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Andreas Altmann ist das Gegenteil eines Esoterikers. Aber auch ein rastloser Reiseschriftsteller braucht Momente der Ruhe. Diese suchte Altmann in Indien. Was er dort fand: ein Trainingscamp des inneren Friedens. Anstrengend, herausfordernd, brutal. Kein Radio, keine Drogen, kein Sex, kein Strom, keine Gespräche.

A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST CHAUTAUQUA PRIZE FINALIST This by turns shattering and hope-giving account of prisoners who dug their way to freedom from the Nazis is both a stunning escape narrative and an object lesson in the ways we...

In the early 13th century, a simple nomad chieftain managed to cobble together a powerful kingdom in the highlands of northern Asia, which was subsequently to challenge the greatest powers of the day. He was triumphant in all directions. This leader was Timujin, whose name meant "Iron Man". He became Genghis Khan, "Universal Ruler", the greatest conqueror ever known - a warrior feared from the British Isles to the tip of the Korean peninsula.

When the wild strips everything away, what’s left is who you are. In the raw, untamed wilds of Alaska—where the wind howls, predators hunt, and the sun disappears for months—only a rare few figure out how to survive. Sue Aikens, the breakout star of National Geographic’s long-running TV...

“On par with Into the Wild... Fast-paced, yet thoughtful and empathetic, all the way to its devastating conclusion, this psychological thriller will haunt me whenever I step off the pavement into the woods. I couldn’t stop reading it, and I can’t stop thinking about it.” — Bill Gifford...

This gripping story of courage and achievement is an account of Robert Falcon Scott's last fateful expedition to the Antarctic, as told by surviving expedition member Apsley Cherry-Garrard. Cherry-Garrard tells of the journey from England to South Africa and southward to the ice floes, where...

From the award-winning author of American Sirens and A Thousand Naked Strangers comes a real-life thriller about the most daring rescue in air-medical history. JULY 2014. Two American medical volunteers who joined the fight against the deadliest Ebola outbreak in world history have gotten...

Sur les rives de l’Amazone, la jungle s’étend indéfiniment et partout le danger guette. À l’aube du XXe siècle le colonel Fawcett s’enfonce dans cet enfer vert, en quête d’un mystérieux royaume, d’une civilisation riche et oubliée. Prêt à tout risquer pour entrer dans...

Incest denial and sexual assaults disrupt a young woman's solo spiritual quest and her two romantic adventures in India in 1990-91. Two decades later, after profound healing, she's resilient at mid-life. Finding the love and intimacy she craves, she can, at last, forgive her dying father—and her mom, for her decades of silence.

En memoria de Rocky — un perrito inocente cuya vida fue arrebatada de la manera más cruel, justo frente a su dueña, sus pequeños hijos y todo un vecindario que miró, grabó y nunca olvidará. Este libro revela la verdad que muchos intentaron ocultar: la captura de Rocky, su tortura, su...

On January 4th, 2004, the Mars rover Spirit landed on Mars. The first pictures sent back included the logo of a small company in Boulder, Colorado—Starsys Research—which had built 27 motors powering the rover and its instruments. Starsys was founded by Scott Tibbitts, an ex-ski bum/nuclear...

Life isn’t like a superhero movie. There isn’t a script, and while you don’t plan for bad things to happen, they happen anyway. Sometimes, they keep on happening without a break in the action, and if you look up in the sky, you may see a bird or a plane, but that’s it. In these times of...

After having a heart attack at sixty-five, I decided to get fit because apparently my response to nearly dying was to make exhaustion a competitive sport. Eventually, I became fit enough—or mentally unstable enough—to compete in duathlons, bike fondos, and time-trial events.When I turned...

Discover a life lived by instinct, curiosity, grit, and joy in Go Big: The Earnest Pursuit of Personal Growth by Kevin Ladd—a reflective, funny, and deeply human story about building a meaningful life one imperfect, audacious yes at a time. From a childhood in small-town Maine with a...

After three decades building a successful career in the music industry, Michael Rucker stepped away at sixty and began walking the Camino de Santiago.Under a Canopy of Grapes follows two pilgrimages across Spain and Portugal — and a longer journey through identity, recovery, grief, ambition...

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...

This book is a deeply personal memoir that chronicles Abby's traumatic experiences with domestic violence, the loss of her ex-husband, and her complex journey through grief, healing, and self-discovery. Structured through chapters, letters, reflections, and milestones, the memoir reveals the...

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...

Thousands have read the headlines. Few know the inside story. The impressive façade of the elite Grenville Christian College (GCC) hid a far darker truth. It was a cult hidden in plain sight. Born to staff at GCC, Beth Granger was removed from her parents' care at the age of four because they were deemed too sinful to raise her. When she was only five, the leaders declared war on Beth's sin of gluttony. It would take her three decades to muster the courage to escape. And then the pursuit for justice began.

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...