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In 1955, García Márquez was working for El Espectador, a newspaper in Bogota, when in February of that year eight crew members of the Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were washed overboard and disappeared. Ten days later one of them turned up, barely alive, on a deserted beach in northern Colombia. This book, which originally appeared as a series of newspaper articles, is García Márquez’s account of that sailor’s ordeal. 

Making It is a memoir about beating the odds and turning things around even when it all seems hopeless, by Jay Blades, known from the hit BBC One show The Repair Shop. We had our hardships, and there were times that we didn’t have a lot of food and didn’t have a lot of money. But that...

The legendary explorer of the Titanic shares inside stories of danger, suspense, and discovery - plus previously untold stories about his own dyslexia and how it has shaped his life.

"Profound and thrilling." COLIN FARRELL 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. The world held its breath in July 2018 when the Wild...

A life worth living is lived at the edges where it is wild. At the beginning of his memoir Life Lived Wild: Adventures at the Edge of the Map, Rick Ridgeway tells us that if you add up all his many expeditions, he’s spent over five years of his life sleeping in tents: “And most of that in...

Brought to you by Penguin. The year is 1735. Twelve unruly men board ships bound for South America. Their mission? To discover the true shape of the earth. They will be exposed to a wilderness of dangers none can imagine. The survivors won't return for ten years. An almost forgotten moment in...

Brought to you by Penguin. Wim "The Iceman" Hof shares his riveting story and his potent method for revolutionising your health and vitality - in his own words. He's shattered world records. He's climbed the highest and coldest mountains wearing nothing but shorts. Most of all, he's shown us...

Alison Connolly, 49, was stabbed to death by two sisters in May 2015 who were later jailed. Alison had been sexually abused throughout her childhood by her father, and she had never been able to speak out. He later abused and raped Alison’s daughter, Tara. After her mother was murdered, Tara...

A renowned climber and National Geographic photographer shares his incredible adventures—and the early trauma that drove him to seek such heights. “An extraordinary memoir of mental illness that reads like a thriller.”—Amy Ellis Nutt, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of...

When expat blogger and mother of four Eva Melusine Thieme first harbors the idea of ringing out her three years in Africa on the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, it sounds easy. In fact, it has all the trappings of a dream vacation: no cooking, no fighting kids, and an army of porters to lug everything up the mountain. What can go wrong? Tag along as Eva takes you on her journey up the slopes of Kilimanjaro together with her teenage son and a group of hilarious South African friends. 

Brought to you by Penguin. THE ENTHRALLING INSIDE STORY OF THE THAI CAVE RESCUE 'They were utterly alone inside the mountain, isolated from the rest of the world. They might as well have been on another planet . . .' In July 2018, twelve boys and their football coach disappeared into Tham Luang...

Jeg var 11, da min mor strammede tørklædet om mit hår. 12, da mine forældre sendte mig på genopdragelse i Marokko. 16, da de giftede mig bort til en voksen mand. Og 17, da jeg blev mor. Men jeg nægtede at leve en kuet kvindes liv. MIT INDRE ATLAS er en barsk, men også inspirerende...

I denne stærke opfølger til 'Kvinderne bag vesten' kommer vi endnu tættere på kvinderne i det lukkede og hemmelighedsfyldte rockermiljø. Bogen er en rå og ærlig fortælling om livet som kvinde i en mandsdomineret kultur, der traditionelt er kendt for at hylde broderskab og motorcykler...

Alessandra Gigi Staunstrups historie er en øjenåbnende rejse gennem det danske stripmiljø, men også en skæbnefortælling, der kryber ind under huden. Historien begynder i underklassens nødspor og slutter i overklassens overhalingsbane. Intet er normalt på Alessandras utraditionelle...

Nadja Engsig fra TV2-dokumentaren ”Nadja og de 170 kilo” fortæller i denne bog sin personlige historie om en kaotisk barndom, hvor mad blev det eneste faste holdepunkt. Om svigt, smerte og sorg – og et tiltagende misbrug af makrelmadder, marsbarer og mayonnaise. Hvordan bliver man et helt...

Jørn Jønke Nielsen er blevet kaldt meget, også rockersvin. Uanset kaldenavne, så kommer ingen uden om, at Jønke er den – nu tidligere rocker og biker – alle i Danmark kender. Hvis nogen ved hvad de taler om, når det gælder rockerkulturen i Danmark, så er det ham. Jønke er født i...

I Alberts korte liv nåede han at opleve mere, end mange andre nogensinde kommer til. Han var en af de første youtubere i Danmark. Sammen med en håndfuld andre youtubere var han med at til at forme branchen. Han inspirerede sine fans med sine mange sjove videoer. Han nåede at udgive 12...

En autentisk roadtripfortælling gennem en families historie fra Lolland til Ozarks i den amerikanske delstat Missouri og tilbage igen. Forfatteren og hans datter befinder sig ved bogens begyndelse i hillbilly country på roadtrip langt fra turistruterne på jagt efter en 100 år gammel...

In 4 Wochen vom südlichsten Punkt bis hoch über den Polarkreis und weiter auf Vesteralen und Lofoten – das ist die Route von Guidos Radreise im Abenteuer NORWEGEN. Mit allen Winden und Wettern konfrontiert, erlebt er Norwegen im wahrsten Sinne hautnah. Guido überwindet Passtraßen und wird mit einzigartigen Bildern belohnt, er sitzt mit einer Familie eine helle Nacht zusammen am Fjord und beginnt, das Land zu verstehen.

Everyone knows about Sir Ernest Shackleton or Amelia Earhart, but there are many adventurers whose accomplishments rival those of the most celebrated explorers, yet most people have never heard of them. This new account tells the true but little-known stories of five men and four women who once made world headlines but have virtually disappeared from the historical record.