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In 1810, Matthew Flinders made his final voyage home to his beloved wife, Ann, his body ravaged by the deprivations of years of imprisonment by the French. Four years later, at the age of just 40, he would be dead – a premature, tragic end to one of the world’s greatest maritime adventurers who circumnavigated and mapped the famed Great Southern Land, and whose naming of the vast continent would become its modern title: Australia.

Michel Adrien, né à Noirmoutier en 1933, est issu d’une famille de pêcheur. Dès l'âge de 14 ans, il embarque comme mousse à bord du "Fleur de Mai". Il y apprendra le dur métier de marin pêcheur dans les conditions ultra-précaires de l'époque, et connaitra même un naufrage, dont il sortira marqué à vie.

Surviving Myself: The Making of a Middleweight is a coming-of-age memoir about a sensitive little sweetheart, who throws a dynamite left hook—a punch that catapults him into Madison Square Garden to fight for a Golden Gloves title. It is also about my fiercely flawed family and our struggles with divorce, drug addiction, alcoholism, a suicide attempt, and juvenile delinquency.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER From Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring—and surviving—an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book...

It was 13 October 1972. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, carrying a team of young rugby players, their families and friends, took off for the very last time. A deadly miscalculation saw F571 crash directly into the Andean mountains to devastating consequences: the body of the plane broke violently into two, its floor torn to smithereens; seats flew out of the air taking passengers with them. In the weeks that followed, the remaining people who were on board - the society of the snow - emerged to fight a dire, gruelling battle for survival.

Journalist Nicole Madigan was stalked for over three years. The relentless and debilitating experience wreaked havoc in her personal and professional life, leaving her trapped in a constant state of fear and anxiety. Nicole uses her own story as an entry point to examine the psychology behind stalking behaviours and their impact on victim-survivors. Whether by a stranger, acquaintance or former partner, stalking can have a catastrophic effect on a victim-survivor's mental, social and financial wellbeing. At its worst, it can lead to physical violence, even death.

Airlifted into the heart of the Sierra Leone jungle in the midst of the bloody civil war in 2000, 26 elite operators from the secret British elite unit X Platoon were sent into combat against thousands of Sierra Leonean rebels. Notorious for their brutality, the rebels were manned with captured UN armour, machine-guns and grenade-launchers, while the men of X Platoon were kitted with pitiful supplies of ammunition, malfunctioning rifles, and no body armour, grenades or heavy weapons. Intended to last only 48 hours, the mission mutated into a 16-day siege against the rebels.

"Ich war aufgebrochen, um mich in der körperlichen Anstrengung aufzulösen. Die weiße Querung wurde für mich zur absoluten Reise, zu einem Schweben in einer Idee von Landschaft." Sylvain Tesson. Vier Jahre lang, von 2017 bis 2020, unternimmt Sylvain Tesson in Begleitung des Bergführers Daniel du Lac jeden März eine kräftezehrende Skitour, um die gesamte Alpenkette von Menton in Frankreich aus über die Gipfel bis nach Triest in Italien zu queren.

Zimmerman writes of the exhilaration he feels while climbing but also the painful realization that summiting at all costs is an outdated model. As A Fine Line traces Graham's journey, mountain lovers everywhere will see themselves in this coming-of-age story of adventure and personal reckoning.

Flyer Beware is not only a personal journey of survival but also a call for awareness and empathy. This eye-opening memoir empowers listeners to understand the risks of scams and the profound impact they can have on unsuspecting victims. Ultimately, it's a tale of strength, courage, and the unwavering human spirit, a testament to how resilience can transcend even the darkest of circumstances.

Passenger 19C is the story of Margo Siple's experience on the crippled aircraft, her survival, and the aftermath that changed her life, as well as other significant events that happened to her before and after the airline crash in which the adversity she faced challenged her and her faith numerous times.

