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Crateri infuocati e foreste incontaminate, isole perdute e popoli primitivi, fiumi e scogli leggendari, ghiacciai, savane e deserti sconfinati, paradisi nascosti. E poi, animali preistorici, leoni e coccodrilli, orsi e serpenti. I racconti di Walter Bonatti ci riportano al suo fianco, nei suoi fantastici viaggi ai confini della Terra. Le sue sembrano cronache di un altro secolo e di un altro mondo... e lo sono.

Fergal Keane has spent his adult life witnessing war, travelling through dangerous or devastated places and reporting the atrocities back to the rest of the world. In the course of those decades, he has lost friends, sustained injuries and experienced countless near misses. He has patched up colleagues and seen the worst of humanity: mothers robbed of their children and bodies mutilated. Along the way, he was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. Yet he could not stop going back to the wars.

For more than a century, plane crashes have been among the scariest catastrophes imaginable. The toll on human life is devastating. Yet, as this fascinating book reveals, there are some who defy the odds and survive the unsurvivable. In this riveting collection of true stories from sole survivors, we get an inside look at their harrowing ordeal that changed their lives forever. We get a glimpse of their lives before and after the accident, explore the possible causes of their plane crash, and dive into the haunting yet fascinating details of the fateful day they fell from the sky.

Michael Fomenko is familiar with adversity. But when he gets shut out of the Commonwealth Games for financial and political reasons at the ripe age of 20, he questions everything. Setting a new course for himself, he dreams of a feat that will require unimaginable determination. With no companions or guides, he will paddle a dugout canoe over 1,000 nautical kilometers from Cairns, Australia, to Dutch, New Guinea.

Durante siglos, los europeos situaron la legendaria ciudad de El Dorado en la selva más grande y densa del mundo: la del Amazonas. La obsesión por encontrar ese paraíso dejó la jungla impenetrable sembrada de cadáveres, lo que no fue impedimento para el explorador británico Percy Fawcett. Después de emprender una expedición tras otra sin éxito, en 1925 desapareció sin dejar rastro. En 2005, David Grann se adentró en el «infierno verde» para averiguar qué había ocurrido allí. El resultado es una reconstrucción magistral dela aventura de Percy Fawcett.

Mike Rinder’s parents began taking him to their local Scientology center when he was five years old. After high school, he signed a billion-year contract and was admitted into Scientology’s elite inner circle, the Sea Organization. Brought to founder L. Ron Hubbard’s yacht and promised training in Hubbard’s most advanced techniques, Rinder was instead put to work swabbing the decks. Still, Rinder bought into the doctrine that his personal comfort was secondary to the higher purpose of Hubbard’s world-saving mission.

A puddle of water on a highway changed Dinesh Palipana's life forever. Halfway through medical school, Dinesh was involved in a catastrophic car accident that caused a cervical spinal cord injury. After his accident, his strength and determination saw him return to complete medical school—now with quadriplegia. Dinesh was the first quadriplegic medical intern in Queensland, and the second person with quadriplegia to graduate medical school in Australia. Despite all of the pain and hardship he's faced, Dinesh now sees his accident as a turning point for the better in his life.

A firsthand account of hiking the entire Appalachian Trail in 2009. Starting in Georgia and continuing on foot nearly 2,200 miles to Maine, this is a collection of stories, adventures, and experiences from the Appalachian Trail. Anyone who has hiked or wishes to hike the AT will benefit from this easy and enjoyable listen.

Down on his luck and disabled, cancer survivor Matthew Evans had nothing to lose by fleeing the farmsteads of Muscatine, Iowa, at age 21 to pursue his Chinese Dream. With all the makings of a classic folk tale, his curiosity became an epic five-year adventure that would find him homeless, stateless, posing as a professor, imprisoned, deported, and caught in the middle of the 2014 Hong Kong protests. Though it has all the form of great fiction, An American Bum in China is a true story and all the crazier for it.

CIVIL: Life After the Foreign Legion is the author's follow-up to Appel: A Canadian in the French Foreign Legion. During his recent return to France, he shares with you his past in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Algeria as a security contractor and more.

For years, Emma Carey was a regular young adult who would wake up and go about their day on autopilot, someone who would look at a sunset and feel unaffected, someone who was living, but not really alive. That is, until something happened that enabled her to really see life for the gift it is. Emma was in a skydiving accident that made her a paraplegic. This book is not just about Emma's fall from the sky and how she learned to walk without ever regaining feeling in her legs but also about the beliefs and ideas that helped her survive.

