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Bernd Späth, Coach und Bestsellerautor aus Starnberg, hatte stets eine große Leidenschaft, über die er als Studiogast in vielen Rundfunksendungen berichtete: die Arktis! In fünf Expeditionen auf der norwegischen Eismeerinsel Spitzbergen erlebte er die Schönheit der Polarlandschaft, aber auch ihre Tücke und ihre Gefahren. 1983 erreichte er als erster Deutscher die Nordspitze Spitzbergens über das Inlandeis.Ein Trip, bei dem er irgendwann vor Erschöpfung zu halluzinieren begann.

Sechs Jahre brauchte André Wiersig, bis er als erster deutschsprachiger Athlet die physisch und mental anspruchsvollste Herausforderung des Freiwasserschwimmens bewältigte: die Ocean's Seven. In "Ein Mann des Meeres" erzählt der Paderborner von seinen Abenteuern im Ärmelkanal, in den Meeresstraßen vor Hawaii und Schottland, in Kalifornien, Japan, Neuseeland und Gibraltar.

Mountain search-and-rescue volunteer Bree Loewen's to-do list isn't quite the same as most people's. A former Mount Rainier climbing ranger and trained leader in mountain search-and-rescue, Bree shares the drama and the camaraderie of this work, as well as the challenges of trying to fit her other roles as wife and mother into what is still largely a masculine environment. In a fearless voice - disarming yet laced with dark humor - Bree guides us through intense recoveries, vivid wilderness landscapes, and the warmth she discovers in motherhood, community, and purpose.

"Я в 50-м году, в какой-то долгий лагерный зимний день таскал носилки с напарником и подумал: как описать всю нашу лагерную жизнь? По сути достаточно описать один всего день в подробностях... и день самого простого работяги, и тут отразится вся наша жизнь.

СЛУЧАЙ НА СТАНЦИИ КОЧЕТОВКА. "Случай на станции Кочетовка" был написан в ноябре 1962 года и сразу отдан в "Новый мир", где только что, в эти самые дни, вышел "Один день Ивана Денисовича" и ждали, просили новых рассказов. Вспоминает Солженицын: ""Самый опасный - второй шаг! - предупреждал меня Твардовский. - Первую вещь, как говорят, и дурак напишет.

I 1906 drog den grønlandske polarforsker og opdagelsesrejsende Jørgen Brønlund (1877-1907) afsted på en livsfarlig ekspedition i det nordøstlige Grønland sammen med lægen Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen og kartografen Niels Peter Høeg Hagen. Ekspeditionen gik ikke som planlagt. Rejsekammeraterne kunne ikke finde vej og omkom en efter en af sult, kulde og udmattelse. Jørgen Brønlund var den sidste, der døde, og sammen med hans lig fandt man efterfølgende hans dagbøger og Niels Peter Høeg Hagens kortoptegnelser.

Alice Achan was just 13 when the Lord’s Resistance Army first terrorised her village in Northern Uganda in 1987. She spent five years on the run from the brutal LRA and then cared for her young nieces after their mother died of AIDS, losing them one by one to the disease. Their deaths plunged her into depression, which only began to lift after she took in an unexpected guest: a pregnant teenage girl, kidnapped and assaulted by the LRA, who had escaped captivity with her toddler.

British maritime history in the age of sail is full of the deeds of officers like Nelson but has given little voice to plain, "illiterate" seamen. Now, Stephen Taylor draws on published and unpublished memoirs, letters, and naval records, including court-martials and petitions, to present these men in their own words. In this exhilarating account, ordinary seamen are far from the hapless sufferers of the press gangs.

Det buddhistiske Sherpa-folk, der lever på grænsen mellem Nepal og Tibet, hører til blandt de stærkeste og mest udholdende folkeslag i verden. Under en vandre- og klatretur i Himalayas bjerge stifter den danske friluftsvejleder Torbjørn Ydegaard bekendtskab med Sherpaerne, hvis sociale, kulturelle og religiøse liv han beskriver her i bogen "Sherpa - folket under Everest". Danske Torbjørn Ydegaard (f. 1958) er uddannet vejleder i friluftsliv fra Norges Høgfjellsskole og er cand.mag. i antropologi og pædagogik. Han har udgivet flere bøger om disse emner.

