Titres dans Aventuriers, explorateurs et survie

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.

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.

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.

“Now I had approached within the shadow of the cloud, into the thick darkness whereof I was soon to disappear, thenceforward to be hidden from the eyes of all my kindred, and shut out from the sweet light of liberty, for many a weary year.”—Solomon Northup Born and raised a freeman in New...

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.

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.

人間がまともに戦えばほぼ勝ち目のない動物、クマ。襲われた当事者の生の声を聞く、衝撃のノンフィクション。クマはなぜ、人を襲ってしまうのか。なお、本文中には、かなりショッキングなケガの写真も掲載している。あくまで、クマの被害を精確に伝えるためのもので、決して怖がらせる意図はないが、苦手な方もいると思う。

In Sacred Becoming, Maria Kang - mother, movement leader, and cancer survivor - invites listeners into a raw, radiant journey of remembering. Through illness, heartbreak, and spiritual initiation, she peels back the layers of cultural expectation, familial pain, and self-betrayal to reveal the one truth that changed everything: healing is an inside job. With poetic storytelling, lived wisdom, and unapologetic honesty, Maria shares the soul work that carried her from a Stage IV cancer diagnosis to a life of embodied purpose. This is not just a memoir... it’s a manual for awakening.

Incest denial and sexual assaults disrupt a young woman's solo spiritual quest and her two romantic adventures in India in 1990-91. Two decades later, after profound healing, she's resilient at mid-life. Finding the love and intimacy she craves, she can, at last, forgive her dying father—and her mom, for her decades of silence.

New York City native Derick Lugo's life changed in 2012 when he spontaneously decided to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail. In the years that followed, he became an advocate for the outdoors and eventually set out on his second thru-hike—this time on the Continental Divide Trail, one of the most challenging long trails in the world. A Fabulous Thru-Hike: 3,100 Miles on the Continental Divide Trail is the relatable, laugh-out-loud story of Derick Lugo's six-month adventure. From the deserts of New Mexico to the rugged mountains of Montana, Derick confronts heat sickness, vertigo, and self-doubt.

During the late 1950s through the early 1970s, Helen Hoover's stories and essays of life in the wilderness on northern Minnesota's Gunflint Lake, published in popular magazines and several bestselling books, found millions of fans and earned her accolades. Hoover's own unlikely history of...

On January 25, 1982, during a four-day search for two missing ice climbers on New Hampshire's Mount Washington in extreme weather conditions, Albert Dow, a member of the all-volunteer Mountain Rescue Service, became the first-and so far the only- member of a backcountry search and rescue team to...

Im August 1912 bricht die Besatzung der Herzog Ernst unter Expeditionsleiter Herbert Schröder-Stranz nach Spitzbergen auf. Es ist die Zeit der großen Polarfahrten, der Wettlauf zum Südpol ist in vollem Gange. Auch die Deutsche Arktische Expedition soll aus mutigen Männern Helden machen. Doch die Mission, gescheitert an Unerfahrenheit und grenzenloser Selbstüberschätzung, endet in einem Desaster.

In Stronger Than Bone, Greg takes listeners on a journey that defies medical odds and redefines resilience. From childhood trauma to hard-won triumphs, his memoir is a testament to the power of determination, joy, compassion and love—even when the world tells you to give up.

After what was supposed to be a routine ovarian cyst removal, Chaun found herself fighting for survival, ignored, dismissed, and nearly lost to a medical error that should have never happened. Trust Your Gut is her powerful story of survival, healing, and awakening to the life-saving importance of self-advocacy in healthcare.

Told through the eyes of a stitched doll named Jane, this powerful memoir follows a little girl growing up in a house where love and fear lived side by side. Jane becomes both witness and silent protector through years of pain, resilience, and ultimately healing.