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This memoir is an autobiographical account of the events as witnessed by Bernal Diaz - a Conquistador on that journey - a man from Spain who desperately hoped to carve out a life of riches for himself in the new world and instead found himself on an epic journey of conquest, whilst desperately fighting to stay alive, in previously unknown and unimagined lands. This is a true tale written in his own hand and translated into English. It is a gripping account of the events from the soldiers' viewpoint as each day becomes a battle for survival against incredible odds.

The magnificent Danube both cuts across and connects Central Europe, flowing through and alongside 10 countries: Romania, Ukraine, Moldova, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria, and Germany. Travelling its full length from east to west, against the river's flow, Nick Thorpe embarks on an inspiring yearlong journey that leads to a new perspective on Europe today. Thorpe's account is personal, conversational, funny, immediate, and uniquely observant - everything one expects in the best travel writing.

On 30 January, 1981 Joe Tasker and Ade Burgess stood at 24,000 feet on the west ridge of Mount Everest. Below them were their companions, some exhausted, some crippled by illness, all virtually incapacitated. Further progress seemed impossible. Everest the Cruel Way is Joe Tasker's story of an attempt to climb the highest mountain on earth - an attempt which pushed a group of Britain's finest mountaineers to their limits. The goal had been to climb Mount Everest at its hardest: via the infamous west ridge, without supplementary oxygen and in winter.

Für Theodor Fontane war das Oderbruch ein "Bild voll Schönheit und Fruchtbarkeit". Eine Landschaft geschaffen von Natur und Menschenhand. Friedrich II. wagte das für seine Zeit gewaltige Projekt, die Trockenlegung des 60 Kilometer langen und 17 Kilometer breiten Landstrichs. Der Schutz vor dem Wasser ist allerdings eine stetige und somit auch gegenwärtige Aufgabe.

It is a gentle art; know how to tramp and you know how to live. Know how to meet your fellow wanderer, how to be passive to the beauty of nature and how to be active to its wildness and its rigour. The adventure is not the getting there, it’s the ‘on-the-way’. It is not the expected, it is the surprise.

Laura was in her early twenties and directionless when she quit her job to backpack in Bolivia. Fate landed her at a wildlife sanctuary on the edge of the Amazon jungle where she was assigned to a beautiful and complex puma named Wayra. Wide-eyed, inexperienced, and comically terrified, Laura made the scrappy, make-do camp her home. And in Wayra, she made a friend for life.

Experience the thrilling adventures in wildlife conservation from "the Indiana Jones of Biology" (Entrepreneur) in this action-packed and educational memoir filled with danger and intrigue. Very few individuals can truthfully say that their work impacts every person on earth. Forrest Galante is...

With travel tips and culture in our guidebooks written by a local, it is never too late to visit the Maldives. Greater Than a Tourist - Maldives by author Aishath Nadheema offers firsthand and personal insight into the best ways to visit the local islands and resorts in the Maldives. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this book will give you candid travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, was Australia’s greatest Antarctic explorer. On 2 December 1911, he led an expedition from Hobart to explore the virgin frozen coastline below, 2000 miles of which had never felt the tread of a human foot. After setting up Main Base at Cape Denision and Western Base on Queen Mary Land, he headed east on an extraordinary sledging trek with his companions, Belgrave Ninnis and Dr Xavier Mertz. After tragedy struck, Mawson found himself all alone, 160 miles from safety, with next to no food.

Cathy has captured the drama of her Everest climbs, her passion for the challenge of climbing mountains, and her love for wild places in this story of her four attempts on the mountain. Cathy tries to answer the question of why, if climbing Everest can be so dangerous, people still want to do it.

In 1935, Fred A. Birchmore left the small American town of Athens, Georgia, to continue his college studies in Europe. In his spare time, Birchmore toured the continent on a one-speed bike he called Bucephalus (after the name of Alexander the Great's horse). A born wanderer, Birchmore broadened his travels to include the British Isles and even the Mediterranean. After a lengthy, unplanned detour in Egypt, Birchmore put his studies on hold, pointed Bucephalus eastward, and just kept going.

