Kategoria BISAC: Biography & Autobiography >> Adventurers & Explorers

Yes, it is a true story; I have actually found the creature of legend that many refer to as Bigfoot. I like to call them Georgies though. Bigfoot is really just an adjective describing a body part, not a name. Plus, the plural form of the word as such doesn't make sense. I mean, why would society accept a species with an illegitimate name?

These highly intelligent, super-elusive wild primates possess supernatural strength, speed, and power. They truly are rulers over the food chain in the animal kingdom. Georgie just stuck for me as a name after an expedition with...

A week after being hit by a car, Ed is told by his doctor that it was his professional opinion that he would be unable to run or play football again due to a significant injury to his left foot. This rather gave him the hump and so he elects to prove himself once again. With a great fire in his great belly, an epic 210 mile adventure along the entire River Thames and then the Virgin London Marathon is planned and then attempted in 2013, raising money for the British Heart Foundation in memory of Grandma Vanson.

Up river, down river, over river, good leg, bad leg, running well and...

A week after being hit by a car, Ed is told by his doctor that it was his professional opinion that he would be unable to run or play football again due to a significant injury to his left foot. This rather gave him the hump and so he elects to prove himself once again. With a great fire in his great belly, an epic 210 mile adventure along the entire River Thames and then the Virgin London Marathon is planned and then attempted in 2013, raising money for the British Heart Foundation in memory of Grandma Vanson.

Up river, down river, over river, good leg, bad leg, running well and...

In this Bannana book I write about some of my "near death" experiences. As Steve Jobs explained, during his seminal commencement address at Stanford in 2005, delivered shortly after he knew that his life was destined to end prematurely, all of life is a "near death experience." Or should be lived as such. Live every day as if it is your last was one of the profound messages Steve delivered that day. Follow your passion, even if you don't fully understand where you are going. Go from one "dot" to the next "dot." They will be connected, in retrospect. I was not in the audience that day. I did...

In 1950, Patrick Curran joins a large Irish Catholic family in Los Angeles, California. He eases through the idyllic fifties, (the first television generation), fights for stability and clarity in the turbulent sixties, (with assassinations, race riots and the Vietnam War) and then takes flight in the psychedelic seventies. (with student demonstrations, hippies and the drug induced golden age of rock and roll) He reflects on his generation's reaction and his own reactions to the events of the day and travels the world to find peace and authenticity. He finds temporary solace living in several...

She faced homelessness, but found an adventure beyond imagination. When she was forced out onto the road, she followed her own wanderlust. She was rewarded with freedom. You can come along on the journey, if you choose to join the crew You can learn the true nature of the Occupy Protest Movement You can learn how it truly feels to become homeless - and yet find redemption You can join the Rainbow Family. They are the 'hippies in the woods'. Explore Rainbowland; a community built on sharing and shiny rocks. There's free food in the woods, and hippies yelling 'Lovin' You ' Come along and...

Kathy McCullough learned to fly at the age of sixteen, but her story began much earlier. Her challengers, accomplishments, and indomitable spirit come to life within the pages of Ups and Downs. Becoming the fourth woman pilot hired by Northwest Orient Airlines in 1981 and earning her captain wings in the Boeing 747 a quarter of a century later, was not an easy journey. There is no better way to understand the gender issues in a cockpit than through the eyes of a woman pilot who lived the many challenges. Kathy takes us on the flight of he life with compelling stories of what it took to get...

Are grades everything? Is it fair to predict a youngster's future plainly based on some numbers? There's more to life than textbooks, and My Unskooled Year chronicles just that.

The book presents a refreshing perspective of reality from the eyes of Sagarikka Sivakumar, an average student, who took a year off after her tenth standard to tread the path less taken.

Follow this 15-year-old, as she invests in Stocks, goes door to door to sell products, interns with organizations in the hospitality and social sectors, hikes across mountains, makes documentaries and also studies among...

In this book Alice describes the many adventures of sailing across the Pacific Ocean with her husband, Dan. Before leaving they spent seventeen summers sailing and coastal cruising in a succession of sailboats ranging in size from 10 to 30 feet. In 1981 they purchased Shaula, a sturdy 28 foot cruising sailboat. Their first ocean passage from Seattle to Hawaii nearly ended their dreams of ocean sailing. Three years later they took a wonderful two-year Pacific cruise, and became converts to the cruising lifestyle. They retired in their mid-fifties, sold their car and most of their belongings,...

