Sports & Outdoors

Push beyond your physical limits to improve yourself by following bowhunter and ultramarathoner Cameron Hanes's lifelong philosophies and disciplines....

He is one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court - but from early childhood Andre Agassi hated the game....

For more than a decade, Mahendra Singh Dhoni has captivated the world of cricket and more than a billion Indians with his incredible ingenuity as captain, wicketkeeper, and batsman....

Penguin Audio presents The Push by Tommy Caldwell, read by Johnathan McClain. A dramatic, inspiring memoir by legendary rock climber Tommy Caldwell, the first person to free climb the Dawn Wall of Yosemite's El Capitan....

Thirteen Lessons That Saved Thirteen Lives is diver John Volanthen’s nail-biting account of the incredible rescue of a Thai youth soccer team who had been trapped for over a week in a flooded cave....

This gripping and triumphant memoir follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time....

The moving and inspiring story of Auschwitz survivor who shares what he's learned about gratitude, tolerance and kindness....

Sultan tells the story of cricket's greatest left-arm bowler, and one of its enduring survivors, who was chosen from the streets of Lahore and groomed by Imran Khan to become champion of the world....

In 1982 Murakami began running to keep fit. Here he reflects on his running experiences....

No matter your level of fitness, no matter if you've never attempted CrossFit before, this book is your total training manual.... 

The sport of running is ever changing, be it the shoes we wear or the goals we set, the training methods we use or the role models we emulate....

The world's foremost designer in Formula One, Adrian Newey OBE is arguably one of Britain's greatest engineers and this is his fascinating, powerful memoir....

An incredible but true account of achieving one of the most awe-inspiring midlife physical transformations ever....

Correspondent Christopher Clarey sits down with Federer and those closest to him to tell the story of the greatest player in men's tennis....

Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free....

Amaze your friends - Master the ancient game of chess! Do you want to understand the game of chess? Would you like to beat your friends - and increase your online ratings? Is it time to unlock your hidden genius? Listen to find out more....

In The Genius of Birds, acclaimed author Jennifer Ackerman explores the newly discovered brilliance of birds and how it came about....

Full of never-before-revealed anecdotes, Stargazing offers a glimpse into how champions from across the globe have inspired one of the world's greatest ODI players and Team India's most successful Test cricket coach....

A poignant love letter to Bloom's husband and a passionate outpouring of grief, In Love reaffirms the power and value of human relationships....

In the world of strength and conditioning, learning how to move others not just physically, but also psychologically and emotionally is paramount to getting the most out of them. People are the ultimate performance variable....

26 Marathons offers the wisdom Meb Keflezighi has gleaned about life, family, identity, and faith in addition to tips about running, training, and nutrition. He shows runners of all levels how to apply the lessons he's learned to their own running and lives....

The mental game may be more important in poker than in any other form of competition....

Just in time for the 2012 Olympics - prepare to peek into the mind of a champion with this newly updated edition of Michael Phelps’ autobiography, Beneath the Surface....

Ultra running defies conventional logic. Yet this most brutal and challenging sport is now one of the fastest growing in the world. But is it an antidote to modern life or a symptom of a modern illness? Find out....

Bruce Lee's daughter illuminates her father's most powerful life philosophies and how we can apply his teachings to our daily lives....

We talkin’ about practice, man. Not a game. «Stiamo parlando di un allenamento, amico. Non di una partita». È il ritornello che Allen Iverson, in preda ai fumi dell’alcol, pronunciò all’infinito in una famigerata conferenza stampa del 2002. I suoi Sixers erano stati buttati fuori dai playoff e lui si era scontrato per l’ennesima volta con il coach Larry Brown. È attorno a questo episodio, presagio di una vertiginosa caduta, che si avvolge come una spirale l’irrequieta esistenza di A.I., o The Answer, com’era noto a quei tempi.

Tracey Curtis-Taylor has created headlines around the world with three epic flights in a 1942 Boeing Stearman biplane. Paying homage to two historic female aviators, she flew from Cape Town to Goodwood in 2013, from London to Australia in 2015 and, two years later, completed a transcontinental flight across the USA, after surviving a plane crash during the expedition. But her daring exploits came at a huge personal cost. Tracey tells, in breathtaking detail, the remarkable story of how she overcame extreme adversity to complete her three epic journeys.

Patagonia's Cerro Torre, considered by many the most beautiful peak in the world, draws the finest and most devoted technical alpinists to its climbing challenges. But controversy has swirled around this ice-capped peak since Cesare Maestri claimed first ascent in 1959. Since then a debate has raged, with world-class climbers attempting to retrace his route but finding only contradictions. This chronicle of hubris, heroism, controversies, and epic journeys offers a glimpse into the human condition, and why some pursue extreme endeavors that at face value have no worth.

As a new decade dawned, 2020 was supposed to be the best year to be a wrestling fan. Few in the industry realized that in China, a mysterious virus had begun to spread. By the time a pandemic was declared in March, the business—and the world—was in disarray. Still, when everything else shut down, wrestling never went away. The entire time, New York Times bestselling author and historian Keith Elliot Greenberg was chronicling the scene, juxtaposing pro wrestling developments with actual news events like the U.S. presidential election and Brexit. 

