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No Such Thing as Failure

My Life in Adventure, Exploration, and Survival

By: David Hempleman-Adams

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No Such Thing as Failure

My Life in Adventure, Exploration, and Survival

By: David Hempleman-Adams

If there's an adventure to be had, it's likely that David Hempleman-Adams has been there first. Ranking alongside Ranulph Fiennes and Chris Bonnington in the pantheon of British explorers, David Hempleman-Adams is the first person in history to achieve what is termed the Adventurers' Grand Slam, by reaching the Geographic and Magnetic North and South Poles as well as climbing the highest peaks on all seven continents. But this feat is merely tip of the iceberg. Having reaching the summit of Everest on the more difficult north side and flown across the Atlantic in a an open wicker basket hot-air balloon, Hempleman-Adams is without question of the hardest, toughest, most fearless men to push the limits of human survival. The question Hempleman-Adams is most often asked is, simply: what drives him on? Why risk frostbite pulling a sledge to the North Pole? Why experience the Death Zone on Everest? Why fly in the tiny basket of a precarious balloon across the Atlantic? Is it simply the case that he likes to push himself to the limits, or is there something more to it? No Such Thing as Failure answers these questions and more, uncovering what drives arguably the world's greatest adventurer. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, is proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. In addition to books on popular team sports, we also publish books for a wide variety of athletes and sports enthusiasts, including books on running, cycling, horseback riding, swimming, tennis, martial arts, golf, camping, hiking, aviation, boating, and so much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

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No Such Thing as Failure

My Life in Adventure, Exploration, and Survival

By: David Hempleman-Adams

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My Life in Adventure, Exploration, and Survival

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No Such Thing as Failure

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1472113047

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Sky Sailors

True Stories of the Balloon Era

By: David L. Bristow

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Sky Sailors

True Stories of the Balloon Era

By: David L. Bristow

For more than a century before airplanes, people explored the sky in balloons. From 1783 to the early 1900s, aeronauts flew into storms, crossed large bodies of water, sailed over enemy armies, and soared to deadly altitudes. Illustrated in full color with dramatuc period artwork, Sky Sailors by David L. Bristow presents the stories of the pioneers of human flight, such as daredevil Sophie Blanchard from Napoleon's France, and Salomon Andree, who lead an aerial assault on the North Pole in 1897.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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1466871423

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Flight to the Top of the World

The Adventures of Walter Wellman

By: David L. Bristow

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Flight to the Top of the World

The Adventures of Walter Wellman

By: David L. Bristow

In his day Walter Wellman (1858-1934) was one of America's most famous men. To his contemporaries, he seemed like a character from a Jules Verne novel. He led five expeditions in search of the North Pole, two by dogsled and three by dirigible airship, and in 1910 made the first attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean by air--which the self-styled expert on aerial warfare saw as a mission of world peace. He endured hardships, cheated death on more than one occasion, and surrounded himself with a team of assistants as eccentric and audacious as he was. In addition to his daring adventures, Wellman became a nationally known political reporter and unofficial spokesman for the McKinley and Roosevelt administrations. He was not the first newspaper-sponsored adventurer, but more than any of his predecessors he turned exploration into a real-time media event, and his reputation both flourished and suffered because of it. Wellman lived during a time of rapid social and technological change, when explorers were racing to fill in the last remaining blank spots on the map and when aviation promised to fulfill humanity's greatest hopes and darkest fears. Flight to the Top of the World is a window into Wellman's time and illuminates many of its dreams and contradictions.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496207041

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At the Mercy of the Winds

By: David Hempleman-Adams,Robert Uhlig

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At the Mercy of the Winds

By: David Hempleman-Adams,Robert Uhlig

AT THE MERCY OF THE WINDS tells the extraordinary stories of both journeys. Featuring up-to-the-minute drama from David's own expediton and original photographs and documents from the Swedish voyage, it is the ultimate adventure book as, alone in the skies above a frozen and harshly beautiful landscape, David battled against the elements to fulfil the drama of three Swedith explorers a century earlier, and become the first man to balloon to the North Pole.

