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Kate wasn't expecting to be divorced after less than a year of marriage. She wasn't expecting to be remaking a life that had, for the last 12 years with her partner, seemed so stable. Luckily, her job as a travel journalist offered her the perfect opportunity to escape from it all. But this time, her restless jet-setting felt different. She felt more alone than ever before, particularly against a backdrop of never-ending hen dos, weddings and baby showers.

A few years after his release from a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp, in 1973, Colonel Joseph Kittinger retired from the Air Force. Restless and unchallenged, he turned to ballooning, a lifelong passion as well as a constant diversion for his imagination during his imprisonment. His primary goal was a solitary circumnavigation of the globe, and in its pursuit he set several ballooning distance records, including the first solo crossing of the Atlantic in 1984. But the aeronautical feats that first made him an American hero had occurred a quarter of a century earlier....

The Carry Home is both a moving celebration of the outdoor life shared between Ferguson and his wife, Jane, who died tragically in a canoeing accident in Northern Ontario in 2005, and a chronicle of the mending, uplifting power of nature. Confronting his unthinkable loss, Ferguson set out to fulfill Jane's final wish: the scattering of her ashes in five remote, wild locations they loved and shared.

Ryan Eller has become something of a bucket list legend, and his friends consider him the world's best-kept secret. Those same friends have long insisted he write a book about his journeys, and he finally did! Live Your List is one part adventure and another part leadership. It infuses the life lessons Ryan has learned into the framework of his Live Your List lifestyle. This audiobook will challenge you to take personal responsibility for your life, set goals, live intentionally, and most importantly - give back to make a difference in this world.

Après avoir traversé des centaines d'épreuves, le corps fatigué et l'esprit déstabilisé par le soleil qui ne se couche jamais, alors même que sa traversée de l'Antarctique en solitaire est avancée, Frédéric Dion est victime d'une mauvaise bourrasque et perd son traîneau. Commence alors son combat contre le vent, la poudrerie naissante et le froid mordant afin de retrouver au plus vite son matériel de survie. D'expérience, Frédéric sait qu'il ne lui reste qu'une vingtaine de minutes, car, passé ce seuil, son traîneau sera recouvert de neige et impossible à repérer.