Ergebnis für "Das Hörbuch Live" in Abenteurer, Entdecker & Survival

Brought to you by Penguin. This story began because I was dying to live. It ends with having learned how. Wise beyond her years, Shell Rowe's life took an abrupt turn when, aged 20, instead of being able to follow her dream and continue her film studies in America, she discovered a lump on her...

Two thousand books have been written about Columbus, most of them spirited defenses or relentless attacks. Recently, the balance has shifted: the Genoese navigator, once considered a hero, is now blamed for bringing plunder and genocide to the Americas. In The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus, historian Matthew Restall takes us beyond polemic, sifting through the evidence across nations, languages, and five centuries to explore the central questions of Columbiana.

Bill Clegg had a thriving business as a literary agent, a supportive partner, trusting colleagues, and loving friends when he walked away from his world and embarked on a two-month crack binge. He had been released from rehab nine months earlier, and his relapse would cost him his home, his...

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER An imaginative study of human nature, Live to See the Day is a globe-trotting exploration of what drives certain people to pursue a dream beyond all logic, reason, or reward. Why do people pursue impossible goals? In Live to See the Day, journalist Mark Medley sets...

From Just Let It Kill Me to Finding Good, Mike Thompson’s inspirational story will empower you to live your best life. Diagnosed with cancer at the age of 10, Mike Thompson would endure four total cancers, two bone marrow transplants, more than 75 surgeries—including a 12-hour facial reconstruction—and more than six years in the fog of addiction to opioids. After being freed from the clutches of drug dependency, Mike took a leap of faith and set out to reclaim his life.

RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner, operated by the White Star Line, that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912, after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, more than 1,500 died, making it the deadliest sinking of a single ship up to that time. In this 1993 interview, Eva Hart, a seven year-old passenger on the Titanic, offers a vivid account of her family's unexpected journey aboard the Titanic, and her mother's unsettling premonition.

What would you do if you only had five years left to live? For some, this is a tragic reality, for most, it’s a question they will never be forced to answer. Luke Richmond asks this question often, not from morbid curiosity, but to ensure he is filling his days with value and living life with no regrets. The awareness of a finite reality has taken Luke from a small town in rural Australia, into the harshest and most challenging environments on Earth.

From the ridiculous ghost story of a man-eating catfish to glorious angling embellishments, The Secret Lives of Anglers reveals the hidden truths of this puzzling pastime.

Marilyn Johnson's Lives in Ruins is an absorbing and entertaining look at the lives of contemporary archaeologists as they sweat under the sun for clues to the puzzle of our past. Johnson digs and drinks alongside archaeologists, and chases them through the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, and even Machu Picchu. Her subjects share stories about slaves and Ice Age hunters, ordinary soldiers of the American Revolution, Chinese woman warriors, sunken fleets, and mummies.

‘There’s water in the engine,’ he said. ‘The engine has stopped.’ This changed everything… Surviving the Storms brings together incredible first-hand accounts of rescues carried out by the remarkable RNLI lifesavers. In this collection of heart-wrenching and life-affirming missions...

This real-life inspired story begins with our main character C.W. dying in a hospital bed when his Shaman, Anunk, arrives and gets rid of everyone. The Shaman retrieves a thermos and small wooden cup lights an enormous cigar and begins chanting and building a great broom of smoke over the dying C.W.

By the age of seven, Kyle Coon had his second eye removed and became totally blind. Discovering a Life Without Limits is the true story of Kyle going from the darkness of blindness to the world's mountain peaks while navigating everyday life. Through the journey, Kyle learns how to trust a world he cannot see and how to conquer the fear of the unknown, while asking the listener a simple question: Are you ready to live a Life Without Limits?

An inspiring memoir about a courageous woman's survival and recovery from an adventure-induced trauma - and the power of her dreams to overcome tragedy and live life to the fullest. Her wilderness adventure turned into a nightmare. After skiing more than 200 miles along California's John Muir Trail, Jean faces death from a mountaineering accident on Mount Whitney. Broken and bleeding on the highest peak in the continental United States, she vows to realize her greatest dreams if she lives until morning.

Explore offers firsthand accounts from the world’s boldest explorers, men and women encountering storms, starvation, cannibals, predators, and disease in their pursuit of adventure. Rescue: Stories of Survival From Land and Sea offers stories about what happens when things go terribly wrong in some of the world’s most perilous places: Himalayan peaks, African plains, vast oceans, remote Arctic wilderness.

"Som de fleste andre var jeg som barn noget af en dagdrømmer. Forskellen på mig og de andre børn var blot, at jeg holdt fast ved mine drømme og gjorde dem til virkelighed." Forfatter og eventyrer Lars Ørlund fortæller om nogle af sine mest fantastiske rejser, siden han som 16-årig fik hyre på en båd til Australien. Da han først var blevet ramt af rejsefeberen, var han ikke til at stoppe.

Ryan Eller has become something of a bucket list legend, and his friends consider him the world's best-kept secret. Those same friends have long insisted he write a book about his journeys, and he finally did! Live Your List is one part adventure and another part leadership. It infuses the life lessons Ryan has learned into the framework of his Live Your List lifestyle. This audiobook will challenge you to take personal responsibility for your life, set goals, live intentionally, and most importantly - give back to make a difference in this world.

Després de viatjar fins als camps de refugiats de Grècia, lescriptora Bel Olid ens explica com les persones protagonistes duna de les crisis humanitàries més importants de la història tenen vides molt semblants a les nostres. Perquè els refugiats no són xifres, són milers de vides amb nom i cognoms i amb històries personals que mereixen ser escoltades.

"In The Storm" is LeMoyne's personal account of the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew in south Florida. The writer, with his wife, daughter, and sister-in-law, evacuated their apartment near downtown Miami and drove to a friend's concrete-block house about five miles inland. The worst of the storm struck just 10 miles farther south. In the end, Hurricane Andrew severely damaged 300 square miles, with about 100 square miles blasted or simply gone.

"Queen Of All She Surveys" is an essay written by author and mountaineering pioneer Maureen O'Neill chronicling alpine climbing with fellow women in the Pacific Northwest, and the dangers that accompany those who ascend these gorgeous, but unforgiving, mountains.

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.