A story of adventure and danger among the Polar Eskimos.
The incredible bestselling book from the author of No Barriers and The Adversity Advantage Erik Weihenmayer was born with retinoscheses, a degenerative eye disorder that would leave him blind by the age of thirteen.
Riding the rails tests her resolve like nothing before, but what she comes home to just might crush her.In this debut by Cheryl King, spunky and lovable June goes from sitting on top of the world to carrying the weight of the world on her ...
How to build a company that can survive the worst disaster imaginable and emerge even stronger
Hewitt's Law
Almost immediately we realized we needed a leader: someone with a lot more experience than we had, and who could raise the hundreds of thousands of dollars it would take to get us to the top of the world and back.
The summit of great Everest, the world's highest mountain,was only 13,000feet (3,962 m) higher than where we stood. My Pakistani companions knelt down inthe snowand said their midday prayers. I thought how very odd it was to see men in ...
Covering all the major expeditions in detail, and written with passion and authority, this book is both a scholarly reference and an eminently readable history of Arctic exploration.
What drew the five profiled in this book -- three British, one American, one French -- was Tibet, then the ultimate in exploration. Nina Mazuchelli organized a small expedition, urging the party on when they were lost on a glacier.
We Keep America on Top of the World is a lucid exploration of contemporary American journalism, with particular emphasis on its influential and controversial conponent - television news.