Résultats pour "A" dans Aventuriers, explorateurs et survie

What happens when the truth you’ve been avoiding becomes the key to your healing? In My Bare Naked Truth: One Butterfly at a Time, Lori Welton invites listeners into a deeply personal and courageous memoir about faith, forgiveness, and transformation. This faith-based memoir explores the quiet battles of the heart—the struggles we carry in silence, the pain we learn to survive, and the courage it takes to finally confront what lies within. Through honest reflection and spiritual insight, Lori shares her journey of emotional healing and self-discovery. This is not a story about perfection.

In the aftermath of tragedy, Barry Hoffner wanted to feel the pulse of the world again. The whole world. When Barry Hoffner lost his wife and travel partner, Jackie, in a sudden tragedy, his grief was a black hole that consumed everything. But amid the quiet wreckage of loss, something unexpected stirred: the call to move, to reconnect, and to live fully again.

Ultrarunner Andy Glaze has spent years moving through landscapes that test the limits of the human body—hundred-mile races, multi-day marathons, mountains and deserts that demanded everything. But the toughest endurance challenge Andy faced wasn’t found in any of those miles, it was in rebuilding a life shattered by addiction, institutional abuse, and a childhood full of chaos. This is the unfiltered story of how a kid fell hard but got back up even harder.

In the award-winning "Don't Disappoint Daddy: A Story of Abuse, Abortion, and Acceptance in the Beloved", you'll walk with a woman who grew up believing love had to be earned and punishment avoided at all costs — even from God. When abuse and fear warp her sense of worth, religion only deepens the shame. Told with unflinching honesty, spiritual insight, and unexpected tenderness, this memoir is more than a recounting—it's a revelation.

This book offers the history of Christopher Columbus, from his uncertain origins and his formative years as a sailor to the voyages that forever changed world history. This fourth installment explores his character, his beliefs, his nautical successes, and his grave political and moral errors.

No início do século XX, Shackleton viajou quatro vezes à Antártida. Embora as missões tenham fracassado em seus objetivos, o navegador se tornou uma lenda, graças à sua impressionante habilidade como líder. Narrado pelo escritor e explorador Ranulph Fiennes, este livro segue os passos de um homem que não conhecia o medo e viveu de forma extraordinária.

Seven years on the road, living out of his van, The Taj Mahal Disco Fun Palace, John McManamy woke up with the sensation of an elephant crushing his chest. He just happened to be parked in the desert next to a rig with “Buddhist” on the signage. Never waste a good heart attack. A new road adventure is about to begin …“If you think you know what's going on, you have no idea what's going on.” We're in a strange new world now, where Buddha meets Oppenheimer meets brain science meets a force to be reckoned with Flower the Skunk.

Dopo una vita da esploratore passata a sfidare i propri limiti, attraversare deserti e altezze vertiginose, Robert Peroni è un uomo in fuga da un mondo che non gli assomiglia più. Una spedizione lo porta in Groenlandia. Deve restarvi tre mesi. Ci rimane per sempre. Qui, accolto dal popolo inuit, Peroni scopre una cultura antica, fondata sulla mitezza, sull'ascolto, sulla capacità di vivere in armonia con una natura estrema e incontaminata.

This book offers a complete and humanised portrait of Hernán Cortés, from his origins as a poor hidalgo in 16th-century Spain to his role as architect of the new colonial order in New Spain. This volume covers the expedition to Mexico, the indigenous alliances, the fall of Tenochtitlán, and the construction of the viceregal system, without forgetting the private life of the conqueror: his loves, ambitions, contradictions, and conflicts.

In the 1990s, Africa experienced sporadic political instability, with Sierra Leone being one of the most affected nations. Among the millions whose lives were upended was Marwan, a Sierra Leonean of Lebanese heritage who had previously enjoyed a life of privilege. However, his life was irrevocably changed by a violent coup in 1992, forcing him into a relentless battle for survival.

As a 13-year-old, Rafiq Williams travelled the desolate, sometimes violent, always drug-laced streets of Philadelphia’s inner city. Those streets could easily swallow up the most stable, strong adult. As a child, he learned to navigate those streets on his own---and he buried so many secrets that could destroy him. Could he silence the overwhelming traumas he experienced? Could he ignore the panic, the anxiety, the fear? Laser-focused, Rafiq chose survival---at any cost. That dark side he knew, and the only person he could rely on was himself. Until he was accused of murder.

Arthur Newman describes what life was like his last month living with a narcissist and the domestic violence he endured. Arthur was married for twenty-eight years to his ex wife. With the abuse starting in the first months of marriage Arthur explains why many victims feel stuck and take years to leave abusive situations. Arthur claims religion and fear of loosing his children as reasons for enduring abuse for so long. Last Month is a wake up call for those in domestic violence situations to leave before it is too late.

#stronger: Redemption Path Through Pain to Purpose is a raw, unfiltered story of failure, faith, and transformation. This audiobook isn’t about motivation from the mountaintop—it’s about rebuilding from the wreckage. Through personal experiences marked by addiction, incarceration, broken relationships, and deep internal battles, Tony Cardello shares how pain can either destroy you or forge you into something stronger.

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.

In his second memoir, a true crime story, David Alan Arnold takes us on a life and death adventure in his helicopter as an aerial cameraman for Ice Road Truckers and Deadliest Catch. He also gets into adventures at home, when he picks a fight with an organized crime ring that took over a school bus stop. David's town has so few residents that good people are afraid to speak about the crimes, for fear of reprisal.

The latest adventure from bestselling author Ben Fogle explores what we can learn from nature about living well and living wild. What can rowing across the Atlantic teach us about boredom and about patience? Can coming down from Everest take more resilience than climbing up in the first place?...

In January 1978, I slept in my bed at the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University as Ted Bundy stalked nearby. He grabbed an oak log from a stack of firewood, slipped through a back door with a broken padlock, and headed upstairs.He began twisting doorknobs. Room 9 was open, and he quietly and quickly killed one of my sleeping sorority sisters. Across the hall, he found another unlocked door and murdered again. Then, he turned the knob to my bedroom and found it was open. I remember the attack vividly. But Bundy wasn’t my first brush with death, and he wasn’t my last.