Ergebnis für "Held" in Abenteurer, Entdecker & Survival

Als im April 1912 die Titanic ihre Jungfernfahrt nach New York bestritt, reiste mit ihr auch ein Prediger, der unterwegs zur berühmten Moody Church in Chicago war: John Harper (1872-1912). Doch dann geschah die Katastrophe. Harper half bis zuletzt, die Passagiere nicht allein vor dem leiblichen Tod zu retten, sondern zeigte ihnen die Rettung für ihre Seele. Dieses Hörbuch ist eine gekürzte Fassung des gleichnamigen Buches und schildert im ersten Teil das dramatische Geschehen auf dem Ozeanriesen.

In 1990, David Muller set sail to Mozambique with his wife and two young children, to fulfil a boyhood dream of sailing to the tropics on the yacht he had spent ten years building. The dream holiday came to a shocking end when the yacht ran aground on a beach near Bazaruto Islands. While waiting for high tide to refloat the yacht, a patrol of Renamo child soldiers, armed with AK47’s, arrive, along with two adult captives.

After years of physical and mental abuse, Jade thought her kindly foster mother would be the answer to her prayers. She was wrong … this is her staggering true story. ‘This must be what prison is like,’ I thought as another hour crawled by. In fact, prison would be better … at least you...

Stephen McGown was en route from London to South Africa, on a once-in-a-lifetime trip by motorbike, returning home to Johannesburg. He had reached Timbuktu, in Mali, when he was captured, along with a Dutch and a Swedish national, by Al Qaeda Islamist militants. Steve was taken because he held a British passport. He was subsequently held hostage at various camps in the Sahara Desert in the north-west of Africa for nearly six years before eventually being released.