Résultats pour "roman roman" dans Aventuriers, explorateurs et survie

Nava, a sud di Kabul. Gli uomini di un ricco mercante bussano alla porta...

Einsam treibt ein Schiff auf hoher See. Es ist merkwürdig ruhig an Deck. Und dieser süßliche Geruch... Im Hafen von Esbjerg bestätigt sich der düstere Verdacht von Kommissarin Nina Portland: An Bord hat in der Nacht der Tod gewütet. Alle Spuren deuten auf ein grausames Massaker hin. Hat der Russe Vitali Romaniuk, einziger Überlebender, seine Kameraden kaltblütig ermordet?

Bei schwerem Unwetter verunglückt eine Propellermaschine über der dänischen Westküste. Widerwillig übernimmt Nina Portland die Untersuchung der Unfallumstände. Warum lässt man sie nicht in dem Bandenkrieg ermitteln, der Esbjerg erschüttert? Sie ahnt nicht, dass die Maschine der CIA nur als Privatflugzeug getarnt war. An Bord war ein politischer Gefangener, der nun verschwunden ist. Und dann beginnt das Morden... Die Welt, in die Nina Portland in ihrem dritten Fall eintaucht, ist düster, undurchsichtig.

In 1892, Gertrude Bell visited Persia (now Iran) shortly after the appointment of her uncle, Sir Frank Lascelles, as British minister in Tehran. Three years later came Persian Pictures, Gertrude Bell’s first written work, which presents a series of vivid sketches of Persian culture and society at the time. Bell explores various cities and landscapes, and encounters local characters along the way, providing a unique perspective on Persian life and customs.

This is the real life story of a Texas outlaw in the 20th century. It is an epic journey that includes facing down a lion, gun fights, love, prison, and unimaginable violence. It is the story of life utterly wasted to one of complete redemption.

Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a slave labor camp. When she returned home months later, she knew she would become a hunted woman, so she went underground.

"Waters of the Sanjan" is fiction based on fact, woven around the life of a known (Masai) warrior who lived at the turn of the century. It is an historical novel and the events portrayed were not unusual in the life of a warrior of those times. The customs and traditions are accurate; the places where events took place are real places and to date still go by the same name the Waters of the Sanjan, translated literally, Inkariak-oo-Sanjan.

An adrenaline-fueled travel memoir of life in the wild among the planet’s most ferocious and fascinating predators. Over the last forty years, bestselling science-fiction writer Alan Dean Foster has journeyed around the globe to encounter nature’s most fearsome creatures. His travels have taken him into the heart of the Amazon rain forest on the trail of deadly tangarana ants, on an elephant ride across the sweeping green plains of central India in search of the elusive Bengal tiger, and into the waters of the Australian coast to come face-to-face with great white sharks. Packed with pulse-pounding adventure and spiked with rapier wit, Predators I Have Known is a thrilling look at life and death in the wild.

Airboats give adrenaline filled rides across the lakes of Florida. The thrill is even more daring at nighttime under a full moon. Annie's problem was that she didn't want to go on the airboat ride on Lake Washington to begin with, much less at night. Bill Kirby had insisted, so she bravely went along for a thrill that turned into a nightmare when a crash spilled them into water full of alligators. Join Annie's nightmare for survival in black swamp water as she struggles to escape from creatures of the night.