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A memoir of heartbreak, thousand-mile races, the endless Alaskan wilderness and many, many dogs from one of only a handful of women to have completed both the Yukon Quest and the Iditarod. In 2009, after a crippling divorce that left her heartbroken and directionless, Kristin decided to accept an offer to live at a friend's cabin outside of Denali National Park in Alaska for a few months. In exchange for housing, she would take care of her friend's...
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El día 26 de agosto de 2013, Quico Taronjí comenzó una aventura vital única que le llevó a navegar en solitario durante dos meses y medio el mar Mediterráneo. El objetivo: llegar desde Algeciras a Estambul. A la altura de las costas de Túnez, cerca del cabo Serrat, Quico naufragó durante un terrible temporal de viento mistral con rachas superiores a los 100 kilómetros por hora y olas de más de ocho metros.
Aislado cuenta esta aventura excepcional...
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"Suit to Saddle is an engaging story of determination and moxie, as well as a celebration of the human spirit." -BookLife
"This book should inspire anyone who's going through a tough time or a massive change, and anyone who wants to be challenged to embark on an ambitious venture. I highly recommend it." -Readers' Favorite
"Suit to Saddle chronicles one man's epic spiritual journey- on two wheels- across the vastness of America. Ride with...
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"It's simply not human!" a passenger proclaims loudly, aghast as to what she is witnessing.
Ryan Stramrood stands at the top of the gangway stairs that are lowered down the side of an ocean liner in one of the coldest, most hostile places on Earth – Antarctica. He wears only a small Speedo costume, goggles and a swim cap. Over a hundred passengers, wearing thick layers of insulation to protect from the bitter cold, are leaning over the ship's railing...
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Conquering Clouds is the story of pivotal moments and experiences throughout Ruth Wilson's life that led her to find the courage to pilot her hydrogen balloon over the snow-covered Swiss Alps at night to land in an Italian vineyard. At 75 this adventurer was definitely not swayed by her age.
Her fight to survive a marlin fishing accident in the waters near Byron Bay is riveting.
Ruth acknowledges that her rescue by a pod of dolphins is the reason...
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The South Pennines covers the hill country between Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire, easily accessible but less well known than other walking hot spots. This is an area of high moorland with deep, often wooded valleys and drained by fast-flowing rivers such as the Colne and Calder.
Early textile industry took place in isolated farms and small collections of houses dotted around the countryside, where income from farming often marginal land was...
7) Tanked Up
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'From a young age, I was flirting with the sea and its power.' says Ben Thompson.
This is the colourful and moving story of a boy who realised at an early age that the sea was his calling and followed his dream. By the age of twenty-five, Ben Thompson was being paid to dive the world's most exquisite coral reefs. Few people have worked as dive instructors in such varied locations around the world as he has. From exploring the far reaches of South...
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I stood on the rock, in Antarctica, wearing nothing but a swimming costume, goggles and a cap, ready to dive into the ice. The water was 0°C so was the air. I have never done this before, and I had no idea what the outcome will be. Will I panic? Cardiac reaction? Have I come all this way, trained and invested so much money to dive in and flop with fear or incompetence? It was time, I counted to three and dived in and started swimming. I was alive,...
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Wendall Baxter, spent much of his life, playing basketball as a young boy, however, it wasn't just a game to him. Basketball was a beacon of light allowing him to experience many of life's lessons. Those life lessons are chronicled here in, The Challenge. Mr. Baxter's memoirs follow him through many of life's challenges, from the time he was a young 10-year-old boy until he became a man. This book of memoirs was created to inspire his readers, young...
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Being dragged, face down, across a frozen Arctic lake behind a team of sled dogs, was the start of my 30-year love affair with mushing. Over the past three decades of adventure, the dogs have provided lessons about love, teamwork, humility, humor and sometimes even death. This is a collection of some of the stories I wrote for an older blog..