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Bantam Press

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0593047478

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9780593047477

Donald Campbell

The Man Behind The Mask

By: David Tremayne

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Donald Campbell

The Man Behind The Mask

By: David Tremayne

Generations are familiar with the haunting black and white television footage of Donald Campbell somersaulting to his death in his famous Bluebird boat on Coniston Water in January, 1967. It has become an iconic image of the decade. His towering achievements, and the drama of his passing, are thus part of the national psyche. But what of the man himself? The son of the legendary Sir Malcolm Campbell who was famous for being the ultimate record-breaker of the inter-war years - he broke the land speed record nine times and the water speed record four times with his Bluebird cars and boats - Donald Campbell was born to speed. He was outgoing and flamboyant, yet carefully orchestrated the image he presented to the world. Some saw him as a playboy adventurer; others, such as the radio producer on the twenty-first anniversary of his death, as a reckless daredevil with a death wish. He was known to take solace in extra-marital dalliances, and was obsessed with spiritualism. And in his final years, battered by a 360-mph accident while attempting the land record on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, and his prolonged and anti-climactic subsequent effort on the treacherous Lake Eyre in Australia, Campbell appeared a haggard and often frightened man. He had become trapped on his record-breaker's treadmill as he continually sought to prove himself to his illustrious father, in whose long shadow he felt forever trapped. DONALD CAMPBELL: THE MAN BEHIND THE MASK paints a fascinating portrait of an intense, complex, superstitious yet abnormally brave man who was driven not only by the desire to prove that he was worthy of the mantle of his father, but also by his fervent and unswerving desire to keep Britain at the forefront of international speed endeavour. This book generates a unique insight into how his desperate fear of failure finally lured him into taking one risk too many.

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Random House

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144643849X

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Toughing it Out

The Adventures of a Polar Explorer and Mountaineer

By: David Hempleman-Adams

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Toughing it Out

The Adventures of a Polar Explorer and Mountaineer

By: David Hempleman-Adams

The remarkable story of the man who has walked to the south pole and has climbed the highest mountain in every continent in the world. David Hempleman Adams ranks alongside Ranulph Fiennes and Chris Bonnington in the pantheon of British explorers and adventurers. Taking us close to his triumphs and to his near disasters - he describes his concerns about how his wife and children are coping without him at Christmas; his terror on Mount Everest, when a step in the wrong direction could result in death; and his feelings of euphoria when, 59 days after starting out across the Atlantic wastes, he sees the South Pole station glinting in the distance.

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Orion Publishing Company

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075281740X

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9780752817408

Open Water, Breaking Ice

The Polar Ocean Challenge ; a Voyage of Exploration Around the North Pole

By: David Hempleman-Adams

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The Polar Ocean Challenge ; a Voyage of Exploration Around the North Pole

By: David Hempleman-Adams

What does an explorer do next, once he¿s climbed all the world¿s highest peaks,walked to both the North and South Poles, and ballooned alone across the Atlantic?If you¿re Sir David Hempleman-Adams the answer¿s simple. You find a small boatand sail it around the top of the world! Heaving the vessel through ice floes, facingbergs the size of blocks of flats, narrowly escaping polar bears and enduring one ofthe fiercest arctic storms ever recorded, Hempleman-Adams and his crew completedtheir hazardous voyage through the North-East and North West Passages in a singleseason, defeating all that nature could throw at them.Terra Incognita is the name engraved on early maps given to those regions on earthwhere no civilised man had yet trod. Such places were the undiscovered planets oftheir day and they drew early adventurers to them as moths to a flame. For many theattempts to conquer the North East and North West Passages did indeed bring death.Here, explorers, such as Sir John Franklin and his men, met their lonely end in the iceboundarctic wilderness.Today, these once formidable barriers to routes west and east above the arcticcircle are now open water, except in winter months, and as a result of global warmingare likely to become passable all year in the not too distant future. This will changeforever the lives of the people and wildlife who inhabit this once pristine environment,with commercial and political interests lining up to exploit the riches now on offer.It was to help bring these alarming events to the world¿s attention that, in 2016,the explorer and adventurer David Hempleman-Adams took a party of fellow adventurersaboard a small yacht, Northabout, in order to attempt to sail through both theNorth East and North West Passages in a single seasonThis was The Polar Ocean Challenge ¿ a feat never before attempted by such avessel, crewed by an assortment of intrepid individuals of several nationalities,including a fourteen year-old boy. This is their story brought to life by the author,including personal daily records of events and illustrated with over 300 photographs.

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0857043161

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9780857043160

Walking on Thin Ice

In Pursuit of the North Pole

By: David Hempleman-Adams,Robert Uhlig

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Walking on Thin Ice

In Pursuit of the North Pole

By: David Hempleman-Adams,Robert Uhlig

For adventurers, climbing the Seven Summits—including Everest—and reaching all four Poles is the Holy Grail of world exploration. In 1998, David Hempleman-Adams became the first man on the planet to do it. In Walking on Thin Ice, the world's most accomplished explorer recounts the final leg of his extraordinary15-year odyssey.

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Book's by David Hempleman-Adams

No Such Thing as Failure

No Such Thing as Failure

No Such Thing as Failure

No Such Thing as Failure

No Such Thing as Failure

No Such Thing as Failure

Sky Sailors

Sky Sailors

Flight to the Top of the World

Flight to the Top of the World

At the Mercy of the Winds

At the Mercy of the Winds

Donald Campbell

Donald Campbell

Toughing it Out

Toughing it Out

Open Water, Breaking Ice

Open Water, Breaking Ice

Walking on Thin Ice

Walking on Thin Ice

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