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Storms, fatigue, equipment failure, intense hunger and lack of water are just a few of the challenges that ocean rower Mick Dawson endured whilst attempting to complete one of the world's 'Last Great Firsts'. In this nail-biting true story of man versus nature, former Royal Marine commando Dawson, a Guinness World Record holder for ocean rowing and high-seas adventurer, takes on the Atlantic and ultimately the North Pacific.

San Francisco war immer schon etwas anders als andere amerikanische Städte. Freier, wilder, toleranter. Diese Stadt klingt auch anders. Der Schriftsteller und Abenteurer Joscha Remus hat sich auf die Spuren der Flower-Power-Generation gemacht und dabei Boxring-Poeten, Bunny-Hippies, Plastiklöffel-Musiker, singende Taxifahrer und rappende Kirchendichter getroffen.

Patricia Lawrence explores three sacred places around San Francisco Bay - Miwok (Native Californian) fertility rock, Mt. Tamalpais, and Grace Cathedral on Nob Hill - with author and travel writer Brad Olsen.

Hermine Stampa-Rabe und ihre Tochter Gudrun fliegen von Berlin nach Portland in Oregon in den USA, um dort eine Fahrradtour zu starten. Ihre Fahrräder und der Seesack mit den ganzen gepackten Packtaschen kommen mit dem Flugzeug nicht mit. Weil in dem Seesack Hermines Fahrradpedalen sind, kann sie nun um Mitternacht nicht richtig vom Flugplatz in Portland/Oregon radeln. Sie erhält von ihrer Tochter eine Pedale, sodass beide mit je einer Pedale die fünf Kilometer bis zu ihrem gebuchten Hotel mehr schlecht als recht rollen können.

Journalist Susan Casey was in her living room when she first glimpsed this strange place and its resident sharks, their dark fins swirling around a tiny boat in a documentary. These great whites were the alphas among alphas, the narrator said, some of them topping 18 feet in length, and each fall they congregated here off the northern California coast.

Journalist Susan Casey was in her living room when she first glimpsed this strange place and its resident sharks, their dark fins swirling around a tiny boat in a documentary. These great whites were the alphas among alphas, the narrator said, some of them topping 18 feet in length, and each fall they congregated here off the northern California coast.

The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco recently offered and continues to offer a unique show that explores (in audio alone) a question with a question: "Are We There Yet?" In an effort to find out about this uniquely special, creative museum, which is known in San Francisco but not even as far away as Los Angeles, let alone the rest of the world, this writer asked a Jewish law legal expert what is meant by asking a question with a question.

The San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park is the country's only floating museum. Patricia Lawrence explores two of the six ships with a park ranger: the 1886 square-rigger Balclutha and the 1890 steam ferryboat Eureka.

A guide to the restaurants of Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Philadelphia, and San Francisco.

Ihr Sprachurlaub in San Francisco: Eine abwechslungsreiche Reise in eine der aufregendsten Metropolen Amerikas: Unterwegs berichtet Laurie vom Zusammenleben der verschiedensten Kulturen seit den wilden Zeiten des Goldrauschs und Dave erklärt, untermalt vom typischen Rattern und Klingeln der Cable Cars, wie die Straßenbahn in San Francisco funktioniert...