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Brought to you by Penguin. Guy’s been pushing himself to the outer limits, as usual. There's no medals, no big ceremony at the end of it all. He's just driven by putting himself through the misery. And coming out smiling. In search of suffering, Guy went to Colombia for the TV job, where he...

A wild adventure on horseback, beyond the Mississippi River into America's far west of 1832. Washington Irving, author of the “The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle,” joins a group of inexperienced rangers, hunters and an assortment of colorful characters on a trip into the unsettled prairies. Their goal: meeting Native Americans, hunting buffalo and getting in trouble.

A fearless and funny memoir about love, loss, adventure, and the photographs we take to remember who we are. The Love Offensive travels from a Massachusetts childhood to wanderlust-fueled trips across the world — and into the heart of what it means to lose and find yourself again. Through humor, grief, friendship, family, and art, Tara tells a story about the things that break us, the things that save us, and the extraordinary ways we learn to keep going.

Brought to you by Penguin. Lucy Shepherd’s story of her journey to become an explorer, her world-first expedition across the Amazon’s Kanuku Mountains and her mission to share the wild places of our world. What does it really take to become an explorer? To travel beyond maps and certainty...

This audiobook collection brings you the lives of the world's greatest explorers and adventurers – told in vivid, five-minute portraits. From fearless sea captains to daring desert wanderers, from polar pioneers to sky-breaking aviators – discover 27 extraordinary individuals who reshaped maps and minds alike. Each short biography offers a powerful glimpse into their achievements, risks, and legacies. Perfect for curious listeners, history lovers and fans of epic real-life stories.

Letizia ha vent'anni quando subisce violenza da un professore della sua università. Una violenza che la priva di tutto: fiducia, spensieratezza, felicità. Da quel momento il dolore diventa parte di lei, e con il tempo compaiono anche attacchi di panico e disturbi alimentari a ricordarle quanto fragile sia diventata. Ma a volte basta una frase per cambiare tutto: "Non è un dono ciò che ti è successo, non è niente di bello. Ma è successo, e ora sta a te decidere come sfruttarlo per uscirne". Poche parole, semplici e luminose, che le riaccendono qualcosa dentro.

The unsolved mysteries of George Mallory, Sandy Irvine, and their legendary 1924 Everest expedition. This program includes an audio-exclusive bonus conversation between the authors. There is no mystery more compelling in the history of mountaineering than the disappearance of George Mallory and...

A forthcoming nonfiction book published by Celadon...

Todos vivimos en prisiones ocultas: el duelo, la ira, la vergüenza, el trauma, la inseguridad, la ansiedad. Incluso virtudes como el amor, el honor, el deber y la lealtad, pueden convertirse sigilosamente en muros que nos encierran. Pero no importa cuán imponente sea la prisión, siempre hay una puerta de salida. Inspirado por su extraordinaria historia, desde el encarcelamiento hasta convertirse en autor bestseller experto en resiliencia y empresario, Shaka Senghor revela la mentalidad y las prácticas que transformaron su vida y que pueden ayudarte a construir tu propia libertad.

Salvaguardar el asombro, mantener alerta la curiosidad, explorar sin limitación todo cuanto aparezca ante los ojos y, si no se dan las circunstancias, salir corriendo y no mirar atrás han sido las motivaciones de mi viaje por el mundo. Así lo cuento para ustedes en estas páginas que hilvanan episodios y memoria, con ellas espero despertarles, al menos, la sonrisa.

Sir Ranulph Fiennes is uniquely qualified to write a new biography of Captain Scott. This is the first biography of Scott by someone who has experienced the deprivations, the stress and the sheer physical pain that Scott lived through; he has suffered all but the final tragedy endured by the...

'They have left here today!' he calls to the others. When King puts his hand down above the ashes of the fire, it is to find it still hot. There is even a tiny flame flickering from the end of one log. They must have left just hours ago. MELBOURNE, 20 AUGUST 1860. In an ambitious quest to be the...

In the late 1990s, John Baker was known as a purveyor of quality rare and old wines. Always entrepreneurial and up for adventure, he was the perfect person for an occasional business partner to approach with a mysterious wine list that was foreign to anything John, or his second-in-command...

In 1858, 14-year-old Narcisse Pelletier sailed from Marseilles in the French trader Saint-Paul. With a cargo of Bordeaux wine, they stopped in Bombay, then Hong Kong, and from there they set sail with more than 300 Chinese prospectors bound for the goldfields of Ballarat and Bendigo. Around the...

Six real-life stories of explorers who have ventured to the extremes of the earth. Hours of audio fun to keep children entertained while on the move! Introduce your children to six inspirational true stories about real life explorers and adventurers around the world, from Captain Scott of the...

For the first twenty-seven years of his life, Ben McKelvey didn't spend too much time thinking about his brain, nor much about trauma. He was fit, carefree and happy working as a magazine journalist, writing listicles and doing celebrity junket interviews. Then one day, while boxing, he suffered...

Alexander Rosenberg was a smart and curious teenager who spoke many languages, and lived a pampered life with his parents in a tranquil Czechoslovakian town. The rise of fascism and Nazi Germany causes his protected existence to collapse, alongside the illusion of secular Jewish assimilation in 1930s Europe. Using their last reserves of wealth and influence to escape extermination, the Rosenbergs go underground to avoid the Gestapo. Eventually exposed, captured, and taken to Buchenwald, the largest concentration camp in Germany, Alexander and his father collaborate to survive one day at a time

À 105 ans, Woodrow Wilson Nickel sait qu’il sera le prochain à s’éteindre dans l’hôpital de vétérans où il vit. Mais il ne s’attendait pas à apprendre que les dernières girafes encore sur Terre risquent de disparaître avant lui. Car près de 90 ans plus tôt, le jeune Woody s’est lié d’amitié avec deux girafes rescapées, comme lui, du grand ouragan de Nouvelle-Angleterre de 1938. Ingénieux et sans attaches, il est devenu le chauffeur du convoi improvisé qui transporta ces surprenants mammifères à travers l’Amérique de la Grande Dépression jusqu’au zoo de San Diego en Californie.

In her debut memoir Never Alone: A Solo Arctic Survival Journey, Woniya shares how months of starving by herself in the Arctic wilderness brought more healing than suffering, and led to a deep sense of belonging and peace. Her story affirms the incredible strength of the human spirit and shows us that strength comes in many surprising forms. Never Alone's message is one of inspiration and learning to trust in ourselves and the land around us; embracing the wild and being wholly and beautifully human, flaws and all.

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