"Youth" is an autobiographical short story by Joseph Conrad. Written in 1898, it was first published in Blackwood's Magazine, and included as the first story in the 1902 volume Youth, a Narrative, and Two Other Stories. "Youth" depicts a young man's first journey to the East. It is narrated by Charles Marlow who is also the narrator of Lord Jim, Chance, and Heart of Darkness. The narrator's introduction suggests this is the first time, chronologically, the character Marlow appears in Conrad's works (the Author comments that he thinks Marlow spells his name this way).

Who hasn't dreamed of creating a new life by escaping to a paradise island? The author did just that and almost didn't live to tell about it. Midlife Monkeylala is the true story of a teacher's wacky adventures on the remote island of Roatan, Honduras, in the early 1990s before modernization. Edwina Ann Doyle fuses a fascinating treasure trove of history and culture with life-threatening mishaps and local tragedies. Descriptions of school fiascos, quirky villagers, and misadventures of Miss Winnie's Fishing Folly are humorous. The author's growth from self-indulgent outsider to compassionate...

Create space FFS description This Behind-the-Scenes Tell-All About Doubling for Celebrity Superstars Also Reveals the Compelling Life Story of an Insecure Hollywood Arrival Who Rises to the Top of Her Field, But Pays a Hefty Price. Addiction, Chauvanism and Big Egos collide with the surprising kindness of superstars. Discover the magic and the tragic stories of many great films & TV shows through the eyes of a stuntwoman. Dalton reveals what it took to hang over cliffs, get hit by a moving car, drop from five stories up, dodge an avenue full of speeding cars-and to ignore the Universe's more...

A true story that gives the exact location of paradise, near a pyramid and a gold mine. How it was found by an artist, a soldier, a bank robber and a junkie - then lost.

Matt Towner has taken Australian Opals all over the world then Australian Wines then Australian Real Estate. Now mate is not only writing about all of his incredible adventures travelling the globe offering these opportunities, but he is also now taking Australian Authors all over the world. "Traveller's Tales" offers you the opportunity to publish some of your own travel stories and adventures as Matt prepares to publish a series of books of short stories just like this one. Whether you cheated death and are lucky to be alive or you smuggled stones from South East Asia or you were arrested...

"Y-not" is "Tony" Spelled Backwards-And That Semordnilap* Can Change Your Life
Too many of us go through life getting the "short-end of the stick," cheating ourselves of the best that the world has to offer. But not Tony Lam. He learned early on to ask himself why not live life large?, why not go for the gold?
Life didn't start out too promising for Tony. He could have been stigmatized from infancy when his pediatrician told his mom that her son would grow up to be a short man, relatively speaking. But rather than quail at the news, Tony's mother became determined to prepare her son...

Filming a paparazzi-like documentary takes a complete turn of events when then 26 year old Miranda Tozier-Robbins is arrested on the property of celebrity Britney Spears. Telling her story from idea to execution you will be included on the documentary trail and what it's like to literally be an overnight sensation.

The Next Horizon, the second volume in Chris Bonington's autobiography after I Chose to Climb, picks up his story from 1962 and relates his subsequent adventures as a mountaineer, photographer, journalist and expedition leader alongside eminent climbers including Doug Scott and Don Whillans, throughout an extraordinary decade of adversity, thrill and discovery.

The book opens with a journey to Chile to climb the Central Tower of Paine. Bonington...

These memoirs are the series of events in my life. I wrote them at the bequest of my wife.

"God and the Ants" is the coming-of-age story about AJ, the daughter of conservative Korean immigrants. From an impoverished Chicago neighborhood to the manicured lawns of the suburbs, AJ struggles to make sense of her faith and her identity as a female, a sister, and a daughter. Follow AJ through seasons of chaos and joy as she questions helmet-haired aunties, fights the status quo, and makes life-long friendships. AJ searches for meaning as she sits on church pews, kisses boys on her parents' rooftop, and overdoses at a warehouse party. This culminates on the sunniest, most tragic of...