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Ed Stafford havde sat et år af til at gå hele vejen langs Amazonfloden fra dens udspring i Peru til Atlanterhavets kyst - som det første menneske nogensinde. Det kom til at tage meget længere - 860 dage, for at være helt præcis, ikke underligt med alle de vanvittige ting, han kom ud for undervejs: Han blev anklaget for mord, truet på livet, blev jagtet af stammefolk med macheter og var øjenvidne til den brutale skovrydning, der truer Amazonas.

For fans of The Lost City of Z, Walking the Amazon, and Turn Right at Machu Picchu comes naturalist and explorer Paul Rosolie’s extraordinary adventure in the uncharted tributaries of the Western Amazon—a tale of discovery that vividly captures the awe, beauty, and isolation of this endangered land and presents an impassioned call to save it.

**NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING ROBERT PATTINSON, CHARLIE HUNNAM AND SIENNA MILLER** The story of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, the inspiration behind Conan Doyle's The Lost World Fawcett was among the last of a legendary breed of British explorers. For years he explored the Amazon and came to...

For fans of The Lost City of Z, Walking the Amazon, and Turn Right at Machu Picchu comes naturalist and explorer Paul Rosolie’s extraordinary adventure in the uncharted tributaries of the Western Amazon - a tale of discovery that vividly captures the awe, beauty, and isolation of this endangered land and presents an impassioned call to save it.

A stunning debut; a Departures original publication. The ultimate survival story; a wild ride—the wildest—down a South American river in the thick of the Amazon Basin; a true and thrilling adventure of a young married couple who survive a plane crash only to later raft hundreds of miles...

If you enjoy a fast-paced, true story, Five Weeks in the Amazon is the book for you. It's an honest story filled with peaks of humor and valleys of despair. Author Sean Michael Hayes has written a book that many would put on their shelf next to Cheryl Strayed's blockbuster success, Wild. His adventure took him into the middle of the jungle alone, but Hayes' unique writing style makes the listener feel as though they are right there with him.

In the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to measure the precise shape of the earth. Like Lewis and Clark's exploration of the American West, their incredible mission revealed the mysteries of a little-known continent to a world hungry for discovery. Scaling 16,000-foot mountains in the Peruvian Andes, and braving jaguars, pumas, insects, and vampire bats in the jungle, the scientists barely completed their mission.

In Polish: This is a story about the journey of two brothers who travelled through the largest river in the world on...bikes. But not ordinary bikes - they were "Amazonian” bikes. The story is as bodacious as the trip itself, which seemed like an unachievable madness, but turned out to be a great adventure and a valuable life lesson. For one of its heroes it was a dream come true, for another the last chance for salvation. The book is written by Piotr Chmieliński - the first person on Earth who sailed through the Amazon River in a kayak.

Fifty-year-old canoe racer-turned-explorer West Hansen is planning to kayak the Amazon River when he learns that everyone - cartographers, adventurers, even his own sponsor, National Geographic Society - has misplaced the source of the world's greatest river. One of exploration's great prizes is suddenly back up for grabs, and to claim it all, Hansen has to shepherd a team of irascible Texans and international whitewater stars some 4,200 miles, from the crest of the Peruvian Andes to the Atlantic Ocean.

Cândido Rondon is by any measure the greatest tropical explorer in history. Between 1890 and 1930, he navigated scores of previously unmapped rivers, traversed untrodden mountain ranges, and hacked his way through jungles so inhospitable that even native peoples had avoided them—and led Theodore Roosevelt and his son, Kermit, on their celebrated "River of Doubt" journey in 1913-14. Originally published in Brazil, Into the Amazon is the first comprehensive biography of the Indigenous Brazilian explorer, scientist, stateseman, and conservationist.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Forty Days in the Amazon: The Miracle of the Lost Children is a powerful and unforgettable true story of survival, courage, and the unbreakable bond of family. In 2023, a small aircraft carrying a mother and her four children crashed deep within the...

Plunge into a gripping historical adventure where a legendary doomed explorer vanishes seeking a mythical jungle kingdom. Perfect for your daily commute or an armchair travel escape, this suspenseful narrative tracks an ambitious officer swallowed whole by the Amazon canopy. It is a haunting...

A dramatic tale of explorers of the 1930s racing to find and harvest a poisonous Amazon vine, and how their work plundered local tribes and spurred the invention of new medicines. In the fall of 1938, a young, frail American explorer set off down a river in the western Amazon in search of curare...

Offen und ehrlich schrieb die bekannte italienische Schriftstellerin Francesca Del Rosso über ihren Brustkrebs und wurde damit ein Vorbild für viele Frauen. Ihr Mann Alessandro Milan erinnert sich an ihre ansteckende Fröhlichkeit, ihre Stärke, das Leben auch im Schmerz zu feiern, und ihre Kraft, selbst in der Krankheit anderen Menschen Mut zu machen. Er erzählt aus seiner Perspektive von ihrem Kennenlernen, ihrer großen Liebe und der Zeit des Abschieds. Und von ihrem Vermächtnis, nie das Gute und Schöne aus dem Blick zu verlieren.