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She was 17 years old on a Christmas Eve flight 40 years ago to join her father for Christmas when the unimaginable happened. The Lockheed L-188A Electra, on the way from Lima to Pucallpa, flew directly into a thunderstorm. A strike of lightning left the plane incinerated and Juliane Diller (Koepcke) still strapped to her plane seat falling through the night air two miles above the Earth. Her survival is unexplainable and considered a modern-day miracle. Her mother was among the 91 dead and Juliane the sole survivor.

Rod Halsted is the classic irrepressible Aussie larrikin. As soon as he could leave school, he headed straight to Kalgoorlie for adventure. Rod drank with Bob Hawke, did business with drug tsars, was rescued from the nick by Charles Waterstreet, hung with one of the Great Train Robbers, and wrote off endless cars. He has long since abandoned the drugs and conquered his alcohol addiction. This is his laugh-out-loud story.

Dopo una vita da esploratore passata a sfidare i propri limiti, attraversare deserti e altezze vertiginose, Robert Peroni è un uomo in fuga da un mondo che non gli assomiglia più. Una spedizione lo porta in Groenlandia. Deve restarvi tre mesi. Ci rimane per sempre. Qui, accolto dal popolo inuit, Peroni scopre una cultura antica, fondata sulla mitezza, sull'ascolto, sulla capacità di vivere in armonia con una natura estrema e incontaminata.

The gripping first-person account of one woman's survival in Joshua Tree National Park against the odds. ""A vibrantly physical book""—The Guardian ""Uplifting and brave""—Stylist ""A riveting account of loneliness, anxiety and survival""—Cosmopolitan In 2018, writer Claire Nelson...

In 2018, Claire Nelson made international headlines. She was in her 30s and was beginning to burn out - her hectic London life of work and social activity and striving to do more and do better in the big city was frenetic and stressful. Although she was surrounded by people all of the time, she felt increasingly lonely. When the anxiety she felt finally brought her to breaking point, Claire decided to take some time off and travelled to Joshua Tree Park in California to hike and clear her head. What happened next was something she could never have anticipated.

A 5-year-old boy, Ethan, is brought to Casey in the middle of the night after the sudden death of his young mother after a drug overdose. Estranged from her parents, Ethan’s mum had been abused by her ex-partner, and began taking drugs to cope. Ethan is obviously lost and bewildered, and...

The first in a series of books, I Somehow Survived is an extraordinary collection of true stories giving testimony to those who survived World War II. Based on interviews with numerous veterans from across the spectrum of wartime experience, the book documents and reflects upon one of the most gruesome times in history. From anti-partisan warfare in the French mountains and atrocities in East Prussia to the experience of a Norwegian concentration camp, the accounts include rarely heard stories from a range of people caught up in the war.

"Jeg sidder med slangekranierne som en rosenkrans og kan ikke lade være med at undre mig. I morges ganske tidligt, før solen endnu var kommet over skovranden, sloges jeg med moskitoerne i en kano på Amazonfloden efter aftenen i forvejen at have taget afsked med høvdingen, der gav mig denne kæde ... I morges ved Amazonfloden! Tanken vender tilbage til mig som en besættelse herude over Atlanterhavet." "I morges ved Amazonfloden" er en samling af eventyrer Arne Falk-Rønnes indtryk fra sine 12 rejser i Latinamerika.

An adrenaline-fueled travel memoir of life in the wild among the planet’s most ferocious and fascinating predators. Over the last forty years, bestselling science-fiction writer Alan Dean Foster has journeyed around the globe to encounter nature’s most fearsome creatures. His travels have taken him into the heart of the Amazon rain forest on the trail of deadly tangarana ants, on an elephant ride across the sweeping green plains of central India in search of the elusive Bengal tiger, and into the waters of the Australian coast to come face-to-face with great white sharks. Packed with pulse-pounding adventure and spiked with rapier wit, Predators I Have Known is a thrilling look at life and death in the wild.

Fra Grønland og ismasserne ved Nordpolen, over verdens højeste bjerge og dybeste dale til Afrikas vidtstrakte kontinenter og sandede helvede. Til hest, kamel, bus, bil, motorcykel, til fods, tæt ved skyerne, på havene og i fængslernes mørke.