Here is the first full story of the Queen's racing enthusiasms and the first authentic account of Her Majesty's personal experience as a racehorse owner and racegoer, told with the help of trainers, jockeys, and others. This exhilarating volume traces the early years of the Queen's racing story, from childhood horse-lover to ebullient racegoer and owner of one of the finest string of racehorses in the world.

In 1922, a 16-year-old Canadian girl, fed up with life in a French convent school, answered an ad for a travelling secretary. Tall, blonde, and swaggering with confidence, she might have passed for twenty. She also knew what she wanted: to become the first female to drive around the world. Her name was Aloha Wanderwell. By the age of 25, she had become a pilot, a film star, an ambassador for world peace, and the centerpiece of one of the biggest unsolved murder mysteries in California history. Her story defied belief, but it was true. Every bit of it. Except for her name.

Four geologists and two mountain guides face the brutal beauty of West Antarctica eight hundred miles from the United States main base. Their search reaches far into the treacherous mountains of Marie Byrd Land. Over six weeks of living in tents and traveling by snowmobile, the team endures endless cold and furious blizzards. They cross ice fields and hidden crevasses, which one of the team learns about the hard way.

"Quando vado da Mengele vengo addormentata, per cui quando esco non ricordo esattamente cosa sia accaduto. Mi sveglio ed è il mio corpo a parlare e a raccontarmi." Lidia Maksymowicz aveva tre anni quando è entrata assieme a sua madre nel campo di concentramento di Auschwitz-Birkenau. E per tredici mesi è sopravvissuta in quell’inferno, nella baracca dei bambini: una delle piccole "cavie" degli esperimenti del dottor Josef Mengele.

Louise Minchin went from presenting BBC Breakfast to competing for the GB Triathlon Team. Driven to bring more attention to female stories, she embarks on adventures with trailblazing women who are breaking down barriers, smashing records and challenging stereotypes in the world of sports and endurance. Join Louise on a roller coaster of highs and lows in this celebration of courageous women and a moving reminder of the power of the female spirit.

A true cycling nut would be hard pushed to name all 36 races in just a ‘normal’ UCI World Tour. But there are so many more: 375 on the European Tour alone and many more on the America Tour (80), the Asia Tour (65), and the Africa Tour (45). It’s a year-long schedule, most of it unfamiliar. They may be amazing, they may be odd, but all have their place in the Sticky Bottle calendar. Big races and small ones find a place in Sticky Bottle as well as the relatively unknown. Here are personal and historical tales of cycling wonder and woe, plus a healthy smattering of the bizarre.

 The Extra Mile is no ordinary sports memoir. But Kevin Sinfield is no ordinary sportsman. A one-club legend of Leeds Rhinos, who has now crossed codes as a defence coach for Leicester Tigers, Kevin Sinfield is a rugby icon. But in recent years has shown heroism of a very different kind through his selfless and extraordinary fundraising for Motor neurone disease (MND), the terminal illness that has affected his best mate and former teammate Rob Burrow.

Einfach losfahren, an einem traumhaften Ort das Wohnmobil abstellen und gemütlich in den Sonnenuntergang schauen. Dabei den Alltagsstress loswerden und kleine oder große Abenteuer in der Natur erleben. So könnte schon bald Ihre nächste Campingreise aussehen! Der Komplett-Guide "Das erste Wohnmobil Abenteuer" wurde von erfahrenen Wohnmobil-Campern geschrieben. Für Menschen geschrieben, die endlich den Wunsch vom Wohnmobil-Abenteuer umsetzen wollen, aber sich noch nicht den Ruck gegeben haben.

"Формулой-1" правят визуальные образы: гаснут огни стартового светофора, и яркие машины отправляются нарезать круги по живописным трассам; взмах клетчатого флага, и победитель становится героем на все времена, вроде Михаэля Шумахера, Айртона Сенны или Ники Лауды - человеком, олицетворяющим "королеву автоспорта". Эти небожители порой затмевают лучами своей славы пилотов, чьи истории подчас не менее знаменательны и драматичны, полны трагедий и триумфов. Пилотов, которые по праву могут считаться легендарными.

In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado was famed as the most dangerous river in the world. Journalists and veteran river runners boldly proclaimed that the motley crew would never make it out alive. But for Clover and Jotter, the expedition held a tantalizing appeal: no one had yet surveyed the plant life of the Grand Canyon, and they were determined to be the first.

Co spojuje sedm lidí a jejich příběhy? Není to přímo samota jako u samotářů, kteří se stáhli z civilizace do lesů, močálů a hor. I přesto žijí „tak nějak bokem“, jak je charakterizuje spisovatel. Všichni si vytvořili malý osobní svět, fascinující vesmír, kde platí jejich vlastní pravidla. Jsou na dosah ostatním, a přesto tak daleko. Nebo snad vysoko? Některé jejich historky jsou neuvěřitelné, ale autor jim věří. Proč by si člověk nemohl koupit šest tygrů ve slevě, kreslit ve spolupráci s plísní nebo najít skutečný smysl života? Víte snad o něčem, co by bylo důležitější?