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Jules Mountain is a survivor. The odds of surviving his type of cancer were one in five. The odds of dying on Everest are one in 60, but these are severely shortened when factoring in an avalanche triggered by the 2015 Nepal earthquake. Jules lived to tell both tales, which he does in a way that conveys the agony and euphoria that extreme adventurers face, even when things go according to plan. And yet this is not merely an account of what happened...
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This classic, once hard-to-find travelogue recalls one of the very first around-the-world bicycle treks. Filled with rarely matched feats of endurance and determination, Around the World on a Bicycle tells of a young cyclist's ever-changing and maturing worldview as he ventures through forty countries on the eve of World War II. It is an exuberant, youthful account, harking back to a time when the exploits of Richard Byrd, Amelia Earhart, and other...
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For Gary Jobson-the three-time All American sailor, America's Cup winner, Fastnet Race winner, and ESPN sailing commentator since 1985-sailing is life. In 2003, he was diagnosed with lymphoma, and here he relays the tumultuous diagnosis and treatments endured before the cancer went into remission. Through remission he remembers how his life has intertwined with some of the greatest sailors, how the sport has changed since his childhood, how the public...
14) Mes vies
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Par cet ouvrage, Daniel Labadie retrace deux vies qui se sont succédées et ont fini par se confondre. C'est un témoignage de sa volonté de faire à nouveau partie du monde des vivants après un terrible accident. Scientifique de formation, il a toujours aimé mettre des mots sur son existence et plus encore depuis ce tragique événement. Mes vies est une sorte de thérapie, la dernière étape de sa reconstruction physique et psychologique.
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Arbitre de football de district est l'histoire de Franck Zeiger, un inconditionnel du football. Devenu arbitre à la suite d'une blessure, il donne les détails de cette fonction qui n'est pas toujours comprise. De l'application des règles au management des participants en passant par certaines incompréhensions des consignes données aux arbitres français et sans esquiver la violence qu'on peut rencontrer, il nous propose un angle de vue qui intéressera...
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La descente à la nage de la Seine, de sa source jusqu'à la mer, par le jeune Arthur Germain, force l'admiration. Arthur, la Seine, Violette et moi est un ensemble de parcours et d'anecdotes d'un challenge incroyable transmettant un dialogue chaleureux entre générations. Accompagnés d'échanges qui traversent l'histoire et la géographie des lieux et qui ouvrent des perspectives d'harmonie entre les hommes et la nature, le quotidien, l'état d'esprit,...
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Elle est une sportive chevronnée et infirmière aux urgences. Lui, est journaliste, spécialisé dans le sport. Le destin de Vanessa Morales et Geoffrey Charpille ne paraissait pas lié au premier abord. Et pourtant, après une première rencontre sur un plateau télévisé, ils se sont rendus à l'évidence. Ils devaient travailler ensemble. Vanessa voulait raconter une histoire. Son histoire. Avec de nombreux rebondissements. Geoffrey avait toujours...
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Fanny Bullock Workman was a complicated and restless woman who defied the rigid Victorian morals she found as restrictive as a corset. With her frizzy brown hair tucked under a topee, Workman was a force on the mountain and off. Instrumental in breaking the British stranglehold on Himalayan mountain climbing, this American woman climbed more peaks than any of her peers, became the first woman to map the far reaches of the Himalayas, the first woman...
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The wilderness teaches us lessons about ourselves and the world around us. These lessons can save our lives when we are up a mountain, but they can also improve our daily lives by giving us the skills and insights to understand our situation and the opportunities and risks around us. Adventurer Bear Grylls shares the lessons he has learned.
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If you loved King of Algonquin Park by Paton Lodge Lindsay, get ready for more laughter and tears in The King's Ransom: More from the King of Algonquin Park.
The King's Ransom is a companion book to King of Algonquin Park featuring more stories and adventures of the exceptional and well-known wilderness man, Joseph Emmett Chartrand, who became a legend in his own time.
He struggled from childhood to survive in the remote, rugged wilderness that...
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