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Toss your world into the air, throw caution to the wind, and step outside your comfort zone for an extended period of time. Completing the nearly 2,200-mile-long hike of the Appalachian Trail was not on Kevin Newsome's radar, much less his bucket list, but at age 65, he put his business on hold...

At fifteen, doctors told him he wouldn't live to see twenty-five. He had nine more years of rock bottom left to find.This is not fiction.It is the true story of one man's twenty-six-year descent into addiction, crime, and self-destruction, and the extraordinary journey back.At fifteen, curiosity...

Reinhold Messner – der berühmteste Bergsteiger und Abenteurer unserer Zeit – und seine Frau Diane Messner schreiben in Lebenszeit übers Älterwerden und Jungsein, über Verlust und Glück, über große Expeditionen und die kleinen Abenteuer des Alltags. Entstanden ist ein Hörbuch über die Kostbarkeit unserer Lebenszeit – und darüber, wie man sie mit Offenheit, Mut und Neugier nutzen kann.

What do you do with the things you were never meant to carry? At fifteen, Ashley Herberth faced a life-altering decision that would shape everything that came after. But that was only the beginning. In What I Carried, Ashley shares a raw and unflinching account of trauma, loss, and the invisible...

The academic year must have been a difficult one as when the summer holidays arrived, secondary school teacher Andrew Sykes was happy to do as little as possible. Two years later, accompanied by his faithful companion Reggie (his bike) but only a rudimentary plan, Andrew set off for a trans-continental cycling adventure that would take him along the route of the Via Francigena and the Eurovelo 5 all the way from his home in southern England to Brindisi in the south of Italy.

Das Salz zwischen unsEine Heimkehr an die KaimauerRike kehrt an die Ostsee zurück, nahe der Schlei.Der Wind schlägt ihr entgegen wie früher: kühl, salzig, unerbittlich.Das Katenhaus, die Kaimauer, der Sommer von damals alles holt sie ein, ohne Vorwarnung.Und dann steht sie ihr gegenüber...

What happens when the world takes everything from you — your children, your family, your faith, even your name — and dares you to keep standing? Katie Simpson’s My Own Damn Table is a raw, unflinching memoir of survival, betrayal, and the relentless fight to reclaim a life on her own terms...

Dogson, sobrino de Lewis Carroll, tiene el mismo defecto de su tío: un excesivo amor por las niñas, lo cual le ha llevado a la cárcel. Allí, sin poder recibir visitas, pide por carta a un noble aburrido que le haga un gran favor: que le envíe una muñeca articulada con la forma de una bella mujer para saciar sus instintos y palia su soledad. Por otro lado, consigue sobornar a un carcelero para recibir las visitas de un atractivo adolescente. 

Through a series of heart-breaking and poignant letters, come explore the 20-year journey of a child longing for the love of his mentally ill mother while facing seemingly insurmountable odds. Witness Manny's transformation in this coming of age story of a forgotten and disfigured child, born...

Way Out There is an account of J. Robert Harris's extraordinary exploits while backpacking in some of the world's most tantalizing places—largely alone and unsupported. His stories are by turns funny, tragic, and uplifting, and are all told in his down‐to‐earth, friendly style.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, Secret Service agent Darin Kinder was near the base of the South Tower when it began to collapse. What followed was a harrowing fight for survival—one that revealed the true meaning of courage, sacrifice, and calling. Bury Me in a Dirty Suit is a gripping...

A devastating true story of love, betrayal, and deceit. Chrissy: attractive, successful 40-year-old divorcee with three amazing children. Alexander Marc d’Ariken de Rothschild-Hatton: international financier, wealthy, charming and smooth-talking. It’s not long before they fall madly in love...

In 1934, the painter Christiane Ritter leaves her comfortable life in Austria and travels to the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen, to spend a year there with her husband. She thinks it will be a relaxing trip, a chance to "read thick books in the remote quiet and, not least, sleep to my heart's content," but when Christiane arrives she is shocked to realize that they are to live in a tiny ramshackle hut on the shores of a lonely fjord, hundreds of miles from the nearest settlement, battling the elements every day, just to survive.

Read by the author, Bobby Bolton. Join Bobby Bolton and his trusted dog, Red, as they drive from Wigan across the world – and fall in love with life again . . . When Bobby’s eleven-year relationship broke down, he thought he’d hit rock bottom. Then a bad economic turn and a run of unlucky...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2023 ‘Grippingly vivid and pacey’ THE TIMES ‘A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing’ SIMON WINCHESTER 'An astonishing almost day-by-day account of [a] hazardous journey and its...

In The Exotic, Hampton Sides leads us on a grand adventure that is so strange and epic, it rivals the greatest tales of myth. Moving between a London high society newly infatuated with the Romantics and the perfumed archipelago of the Society Islands, Sides turns a riveting narrative into a...

当一位资深探险家为了寻找亚马孙深处的失落文明，不惜押上全部身家与至亲性命，这场历史纪实探险最终演变为一场永无归途的致命迷局。在幽暗死寂的原始丛林面前，人类的极致渴望与大自然的残酷无情发生了最剧烈的碰...

تروي هذه السيرة التاريخية صراعا مميتا مع المجهول، حيث ابتلعت أدغال الأمازون مستكشفا مهووسا بمدينة ضائعة. إذا كنت تبحث عن مغامرة صوتية غامرة ترافقك في تنقلاتك،...

当看似平常的荒野徒步与狩猎瞬间演变为生死未卜的真实历险，人类在极限环境下的脆弱与强韧将经受最残酷的考验。十个令人屏息的户外突发事件，带你深入远离文明的绝境，体验从细微疏忽到致命危机的步步惊心。...

Il mistero irrisolto di una città perduta nell'Amazzonia si scontra con l'ossessione mortale di un grande esploratore. Perfetto per trasformare il tuo tragitto quotidiano in una spedizione immersiva, questo saggio storico ti trascina nel cuore oscuro e avventuroso della foresta sudamericana...