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Den danske eventyrer Hakon Mielche fortæller om en farlig tur rundt om Kap Horn på en bare otte meter lang pelskutter, der oven i købet lækker. Det er nogle farlige måneder, den ellers så garvede sømand tilbringer på den usikre båd, hvor han møder alt fra søløver og pingviner til uddøende indianerstammer og argentinske forbrydere, mens naturen sender den ene snestorm efter den anden efter den arme båd. Hakon Mielche (1904-1979) var en dansk journalist, eventyrer og forfatter.

"Ganske vist er Chile kondorens fædreland, den kæmpestore fugl har sin rede på Andeskædens højeste tinder, men man ser den kun i zoologiske haver, på landets mønter og i rigets våben - den frie kondor svinger sig i store spiraler svimlende højt mod den tindrende blå himmel, indtil den er usynlig for det blotte øje - deroppe, i flere tusinde meters højde, svæver den dag ud og dag ind på sine mægtige natsorte vinger, medens dens skarpe øjne gennemsøger landskabet dybt nede for at finde et eller andet spiseligt.

Hakon Mielche tog os i løbet af bare nogle årtier med ud på flere rejser, end de fleste af os ville kunne nå på et helt liv. "Mit livs rejse" er en sammenfatning af alle de rejser, han har skildret for os, og også dem, som han tog på, inden han begyndte at skrive sine oplevelser ned til offentligheden. Bogen er skrevet, da Hakon Mielche har besluttet sig for at stoppe som rejsebogsforfatter. Han fortæller, hvorfor han traf denne store beslutning og hvad livet som eventyrer og globetrotter har lært ham om sig selv og om verden.

Da Anden Verdenskrig langt om længe er til ende, er den store danske eventyrer Hakon Mielche endelig i stand til at genoptage de rejser, han havde længtes efter at komme ud på i de seks forbandede år, hvor krigen har holdt ham fast i hans velkendte fædreland. Kursen bliver sat mod Santos i Brasilien, hvor glade mennesker, der er upåvirkede af Anden Verdenskrigs rædsler, venter på at byde ham velkommen. Det bliver en helt særlig tur for Hakon Mielche, da han endelig genser den store verden, som han sådan har længtes efter.

"Som de fleste andre var jeg som barn noget af en dagdrømmer. Forskellen på mig og de andre børn var blot, at jeg holdt fast ved mine drømme og gjorde dem til virkelighed." Forfatter og eventyrer Lars Ørlund fortæller om nogle af sine mest fantastiske rejser, siden han som 16-årig fik hyre på en båd til Australien. Da han først var blevet ramt af rejsefeberen, var han ikke til at stoppe.

Hakon Mielche er taget på en spændende rejse gennem Mexico for at lære den forsvundne Maya-civilisation at kende. Han fortæller blandt andet, hvordan området i sin tid blev befolket, om mayaernes madkultur, der var centreret omkring majsplanten, og om Cortes‘ erobring af mayaernes land. Han besøger de ruinbyer, der vidner om civilisationens storhed, og snakker med mayaernes efterkommere, der lever i bedste velgående i vore dages Mexico. Hakon Mielche (1904-1979) var en dansk journalist, eventyrer og forfatter.

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 2 fortæller om Galatheas afrejse fra Zanzibar på Afrikas østkyst, hvorfra turen går mod øst. Det gode skib lægger blandt andet til kaj på Seychellerne, ved Ceylon og Calcutta. Ekspeditionen kigger også ind til øgruppen Nicobarerne, som engang var en dansk koloni, og konstaterer, at stedet har ændret sig slående lidt, siden Danmark opgav kolonien.

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 3 fortæller om den sidste etape af ekspeditionsskibet Galatheas rejse. Skibet sejler fra Adelaide i Australien og sejler forbi Stillehavets unikke koraløer. Besætningen møder de gæstfrie og smilende polynesiere og sætter så kurs mod Amerika. Efter de har rundet Hawaii, går turen naturligvis forbi Darwins Galapagos Øer, som er enhver havforskers drøm.

Den store danske eventyrer Hakon Mielche har nøje udvalgt et mandskab på bare tre mænd til en helt særlig rejse. På et simpelt sejlskib skal de følge samme rute, som Columbus fulgte, da han fandt Amerika. Det bliver en stormfuld tur i mere end én forstand, for Atlanterhavet er et voldsomt hav, og fire mand på en lille båd i så lang tid i træk kan føre mange konflikter med sig. Undervejs går de i land på forskellige tropeøer og møder et væld af spændende mennesker.

