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Alaska is a land without mercy. In its unforgiving wilderness, survival isn’t guaranteed—it’s earned. On this trail, probability is a rumor—whispered through grit, grief, and the rattle of what’s left standing.

En esta alucinante historia, Francisco Díaz nos sumerje en la aventura que todos quisimos vivir de pequeños. El abuelo de Daniel, nuestro protagonista, es amigo de un inspector de policía, fuente de las más increíbles anécdotas policiacas que les confía a los dos. Sin embargo, Daniel está a punto de formar parte él mismo de una historia digna de los mejores detectives de la ficción.

Das Reisen ist Nina Sedanos große Leidenschaft. Ihr Leben in Frankfurt kann sie auf die Dauer nicht erfüllen und sie fasst einen mutigen Entschluss: Sie wird Geld ansparen, ihren Job aufgeben und alle 193 UN-Staaten bereisen. Voller Elan und Lebensfreude macht sie sich auf in die Ferne. Unterwegs erlebt sie Aufregendes, taucht in fremde Kulturen ein, knüpft Freundschaften, stößt manchmal an ihre Grenzen und lernt viel über das Leben, die Welt und sich selbst.

Escolta de políticos y empresarios amenazados por terroristas, narcos o bandidos, jefe de seguridad en la discoteca más de moda de Ibiza, asesor contra los piratas en Kenia y especializado hoy en salvaguardar a estrellas de Hollywood de los acosadores, José Félix Ramajo escribe sus apasionantes memorias en forma de manual de supervivencia. Una guía instructiva y divertida que se lee como una novela de aventuras y se siente como una forma de vida. La seguridad no proviene de no tener miedo, sino de enfrentar tus miedos con valentía.

Una transatlantica è una regata mitica: dall'Europa ai Caraibi, si attraversa l'Atlantico in solitaria o in equipaggio. Promessa della vela italiana, Beccaria si è conquistato il palcoscenico della navigazione oceanica grazie alle sue vittorie e ai suoi record. È anche la storia di chi, navigando oltre l'orizzonte, oltrepassa i propri limiti; di come, talvolta, sfiorare la morte apra paradossalmente alla forma più intensa di contatto con la vita; e di quanto seguire il vento possa condurre a rotte inaspettate.

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.

Few disasters have touched Australia as profoundly as the sinking of the hospital ship Centaur – one of the deadliest wartime attacks ever on Australia – killing 268 souls on a mission of mercy. Ellen Savage, a fearless nurse from country New South Wales, was the only woman to survive. For more than 34 hours, she and other heroes fought off sharks and helped the injured until rescuers arrived. She was awarded the George Medal for her bravery.

In 2020, Paul Harris aka 'The Warrior Walker' set off on a walking pilgrimage around the UK that would rebuild his life from rock bottom and change the way he saw the world forever. With only £300 in his pocket and a 30-kilo rucksack on his back, Paul decided to leave his life as he knew it and took up wild camping, slept rough, struggled along the coast paths of Devon, Cornwall and Wales in the sideways rain, and wading through knee-high snowdrifts around the Scottish islands and the burning summer sun on England's east coast. Walking was therapy. Nature was restorative.

Botanist, explorer, President of the Royal Society and one of Australia’s founding fathers. Sir Joseph Banks was among the most influential figures of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As a young man he accompanied Captain Cook on his voyage of discovery to Australia, in later years he...

Farley Mowat's youth was charmed and hilarious, and unbelievably free in its access to unspoiled nature through bird-banding expeditions and overnight outings in the dead of winter. The author writes of sleeping in haystacks for survival, and other adventures, with equal shares of Booth...

Né à Jaffa en Israël, Eli Sharabi a été enlevé le 7 octobre 2023 à son domicile du kibboutz Be'eri. Retenu captif pendant 491 jours, il est devenu la voix, dans diverses enceintes internationales (ONU, rassemblements a Tel.Aviv, rencontres à la Maison Blanche), des otages et martyrs du 7 octobre.

A memoir of a child's forced relocation to Siberia under Stalin's Gulag system reveals the potential for true human kindness in the face of extraordinary hardship. In April of 1940, six-year-old Ida woke to the sound of pounding on her door. Soviet soldiers forcibly packed her and her mother onto a train with thousands of their neighbors and deported them to remote Siberia, leaving them stranded to survive the brutal winter in subhuman conditions.

Abel Tasman, Dutch explorer: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

Growing up in a quiet, middle-class suburb outside of Amsterdam, childhood best friends Anna and Olivia had their whole lives ahead of them. But every parent's worst nightmare came true when the teenagers fell in with the wrong crowd. Eleven years their senior, Ryan was charming and good-looking...

New York Times bestselling author Mark Synnott has climbed with Alex Honnold. He’s scaled Mount Everest. He's pioneered big-wall first ascents, including the north-west face of the mile-high Great Trango Tower, and skied monster first descents. But in 2022, he realized there was a dream he’d...

From one of the world’s most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth’s final frontier: the hidden depths of our oceans and the sunken caves inside our planet More people have died exploring underwater caves than climbing Mount Everest, and we know more about deep...

After the death of a close friend at seventeen, Tom Turcich resolved to make the most out of life; to travel and be forced into adventure; to experience and understand the world. On April 2nd, 2015, he set out to see it all—one step at a time.

In the aftermath of tragedy, Barry Hoffner wanted to feel the pulse of the world again. The whole world. When Barry Hoffner lost his wife and travel partner, Jackie, in a sudden tragedy, his grief was a black hole that consumed everything. But amid the quiet wreckage of loss, something unexpected stirred: the call to move, to reconnect, and to live fully again.

No início do século XX, Shackleton viajou quatro vezes à Antártida. Embora as missões tenham fracassado em seus objetivos, o navegador se tornou uma lenda, graças à sua impressionante habilidade como líder. Narrado pelo escritor e explorador Ranulph Fiennes, este livro segue os passos de um homem que não conhecia o medo e viveu de forma extraordinária.

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.