Ergebnis für "survival" in Klassiker

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Robinson Crusoe is the timeless tale of a young Englishman who defies his father's wishes and sets sail, only to be shipwrecked alone on a remote tropical island. For twenty-eight years he battles nature, builds a life from nothing, and confronts his...

Shipwrecked on a speck of coral off Madagascar, professional egg hunter Butcher watches his last hope drift to sea—except for one priceless prize: an intact Aepyornis (elephant-bird) egg. When it hatches, the castaway finds unlikely companionship in the towering chick he names Friday. As the...

A rogue archaeologist is trapped in a Grand Canyon cave as a conspiracy theory comes to life in this "take no prisoners" survival thriller that puts our hero up against impossible odds (Preston & Child). Not all secrets are meant to be found. Nolan Moore is a rogue archaeologist hosting a...

The first book in a new environmental epic fantasy series set in a world where ships kept afloat by magical hearthfires sail an endless grass sea. On the never-ending, miles-high expanse of prairie grasses known as the Forever Sea, Kindred Greyreach, hearthfire keeper and sailor aboard...

A shipwreck leaves renowned big-game hunter Sanger Rainsford stranded on a remote island. There, he discovers an imposing estate belonging to General Zaroff, an aristocratic hunter who claims to share Rainsford's passion for the sport. But Zaroff has grown bored with hunting animals. He has...

The barometer is falling. Captain MacWhirr is holding his course. Practical, unimaginative, and stubbornly devoted to duty, MacWhirr sees little reason to steer the steamship Nan-Shan away from a storm. But as a Pacific typhoon closes in, his routine voyage becomes a desperate fight for survival...

Step into the untamed American frontier of the nineteenth century with this classic adventure tale by prolific British author W. H. G. Kingston. Narrated by young Loraine, the son of an Irish-born settler who has carved out a farm on the banks of the Ohio River in Illinois, With Axe and Rifle...

Regarded as the grandfather of realistic fiction, Robinson Crusoe is the ultimate test of endurance. After a disastrous shipwreck leaves him stranded on a deserted island, a headstrong young Englishman must reconstruct civilization from scratch.

The thrilling sequel to Alistair MacLean’s masterpiece of World War II adventure, The Guns of Navarone. The guns of Navarone have been silenced, but the heroic survivors have no time to rest on their laurels. Almost before the last echoes of the famous guns have died away, Keith Mallory...

Survival is the Only Rule. Sanger Rainsford is a master of the kill. He lives by a cold, unwavering creed: the world is comprised of only two classes - the hunters and the huntees. But when he washes ashore on the jagged rocks of Ship-Trap Island, Rainsford is forced to learn a blood-chilling...

A dog named Buck is kidnapped from his idyllic life on a California farm and sent to Alaska during the gold rush to work as a sled dog, where he must fight for survival...

Desperate times cause for desperate measures and when the Clan of the Fox flees, first Northumberland and then Iceland, the Viking warriors have no idea of the world they will find when they sail across the endless ocean. It is not just the sea and the weather which tries to kill them it is the...

Shipwrecked and cast ashore on an uninhabited island, Robinson Crusoe ingeniously carves out a solitary, primitive existence for twenty-four years. Eventually, he meets a young native whom he saves from death at the hands of cannibals. He calls him Friday and makes him his companion and servant...

Beasts Royal is the second book written by Patrick O’Brian – made available, at last, for the first time since the 1930s and beautifully repackaged. Published when Patrick O’Brian was just nineteen, this is the enchanting, often bloodthirsty collection of twelve tales of animal adventure...