To dage efter sin 50 års fødselsdag rejste Hakon Mielche til Mellemøsten på en eventyrrejse. Det skulle der naturligvis skrives en bog om, og den endte med at blive en af forfatterens bedste. "Aladdin kører Cadillac" er fyldt med alt det, man forventer hos Hakon Mielche: fakta, fotos, spænding, historie, geografi samt sjove og alvorlige anekdoter. Bogen er en spændende rejse gennem 1950‘ernes Mellemøsten. Hakon Mielche (1904-1979) var en dansk journalist, eventyrer og forfatter.

In 2002, while on a training run in Houston, Texas, with her husband, Raul, in preparation for the Marine Corps Marathon, author Kristin Abello was struck by a car. As a result, she sustained a traumatic brain injury and other physical traumas. The initial consensus was that she wasn’t going to survive. In Sunrise, she tells her story of faith, love, hope, and healing from TBI. While a love story, it is also the true story of her fight for survival. She and Raul were a young couple in love when the catastrophic car accident nearly pulled them apart.

At the age of 18, Yvonne set out to build a home from trees on 80 acres she bought on an Oregon mountainside. In 1975, log by log, she creates a cabin and heals from an orphaned past, finding a new family in the forest and with people in a valley named John Day. Babe in the Woods: Self Portrait is the second in a three-book series. It chronicles a span in Yvonne's four decades' long relationship with her log cabin and the people she meets in the valley. The audiobook continues Yvonne's story of learning to live in the wilderness within and outside of herself.

In 1973, the Wilcox family sets off to sail around the world aboard the 40-foot sailboat, Vela. Thirteen months later, they are shipwrecked on a coral reef, with surf tearing a huge hole into the side of their boat. With years invested in saving money, preparing the boat, and learning to navigate by the stars, parents Chuck and Dawn refuse to give up. Can they overcome the emotional, physical, and financial challenges to transform from castaways into circumnavigators?

On March 20, 1822, the Missouri Republican published a notice addressed “to enterprising young men” in the St. Louis area. “The subscriber,” it said, “wishes to engage one hundred young men to ascend the Missouri River to its source, there to be employed for one, two, or three years. For particulars enquire of Major Andrew Henry…or of the subscriber near St. Louise.” The “subscriber” was General William H. Ashley, and among the “enterprising young men” who embarked with Major Henry less than a month later was 18-year-old James Bridger.

In the early twentieth century, headlines declared that "the era of women has dawned." Against this changing historical backdrop, Harriet Quimby's extraordinary life stands out as the embodiment of this tumultuous, exciting era—when flight was measured in minutes, not miles. This untold piece of feminist history unveils Quimby's incredible story: rising from humble beginnings as a dirt-poor farm girl to become a globe-trotting journalist, history-making aviator, and international celebrity.

This is an adventure story of a man on a mission to experience the most exciting life possible. This takes place over just three months out of a five year journey of living and nonstop traveling in a van, seeking out the deepest forests with the most beautiful and extreme mountain biking adventures nature has to offer. Two countries, six states, 32 cities, spent over 75 days with 42 rides. Somewhere, not just anywhere! and definitely not lost! Oh God! this isn't a dream! My legs are toast! Wow! What a ride!

Ein Mann – eine Legende. Reinhold Messner hat in seinem Leben zahlreiche "Grenzgänge" gewagt. Nicht selten begegneten ihm Wunder der Natur, oft verfolgte ihn der Tod. Ob auf den höchsten Gipfeln, in trockenen Steinwüsten oder im antarktischen Eis, überall suchte Messner seine Grenzen. In drei Vorträgen berichtet er u. a. vom Everest und Nanga Parbat, der Wüste Gobi und seinen Reisen in die Polarregionen. Diese Hörbuch-Sammlung weiß zu unterhalten und zu informieren, eine gelungene Mischung.

In the dramatic final book of the three-part Living Life Sideways series, the harsh effects of years of narcissistic abuse begin to take their toll as Michelle Segrest is broken down psychologically and emotionally—piece by piece—by her manipulative partner. She is forced to battle her inner demons as she struggles to rediscover her personal strength and resolve. Trapped inside the lonely darkness of depression and unsettling isolation, she must dig deep into her soul to find a way to save herself and her two devoted beagles.

