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Dever de capitão é a história real de um marinheiro sob a mira de piratas somalis nos mares do leste da África. Em março de 2009, Richard Phillips, experiente oficial da marinha mercante dos Estados Unidos, assumiu o comando do navio cargueiro Maersk Alabama com a missão de transportar toneladas de alimentos desde Omã, na península Arábica, até o Quênia.

The Red River Trail, used approximately between 1820 and 1880 to take supplies and settlers to the West, stimulated commerce in the region and played an important part in the growth of Manitoba and Minnesota. It highlights the role of the Metis in the development of the area and follows the life of Pierre Bottineau, a Metis guide and well-known frontiersman and military scout. He traveled the route regularly and was known as the Kit Carson of the North.

El amor, la alegría, la barbarie. La vida de Neus Català, explicada por ella misma y revisada a través de una ambiciosa novela magistralmente construida por Carme Martí.

Su infancia en un pequeño pueblo rural; la juventud interrumpida por la Guerra Civil española y la rápida toma de conciencia social; Barcelona, Premià de Mar y, finalmente, la retirada a pie por la frontera hasta llegar al sur de Francia; la resistencia, los maquis y el primer gran amor. Pasión y rebelión hasta el día que las SS llaman a la puerta. Prisión...

Gerry was only a young girl when she was first abused by her father. His evil acts were followed by abuse from her local priest, arranged by her father. After her mother found out about the abuse, and believing there was nothing she could do to help her child, she committed suicide. After finally meeting her kind and caring husband a few years ago, and after celebrating her 60th birthday, Gerry decided it was time for her story to be told. This is her true story of survival.

Christopher A. Roosa grew up the eldest son of Apollo 14 astronaut and command module pilot Stuart A. Roosa. As a child of the space program, Christopher had a ringside seat at the dinner table of one of twenty-four Americans who had either entered lunar orbit or landed on the moon. 

In 1948, the Appalachian Trail had been a continuous, 2,000-mile footpath for eleven years, but no one had walked its length alone in a continuous journey—until Earl Shaffer, a quiet Pennsylvanian, became a hiking legend and the first of what is now more than 5,500 A.T. "thru-hikers," walking from Georgia to Maine as spring arrived to each area. In 1998, he hiked again as a 50th-anniversary celebration, to far greater publicity. This is the lyrical account of his fabled 1948 walk.

In this intimate and eye-opening book, Diya Abdo—daughter of refugees, U.S. immigrant, English professor, and activist—shares the stories of seven refugees. Coming from around the world, they’re welcomed by Every Campus A Refuge (ECAR), an organization Diya founded to leverage existing resources at colleges to provide temporary shelter to refugee families.

Louise has trouble on her hands from the first moment that 5-year-old Billy Blackthorn comes to stay. He is one of more than 20 children taken into care from a single family, and erupts into the Allen household with a volatility that is frightening and disturbing in equal measure. It is only as Louise begins to uncover the secrets of Billy's dark past that she begins to understand what made his family 'untouchable'.

Not a technical guide on snowboarding but, rather, a very personal approach to how to think about mountains, snow, and adventure, The Art of Shralpinism reflects the remarkable journey of snowboarding superstar Jeremy Jones. Drawing on the hundreds of journals he has kept over the years, Jones offers intriguing snapshots of time and place that include his own on-the-slope stories and white-out moments, as well as those of other prominent adventurers such as Jimmy Chin, Zahan Billimoria, and Christina Lusti.

Is the human body built for Mars? NASA's studies on the International Space Station show we need to fix a few things before sending people to the Red Planet. Astronauts go into space with good vision and come back needing eyeglasses. Cognition and DNA expression could be affected for years. And then there's the discomfort of living in a tight space with crewmates, depression, and separation from the people you love.

Un libro capaz de marcar un antes y un después en la vida de sus lectores, Viaje a la esencia aúna las experiencias de su autor, Ubay Serra, en el desarrollo personal y el modo en que nos relacionamos con el mundo y con la vida. Reflexiones de hondo calado, palabras que son como manos tendidas para que encontremos apoyo y un profundo descubrimiento personal nos aguardan en este libro.

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER BLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH The extraordinary story of how the Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, was found in the most hostile sea on Earth in 2022 On 21 November 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship, Endurance, finally succumbed to the crushing ice...

The Sunday Times bestseller, read by the author. In his darkest depression, one idea brought Christian Lewis out of the depths – and into a new life. Finding Hildasay is a brutal and beautiful true story of mental health, survival, walking, and the meaning of home. ‘Now I was finally out of...

Im Alter von 12 Jahren wurde Sabine Dardenne am 28. Mai 1996 entführt und befand sich mehr als 80 Tage in der Gewalt des Sexualstraftäters und Serienmörders Marc Dutroux. In ihrer Autobiografie "Ihm in die Augen sehen" schildert sie rückblickend die Zeit ihrer Gefangenschaft. Ein trauriger Bericht einer starken Frau über den Verlust ihrer Kindheit, mit dem Sabine Dardenne aber auch erreichen möchte, dass sich solch grausame Taten nicht noch einmal ereignen...

Born in Shanghai and shipped to England as a child, Peter Whitehead then made his way to Australia, solo, at the age of 13 in 1938, in order to save his family money. Alone and working in near slave-like conditions as a farm labourer, Whitehead learned the art of breaking wild horses and so began a lifelong love affair with animals. After wartime service as a horse breaker for the army and a gunner on a Liberator bomber, Whitehead headed to Africa and had a richly varied career as an agricultural officer, national parks ranger, big game hunter, animal wrangler and rancher.

On the West Coast of the South Island, past deep fjords, glassy lakes, forested valleys and snow-capped mountains, lies the Long family cabin. It was here that Chris Long spent the first 17 years of his life, two days' hike from the nearest road. In this heartfelt and captivating audiobook, Chris describes childhood with nature on his doorstep—helping his father catch crayfish and his mother grow vegetables, dreaming of helicopter visits, playing with toys crafted from driftwood and jade and learning to survive in the wild.

Frente a mí diario de la tormenta narra la vivencia personal, como médico oncólogo y a un tiempo enfermo aquejado de cáncer. Su experiencia profesional, calidad humana y la probada capacidad para convertir el pensamiento en literatura, nos sumergen en un relato intenso sobre la enfermedad y sobre la vida misma, en el que todos nos podemos reconocer de algún modo.

1922: Seit fünf Jahren sucht der Archäologe Howard Carter im Tal der Könige nach dem Grab des Pharao Tutanchamun (ursprünglich auch Tut-ench-Amun genannt). Ohne Erfolg. Die Zeit der großen Entdeckungen im Tal der Könige scheint da eigentlich schon lange vorbei. In den drei Jahrtausenden zuvor haben hier zahllose Grabräuber, Priester, Forscher und Schatzsucher gewütet. Das Tal ist voller aufgetürmter Schuttberge zwischen freigelegten Gräbern. Jedes Sandkorn ist bereits mehrfach gesiebt worden. Howard Carter aber zeigt sich davon unbeirrt.

The day Abram and his mother arrived at Auschwitz death camp, they both knew it would be her last. In their final moment together, Abram's mum urged her nineteen-year-old son to 'Do everything humanly possible to survive, and tell people what happened here.' Then she was taken to a gas chamber and murdered. Abram had already endured and survived so much until that moment but with his strength of hope, sometimes reduced to a flicker, he survived.

A bracing memoir about self-discovery, liberating escape, and moving forward across an adventurous and volatile American landscape. One year. One national park at a time.