Títulos em Aventureiros, Exploradores e Sobreviventes

Né à Jaffa en Israël, Eli Sharabi a été enlevé le 7 octobre 2023 à son domicile du kibboutz Be'eri. Retenu captif pendant 491 jours, il est devenu la voix, dans diverses enceintes internationales (ONU, rassemblements a Tel.Aviv, rencontres à la Maison Blanche), des otages et martyrs du 7 octobre.

Loren J. Chassels felt stuck, working two demanding jobs as an EMT and a Full-time high school teacher. Burned out and overwhelmed, he decided to take a life-changing journey—hiking the entire 2,190+ mile Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine. With careful planning and a spirit of adventure, Loren set out to challenge himself physically and mentally. As he trekked through the ever-changing landscapes, from lush forests to snow-capped peaks, he found a sense of inner harmony that had been missing from his life. Loren's story is one of personal growth and self-discovery.

On September 26, 2020, Chelsey Klein embarked on a hike up Mount Shasta that would change everything for her. A lifelong athlete, Chelsey never shied away from a challenge, but that fateful day, she wasn’t sure if she would make it off the mountain alive. Miraculously, she survived, but that wasn’t the end of her story; rather, it was the start of a new one.

In seinem neuen Abenteuer erklimmt er die Säulen des Meeres, von der Felsnadel im französischen Étretat bis zum Totem Pole in Tasmanien, von den Färöer-Inseln bis zum Kap Hoorn begibt er sich auf eine Reise um die Welt, um jene Felspfeiler zu besteigen, die wie steinerne Mahnmale vor den Küsten in den Himmel ragen. An den Schnittpunkten von Meer, Wind, Sonne und Stille sucht Tesson nicht nur die Herausforderung des Aufstiegs zu entlegenen, vom Menschen unberührten Orten.

The Hidden Rivers of Florida: Discoveries is a thrilling true adventure that plunges listeners into the mysterious and breathtaking world of the underwater caves of Florida. Follow Rob Neto’s journey from his first awe-inspiring dive into the depths of Florida’s hidden rivers to his life-changing decision to leave Arizona behind and live just minutes from some of the most stunning cave systems on Earth.

In This Altered Body is the compelling story of Charlene’s physical and emotional odyssey to reclaim her life and identity after surviving a tragedy that left her facially disfigured and grieving. As Charlene begins the long, painful process of recovery, she fears she will never be loved again, because her outward beauty has been destroyed and our society, obsessed with flawless skin and superficial beauty, stigmatizes disfigurement.

In Overcoming Tuesday, you’ll find a man on a journey through a difficult childhood, entering a beloved career, marrying the love of his life, having a wonderful family together, and embarking on a career dedicated to his personnels’ safety. He held many roles dedicated to cancer prevention and mental health at the local and national levels. Although he had many successes in those roles, he also had major setbacks.

In this stunning, soul-bared debut, Diana Zaitseva turns silence into testimony. Through bipolar disorder, faith, family, and the raw rebuild of self, she captures what it means to survive the storm and still believe in beauty. The Girl Who Left is not a story of escape—it’s a story of return. To her voice. To her body. To the truth that healing doesn’t whisper—it roars softly. Written in poetic, cinematic prose, The Girl Who Left is both a memoir and a manifesto for those who’ve ever felt muted by fear but destined for more.

A memoir of a child's forced relocation to Siberia under Stalin's Gulag system reveals the potential for true human kindness in the face of extraordinary hardship. In April of 1940, six-year-old Ida woke to the sound of pounding on her door. Soviet soldiers forcibly packed her and her mother onto a train with thousands of their neighbors and deported them to remote Siberia, leaving them stranded to survive the brutal winter in subhuman conditions.