In this intimate and insightful audiobook, Melissa Doyle shares the stories of some of the most resilient people she has ever met, gently drawing out their wisdom, empathy and heartfelt practical advice for anyone who’s going through a difficult time. When the world stopped turning in 2020, award-winning journalist Melissa Doyle had already been thrown off course by life. She’d just turned 50, her eldest child had finally left home to study overseas and her 25-year-long career as a popular presenter at Channel 7 had come to an end.

Katherine Evers bears her soul in this captivating story that will draw listeners into her experiences growing up with an alcoholic and abusive father. Listeners' hearts will break as they experience the trauma Kat endured through her childhood at the hands of a man who was supposed to love her unconditionally. In this memoir, the listener will witness critical inflection points that led to the creation of a formidable mental construct—the Committee.

Joanne Phillips’ ordeal began aged 13 when she was gang-raped in her bedroom by local boys. Following the trauma, she dropped out of school, was befriended by an older man and was forced into prostitution aged 16. Over the next six years, she was raped by over 500 men, starved, beaten, and transported around the country to brothels. Forced to have sex with men from all walks of life including lawyers, stockbrokers, doctors, a parish councillor, Joanne was even made to have sex with her former school headteacher—who didn’t recognise her.

Straight from the harsh streets, American Cops is a first-person account of the days and nights of America's police force.

On May 12, 2015, Amtrak 188 derailed outside of Philadelphia going 106 miles per hour. Geralyn Ritter was thrown from the train with such force that she sustained catastrophic injuries to her chest, her abdomen, and her pelvis. Found unconscious, unable to breathe, and suffering massive blood loss, she was not expected to survive. After enduring weeks in the ICU, dozens of surgeries over the following years, unremitting pain, PTSD, depression, and opioid dependence, Geralyn was faced with a daunting question: Beyond mere survival after trauma, where is the path back to joy?

When Sky and her older sister Avril were taken into care, the social workers knew this was a case like no other. Raised by unhinged parents who hoarded compulsively, creating horrific conditions no child should live in, the two girls arrived at foster carer Louise's home, neglected, malnourished and indoctrinated. Louise had to draw on all of her experience as one of Britain's leading foster carers to rehabilitate and change the course of their lives.

Sami Modiano aveva solo otto anni quando è stato espulso dalla scuola. Abitava a Rodi, all’epoca territorio italiano, ed era in terza elementare. Il maestro non gli spiega il perché, gli dice solo di tornare a casa dal padre. Da quel giorno Sami smette di essere un bambino e diventa un ebreo. Con il padre Jakob e la sorella Lucia affronta le difficoltà delle Leggi razziali fasciste, fino al rastrellamento dell’intera comunità ebraica avvenuto nel luglio del 1944.

For nearly two hundred years, the Society has been awarding gold medals to those individuals who have contributed most to our geographical knowledge. Winners of the Founder's and Patron's medals now number around three hundred individuals, and the roll-call of names is a veritable Who's Who of exploration. Telling their stories, of the many and varied ways in which they have helped 'fill in the maps', is nothing less than a history of exploration itself.

Inseguendo i propri sogni di bambino, Walter Bonatti è diventato un personaggio leggendario, il simbolo stesso dell'avventura. Perché nelle sue sfide si è spinto sempre un po' più in là, ed è andato tanto avanti da riuscire ancora oggi a dirci qualcosa di nuovo. Erano i sogni a guidarlo, e lui ha passato la vita a realizzarli.

A couple of quiet weeks sailing the River Severn was the intention. Somehow things got out of hand—a year later, I had reached Romania and was still going. Equipped with his cheerful optimism and a pith helmet, this Australian Odysseus in a dinghy travels from the borders of North Wales to the Black Sea—4,900 kilometres over salt and fresh water, under sail, at the oars, or at the end of a tow-rope—through 12 countries, 282 locks and numerous trials and adventures, including an encounter with Balkan pirates.

