Aventureiros, Exploradores e Sobreviventes

Una biografía completa del conquistador Pizarro, con una análisis completo de los pasajes más sorprendentes de tu vida.

The Last Viking unravels the life of the man who stands head and shoulders above all those who raced to map the last corners of the world. In 1900, the four great geographical mysteries - the Northwest Passage, the Northeast Passage, the South Pole, and the North Pole - remained blank spots on the globe. Within twenty years Roald Amundsen would claim all four prizes.

Ross Edgley famously ran a marathon pulling a 1.4-tonne car and climbed a rope the height of Everest (8,848 m), after living with Yamabushi warrior monks in Japan and partaking in Shamanic pain rituals with fire ants in the Amazon jungle. On his epic 1,780-mile journey around Great Britain, which lasted 157 days, Ross swam through giant jellyfish, arctic storms, ‘haunted’ whirlpools and polluted shipping lanes, going so hard, and so fast, his tongue fell apart.

It was 13 October 1972. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, carrying a team of young rugby players, their families and friends, took off for the very last time. A deadly miscalculation saw F571 crash directly into the Andean mountains to devastating consequences: the body of the plane broke violently into two, its floor torn to smithereens; seats flew out of the air taking passengers with them. In the weeks that followed, the remaining people who were on board - the society of the snow - emerged to fight a dire, gruelling battle for survival.

At age six, Sasha DiGiulian stepped into a climbing gym for the first time and was competing within a year. Decked out in all-pink gear and with her blonde hair tied into pigtails, Sasha knew from an early age what it was like to be a girl in a traditionally male-dominated sport, vowing to never sacrifice her femininity to fit in. With a fierce love for the climb and incredible natural talent, Sasha soon won her first National Sport Climbing Championship at only seventeen, and a year later took the title of World Champion.

Nando Parrado was unconscious for three days before he woke to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team to Chile had crashed deep in the Andes, killing many of his teammates, his mother, and his sister. Stranded with the few remaining survivors on a lifeless glacier and thinking constantly of his father’s grief, Parrado resolved that he could not simply wait to die. So Parrado, an ordinary young man with no particular disposition for leadership or heroism, led an expedition up the treacherous slopes of a snowcapped mountain and across forty-five miles of frozen wilderness.

Durante um voo rotineiro, a aeronave Cessna 210 que Sena pilotava sofreu uma pane e o motor caiu no meio da floresta amazônica. Ao se dar conta de que estava vivo, Antonio começou uma corrida contra o tempo: precisava sair do avião e pegar alguns mantimentos antes que a aeronave explodisse. Abrigo, água potável e comida eram meros detalhes perto de onças, sucuris, jacarés e todo tipo de inseto que existe na Amazônia. Em 36 dias, Antonio narra sua extraordinária experiência.

Assim como Beck, dezenas de pessoas foram surpreendidas naquele 10 de maio, até então o dia mais mortal em 75 anos desde a primeira investida humana no Everest. Oito morreram. Deixado para morrer é um dos mais impactantes relatos dessa tragédia. Beck revisita a decisão de escalar uma das montanhas mais perigosas do mundo–à época ele era um alpinista amador de 49 anos–e narra toda a sua incrível jornada desde a tempestade que deveria tê-lo matado até sua surpreendente volta à vida.

Mais do que judeu, Eddie Jaku sempre se considerou alemão. Ele sentia orgulho do seu país natal. Mas, em novembro de 1938, tudo mudou: dez nazistas invadiram sua casa e o espancaram quase até a morte. Naquela noite, que ficou conhecida para sempre na história como a Noite dos Cristais, Eddie foi preso e levado a um campo de concentração.

Neste audiolivro, o pesquisador Roberto Khatlab apresenta um panorama do Oriente e da África do Norte pela visão de D. Pedro II, que pode ser considerado o primeiro relações-públicas brasileiro. Usando como base os textos de seus diários de viagens, o autor constrói um perfil inovador do monarca visionário que guiou parte da história do nosso país.