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Für ein wichtiges Forschungsprojekt soll Michael Quetting, Laborleiter am Max-Planck-Institut, Graugänsen beibringen, ihm und seinem Ultraleichtflugzeug durch die Lüfte zu folgen. Doch zunächst heißt es: brüten. Als schließlich sieben Gänschen schlüpfen, bedeutet das für Quetting die komplette Entschleunigung seines Lebens; plötzlich entdeckt er, was es heißt, als Mensch wieder ein integrierter Teil der Natur zu sein.

The first fifty years of America's most popular spectator sport have been strangely neglected by historians claiming to tell the "complete story" of pro football. Well, here are the early stories that "complete story" has left out. What about the awful secret carried around by Sid Luckman, the Bears' Hall of Fame quarterback whose father was a mobster and a murderer? Or Steve Hamas, who briefly played in the NFL then turned to boxing and beat Max Schmeling, conqueror of Joe Louis?

After serving as a US Marine during World War II and attending college on the GI Bill, Sam Keith decided to seek adventure in Alaska as a laborer on the Adak Navy base. There he befriended Dick Proenneke, whose shared love of the outdoors, hard work, and self-reliance quickly bonded an alliance between the two. Together they explored the wilds of South Central Alaska, while working on the Navy base, hunting and fishing with friends and breathing in the great outdoors.