Rekordhitze, Schlangen, Erdrutsche und Taifune halten Christine Thürmer in Japan, Taiwan und Südkorea ordentlich auf Trab. Auf ihren dreizehn Trails stößt sie auf buddhistische Tempel und Shinto-Schreine von einzigartiger Schönheit, verspeist eine Überdosis Kimchi, zupft Blutegel von ihren Beinen und erlebt das schwerste Erdbeben in Taiwan seit vierzig Jahren! Einfühlsam erzählt sie von der Wanderung in Japan entlang der vom Tsunami 2011 zerstörten Küste, spricht mit Überlebenden und läuft im Abstand von lediglich vier Kilometern um den havarierten Reaktor herum.

Unshaken is a powerful and deeply personal memoir that chronicles one woman’s extraordinary journey through mental illness, a near-fatal stroke, and the unrelenting fight to rediscover her identity, purpose, and faith. With raw honesty and poetic reflection, the author reveals her descent into the darkness of bipolar disorder and her transformation through the grace of God. This is more than a story about mental illness—it’s a story of survival: emotional, physical, and spiritual.

With the quick wit and dry humour of a true Irishman, David "Irish" Anderson documents his epic eighteen-month motorcycle adventure from Ireland to South Africa in this captivating memoir. What begins as a lofty idea in a pub becomes a reality after six years of planning when Irish and his wife purposefully set out with their two heavily loaded motorcycles. Somewhere along the way, Irish loses his wife, but amidst the heartbreak, turmoil, and challenges on the long and often bumpy road, he gains a whole new perspective on life.

Born with hearing loss, later battling cancer multiple times, and navigating life with disability, Lori takes listeners on a powerful journey of survival and transformation. This isn’t just a cancer memoir—it’s a story about the human spirit, the power of family, and the lessons for living that come when life doesn’t go as planned.

Pascal Sancho est guide de haute montagne et a exercé pendant une trentaine d'années la spécialité de secouriste en montagne dans les unités CRS de la Police nationale. En plaçant l'humain au centre du récit, il raconte sa formation difficile mais exaltante, son expérience unique dans un centre de secours en montagne et surtout les interventions en milieu hostile pour sauver des touristes égarés, des alpinistes en détresse, des skieurs pris dans des avalanches, ou même un équipage décédé dans le crash d'un avion, etc.

Dans Au cœur de l'Everest : la quête d'une femme au sommet, Orianne Aymard nous offre un récit captivant de son ascension sur le toit du monde.

Las memorias del etnólogo Martín von Hildebrand, quien ha dedicado su vida a trabajar por las comunidades indígenas del Amazonas, sus derechos y la conservación de sus territorios. MARTIN VON HILDEBRAND es reconocido a nivel mundial por su activismo en pro de la Amazonia y sus grupos indígenas, labor por la que ha sido merecedor de varios premios nacionales e internacionales, entre otros, el Right Livelihood Award, conocido como el Premio Nobel Alternativo.

French Twist is a remarkable memoir of resilience, faith, and deep bonds that endure through time. It offers a revelatory glimpse of a life in all its complexity, challenge, and triumph. Janine Winters grew up with a father with a criminal history, a stalwart and inspiring mother, an intelligent and generous brother, and a strong and precocious sister.

When Saul falls in love with a non-Jewish woman, he discovers his immigrant, Holocaust-survivor parents are not as "cool with it" as he said they'd be. Their reaction is biblical. Desperate to fix his relationship with his parents, he lies and tells them he's writing a book about their story of love and survival.

A powerful, deeply personal memoir of a young boy who watched his world fall apart—and chose to rebuild it with faith, strength, and love. In The Day Everything Changed, Joe Dawson Jr. shares the raw truth of growing up with a mother diagnosed with bipolar schizophrenia, being raised under a heavy hand, and surviving the chaos of family trauma. From a childhood in Cleveland to a fresh start in Tennessee, and later Florida, Joe’s journey is one of transformation—from pain to peace, fear to faith, and survival to significance.

Kat Ward is a survivor — and this book is her testimony. Having overcome an abusive childhood — in which she was abused by family members, care staff and even celebrities — you would have thought that karma might have dealt her some kinder hands when it came to her adult life. Well, it didn't. After spending the majority of it simply trying to recover from her childhood, she was eventually forced to confront that monster which apparently awaits 1 in 3 of us at some point in our lives: cancer.