Die deutsche Ostsee bietet als Reiseziel eine einzigartige Vielfalt beeindruckender Landschaften und faszinierender Städte. Ausgehend von Usedom erkunden die F.A.Z.-Autoren die deutsche Ostseeküste in nordwestlicher Richtung bis hinauf an die Grenze zu Dänemark. Den Schwerpunkt für den ersten Teil des Hörbuchs bildet die eindrucksvolle Küste Mecklenburg-Vorpommerns mit den Inseln Usedom, Rügen und Hiddensee, der Boddenlandschaft um Ahrenshoop und dem Münster in Bad Doberan.

Auf diesem Hörbuch "Flugangst bewältigen - 4 Übungen vor und während des Fluges - Ruhe & Entspannung" befinden sich vier verschiedene...

In 2006, Kit DesLauriers made history by becoming the first person to climb - and then ski - from the summit of each continent's highest mountain, the famed Seven Summits. Centered on this quest, Higher Love represents a hero's journey, rich with personal insights, life-threatening consequences, and a thrilling crescendo. Spanning seven continents in just two years, this deeply personal memoir recounts Kit's initially secret journey that would change her life forever.

Ein untergegangenes Königreich, quicklebendige Ahnengeister, Kolonialgeschichte, Naturspektakel und außergewöhnlicher Wildreichtum - Simbabwe ist ein Land voller Magie und eines der schönsten Safarigebiete Afrikas. Information zu den wichtigsten Sehenswürdigkeiten, Kultur und Geschichte des Landes unterhaltsam präsentiert in einem Audio-Feature. Mit Originaltönen, Interviews und Musik führt der auditive Trip von den Victoria-Fällen einmal durch das ganze Land und die Jahrhunderte.

Sie wollen in Ihrem Urlaub einfach mal abschalten und zur Ruhe kommen oder sich mal so richtig in der Natur verausgaben, eine anspruchsvolle Wanderung oder gar einen Klettersteig wagen? Sie suchen ein Urlaubsziel für die ganze Familie, vom Kleinkind bis zur Oma? Dann sind Sie im Süden Deutschlands, genauer gesagt im Allgäu, genau richtig. In diesem Reiseführer finden Sie urige, traditionelle und wunderschöne Tipps und Ideen, wie Sie einen unvergesslichen Urlaub im seenreichen und von Berggipfeln umrahmten Allgäu erleben können.

In dieser Produktion beschäftigt sich Chris Mulzer mit einer ganz spezifischen Art von Unwohlsein, die viele Menschen unserer Zeit ganz unnötig befallen hat!

“Thought-provoking, encouraging, and inspiring” (Gretchen Rubin) reflections on the power of travel to transform our daily lives—from the iconoclastic travel writer, scholar, and author of Vagabonding For readers who dream of travel, yearn to get back out on the road, or want to enrich a...

This riveting history is a firsthand account of the long and arduous search for one of the greatest explorers of the 19th century. Journalist and adventurer Henry M. Stanley was known for his search for the legendary David Livingstone, and their eventual meeting led to the popular quotation "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" A real-life adventure story, How I Found Livingstone in Central Africa tells of the incredible hardships - disease, hostile natives, tribal warfare, impenetrable jungles, and other obstacles - faced by a daring explorer. This must-have account also includes a wealth of information on various African peoples.

Bei aller Geschichtsträchtigkeit fasziniert am Elsass vor allem die liebliche Anmut der Landschaft, sein besonderer Menschenschlag und eine spezielle Art der Kultur, wie sie wohl nur Grenzregionen hervorbringen können. Die einzigartige Topografie des "schönen Gartens" zwischen Vogesen und Rhein, wie schon der Sonnenkönig Ludwig XIV. das Elsass bezeichnete, weist zahllose Orte auf, die sämtliche Reize zu vereinen scheinen.