Un aventurier, ancien soldat des forces spéciales, connu pour ses émissions de survie à la télévision, qui écrit un livre de méditations basées sur la Bible... surprenant? Non, si l'on sait que Bear Grylls est animé par une foi profonde dans le Christ.
Inspirées notamment de son vécu, ces 360 réflexions portant sur 12 thèmes nous aident à nous frayer un chemin dans la jungle du quotidien et à trouver la source de la force spirituelle, tel un manuel ou un pack de survie.
Points forts:
+ l'auteur va droit à l'essentiel
+ il s'appuie sur sa riche expérience en tant qu'être humain et aventurier
+ les méditations sont simples et profondes à la fois
Thèmes:
* le sens de la vie
* la détermination
* les relations
* la sagesse
* la fidélité
* le courage
* la liberté
* le risque
Le manuel complet des techniques de survie en milieu hostile par l'aventurier le plus populaire du moment.
Traverser un fleuve infesté de piranhas, construire un abri dans le grand froid, trouver de l'eau en plein désert, vous défendre contre un grizzly, survivre en pleine mer...
Bravez tous les dangers... et apprenez bien plus encore sur la nature sauvage.
Bear Grylls a été soldat des forces spéciales britanniques. A 23 ans, il partait à l'assaut du mont Everest. Son émission de télé-réalité Seul face à la nature (Man vs. Wild) est un succès.
Une vision d'horreur, au fond d'une crevasse, sur un glacier du Groenland.
Un orphelin kidnappé dans un bidonville de Nairobi.
Une grotte à fl anc de volcan en Tanzanie.
Une île au large de Cuba.
Des singes évadés d'un laboratoire secret.
Des larmes de sang.
La quête de Will Jaeger continue.
Mais plus il avance, plus ses ennemis s'acharnent.
Et plus la noirceur de leurs desseins apparaît terrifiante.
Le manuel complet des techniques de survie en milieu hostile par l'aventurier le plus populaire du moment. Découvrez les fondamentaux qui vous permettront aussi bien de traverser un fleuve infesté de piranhas, construire un abri dans le grand froid, de trouver de l'eau en plein désert que de vous défendre contre un grizzli ou de vivre en pleine mer. Vous saurez braver tous les dangers... et apprendrez bien plus encore sur la nature sauvage.
Un thriller haletant par Bear Grylls, ancien soldat des forces spéciales, spécialiste de la survie, héros de la fameuse émission Seul face à la nature ( Man versus Wild)
Une femme et son fils enlevés dans les montagnes galloises.
Un homme torturé et exécuté sur la lande écossaise.
Un avion perdu et sa mystérieuse cargaison découverts au coeur de la jungle amazonienne.
Une conspiration terrifiante héritée des heures les plus sombres de l'Allemagne nazie.
Une même histoire les unit.
Un seul homme peut éviter le pire.
Will Jaeger.
Le chasseur.
L'autobiographie de Bear Grylls, vendue à 400 000 exemplaires au Royaume-Uni et traduite dans plus de 20 pays, enfin disponible en français.
Avant de défier les éléments dans Seul face à la nature (Man vs. Wild), l'aventurier avait déjà survécu à bien des situations extrêmes. Une enfance sur l'île de Wight entre terre et mer façonne son goût pour l'aventure. Après une première expédition en Himalaya, Bear Grylls s'enrôle dans les forces spéciales de l'armée britannique, où il s'exerce à dépasser ses limites physiques et mentales. Une terrible chute en parachute le laisse alors le dos brisé, sans savoir s'il pourra remarcher un jour.
Dix-huit mois plus tard, il part pourtant à l'assaut du mont Everest et devient le plus jeune alpiniste (23 ans) à en réaliser l'ascen-sion. L'aventure ne faisait que commencer...
Un récit captivant, émouvant, exaltant, à mettre entre les mains de tous les accros à l'adrénaline.
Personne ne s'y connaît mieux en survie que Bear Grylls:
il n'y a presque aucun climat, zone géographique ou environnement extrême qu'il n'ait pas conquis.
Au fil des ans, depuis son parcours en tant que soldat jusqu'à ses expéditions extraordinaires pour gravie l'Everest, traverser l'Arctique ou les océans, partir à l'aventure aux quatre coins du monde, Bear a engrangé une quantité de connaissances étonnante dans le domaine de la survie.
