Travel Survival

Nada como uma boa história, repleta de personagens cativantes e desafios impossíveis, para ilustrar como um grande líder pode moldar o destino de sua equipe. A aventura de Shackleton é o ponto de partida para as autoras analisarem suas características de comando - autoridade, integridade, humor e compaixão - e as estratégias que adotou. A expedição de Ernest Shackleton à Antártida a bordo do Endurance tinha tudo para se transformar em tragédia. No entanto, ao conduzir todos os seus tripulantes em segurança para casa, ele se tornou um exemplo de liderança.

The true stories in this audiobook are about temporarily disconnecting from the ordinary life of a big-city lawyer to experience exotic islands, strange creatures, and different cultures. The stories are not so much a travelogue as a vicarious island-hopping adventure and spiritual journey.

Marco Polo (1254-1324) is an instantly recognizable name, and he is known for his travels, but it's safe to say that his influence and importance has been greatly overlooked in the nearly 700 years since he died. Born in Venice, Marco Polo was in a fortuitous position to participate in trade. He followed in the footsteps of his own family, setting off for Asia with his well-traveled father and uncle. They would not return to Venice for 24 years. When they came back, they had allegedly traveled about 15,000 miles.

Mit Anfang 20 hat Josua alles, was er sich immer erträumt hat: Familie, Freunde und ein erfolgreiches Start-up. Doch als seine Freundin nach Thailand auswandert, kommen ihm Zweifel. Ist das Leben, das er sich aufgebaut hat, wirklich das, was er will? Kurzerhand beschließt er, seiner Liebe nachzureisen. Er verkauft alles, was er hat, und macht sich auf den Weg – ganz ohne Flugzeug. Zu Fuß, per Anhalter und mit Bus und Bahn legt er über ein Jahr Kilometer um Kilometer zurück.

Without libraries, what have we? We have no past and no future. This book tells for the first time in English the story of the first great universal library in the age of printing - and of the son of Christopher Columbus who created it. This is the scarcely believable - and wholly true - story of Christopher Columbus' bastard son Hernando, who sought to equal and surpass his father's achievements by creating a universal library. His father sailed across the ocean to explore the known boundaries of the world for the glory of God, Spain and himself.

I 1950 begyndte Hakon Mielche og dr. Anton Fr. Bruun en ambitiøs verdensomsejling på ekspeditionsskibet Galathea. Hakon Mielche fungerede som kronikør og udgav hele tre bøger om ekspeditionen. Bind 1 fortæller om afrejsen fra København, turen forbi Plymouth og Lissabon, før skibet nærmede sig Afrikas kyst og gjorde holdt på Tenerife. Nu går turen rundt om Det Mørke Kontinent, hvor skibet blandt andet lægger til kaj ved Dakar, Cape Town og på Madagaskar.

Stephanie White, from Charlotte NC, made up her mind to tackle the three individual 200-mile distance races known as the Triple Crown of 200’s. This includes the Bigfoot 205 mile race, Tahoe 200 mile race, and the Moab 240 mile race. While trying to figure out how to train for these races, she decided to do a thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail and learned so much about herself and life, in general, along the way.

A personal story promising laughs, surprises, tears, and joy, and guaranteed to warm your heart! When a grandmother embarked on a two-week travel adventure to Italy with her eighteen-year-old twin granddaughters, Margie Miklas’s long-awaited dream became a reality. Excited to share her beloved Italia, she hoped to create a special experience they’d treasure for the rest of their lives.

John Smith is one of the most common names in the English language, but every Briton and American is familiar with the explorer and mercenary Captain John Smith, who helped found the first permanent British colony in the New World, at Jamestown, in 1607. He wrote several accounts of his exploration and his time spent in the New World, but in America, Smith is better known for his association with Pocahontas, a Native American princess. Smith credited her with saving him from being killed by the Native Americans. Retellings of the story fictitiously cast the two as lovers.

Do you need help figuring out where to go if you end up in bad situation and you have no car or shelter but don't want to go to street shelter either? This guide is for you! You are going to learn the tricks and survival skills you need in order to survive to streets in Florida.