Kitty Baxter was born in London in 1930, the daughter of a road sweeper and a cleaner and one of five children. War broke out just as Kitty turned nine and she became one of thousands of children evacuated to the countryside. This would be the first of three times that she was rehoused far from home over the course of the war. Sometimes treated more like a servant than a small child, Kitty endured gruelling years cut off from her parents rather than a safe haven from war.

In this work of deep reflection, insight, and vulnerability, Caroline Brunne shares her story of becoming the woman she is today. From the shores of the picturesque island of Mauritius, to suburban Victoria, through to her childhood home in Queensland, deep in the heart of her life journey is her lived experience of trauma, the impact of childhood sexual abuse and her ongoing quest to support her fellow survivors to reduce the shame they may carry.

It’s 1972 when free-spirited “good girl” Fay takes off on a three-year journey around the US and Europe in search of jobs, apartments, and boyfriends. She soon finds navigating her way through the real world will take a skill set her Sunday schoolteacher never taught her. Taking off on a three-year journey across America and Europe in the early 1970s, Fay quickly learns there are three things she needs in order to be happy—an apartment, a job, and a boyfriend, a.k.a., "the holy trinity”.

I was born and broken in Birkenhead, abused from infancy by a network of every kind of pervert from ‘thinks it’s love’ to ‘show it hurts’. I was unwanted, beaten, sold, swapped, photographed, filmed, left for dead, corrupted, blamed, betrayed, ignored and orphaned. But I was also born with a fire inside me. I call it my Phoenix Fire. I am no victim—that word only describes what happened to me. Nor am I a survivor because that implies I am over it. I am a Phoenix—a work in progress. This is my story....

If you ever wondered what crazy things other people get up to, here's a good place to start your research. Featuring: why you should never ask me to play the drums, half way around the world on a 250cc Jawa, across the Sahara and through darkest Africa with two friends on their honeymoon—in a nine-year-old Morris Isis with four inches of ground clearance, running on bald tires picked from trash dumps around London, and more.

When Dr. Sanjay Gupta travels the world for CNN to report on natural disasters, conflicts, and catastrophes, he illuminates the stories of the affected and the afflicted. But a few times in his career, while reporting abroad, he’s been asked to don his surgeon’s cap and gloves to intervene in high-stakes medical emergencies. Far from his controlled and highly regulated operating rooms, Gupta found himself trying to save lives in the most makeshift and trying conditions.

Sorg är inte skadligt. Sorg är sorgligt. När Eva är liten utsätts hon för sexuella övergrepp av sin pappa och när hon nu är vuxen och själv har en familj vet hon inte hur hon ska berätta för sina barn om sin uppväxt. I början hade hon nästan inga svar, hennes familj var fylld av hemligheter. Till sist bestämmer hon sig för att konfrontera sin pappa. Hon ringer upp och får till svar: "Förlåt, jag ville inte göra dig illa". Eva är inte beredd på det svaret och tvingas nu att ta ställning.

Den 23-28 augusti 1973 utspelar sig ett gisslandrama på Norrmalmstorg i Stockholm. Bankrånaren Janne Olsson är tungt beväpnad och har tillfångatagit 3 kvinnor, däribland den då 23-åriga Kristin Enmark. Polisen skickar in den beryktade brottslingen Clark Olofsson för att medla, men saker går inte riktigt som de tänkt sig. Efteråt hävdade man att Kristin var sjuk, och termen "Stockholmsyndrom" myntas. Men Kristin hade bara försökt överleva ...

As one of the UK's leading journalists, Dan has made it his life work to focus on people who often act as the catalysts for change: the unheralded champions who frequently go without getting the recognition they deserve. The new audiobook from the author of the best-selling Remarkable People contains a totally fresh batch of humble heroes whose actions, bravery and determination have helped shape their communities.

Haunted by ghosts of the past, she was sailing directly into the eye of a storm. But fighting the challenges at sea was nothing compared with her complex personal struggles on an intense journey to find self-valuation. Determined to complete the life-changing odyssey, in book two of her Living Life Sideways series, Michelle Segrest’s focus turns to an extraordinary effort to salvage her crumbling relationship with a masterfully manipulative skipper.

The chance of a lifetime. The replica of Captain Cook's ship Endeavour is sailing through Hawai'i on her circumnavigation and asks for volunteers to sail her through the islands. How can a sailor from Hawai'i resist? This is the account of spending three days sailing in the 18th century.

Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say.