Aujourd'hui, pour la première fois, retrouvez tout ce savoir dans un seul ouvrage. Comment rester en vie vous apprendra à :
* Survivre à une attaque d'ours
* Piloter un avion en cas d'urgence
* Faire du feu avec rien
* Naviguer en se servant des étoiles
* Apporter les soins de premiers secours en cas d'urgence
* S' échapper d'un immeuble en flammes
* Survivre à une attaque terroriste
Et encore bien d'autres compétences utiles pour survivre au monde moderne.
The first book in an explosive adventure series from real-life survival expert BEAR GRYLLSMission: Survival
Location: The Colombian Jungle
Dangers: Snakes; starvation; howler monkeysBeck Granger is lost in the jungle with no food, no compass, and no hope of rescue.But Beck is no ordinary teenager - he's the world's youngest survival expert. If anyone can make it out alive, he can.
Bear Grylls is a man who has always sought the ultimate in adventure. Growing up on the Isle of Wight, he was taught by his father to sail and climb at an early age. As a teenager he found identity and purpose through both mountaineering and martial arts, which led the young adventurer to the foothills of the mighty Himalaya and a grandmaster's karate training camp in Japan.On returning home, he embarked upon the notoriously gruelling selection course for the British Special Forces to join 21 SAS - a journey that was to push him to the very limits of physical and mental endurance.Then, in a horrific free-fall parachuting accident, Bear broke his back in three places. It was touch and go whether he would ever walk again. However, only eighteen months later Bear became one of the youngest ever climbers to scale Everest, aged only twenty-three. But this was just the beginning of his many extraordinary adventures . . .Known and admired by millions, Bear Grylls has survived where few would dare to go. Now, for the first time, Bear tells the story of his action-packed life. Gripping, moving and wildly exhilarating, Mud, Sweat and Tears is a must-read for adrenalin junkies and armchair adventurers alike.
Mission: Survival
Location : The Sahara Desert
Dangers : Diamond smugglers; heatstroke; scorpions
After being forced to parachute out of a smugglers' plane, teenage adventurer Beck Granger is about to face his toughest survival challenge yet - the Sahara Desert. Blistering sun, shifting sand dunes, and no water for hundreds of miles . . .Can he survive the heat and make it out alive?
MISSION: Survival
LOCATION: The Indonesian jungle
DANGERS: Lava flows; fearsome tigers; orang-utans
Young survival expert Beck Granger is supposed to be enjoying a holiday. But when a volcano erupts he is stranded and must flee from red-hot lava and molten rocks crashing out of the sky.If he is to stay alive, he must make his way acrossthe jungle to safety - travelling right through the heart of tiger territory . . .The fourth book in an explosive adventure series from real-life survival expert BEAR GRYLLS.
MISSION: SURVIVAL
LOCATION: The Alaskan mountains
DANGERS: Blizzards; grizzly bears; white-water rapidsA fatal plane crash. A frozen wilderness. The world's youngest survival expert is in trouble again . . . Beck Granger must find help across the mountains - but even if he survives the deadly cold, can he escape the hungry wolf that is on his trail?The second book in an explosive adventure series from real-life survival expert BEAR GRYLLS
The complete guide to living in the wild from the ultimate survival expertIn this essential guide to living wild, Bear Grylls reveals the secrets of his years of fieldcraft experience. This is the information you really need to know about living in the field from the man who has passed 21 SAS selection, climbed Everest and survived in some of the most inhospitable regions on Earth. In his inimitable style, Bear has thrown out everything that's boring about scouting and fieldcraft and concentrated only on what's exciting, inspirational and a little bit edgy. It's all here, from mastering the art of making the perfect campfire and constructing the best camp, to navigating safely through all terrains in all weathers - with or without a map...The only other thing you'll need is this book!Bear Grylls served for three years with the British Special Forces - 21 SAS. He is a world-record-breaking adventurer, a bestselling author and one of the world's most sought-after motivational speakers. Bear's prime-time adventure tv series reaches over a bilion viewers worldwide in over 150 countries. He was recently awarded an honorary commission as a Lieutenant-Commander in the Royal Navy for his endeavours with both adventure and charity. He is married to Shara and they have three sons, Jesse, Marmaduke and Huckleberry.