Ever heard of a 'travel psychologist?' Michael Brein is the world's first and perhaps only travel psychologist who has created a unique travel book series on the psychology of travel as revealed through the fantastic travel stories of more than 1,600 world travelers and adventurers he has interviewed over the last three decades. Travel Tales of Michael Brein: My Best 100 contains more than 100 of Michael's own, best personal travel stories, resulting from his lifetime of travel.

Es ist die Geschichte einer einmaligen Forschungsreise: Am 20. September 2019 startete die größte Arktisexpedition aller Zeiten. Die "Polarstern" verließ den Hafen von Tromsö, um sich am Nordpol einfrieren zu lassen. An Bord hat sie Wissenschaftler aus 19 Nationen, die ein Jahr lang die Auswirkungen des Klimawandels untersuchen werden. Markus Rex leitet die "MOSAiC" genannte Forschungsmission und berichtet vom Alltag unter extremen Bedingungen, von logistischen und planerischen Herausforderungen und von wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen aus dem Eis.

This is the true story of a young, native Irish woman who embarked on a path of "most resistance" and danced/survived her way around seven different countries. Her very descriptive, dramatic, and often humorous Celtic Road Home takes you on a journey of constant life adventures. Despite her many up and down struggles along the way, she never gives up hope on the very next outcome becoming more successful than the one before.

Bland spillrorna efter tsunamin i det som nyss var ett paradis, trotsar hon sin sönderslagna kropp i kampen för sina barn och sin man. Hon tvingas finna oanade styrkor inom sig själv och fastän rädslan för en nästa våg ständigt är närvarande, låter hon inte någon, eller något stå i hennes väg.

Der Autor, Fabian Kleinke stellt in diesem Ratgeber erstmalig zahlreiche Informationen und alle relevanten Grundlagen aus den Bereichen Recht, Theorie und Praxis zusammen. Das Buch teilt sich in drei große Abschnitte auf und enthält zahlreiche Lektionen, die anhand von anschaulichen Beispielen beschrieben werden. Im ersten Teil erläutert Fabian Kleinke die theoretischen und rechtlichen Grundlagen für angehende Bushcrafter und Waldläufer. In diesem Teil werden zahlreiche rechtliche Fragen ausführlich erläutert und beantwortet.

Since graduating from college with a journalism degree, Phil Cousineau's wanderlust has driven him to visit nearly 100 countries as a backpacker, a documentary filmmaker, a travel writer, a photographer, and an art and literary tour leader. For him, travel provides what his mentor Joseph Campbell called "the key to the realm of the muses".

Manny Ansar and Iyad Ag Ghali had little in common - one was a politically connected intellectual, the other a rebel waging war on behalf of his nomadic people in the middle of the Sahara. They did share one thing, though: a passion for Mali's desert blues, a haunting mix of traditional music infused with the influence of Elvis Presley, Bob Marley, and Jimi Hendrix.

Inside the Rainbow is a rendition of true events under the skies and in the skies of old Alaska long before it became the 49th state. It features the lives of Marie, a courageous country girl and her lifelong mate, Sandy, who become teachers in the one-room rural school of the North. They had just been married and graduated from college as they headed for their first job on a remote Aleutian island.

In 1911, Captain Robert Falcon Scott went back to the huge frozen wasteland of the Antarctic with the intention of reaching the South Pole, by a long and terribly arduous trek across the ice. On finally reaching the pole, Scott and his comrades were devastated to find that they had been beaten by the Norwegian explorer Amundsen. With temperatures of minus 30, they began their slow journey back to their base.

Vier Jahre, 45 Länder, 100.000 Kilometer - und ein Überraschungserfolg! Christopher Schacht ist erst 19 Jahre alt und hat gerade sein Abi in der Tasche, als er eine verrückte Idee in die Tat umsetzt: Mit nur 50 Euro "Urlaubsgeld" reist er allein um die Welt. Nur mit Freundlichkeit, Flexibilität, Charme und Arbeitswillen ausgestattet, ohne Flugzeug, ohne Hotel, ohne Kreditkarte. Humorvoll und mitreißend erzählt Christopher Schacht von seinen unglaublichen Erlebnissen und verrät, was er unterwegs über das Leben, die Liebe und Gott gelernt hat.