Showing results for "Noir" in Sports & Outdoors

A nature audiobook unlike any other, Jordan Fisher Smith's startling account of fourteen years as a park ranger thoroughly dispels our idealized visions of life in the great outdoors. Instead of scout troops and placid birdwatchers, Smith's beat - a stretch of land that has been officially condemned to be flooded - brings him into contact with drug users tweaked out to the point of violence, obsessed miners, and other dangerous creatures. In unflinchingly honest prose, he reveals the unexpectedly dark underbelly of patrolling and protecting public lands.

Des petites histoires incroyables et méconnues dans la grande Histoire des sports d'hiver. Plongez-vous dans ces récits insolites, parfois tendres : chroniques de grands succès, légendes des sommets ou événements dramatiques, contées par le Dauphiné Libéré. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

In Slaughter in the Streets, Don Stradley masterfully unfolds the story of how Boston became "boxing's murder capital." From the early days of Boston's Mafia, to the era of Whitey Bulger, Stradley tells the fascinating stories of men who were drawn to the dual shady worlds of boxing and the mob.