What would you do if you were stranded in the coldest place on earth as the world you knew back home changed forever...?As station leader at the Davis Research Station in Antarctica, David Knoff was leading 24 expeditioners in a standard mission when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, international travel came to a standstill and their ride home was cancelled - indefinitely. What was supposed to be a routine mission became a high-pressure cauldron of uncertainty and anxiet...

What would you do if you were stranded in the coldest place on Earth as the world you knew back home changed forever?David Knoff had embarked on the adventure of a lifetime as station leader of Davis research station in Antarctica when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. After their ride home was cancelled indefinitely, what was supposed to be a routine mission became a high-pressure cauldron of uncertainty and anxiety that pushed David’s team of 24 expeditioners to their mental limits....

Want to know what really goes on on an aeroplane? Let's go behind the scenes and fly high with these tall tales and gossip from the galley!Everyone wants to be a flight attendant, or at least they want to know about the cushy lifestyle they lead – flying to exotic destinations, swanning about in five-star hotels, daytime lazing around the pool and night-time tabletop dancing with Bollywood stars. At last the lid is lifted. Come on board a real airline with a real f...

What is life like without arms?Rod Haines was born in 1942, at a time when doctors freely gave advice on options of what to do with this armless baby, and whom they thought would also have limited brain function.Rod was the middle child of five children and his childhood was full of love, support and encouragement from family and friends. He was mainstreamed at school and went on to university to become a lawyer, and later diverting into other academic areas, especially in ...

When the fishing vessel La Conte sinks suddenly at night in one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds and record ninety-foot seas during a savage storm in January 1998, her five crewmen are left to drift without a life raft in the freezing Alaskan waters and survive as best they can.One hundred fifty miles away, in Sitka, Alaska, an H-60 Jayhawk helicopter lifts off from America's most remote Coast Guard base in the hopes of tracking down an anonymous Mayday signal. A fisherman's worst nightm...

Fasten your seatbelts, ensure your seat is fully upright, your tray-table stowed and come fly with Danielle in this third installment of her sometimes turbulent, yet often amusing tales of life in the sky.There are more thrilling crew and passenger stories, valuable tips for anyone who ever dreamed of becoming a flight attendant, revelations of her own initial (failed) attempts to join the airlines, and perceptive insights into life above and below the clouds.Just when you th...

Travel with confidence; it just takes the right preparation and approach.Danielle Hugh is an international flight attendant with over 20 years flying around the world; also traveling extensively on her own time - experiencing both sides of airline travel. She answers many of air travels big questions: where to sit on a plane, how to travel with children, conquering fear of flying, when to check-in, how to pack efficiently, what luggage to take and how to avoid bags being lost or val...

The story of a wanderer, long-distance tramper and hut-bagging legend.Paul Kilgour was bitten by the tramping bug early. He began going on epic trips as a young boy, beyond the farm and along the coast. During these wanderings, he met old folk living simply in tiny huts out the back of farms and on clifftops, and swaggers walking in remote and beautiful locations. Even at that early age, deep inside Paul stirred the spirit of adventure and a longing to go further. And further he we...

Lessons on authentic leadership from the 58th annual Antarctic expeditionIn Leading on the Edge, successful business speaker and consultant Rachael Robertson shares the lessons she learned as leader of a year-long expedition to the wilds of Antarctica. Leading eighteen strangers around the clock for a full year—through months of darkness and with no escape from the frigid cold, howling winds, and each other—Robertson learned powerful lessons about what rea...

Cruising from a crew point of view! Cruising hints, tips, and stories about all aspects of cruising, and crew life, from a veteran crew member. Something every cruiser, and every future crew member, is sure to love!Sit back, relax, and read Crew Office - the first cruise, to learn things about cruise ships and cruising you never knew!Enjoy!

Johnson’s savagely funny [book] is a grunt’s-eye view of fear and loathing, arrogance and insanity in a dysfunctional, dystopian closed community. It’s like M*A*S*H on ice, a bleak, black comedy.”—The Times of London

New Year's Day, 2009. Somewhere on the bottom of the world, six teams of adventurers and explorers have gathered to race one another, on foot, to the South Pole. It is the first time that anyone has undertaken such a race in almost a hundred years; the first time since the great Norwegian, Roald Amundsen, beat Captain Scott to the same goal in 1911.The stakes are high, as double-Olympic Gold-winning medallist James Cracknell and TV presenter and adventurer Ben Fogle must contend wi...