A gripping Australian adventure story from Bear Grylls, packed with real survival details and dangers at every turn!When Beck Granger follows a mysterious clue to the town of Broome in Northern Australia, it is just the beginning of an adventure that will force him into some of his toughest survival challenges yet!The search for clues takes Beck into the heart of the Outback, where he must battle raging storms, ravenous crocodiles, cunning villains and a secret that may link back to the death of his parents many years ago . . .
Bear Grylls knows what it takes to survive. But he's not the first. Take the American bombardier Louis Zamperini, who survived 47 days stranded at sea by catching and killing hungry sharks and drinking the warm blood of albatrosses -' only to be captured by the Japanese and horrifically tortured for years in their most brutal POW camps... Or Marcus Luttrell, a Navy SEAL who single-handedly took on a Taliban regiment before dragging his bleeding, bullet-ridden body for days through the harsh mountains of Afghanistan... Or Nando Parrado, one of the survivors of a horrific air-crash high in the ice-bound Andes, who only lived because he was willing to eat the flesh of his dead companions... In this gripping new book, Bear tells the stories of the adventurers, explorers, soldiers and spies whose refusal to quit in the most extreme situations has inspired him throughout his life. Some of them make uncomfortable reading - survival is rarely pretty. But all of them are tales of eye-watering bravery, death-defying resilience and extraordinary mental toughness by men and women who have one thing in common: true grit.
Released to coincide with the 60th Anniversary of the first ever ascent of Mount Everest and updated with a new introduction from Bear Grylls. On the 29th May 1953 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made history as they took their first triumphant steps on the top of the world.On 16 May 1998, Bear Grylls followed those same footsteps, achieving a childhood dream and entering the Guinness Book of Records, as the youngest Briton, at 23, to summit Mount Everest.Taken from his bestselling autobiography, Mud, Sweat and Tears, Climbing Everest tells the gripping story of Bear's gruelling expedition, one which tested him to his very limits and nearly cost him his life.
A gripping adventure story from Bear Grylls, packed with real survival details and dangers at every turn!When Beck Granger is ship-wrecked in the open seas, he needs all of his survival skills to save a small group of passengers.But the sinking was no accident. In order to stay alive, he'll have to work out who wants him dead, and why.That is, if the sharks don't get him first . . .
*Achieve maximum health with Bear's amazing dairy, wheat and sugar-free recipes and ultimate 8-week eating plan*In Fuel for Life, Bear Grylls introduces his revolutionary approach to nutrition and teaches you what to eat to ensure your body is performing at its best. But if you think nutrition means boring, complicated and tasteless meals, think again. Because Bear shows how cheesecake, pizza and burgers can be made ultra-healthy and ultra-delicious!Packed with comprehensive advice on ingredients, Bear's book dispels many common nutritional myths and includes over 70 simple, mouth-watering recipes. Bear's encouraging and practical guidance will motivate you to try new foods and to think differently about the way you eat.Free from wheat, gluten, dairy and refined sugar, this is delicious, natural and wholesome food that you and your body will love. Fuel for Life will help you feel healthier, happier, stronger and more energized, and will your nourish your body for maximum success and long-term health.
Could you survive in the jungle?After being washed away down the Wainganga River during a flash flood, Mak wakes up alone in the Indian jungle. The jungle is full of danger - poisonous snakes, cunning monkeys and desperate poachers - and every step Mak takes might be his last.Mak finds help and friendship from other jungle creatures, but he will need all his skill and luck to survive and make his way back home.
Could you survive in the jungle?Six months after his adventures in Spirit of the Jungle, Mak returns to the Wainganga River, where a conservation project is tracking the elusive wild elephant, endangered by loggers and poachers. When a young elephant is captured by an unscrupulous merchant, Mak and his friend Diya follow them into the heart of the jungle in a quest to set the animal free. But soon Mak finds that he must remember all his survival skills to escape danger.Inspired by Rudyard Kipling's classic The Second Jungle Book, Return to the Jungle is an exciting contemporary action-adventure from the nation's favourite adventurer, Bear Grylls.
When teen adventurer Beck Granger finds himself stranded on a Himalayan mountainside, he has to draw on all his strength and skill to survive. After death-defying climbing and sheltering in some of the hardest terrain on earth, Beck also has to somehow make it through bear attacks and flash floods. But the biggest challenge of all is still ahead...Can Beck finally learn the truth about his parents' deaths and bring their killers to justice?