Freeman Dyson is a world-renowned astrophysicist who dreams of exploring the heavens and has designed a spaceship to take him there. His son, George, a brilliant high-school dropout, lives in a tree house and is designing a giant kayak to explore the icy coastal wilderness of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.

La memoria di Liliana Segre cerca il suo approdo nel presente. Le sue parole lo svelano: racconta di se stessa in guerra come una profuga, una clandestina, una rifugiata, una schiava lavoratrice. Usa espressioni della nostra contemporaneità affinché la testimonianza del passato sia un ponte per parlare dell'oggi. Qui e ora. E, interrogando il presente, Liliana indica quel futuro che solo i ragazzi in ascolto potranno, senza indifferenza e senza odio, disegnare, inventare, affermare.

Edge of the Map is equal parts inspiring, dramatic, and heartbreaking. One of America's greatest high altitude mountaineers, Christine Boskoff was at the top of her career when she and her partner perished in an avalanche in 2006. Principled and humble, Boskoff was also a deeply loved role model in the climbing community.

"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.

Discover a story of healing and personal transformation. Marlena’s childhood was full of contradictions. Her father was both a heroic doctor for people with leprosy and an abusive parent. Her Mennonite missionary community was both a devoted tribe and a controlling society. And Marlena longed to both be accepted in Paraguay and escape to somewhere new. In Nothing Bad Between Us, follow Marlena’s journey as she takes control of her life and learns to be her authentic self, scars and imperfections included.

They say that only truck drivers experience the true grandeur and landscape of America. In A Trucker's Tale, Ed Miller gives an inside look at the allure of the work and the colorful characters who haul our goods on the open road. He shares what it was like to grow up in a trucking family, his experience as an equipment officer in Vietnam, and the trials and tribulations of life as a trucker. His tales are often funny, sometimes sad, cringeworthy, or unbelievable. Many are the results of what he calls "just plain stupidity."

A century of the industrial age saw unprecedented leaps in technology and engineering, from the first flight of an airplane to the first flight of humans to the moon. But alongside these awe-inspiring achievements were horrible disasters caused by faulty engineering or careless judgement. Catastrophes and Heroes explores eight such disasters and recognizes the unheralded heroes who stepped up to save others in times of great danger.

In 1910, Olive MacLeod, a 30-year-old, redheaded Scottish aristocrat, received word that her fiancé, the famous naturalist Boyd Alexander, was missing in Africa. So she went to find him. Olive the Lionheart is the thrilling true story of her astonishing journey. In jungles, swamps, cities, and deserts, Olive and her two companions, the Talbots, come face-to-face with cobras and crocodiles, wise native chiefs, a murderous leopard cult, a haunted forest, and even two adorable lion cubs that she adopts as her own.

Zu den Pioniertaten unter den großen Entdeckungsfahrten zählt die erste Weltumseglung in westlicher Richtung, die der Portugiese Fernando de Magellanes in den Jahren 1519 bis 1521 unternahm. Seine dabei gemachte große Entdeckung, die Durchfahrt vom Atlantischen zum Pazifischen Ozean durch Südamerika, heißt bis heute nach seinem Entdecker: die Magellanstraße!

Désirée und Elias kündigen ihre gut bezahlten, sicheren Jobs und entscheiden sich für ein alternatives Leben außerhalb der durchorganisierten Zivilisation. Eine Segelyacht ist ab sofort ihr Zuhause. Als blutige Anfänger wagen sie sich ins Abenteuer "Meer". Schnell stellen sie fest, dass intensive, existentielle Naturerfahrungen und zutiefst berührende Begegnungen jetzt ihren Alltag bestimmen. Sie erleben eine Reise voller Überraschungen: Keine Weltumseglung, dafür Eintauchen in den ungleich größeren Mikrokosmos menschlichen Daseins.

George Murray Levick was the physician on Robert Falcon Scott's tragic Antarctic expedition of 1910. Marooned for an Antarctic winter, Levick passed the time by becoming the first man to study penguins up close. His findings were so shocking to Victorian morals that they were quickly suppressed and seemingly lost to history.