Travel Survival

Louise Minchin went from presenting BBC Breakfast to competing for the GB Triathlon Team. Driven to bring more attention to female stories, she embarks on adventures with trailblazing women who are breaking down barriers, smashing records and challenging stereotypes in the world of sports and endurance. Join Louise on a roller coaster of highs and lows in this celebration of courageous women and a moving reminder of the power of the female spirit.

This is a collection of short stories that are shocking, exciting, surprising, and at times terrifying moments that I have experienced during my travels around the world. From Easter Island encounters with the Moais, being wounded in Israel, experiencing terror in Beijing at midnight to the challenge of leaving Ethiopia and Italy during the Covid outbreak. These stories and more will introduce you to my not so normal world of travel.

With the first world war raging across Europe, Shackleton's expedition to cross the South Pole became trapped by ice. Their ship, the Endurance, was crushed and the men were forced to survive in and escape from one of the world's most hostile environments. An incredible mission and an incredible escape. This is the story of one of the greatest sea journeys ever made.

Intrepid voyager, writer and comedian Michael Palin follows the trail of two expeditions made by the Royal Navy's HMS Erebus to opposite ends of the globe, reliving the voyages and investigating the ship itself, lost on the final Franklin expedition and discovered with the help of Inuit knowledge in 2014.

When Joe Patterson was surprised with the gift of a white German Shepherd puppy named Griffin, he had no idea of the adventure that awaited them. Searching for answers in the painful memories of his family's past will lead them deep into the rugged winter landscape of South Dakota's Black Elk Wilderness, where together they will face danger, forge a timeless bond, and experience an epic story that will leave them forever changed.

More than fifty expeditions across all seven continents – by land, sea and air – have led adventurer Neil Laughton to some of the most remote places in the world. Adventureholic tells the stories of Neil’s most unforgettable and daring adventures yet.

It's 1973. Our nation is torn apart by the Vietnam War, and the massacre of unarmed students at Kent State. The Vice President has resigned for bribery and tax evasion. The President is being investigated for engaging in criminal activity. At 23, David Reed has become embittered by political strife and corruption. Disenchanted with his future, he wants out. Along with new friends Rusty and Susie, David leaves everything he knows to cross the United States with little more than his bicycle and camera.

In 1983, at the age of 56, Gerry Clark set out from New Zealand in his 10-meter homemade wooden yacht to circumnavigate Antarctica in a quest for new information about seabirds. In this graphic account of the ensuing three-year-eight-month voyage, he describes his adventures in some of the remotest, wildest, and most spectacularly beautiful parts of the world.

Zwischen dem 18. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert entstand eine Vielzahl historischer Reisebeschreibungen und Reisetagebücher. Dieses Hörbuch entführt auf eine Hör-Reise in ferne Länder und andere Kulturen. Roald Amundsen und Robert F. Scott erleben einen mörderischen Zweikampf in antarktischem Eis in "Wettlauf zum Pol". Die Schriftsteller Lou Andreas-Salomé und Rainer Maria Rilke schildern "Russische Impressionen". Der berühmte Offizier und Übersetzer Sir Richard Francis Burton begibt sich inkognito und unter Lebensgefahr auf eine "Pilgerfahrt nach Medina und Mekka", während Charles Darwin wichtige Entdeckungen in der Südsee auf seiner "Reise auf der Beagle" macht.

Durante siglos, los europeos situaron la legendaria ciudad de El Dorado en la selva más grande y densa del mundo: la del Amazonas. La obsesión por encontrar ese paraíso dejó la jungla impenetrable sembrada de cadáveres, lo que no fue impedimento para el explorador británico Percy Fawcett. Después de emprender una expedición tras otra sin éxito, en 1925 desapareció sin dejar rastro. En 2005, David Grann se adentró en el «infierno verde» para averiguar qué había ocurrido allí. El resultado es una reconstrucción magistral dela aventura de Percy Fawcett.

When Remi sneaks away from his family on a deer-hunting trip, he has one goal in mind: to successfully hunt the biggest buck in all the West. But he quickly realizes that he is hopelessly lost. In desperation, he takes shelter in a cave. When he awakens the next morning, he finds he has been mysteriously transported back in time to 1855....

