Titres dans Aventuriers, explorateurs et survie

Après leur lutte contre le braconnage relatée dans L’Œil de l’éléphant, Mark et Delia Owens poursuivent leurs travaux de préservation de la faune zambienne. Dans leur campement, sentant arriver la fin de leurs aventures, ils racontent leurs parcours de zoologues et leurs vingt-trois années passées dans la savane africaine. Quelles raisons ont poussé ces deux jeunes étudiants américains à se tourner vers la protection des animaux ? Le récit de leur vocation se mêle aux barrissements des éléphants dans la magnifique vallée de la Luangwa, invitant au voyage et au dépaysement.

Alguna vez has considerado dejar todo atrás y, literalmente, irte a vivir a una cueva? O quizá una opción más acogedora, entre árboles y aves que cantan. En Walden: la vida en los bosques, Henry Thoreau nos relata su experiencia de vivir dos años y dos meses en un bosque cerca de un estanque por dos años: el presupuesto necesario para iniciar su aventura, la construcción de su vivienda, las prácticas para conseguir sus alimentos y su día a día a través de las distintas estaciones.

From the creators of the New York Times bestselling series Campfire Stories: Close Calls comes a new original audiobook that brings to life the bold, hair-raising, and often tragic adventures of a generation of eighteenth-century frontiersmen: the Long Hunters. Steven Rinella (The MeatEater...

The third and most ambitious of Michael Palin's adventures is a voyage of epic proportions - the circumnavigation of the Pacific Rim. He travels for almost a year through the 18 countries that border the world's largest ocean, and is forced to negotiate mountains, plunging gorges, cross glaciers and dodge icebergs. Volcanoes also mark Palin's journey. He climbs one which has freshly erupted and follows great rivers like the Yangtze and the Amazon to some of the most remote places on earth.

This gripping and triumphant memoir follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time. For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy grail: to stand atop the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of...

The brilliant, inspirational next book by the author of the incredible No. 1 bestseller FIRST MAN IN. Without fear, there’s no challenge. Without challenge, there’s no growth. Without growth, there’s no life. Ant Middleton is no stranger to fear: as a point man in the Special Forces, he...

"Tartarin de Tarascon" est un roman d'Alphonse Daudet écrit en 1872. Il décrit les aventures burlesques de Tartarin, chef putatif des chasseurs de casquettes de Tarascon, allant chasser le lion en Algérie. C'est un héros naïf, qui se laisse berner par des personnages peu scrupuleux, voire par lui-même tout au long de son voyage vers l'Atlas. Cette histoire fut inspirée à Daudet par son cousin Henri Reynaud, qui lui racontait ses voyages lors de ses retours d'Afrique.

The North Pole, originally published in 1910, makes available Robert E. Peary's own account of his expedition in the Arctic. It provides hotly contested evidence that remains an indispensable key in deciding who deserved the coveted title "Discoverer of the North Pole". It is also a gripping adventure story that is impossible to put down.

Le commandant Olivier Claux est commandant de bord depuis de nombreuses années. Seul maître à bord de son paquebot des airs, il a la responsabilité de gérer tous les imprévus pour amener ses passagers à bon port. Passagers en crise, problèmes techniques, imprévus météorologiques, avaries mécaniques... chaque vol a ses petites surprises ! Et dans 99 % des cas, tout est géré dans le secret du cockpit pour le plus grand bonheur des passagers. Olivier Claux nous dit tout de son quotidien dans lequel il est amené à gérer toutes sortes de soucis.

From the creators of the New York Times bestselling audio series Campfire Stories and MeatEater’s American History comes a new audiobook original that plunges listeners into the untamed world of a celebrated and misunderstood group of nineteenth-century outdoorsmen: the Mountain Men. Steven...

From world-renowned scientist Jane Goodall, as seen in the National Geographic documentary Jane, comes a poignant memoir about her spiritual epiphany and an appeal for why everyone can find a reason for hope. Dr. Jane Goodall's revolutionary study of chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe preserve...

This program is read by the author. World champion climber Sasha DiGiulian tells her story—from coming of age under the scrutiny of social media, navigating a male-dominated sport, and tackling her most heart-stopping climbs—and shares the power of perseverance and positivity. At age six...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A long-abandoned silver mine for sale sounded like an adventure too great to pass up, but it turned into much more—a calling, a community of millions, and hard-earned lessons about chasing impractical dreams. “Inspiring and meditative—the story of man vs...

Audrey Lessard est née dans la petite ville minière de Thetford Mines en mai 1982. Elle y a grandi auprès de ses amis, ses cousins et sa famille. Une particularité : Audrey est née sourde. Elle n’est pas malentendante mais bel et bien sourde. Elle n’entend rien de rien ! Pourtant ses amis, pour la plupart, sont des personnes entendantes. Et depuis l'enfance jusqu’à ce jour, tous communiquent sans problème avec Audrey.

Em 2021, em plena pandemia, a navegadora Tamara Klink partiu da França com o objetivo de chegar até a costa brasileira pelo mar. Nessa empreitada ambiciosa, contou apenas com a companhia permanente de seu caderno e do barco, Sardinha. À distância, teve o apoio (e também a preocupação) constante da família, dos amigos, de Henrique — conselheiro de primeira hora —, e dos admiradores nas redes sociais, que seguiram a viagem praticamente em tempo real.

For fans of The Lost City of Z, Walking the Amazon, and Turn Right at Machu Picchu comes naturalist and explorer Paul Rosolie’s extraordinary adventure in the uncharted tributaries of the Western Amazon - a tale of discovery that vividly captures the awe, beauty, and isolation of this endangered land and presents an impassioned call to save it.

A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic harbinger of climate change “Jon Gertner takes readers to spots few journalists or even explorers have visited. The result is a gripping and important book...

Chasing a dream is never easy, but if you go far enough, it will set you free. Captain Liz Clark spent her youth dreaming of traveling the world by sailboat and surfing remote waves. When she was 22, she met a mentor who helped turn her desire into reality. Embarking on an adventure that most...

From the creators of the New York Times bestselling audio series Campfire Stories and MeatEater's American History comes a new audiobook original that immerses listeners into the brutal and unforgiving world of the professional buffalo hunters who drove America's most iconic wildlife species to...

La memoria di Liliana Segre cerca il suo approdo nel presente. Le sue parole lo svelano: racconta di se stessa in guerra come una profuga, una clandestina, una rifugiata, una schiava lavoratrice. Usa espressioni della nostra contemporaneità affinché la testimonianza del passato sia un ponte per parlare dell'oggi. Qui e ora. E, interrogando il presente, Liliana indica quel futuro che solo i ragazzi in ascolto potranno, senza indifferenza e senza odio, disegnare, inventare, affermare.