosaure ? Brontosaure ? Il ne sait pas vraiment. Mais le monstre dort forcément quelque part là-haut, dans la glace. S'il le découvre, ce sera enfin la gloire, il en est convaincu. Alors l'ascension commence. Mais le froid, l'altitude, la solitude, se resserrent comme un étau. Et entraînent l'équipée là où nul n'aurait pensé aller.

L'expédition Paragon est l'histoire passionnante de jumeaux échoués sur la lune. L'histoire est inspirée par le grand explorateur Sir Ernest Shackleton. Avec son courage et sa prudence, il a sauvé 27 personnes qui ont perdu leur navire mais pas leur espoir.

Comment vivre ? Les kilomètres s’accumulaient inexorablement sur la route tracée au cœur du pays de l’épinette noire. Je sortais du tableau Krieghoff troué de notre mémoire collective, avec l’envie de réécrire à ma manière le récit de la vie réelle. La roue avant de mon vélo fendait l’avenir.

Meet married couple Chris and Marty. At midlife, they unexpectedly find themselves weighing the responsibility of parenthood against the possibility of one more grand adventure. After securing care for their 12-year-old son, they set off to undertake one of the hardest challenges on the planet: Ski 570 miles from the edge of Antarctica to the South Pole. With no guide or resupply. Riveting and inspiring, The Expedition is about the power of family and community, the adventurous spirit that dwells within us all, and breaking through to feel fully alive.

The fourth novel of adventure set upon His Majesty's New World. A new year brings ominous silence to the new world. As the b'ys of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment await their next mission, British and American leaders on the old world plan for the worst, and seek options that might give humanity a hope of surviving war with the blue men. When intelligence appears suggesting help might almost be within reach, the b'ys are sent on a risky mission into the unknown. Led by the son of a politician, will Waller and his men have a fighting chance? A dangerous drive awaits them.

Drayden and his friends thought nothing could be harder than the Initiation. Little did they know it had only been a warmup for the challenge that lay ahead. With New America’s situation dire, Drayden and the pledges venture into the unexplored world beyond the walls, escorted by a team of elite Guardians. The group seeks to contact another civilization in what remains of Boston, but Drayden has secret goals of his own.

Astronauts Jim Parker and Michael Murphy, aboard the space shuttle Charger II, were wrapping up a routine mission. Just prior to re-entry, they encountered a mysterious cloud bank in space and were never heard from again. Two years later, a metal box was unearthed at a construction site in St. Louis. In it was a previously unknown, yet apparently authentic, journal of the historic Lewis and Clark expedition: written by astronaut Jim Parker. Did Parker and Murphy alter history, or save it?

Si les Vikings ont abordé le continent américain bien avant lui, c'est indéniablement Christophe Colomb qui a ouvert à l'ouest la route d'un "Nouveau Monde". Pourquoi a-t-on utilisé, pour baptiser cette partie du monde, le prénom d'Amerigo Vespucci ? Alors même qu'il s'installe en Amérique, Stefan Zweig reconstitue l'enchevêtrement des circonstances, des hasards, des malentendus qui sont à l'origine de cette étrange erreur.