When Summer took a job as a nanny for a couple vacationing in Belize, she imagined it would be a fresh start before leaving for college in the fall. And while she adores her charge, Josh, she can’t say the same for her employers’ oldest son, Bray. He’s cocky, inconsiderate, and makes her feel she’s a chore he has to put up with. Bray had a plan for the summer: party, hang out with friends, and forget all the responsibilities waiting for him back home. But every time he’s forced to be around Summer, her dour, serious mood sets him off.

Though Reema and Suman were not shifting across the ocean every calendar year, yet they were drifting from a city to another almost every quarter of a year. Will their life become harder with time? On a stormy night Reema and Suman arrived at a new city. They were not sure how long they could stay there yet with each passing moment they found calmness in each other, bonding them stronger than ever before. Every good thing comes to an end. One evening some of Suman’s colleagues found Reema working. The wheels of jealousy and conspiracy started rolling and Reema’s aloofness from the ...

Reema has no clue if she could ever become strong enough to protect Suman from all the harm. Suman is clueless if he can keep his promises to Reema. Where would the couple end up? Reema and Suman went back home. Over the following month they sensed that the homecoming was temporary and they would be uprooted any moment to fly to a new location where they must start afresh. The new location was not at all welcoming. Reema and Suman saw worse and they tolerated the burnt. Arrangements of abrupt travel without the idea how long one has to stay in the new location hits on the money one has. Can...

Reema and Suman became a drifting couple for sometime. Can they ever be able not only to perch but to roost? Reema and Suman, both are in their early thirties, with a full decade of work experience. When Reema quit her job to cling to Suman, Reema’s mother was upset, so was Suman. Suman was wary that he became the monster who took away Reema’s freedom. Reema tried hard to make Suman feel her love. The effort made her realize that freeing Suman from his household duties so that his sole attention goes to his job while Reema hops from gig to gig was not losing independence. Did she think ...

HE LOVES HER, ALTHOUGH THEY'VE NEVER MET SHE'S ENCOUNTERED HIM BEFORE AND DREAMED OF HIM EVER SINCE Scotland 2061—forty-three years after the stock market crash that changed the world. Son of a legend. Rory Campbell, dedicated Militia man and son of Caitlin and Scott Campbell (Stolen Time), lives in a self-governed Community in the Scottish Highlands. Visions have disturbed Rory since his return from the past. Daughter of the Government Bunker Nuclear physicist, Siobhan Kensington-Wallace, has lived underground in the Scottish Government Bunker since the crash. Siobhan has been brought up...

Tony Howard rose to fame in 1965 as a member of a group of young climbers from northern England who made the first British ascent of Norway's Troll Wall. Tony went on to design the modern sit harness, now used universally by every climber in the world. Tony has dedicated his life to travelling the world in search of never before climbed rock faces and remote trekking adventures. The scale of his travels is vast. Quest into the Unknown, the last word in adventure travel, is the jaw-dropping account of a life of adventure that is the very definition of true exploration.

When Max, Kyle, and Emma are sent to live with their reclusive grandfather, they think he's crazy, especially when he tells them about his time machine. But after Emma is kidnapped at the exact time that her grandfather predicted, Max and Kyle are forced to believe his eccentric stories - even the one about the Chronal Engine in the basement. Now, to save Emma, Max, Kyle, and their new friend Petra must pile into a VW Bug, and use the Chronal Engine to take the road trip of a lifetime - right back to the Cretaceous period.

A product of beige California suburbs, Pam Mandel was overlooked and unexceptional. When her father ships her off on a youth group tour of Israel, he inadvertently catapults his 17-year-old daughter into a world of angry European backpackers, seize-the-day Israelis, and the fall out of Cold War-era politics. With no guidance and no particular plan, Mandel says yes to everything and everyone, embarking on an adventure across three continents and thousands of miles.

With a destination loosely defined as the rest of the world, Mary and her husband Tom leave family, friends and successful careers for a multi-year sailing voyage. As the voyage takes her farther and farther from her traditional support systems, her world becomes more and more defined by forces outside her control. Mary's travels through often uncharted island communities, provides a compelling metaphor for a journey of self-discovery.