Quando il mondo si è fermato, a inizio 2020, le frontiere hanno iniziato a chiudersi e gli aerei sono scomparsi dai cieli come le navi dai mari, Darinka si è trovata di fronte a un bivio: tornare a casa o trovarne una nuova. Lei ha scelto Bali. Per la prima volta costretta a restare ferma, inizia un’esperienza introspettiva in cui corsi di yoga e di meditazione, sedute mistiche con sciamani, guaritori e cerchi di sorellanza sono i nuovi mezzi di trasporto verso la radice dei propri tormenti interiori.

Jackie was an ordinary American woman whose life changed after a blind date with rugged Antarctic explorer Finn Ronne. After marrying, they began planning the 1946-1948 Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition. Her participation was not welcomed by the expedition team of red-blooded males eager to prove themselves in the frozen, hostile environment of Antarctica.

I 1950 begyndte Hakon Mielche og dr. Anton Fr. Bruun en ambitiøs verdensomsejling på ekspeditionsskibet Galathea. Hakon Mielche fungerede som kronikør og udgav hele tre bøger om ekspeditionen. Bind 1 fortæller om afrejsen fra København, turen forbi Plymouth og Lissabon, før skibet nærmede sig Afrikas kyst og gjorde holdt på Tenerife. Nu går turen rundt om Det Mørke Kontinent, hvor skibet blandt andet lægger til kaj ved Dakar, Cape Town og på Madagaskar.

Magasinet ATLAS går bag om USA og sætter landet under et kritisk lys. "USA kan ikke løbe fra O.J. Simpson" slår Johan Wizan fast i sin artikel om O.J. Simpsom-sagen og dens enorme symbolværdi i opfattelsen af det amerikanske retssystem. Anders Dalls to artikler "Projektet Pruitt-Igoe Del 1 og 2" fortæller om et boligbyggeri, der skulle løse kæmpe problemer med kriminalitet, men som endte som en ghetto, hvor politiet ikke turde rykke ind.

Det var næsten tilfældigt, at den rejseglade Arne Arp kom med på en ekspedition, der skulle lede efter tin i den truede Amazonasjungle. Turen blev så spændende og skelsættende, at Arne Arp efterfølgende udgav en bog om de mange strabadser. "Xingú" handler om sejladsen på de mægtige floder, om vandringer gennem den tætte skov med ryggen tungt belæsset, om vilde dyr og vidunderlige mennesker, der formår at leve i pagt med naturen på naturens præmisser. Arne Arp er en dansk forfatter og rejseleder.

I starten af 1800-tallet tog den unge dansker Hans Falk afsked fra sit fædreland og stak til søs for at opleve verden. Han levede i mange år et hårdt og dramatisk liv som hvalfanger, før han slog sig ned i New Zealand, hvor han levede blandt de menneskeædende maorier og giftede sig tre gange med maorikvinder. Den danske journalist Preben Dich er selv draget til New Zealand for at lære Hans Falks historie at kende gennem hans efterkommere, der er stolte over deres danske ophav.

From a young age, her life was defined by uncertainty—by trauma and strength, sadness and hope, terrible lows and wondrous highs. As a teenager she found the courage to speak up after experiencing awful and ongoing child sexual abuse. This fight to find her voice would not be her last. The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner is Grace's story, in Grace's words, on Grace's terms. Like Grace, it is sharply intelligent, deeply felt and often blisteringly funny. And, as with all her work, it offers a constructive and optimistic vision for a better future for all of us.

Georg V. Bengtsson fortæller om nogle af det tyvende århundredes mest fascinerende spionsager. Læs blandt andet om den kontroversielle og sagnomspundne forførerske Mata Hari, hvis rolle under Første Verdenskrig har været omstridt og diskuteret lige siden. De andre sager tager os med rundt i verden til blandt andet Japan, Indonesien, USA og Tyskland. Georg V. Bengtsson (1908-1988) var en dansk forfatter. Han debuterede med bogen "Ungdommen og litteraturen" og udgav senere en lang række bøger, blandt andet om autentiske krimisager. Georg V.

"Jeg kan fortsætte i den tone, hvori jeg begyndte - med de vældige skove, den glødende solnedgang og de puslende vilddyr, som jeg i sidste øjeblik knalder ned med min Colt - hvis jeg ikke selv opdager det, vil mine læsere underrette mig om, at det alt sammen er sagt hundrede gange før og hundrede gange bedre. Og alligevel er det DET, man venter, når man køber en bog om "det grønne helvede". Der kan de se - der faldt en af de blåstemplede, blankslidte fraser mig straks i munden. Det er håbløst lige fra starten.