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Tom Patey, one of Scotland’s foremost climbers and mountaineers, was legendary for his pioneering ascents and boundless enthusiasm, and his carefree approach and ability to burn the candle at both ends. "A Short Walk With Whillans" was originally published in the Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal in 1963.

In "The Green Arch," mountaineer and author John Long offers vivid descriptions of ascending the west face of Tahquitz Rock—a granite, 8,846-foot-tall rock formation located on the high western slope of the San Jacinto mountain range in Southern California—as a teenager with his childhood climbing friends.

Daniel Zalewski's essay "Once In The Jungle" chronicles American Tobias Schneebaum, a painter turned adventurer who hitchhiked to Peru, walked into the Amazon jungle and came to live with an isolated native Indian tribe, the Arakmbut people, for seven months in 1956, and his defining moment of participating in cannibalism.

Based on select writings from an exceptional Amsterdam archive containing more than two thousand Dutch diaries from World War II, The Diary Keepers illuminates a part of history we haven’t seen in quite this way before. This audiobook is read by Nina Siegal, Maggi-Meg Reed, Nan McNamara...

In 1911, Captain Robert Falcon Scott went back to the huge frozen wasteland of the Antarctic with the intention of reaching the South Pole, by a long and terribly arduous trek across the ice. On finally reaching the pole, Scott and his comrades were devastated to find that they had been beaten by the Norwegian explorer Amundsen. With temperatures of minus 30, they began their slow journey back to their base.

For decades, Demi Moore has been synonymous with celebrity. From iconic film roles to high-profile relationships, Moore has never been far from the spotlight - or the headlines. Even as Demi was becoming the highest paid actress in Hollywood, however, she was always outrunning her past, just one step ahead of the doubts and insecurities that defined her childhood. Inside Out is a story of survival, success, and surrender - a wrenchingly honest portrayal of one woman’s at once ordinary and iconic life.   

Brought to you by Penguin. The incredible book behind the primetime Channel 4 documentary, Peter: The Human Cyborg. Peter, a brilliant scientist, is told that he will lose everything he loves. His husband. His family. His friends. His ability to travel the world. All will be gone. But Peter will...

Born aboard her father’s sailboat, Virginia Tangvald investigates his extraordinary and troubling legacy: seven marriages, two wives lost at sea, a fatal shipwreck and a son who later vanished. In July 1991, on the wild eastern shore of Bonaire, a pale blue ruffled dress is found trapped in...

Jeg var 11, da min mor strammede tørklædet om mit hår. 12, da mine forældre sendte mig på genopdragelse i Marokko. 16, da de giftede mig bort til en voksen mand. Og 17, da jeg blev mor. Men jeg nægtede at leve en kuet kvindes liv. MIT INDRE ATLAS er en barsk, men også inspirerende...

I denne stærke opfølger til 'Kvinderne bag vesten' kommer vi endnu tættere på kvinderne i det lukkede og hemmelighedsfyldte rockermiljø. Bogen er en rå og ærlig fortælling om livet som kvinde i en mandsdomineret kultur, der traditionelt er kendt for at hylde broderskab og motorcykler...

Nadja Engsig fra TV2-dokumentaren ”Nadja og de 170 kilo” fortæller i denne bog sin personlige historie om en kaotisk barndom, hvor mad blev det eneste faste holdepunkt. Om svigt, smerte og sorg – og et tiltagende misbrug af makrelmadder, marsbarer og mayonnaise. Hvordan bliver man et helt...

Alessandra Gigi Staunstrups historie er en øjenåbnende rejse gennem det danske stripmiljø, men også en skæbnefortælling, der kryber ind under huden. Historien begynder i underklassens nødspor og slutter i overklassens overhalingsbane. Intet er normalt på Alessandras utraditionelle...

Jørn Jønke Nielsen er blevet kaldt meget, også rockersvin. Uanset kaldenavne, så kommer ingen uden om, at Jønke er den – nu tidligere rocker og biker – alle i Danmark kender. Hvis nogen ved hvad de taler om, når det gælder rockerkulturen i Danmark, så er det ham. Jønke er født i...

En autentisk roadtripfortælling gennem en families historie fra Lolland til Ozarks i den amerikanske delstat Missouri og tilbage igen. Forfatteren og hans datter befinder sig ved bogens begyndelse i hillbilly country på roadtrip langt fra turistruterne på jagt efter en 100 år gammel...

I Alberts korte liv nåede han at opleve mere, end mange andre nogensinde kommer til. Han var en af de første youtubere i Danmark. Sammen med en håndfuld andre youtubere var han med at til at forme branchen. Han inspirerede sine fans med sine mange sjove videoer. Han nåede at udgive 12...

This book is about overcoming all the odds. It is achievement paired with loss, and accomplishment paired with adversity. It is having faith that in all things, even the most challenging and heartbreaking, you can learn and gain something important. It begins with the hope and belief that you can get through anything, even if it's your only option.

Andrew Taylor, an amateur sailor, taking part in the 9th Clipper round the world yacht race, aboard the 70' ocean racing yacht 'Derry LondonDerry Doire', is lost overboard, totally alone and lost in the ice cold North Pacific for almost two hours.

A jagged and luminous survivor's account and a defiant celebration of imperfection, Broken Girl is a powerful and poetic work of staggering loss and betrayal, love, and rage. Caroline Laner Breure was on holiday in Spain with her boyfriend when her skull was crushed. A year later, following...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2025 GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD FOR NON-FICTION FINALIST FOR THE 2026 BANFF MOUNTAIN BOOK COMPETITION Named a Best Book of 2025 by The Globe and Mail CBC Spotify The Hill Times In this debut memoir from the bestselling author of...

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK Named one of the Best Books of the Year by The New Yorker The Globe and Mail The Guardian Winnipeg Free Press NPR Slate ...