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Беар Гриллс - известный путешественник, телеведущий и писатель - уверен, что все люди наделены невероятным запасом прочности и способны совершать смелые поступки. Но многи...
In 1914, as the shadow of war falls across Europe, a party led by veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton sets out to become the first to traverse the Antarctic continent. ...
Известный австралийский ученый и путешественник, Дуглас Моусон, о судьбе которого мало кто знал в 1956 году впервые встретился с советскими людьми на экспедиционном судне ...
Книга рассказывает об экспедиции к Южному полюсу знаменитого норвежского путешественника Руала Амундсена.
В 1911 г. на покорение Южного полюса отправились две экспедиции:...
В историю познания, открытия человеком Земли трагические страницы в 1910-1912 годов вписала английская экспедиция к Южному полюсу под руководством капитана Роберта Скотта....
The revised text of "Frozen in Time" expands on the history of nineteenth century British Arctic exploration and specifically the Franklin expedition, placing it in the co...
Впервые на русском - удивительный международный бестселлер, основанный на реальной драме выживания, основа номинированного на шесть "Оскаров" нового фильма Дэнни Бойла - п...
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of Seal Team 10
Marcus Luttrell, Patrick Robinson
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(25)In June 2005 four US Navy SEALs left their base in Afghanistan for the Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious al-Qaeda leader known to be ensco...
Ex-soldier Chris Moon is a hero for our times. After leaving the army, he found that he missed the challenge of military life and became a mine-clearance operative in Camb...
Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck. Simpson plunged off the vertical face ...
The 1953 American expedition to the second highest peak in the world.
A classic of mountaineering literature, The White Spider tells the story of the harrowing first ascent of the Eiger's North Wall, one of the most legendary and terrifying ...
In July 1865 an obscure printer named Edward Whymper became the most talked-about man in the Victorian age. He had climbed the Matterhorn, one of the world's legendary mou...
The memoirs of one of the last surviving heroes of the Second World War. With three Military Crosses, three Croix de guerre, a Legion d'honneur and a papal knighthood for ...
1943 год. Самолет терпит крушение и падает в Тихий океан. Три члена экипажа чудом остаются живы. Так началась самая невероятная одиссея за всю историю человечества - 47 дн...
The Gestapo called her the White Mouse. Nancy Wake, an Australian who became one of the most highly decorated women of World War II, here tells her own story.
After liv...
This is the extraordinary and moving tale by an ex-POW and last surviving member of the Gordon Highlanders regiment that was captured by the Japanese in Singapore.
This 1955 volume is one of the most remarkable survival stories ever written. Jan Baalsrud was the only survivor of a Norwegian commando team ambushed by the Nazis during ...