Filmmaker Tom Opre spent over three years documenting a remote Zambian community led by a woman chief who took bold action against wildlife poaching to break the cycle of poverty. For generations, the people lived off the land and partnered with the safari hunting industry, which funded wildlife protection and brought income. But after a hunting ban in 2001–2002, poaching gangs took over. In just 15 years, once-abundant wildlife—including Africa’s Big Five—was decimated. No outfitter would invest in an empty concession. The people faced hopelessness.

As a child growing up in the wild beauty of the Ozarks, Barbara often spent her days exploring outside and daydreaming of faraway places in order to escape a life of poverty. She longed to trade her homemade clothes and outdoor toilet for spectacular adventures around the world. That chance came in the form of a wild-eyed, long-haired Viking-like young man named Peter. After an exciting courtship and a wedding on a dime, the young couple departed on foot from New Orleans on July 5, 1976, heading toward the Pacific Coast.

Entropy is a law of nature, the one predicting that "things fall apart." Spend enough time outdoors and it will eventually happen to you. When it does, who will pick up the pieces? Who will glue them back together? Professional search and rescue volunteers leave work, home, and their cozy beds to rescue people on the worst day of their lives. They buy their own gear, pay their own gas, and ask nothing more than to make a contribution to the lives of strangers who they'll probably never meet again.

Christina O'Connor is the main prosecution witness from the Huddersfield Grooming scandal. In 2017, 11 men were convicted of a staggering 43 offences against her. In this memoir, Christina will describe how, from being a happy child with a loving family, she fell into the clutches of a grooming gang whose abuse of children earned them a total of 221 years in prison.

Twenty years since its first publication, this new anniversary edition of the Holocaust memoir of George Salton (then Lucjan Salzman), gives listeners a personal and powerful account of his survival through one of the darkest periods in human history. With heartbreaking and honest reflection, the author shares a gripping first-person narrative of his transformation from a Jewish eleven-year-old boy living happily in Tyczyn, Poland, with his brother and parents, to his experiences as a teenage victim of growing persecution, brutality, and imprisonment as the Nazis pursued the Final Solution.

“You’re hiking how far solo?” "How are you going to hike the entire John Muir Trail when you’ve never even been backpacking before?” These were the two most common questions that accompanied baffled looks from Christy’s corporate coworkers when she mentioned her plans. Legitimate questions Christy had pondered herself. Yet, she couldn’t fully express the pull to hike more than 220 miles in the California High Sierra Mountains. She knew only that her whole being told her that she needed to.

Jim Payne follows the waterways of America, living a Tom Sawyer life in his 12-foot kayak, getting scared, soaked, and bailed out of trouble by Samaritans he discovers along the way. His escapades span the country, from the Hudson River to the Columbia, from the Mississippi to the Erie Canal. As Payne's adventures unfold, you never know what's around the next bend He's entrapped by security guards at Mount Vernon, loses his rudder off the Florida Keys, and sleeps in Franklin Roosevelt's bed.

Quando Abdullahi parte da Mogadiscio ha 19 anni. Alle spalle si lascia una nazione nel pieno di una guerra civile in cui è difficile capire le forze in campo e vedere una speranza oltre agli attentati e alla distruzione. La sua idea è raggiungere un posto in cui poter studiare e mettere da parte qualche soldo che serva a dare un futuro a lui e ai suoi fratelli. Il viaggio che affronta passa attraverso l'inferno del Sahara, la Libia e un attracco a Lampedusa dove verrà accolto e caricato su un aereo per la destinazione che qualcuno ha pensato per lui: la provincia di Torino.

Acclaimed writer David Smart illuminates the fascinating life of Royal Robbins—in all its soulful ambition, rivalry, and romance. Royal Robbins chronicles his early years growing up as a latchkey kid in Southern California, the push and pull between being an aspiring banker or one of the original Camp 4 dirtbags, and his later decades as a father, husband, kayaker, and the trailblazing founder of the outdoor apparel company that bears his name.