True stories of discovery

Cristóbal Colón cree llegar al Paraíso | Cortés funda Veracruz | La triste historia del gigante patagón | Un conquistador se apuesta el sol en Perú | La carta de un migrante en las IndiasLa historia de América ha fascinado siempre.

Alle reden vom Ausstieg.

In seinem ERSTEN ROMAN verwebt Liao Yiwu auf poetisch abgründige Weise die Geschichte seiner Familie mit der seines Heimatlandes China, das ihn verstoßen hat.

Es zählt zu den berühmtesten Zitaten der Filmgeschichte, doch unser Verifikationsteam, das jede Ausgabe mit der Akribie eines Schweizer Uhrmachers überprüft, hätte es ganz sicher nicht durchgehen lassen.

Aus heutiger Sicht gehört das Cover der US-Zeitschrift "Life" vom 7.

Am 11.

Im Jahr 1543 wird in Nürnberg ein Buch gedruckt, das einer Revolution gleichkommt.

This Excellent Collection brings together Arthur Conan Doyle's longer, major books and a fine selection of shorter pieces and Fiction Books.

Am 9.

Der dänische Schriftsteller Hans Christian Andersen zählt zu den größten Künstlern, die sein Heimatland hervorgebracht hat.

Bayern polarisiert.

Es ist eine unglaubliche Erfolgsgeschichte, die sich ab dem Ende des 16.

Dieter Wellershoff folgt der Darstellung von Liebe und Leidenschaft, Verführung und Ehebruch in exemplarischen Werken der Literatur der letzten zweihundert Jahre, wobei er das Werk und die jeweilige Lebensgeschichte der Autoren, von Goethe bis Houllebecq, spannend und hellsichtig miteinander verknüpft.

'There is a mad chap come here - whose name is Trelawny.

Mark Dolan meets the world's most extrordinary people.

In 1930 a sixteen-year-old boy left England to become one of the last of the 'gentlemen adventurers' - the fur traders of the Hudson's Bay Company.

The amazing tale of a resourceful and unscrupulous early-19th-century American adventurer who forges his own kingdom in the wilds of Afghanistan.

An expert mountaineer cracks Everest's most intriguing mystery - did Mallory and Irvine reach the summit before they perished on its slopes?

101 chance meetings, juxtaposing the famous and the infamous, the artistic and the philistine, the pompous and the comical, the snobbish and the vulgar, each 1,001 words long, and with a time span stretching from the 19th century to the 21st.

Keith Floyd's exuberant personality, as much as his cooking skills, has made him a favourite both as bestselling author and as television presenter.

The unsung and remarkable stories of the women who held London's East End together during not one, but two world wars.

'A tour de force of luminous writing.

Spring 1958: a mysterious individual believed to be high up in the Polish secret service began passing Soviet secrets to the West.

Ulrike Rebel blickt im Alter von 85 Jahren zurück auf ihre Abenteuer, in denen sie als kleines Mädchen im 2.

*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*A GUARDIAN AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'An astonishing book' James O'Brien'A gripping, devastating read' Sunday TimesThe inside story of the UK's response to the pandemic from the Insight investigations unit at The Sunday TimesFailures of State recounts the extraordinary political decisions taken at the heart of Boris Johnson's government during the global pandemic.

A DAILY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEARREVOLUTIONARY.

In this ';thought-provoking blend of history, biography, women's studies, and travelogue' (Library Journal) Mia Kankimki recounts her enchanting travels in Japan, Kenya, and Italy while retracing the steps of ten remarkable female pioneers from history.

Fresh, creamy and delicious - the milkman who always asked whether they wanted it delivered in front or round back.

This edition does not include illustrations.

A narrative history of the men and women who have explored Mars and mapped its surface from afar, and in so doing conditioned our understanding of our nearest planetary neighbour.

Described by Pilot magazine in 2011 as 'Inspirational .

From sports to innovation, art to politics - meet the incredible women who got there first.

'Why couldn't I be a perfumer's muse?

A warm, witty memoir of one man's escape from the city in an unlikely quest to create out of a mountainous Welsh landscape a garden fit for inclusion in the prestigious Yellow Book - the 'Gardens of England and Wales Open for Charity' guide - in just one year.

Unique, transgressive and as funny as its subject, A Life Discarded has all the suspense of a murder mystery.

Now with an updated foreword by Elizabeth Day and afterword by Nigel Slater, twenty years later Toast has become a classic food memoir, detailing all the food, recipes and cooking that have marked Nigel's passage from greedy schoolboy to great food writer.

Ben Law's incredible sense of the land and his respect for age old traditions offers a wonderful insight into the life of Prickly Nut Wood.

Sunday Times Bestseller'Passionate and well-researched' Tatler'A must-read' IndependentA social history of Labradors, and how they have become the world's most beloved dogs, by writer, presenter and long-time dog lover Ben Fogle.

One man's journey in the footsteps of a great explorer into the heart of Africa.

En diciembre de 1914, sir Ernest Shackleton y una tripulación de veintisiete hombres zarpó de Georgia del Sur a bordo del Endurance rumbo al Polo Sur, con el objetivo de cruzar la Antártida, el último continente inexplorado, por tierra.

Sie wagten, wovon andere nur träumen, segelten über die Weltmeere, trotzten Dschungel und Eiswüste, lebten unter Kannibalen und Indianern, jagten Wale und Löwen, umrundeten Kap Hoorn, überwanden den Yukon, durchstreiften die Wildnis Afrikas und brachten unglaubliche Geschichten nach Hause: Herman Melville, Jack London, Stephen Crane, Joseph Conrad, Ernest Hemingway und B.

Von natürlicher Strahlung bis Fukushima: Was Sie schon immer über Radioaktivität wissen wollten – und bisher nicht verstanden habenDer Begriff »Radioaktivität« lässt aufschrecken, man denkt an etwas nicht Greifbares, schleichende Gefahren, Reaktorkatastrophen, schmutzige Bomben, an nukleare Verstrahlung und Verwüstung.

Wohin geht eine Frau über dreißig, wenn sie einen Mann kennenlernen, aber keine Kontaktanzeige im Internet aufgeben will?

Un relato escalofriante del lado más oscuro de la naturaleza humana.

An extraordinary, passionate and personal journey into Africa's past.

A charming memoir from one of America's best-loved novelists, William Wharton, author of war-time classic 'Birdy'.

The third novel from the acclaimed author of The Pied Piper's Poison and The Resurrection ClubLeaving behind a dowdy northern winter for the warming delights of the French Riviera, Martin and his three student friends soon find their feet, turning a tidy profit as beach-bum salesmen and taking to the joys of life by the Mediterranean with relish.

A chance encounter in a fish-'n'-chip shop set Brendan Murray on the trail of a mystery.

The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history.