Voyageurs et explorateurs

I was born and broken in Birkenhead, abused from infancy by a network of every kind of pervert from ‘thinks it’s love’ to ‘show it hurts’. I was unwanted, beaten, sold, swapped, photographed, filmed, left for dead, corrupted, blamed, betrayed, ignored and orphaned....

In Campfire Stories: Narrow Escapes & More Close Calls, storytellers take us from Florida to the Northern Rockies to the Arctic Ocean with wild and true stories, a reminder that the natural world is rugged and unpredictable....

A classic of Holocaust literature, Gerda Weissmann Klein's celebrated memoir tells the moving story...

The Color of Everything is a thrilling tale of risk and adventure, written by a man who has done it all: he’s stood at the top of the world, climbed imposing mountain faces alone in the dark and become the only American to summit an 8,000-meter peak in winter....

Looking out his porch window one spring morning, Adam Shoalts spotted a majestic peregrine falcon flying across the neighbouring fields near Lake Erie. Each spring, falcons migrate from southernmost Canada to remote arctic mountains.

On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes....

Escape from Camp 14 is the shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean political prison to have escaped and survived....

Meriwether Lewis and his partner, William Clark, endured incredible hardships and witnessed astounding sights on their 1803 cross-country trip to unexplored West....

Par un soir de novembre, j’ai fait une rencontre que je regrette encore à ce jour. Tant de fois, j’ai souhaité ne jamais être allée à cette soirée. Ne jamais avoir croisé la route de cet homme qui a détruit ce que j’avais de plus beau en moi....

A harrowing, moving memoir of the 1972 plane crash that left its survivors stranded on a glacier in the Andes—and one man’s quest to lead them all home....