Ocean Survival

After her plane crashes, a 17-year-old girl spends 11 days walking through the Peruvian jungle. Against all odds, with no food, shelter, or equipment, she gets out. A better equipped group of adult survivors of the same crash sits down and dies. What makes the difference?

Liam and Phoebe, having barely escaped our exploding sun with their lives, are in stasis for the decade-long journey to the rogue planet Delphi, where they hope to meet up with the rest of the human refugees, find help for their injured parents, and pass along the devastating things they discovered on Mars: that someone destroyed their world intentionally, and that that someone might still be after them, trying to finish the job. Phoebe is carrying her own dark secret. One that finds her waking up secretly at various points in their journey, changing their path through space.

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.

Historia o odwadze, żeglarstwie bez GPS-a i kobietach na morzu. „Samotne oceany” to pełna zdumiewających spostrzeżeń biografia Krystyny Chojnowskiej-Liskiewicz–inżynier budowy statków, jachtowym kapitanie żeglugi wielkiej, pierwszej kobiecie na świecie, która samotnie opłynęła Ziemię.

This riveting collection of adventure writing includes the work of The Perfect Storm author, Sebastian Junger. Listen as men and women battle the elements, and often each other, to stay alive, confronting sharks, savage storms, rogue waves, mountainous icebergs, starvation, and their own fear and suffering.

The harrowing adventure-at-sea memoir recounting the heroic search-and-rescue mission for lost Montauk fisherman John Aldridge, which Daniel James Brown calls "A terrific read." I am floating in the middle of the night, and nobody in the world even knows I am missing. Nobody is looking for me...

This exciting, beautifully told story will delight all animal lovers. The last snows of winter are melting away and Little Albatross sits snug in the warmth of Mother Albatross' feathers. He grows bigger and stronger until one day Mother and Father Albatross go fishing together, leaving Little...