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German book - original title in English: Into the Wild In August 1992 wurde die Leiche von Chris McCandless im Eis von Alaska gefunden. Wer war dieser junge Mann, und was hat ihn in die gottverlassene Wildnis getrieben? John Krakauer hat sein Leben erforscht, seine Reise in den Tod rekonstruiert und ein traurig-schoenes Buch geschrieben ueber die Sehnsucht, die diesen Mann veranlasste, die Zivilisation hinter sich zu lassen, um tief in die wilde und einsame Schoenheit der Natur einzutauchen.

Account of the Imperial Trans-Antartic Expedition attempted by Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew. The goal of making the first land crossing of the Antartic Continent was never reached. Instead, the Endurance, Shackleton's ship, got trapped in pack ice, and Shackleton's new aim was to rescue all his crew members, in which he finally succeeded.

Im April 1992 trampte ein junger Mann nach Alaska, um alleine in die Wildnaus nördlich des Mount McKinley zu wandern. Sein Name war Christopher Johnson McCandless. Seine gesamten Ersparnisse von 25000 Dollar hatte er gespendet, das letzte Bargeld verbrannt - er wollte ein neues, ganz anderes Leben beginnen. Vier Monate später wurde seine Leiche von einem Elchjäger gefunden.

From Susan Casey, bestselling author of "The Devil's Teeth," an astonishing book about colossal, ship-swallowing rogue waves and the surfers who seek them out.For centuries, mariners have spun tales of gargantuan waves, 100-feet high or taller. Until recently scientists dis-missed these stories--waves that high would seem to violate the laws of physics. But in the past few decades, as a startling number of ships vanished and new evidence has emerged, oceanographers realized something scary was brewing in the planet's waters. They found their proof in February 2000, when a British research vessel was trapped in a vortex of impossibly mammoth waves in the North Sea--including several that approached 100 feet.As scientists scramble to understand this phenomenon, others view the giant waves as the ultimate challenge. These are extreme surfers who fly around the world trying to ride the ocean's most destructive monsters. The pioneer of extreme surfing is the legendary Laird Hamilton, who, with a group of friends in Hawaii, figured out how to board suicidally large waves of 70 and 80 feet. Casey follows this unique tribe of peo-ple as they seek to conquer the holy grail of their sport, a 100--foot wave.In this mesmerizing account, the exploits of Hamilton and his fellow surfers are juxtaposed against scientists' urgent efforts to understand the destructive powers of waves--from the tsunami that wiped out 250,000 people in the Pacific in 2004 to the 1,740-foot-wave that recently leveled part of the Alaskan coast.Like Jon Krakauer's "Into Thin Air, The Wave "brilliantly portrays human beings confronting nature at its most ferocious.