Adventurers, Explorers & Survival

She didn’t fall into the pit because she was weak.She fell because she trusted.Mosaic Memoir is for the woman who has been under attack. The kind that makes you overthink every conversation, brace for the next storm, and wonder if you’re too much or not enough depending on who’s holding...

A Story of Survival, Courage, and the Triumph of the Human SpiritThis story is a must-read for all who venture into the great outdoors and contains several stories within the story. It is not only a riveting story, but also instructive and inspiring. Eddie Smith Owner & CEO, Grady-White BoatsAs...

"This is the story of things that should not happen to a person but sometimes do, and this time did." Come with Jackie, her mother, her family inside an intensive care unit where over four and a half months, and beyond, Jackie survived a major medical event, an emergency bilateral lung...

Saving Wild Grace is the story of how I tried to construct a life out of childhood trauma and dysfunction without so much as a hammer. I spent decades trying to outrun myself. I became skilled at surviving which wasn't the same as living. I searched for rescue through sexual relationships with...

What lengths would you go to to save a troubled little girl? A Sunday Times bestseller, Terrified is a deeply personal memoir from foster carer Angela Hart. It tells the emotionally devastating but ultimately uplifting true story of Vicky, a little girl who arrives on Angela's doorstep unwanted...

A dying warrior's last testament on the extraordinary power hidden in every human mind.They gave him two weeks. He gave them a legend.When terminal cancer returned to finish what it started, Bryan Silman, the grandfather who had already defeated death twice, did not go quietly. He sat down to...

For fans of Cheryl Strayed and Anthony Doerr, a lyrical adventure memoir tracing one woman’s Seven Summits quest while caring for her mother through ALS—a story of endurance, love, and the cost of coming home changed. “An incredible work of art.”—Alison Levine, New York Times...

The true story behind Season 3 of the TV series Tough Rides. After riding all the way around China and India, Ryan Pyle set out to explore the complexity and diversity of Brazil on a 14,000-kilometre, 60-day motorcycle circumnavigation of the country. The journey takes him from the beaches of...

"You'll help me kill Papa."Angel Cordero was ten years old when his brother asked. The pipe was already under the bed.Their father was a convicted murderer who drank and turned on the family. He beat their mother. He killed the animals his sons loved. He made fear so ordinary that two children...

A true story of a precious dog named Orelha, loved deeply into his last breath. As you read into this story, you will follow me and watch those who did such a horrible crime, abuse, murder, unimaginable things to a defenseless innocent animal of God. You will see Orelha stand and walk and try so...

Secondary school teacher Andrew Sykes moves out of the classroom, climbs onto his bicycle and sets off along the route of the EuroVelo 8, from the southern tip of Greece to the Atlantic coast of Portugal. However, this is more than just a cycling tale of border crossings and big hills, as our would-be adventurer perspires his way through a hot and sticky mix of Mediterranean landscapes, life and culture. Join Andrew as he travels along the Med on a bike called Reggie: an inspirational and light-hearted travelogue for cyclists and non-cyclists alike.

On January 4th, 2004, the Mars rover Spirit landed on Mars. The first pictures sent back included the logo of a small company in Boulder, Colorado—Starsys Research—which had built 27 motors powering the rover and its instruments. Starsys was founded by Scott Tibbitts, an ex-ski bum/nuclear...

Life isn’t like a superhero movie. There isn’t a script, and while you don’t plan for bad things to happen, they happen anyway. Sometimes, they keep on happening without a break in the action, and if you look up in the sky, you may see a bird or a plane, but that’s it. In these times of...

After having a heart attack at sixty-five, I decided to get fit because apparently my response to nearly dying was to make exhaustion a competitive sport. Eventually, I became fit enough—or mentally unstable enough—to compete in duathlons, bike fondos, and time-trial events.When I turned...

Discover a life lived by instinct, curiosity, grit, and joy in Go Big: The Earnest Pursuit of Personal Growth by Kevin Ladd—a reflective, funny, and deeply human story about building a meaningful life one imperfect, audacious yes at a time. From a childhood in small-town Maine with a...