Nava, a sud di Kabul. Gli uomini di un ricco mercante bussano alla porta...

With no camping or RV experience, author Sue Ann Jaffarian decided to chuck her life in Los Angeles for a life on the road in a van. Newly retired from her long-time career as a paralegal, she got rid of most of her belongings, packed up her laptop, and embraced a new adventure of traveling the country and writing full-time, adding travel writing to her career as a popular mystery novelist. Not always sunshine and unicorns, her experiences gave her more self-reliance, a new appreciation of nature, and a love for the quirky, interesting, and thought-provoking.

After taking a few weeks off work, Casey is presented with a new foster child: 14-year-old Elise, whose Mum left her at just five years old. At first, she’s no trouble at all, that is until she falsely accuses another carer, Jan, of acting inappropriately towards her. It turns out this isn’t the first lie Elise has told—her previous carer was constantly following up allegations Elise had made of people bullying her, trying to have sex with her or hurting her physically. 

In this, the 2nd Audio book of the Rambling On trilogy, the load gets lighter and the speed slower, but Graham Field’s objective remains the same: he is fully focused on making the route to his demise as pleasurable as possible. And so the quest to his Chinese destiny begins. Now relieved of the whiskey, the road nevertheless continues to be an uphill struggle, not helped by the sub-zero winter temperatures. But being towed behind trucks and loaded on to buses evens out the ratio of endurance and pleasure.

'One of the most successful MI5 undercover surveillance officers of his time.' - Sun 'The brutal truth about the war against terror. Fast-paced and gripping.' - Ant Middleton The explosive book from ex-MI5 surveillance officer Tom Marcus takes the reader on a non-stop, adrenalin-fuelled ride as...

Den store danske eventyrer Hakon Mielche har nøje udvalgt et mandskab på bare tre mænd til en helt særlig rejse. På et simpelt sejlskib skal de følge samme rute, som Columbus fulgte, da han fandt Amerika. Det bliver en stormfuld tur i mere end én forstand, for Atlanterhavet er et voldsomt hav, og fire mand på en lille båd i så lang tid i træk kan føre mange konflikter med sig. Undervejs går de i land på forskellige tropeøer og møder et væld af spændende mennesker.

Il rapporto dell'uomo con la montagna è antichissimo. La montagna, spesso ostile e pericolosa, l'ha protetto dai pericoli, gli ha permesso di cogliere il mondo dall'alto, nel suo insieme, di guardare il cielo e sentirsi più vicino all'infinito. È il luogo in cui l'uomo ritrova sé stesso, spingendosi oltre i propri limiti, nella solitudine delle cime, pur in mezzo ai compagni di cordata. Questo audiolibro è un mosaico di storie di eroi che si sono distinti sulle vette più alte del mondo, realizzando imprese eroiche, salvataggi rischiosi.

I Should Have Left the Whiskey is the first book in the Rambling On trilogy–compelling tales from a time when motorcycles were left in the shed and global exploration slowed to the pace of cycling. These diaries divulge two very different journeys in Asia: because progressing into enlightened India required some back-pedalling through darkest Thailand en route to China.

Is the human body built for Mars? NASA's studies on the International Space Station show we need to fix a few things before sending people to the Red Planet. Astronauts go into space with good vision and come back needing eyeglasses. Cognition and DNA expression could be affected for years. And then there's the discomfort of living in a tight space with crewmates, depression, and separation from the people you love.

I 1950 begyndte Hakon Mielche og dr. Anton Fr. Bruun en ambitiøs verdensomsejling på ekspeditionsskibet Galathea. Hakon Mielche fungerede som kronikør og udgav hele tre bøger om ekspeditionen. Bind 2 fortæller om Galatheas afrejse fra Zanzibar på Afrikas østkyst, hvorfra turen går mod øst. Det gode skib lægger blandt andet til kaj på Seychellerne, ved Ceylon og Calcutta. Ekspeditionen kigger også ind til øgruppen Nicobarerne, som engang var en dansk koloni, og konstaterer, at stedet har ændret sig slående lidt, siden Danmark opgav kolonien.