Mike Horn

Aventurier de l'extrême, Mike Horn naît en Afrique du Sud, où ses parents étaient enseignants. Le sport est l'activité principale de son enfance : rugby, cricket, athlétisme, tennis et vélo sont, entre autres, les disciplines dans lesquelles il excelle. Diplômé de Science du mouvement humain à l'université de Stellenbosch, il travaille ensuite dans l'entreprise de fruits et légumes de son oncle, à Johannesburg. En vendant une cargaison de choux trois fois le prix du marché, sa vie change : à 24 ans, il gagne beaucoup d'argent et décide de changer de vie. Il ne garde qu'un sac à dos et de quoi se payer un billet d'avion. Son premier contact avec l'aventure a lieu en 1991 : il explore les Andes péruviennes en rafting et en parapente. Plus tar

If you like author Mike Horn here is the list of authors you may also like

Buy books on Amazon

Total similar authors (26)

Kilian Jornet

Kílian Jornet Burgada is a Spanish ski mountaineer, long-distance runner, mountain biker and duathlete (mountain running and mountain biking). He is a three-time champion of the Skyrunner World Series from 2007–09 and the winner of the 2011 Western States Endurance Run.
Buy books on Amazon
Hal Elrod

Hal Elrod is the author of the #1 international bestseller "The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life... (Before 8AM)" available at http://MiracleMorning.com
Buy books on Amazon
Sylvain Tesson

Sylvain Tesson est le fils de Marie-Claude et Philippe Tesson et le frère de la comédienne Stéphanie Tesson et de la journaliste d'art Daphné Tesson.

Géographe de formation, il effectue en 1993 un tour du monde à bicyclette avec Alexandre Poussin avec qui il traverse l'Himalaya à pied en 1997. Il traverse également les steppes d'Asie centrale à cheval avec la photographe et compagne Priscilla Telmon, sur plus de 3 000 km du Kazakhstan à l'Ouzbékistan. En 2004, il reprend l'itinéraire des évadés du goulag en suivant le récit de Sławomir Rawicz : The Long Walk (1955)1. Ce périple l'emmène de la Sibérie jusqu'en Inde à pied.
Sylvain était également un « escaladeur de cathédrales » et au sein d'un cercle d'acrobates on le surnommait « le prince d
Buy books on Amazon
Ludovic Hubler

Born on September 11th 1977, Ludovic Hubler is the son of Monique and Jacques Hubler and the brother of the consultant Eric Hubler and the photograph Marc Hubler.

Passionate by football and geography, he grows up in Wasselonne and Obernai in Alsace region East of France.

In June 2002, he graduates from the Business School of Strasbourg with a Master of Science in Management.

At the end of this Master, believing that discovering the realities of the world was a pre-requisite before entering the work market, Ludovic Hubler decided to start a tour of the world, using hitchhiking as his only means of transportation.

This adventure, that he baptized his "life Phd", lasted 5 years (2003-2008). From "sailing-boat hitchhiking" to cross Atlantic and Pac
Buy books on Amazon
Philippe Collin

Philippe Collin est un producteur de radio, auteur et journaliste. Il effectue des études d'histoire à l'Université de Bretagne occidentale, à Brest. Il est titulaire d'une maîtrise d'histoire contemporaine consacrée à l'épuration des collaborateurs à la Libération.
Buy books on Amazon
Gaël Faye

French-Rwandan Gaël Faye is an author, composer and hip hop artist. He was born in 1982 in Burundi, and has a Rwandan mother and French father. In 1995, after the outbreak of the civil war and the Rwandan genocide, the family moved to France. Gaël studied finance and worked in London for two years for an investment fund, then he left London to embark on a career of writing and music. He is as influenced by Creole literature as he is by hip hop culture, and released an album in 2010 with the group Milk Coffee & Sugar. In 2013, his first solo album, Pili Pili sur un Croissant au Beurre, appeared. It was recorded between Bujumbura and Paris, and is filled with a plethora of musical influences: rap laced with soul and jazz, semba, Congolese rum
Buy books on Amazon
Sarah Marquis

Sarah Marquis is a Swiss adventurer and explorer. From 2010 to 2013, she walked 20,000 kilometres (12,000 mi) alone from Siberia to the Gobi Desert, into China, Laos, Thailand, and then across Australia. In 2011, she gave a TED talk and in 2014 she was named one of National Geographic's Adventurers of the Year.
Buy books on Amazon
Joël Dicker

Joël Dicker was born in 1985 in Geneva, Switzerland, where he studied law. He spent childhood summers in New England, particularly in Stonington and Bar Harbor, Maine. The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair won three French literary prizes, including the Grand Prix du Roman from the Académie Française, and was a finalist for the Prix Goncourt. Dicker lives in Geneva.
Buy books on Amazon
Kilian Jornet

Kílian Jornet Burgada is a Spanish ski mountaineer, long-distance runner, mountain biker and duathlete (mountain running and mountain biking). He is a three-time champion of the Skyrunner World Series from 2007–09 and the winner of the 2011 Western States Endurance Run.
Buy books on Amazon
Laurent Gounelle

Ecrivain, Laurent Gounelle est également un spécialiste des sciences humaines dont il est diplomé (DESS à la Sorbonne), il a été formé en France et aux Etats-Unis. Ses livres expriment sa passion pour la philosophie, la psychologie et le développement personnel.

Il est par ailleurs conférencier à l'université de Clermont-Ferrand.
Buy books on Amazon
Michel Jean

Michel Jean est un écrivain innu de la communauté de Mashteuiatsh, au Québec. Il a publié dix livres, dont huit romans. Kukum, publié chez Libre Expression au Canada, Depaysage et Points en France, a remporté le Prix France-Québec 2020 et les prix VLEEL, Nature Nomade de même que le Prix du meilleur roman des lecteurs et libraires Points 2023.
Buy books on Amazon
Sylvain Tesson

Sylvain Tesson est le fils de Marie-Claude et Philippe Tesson et le frère de la comédienne Stéphanie Tesson et de la journaliste d'art Daphné Tesson.

Géographe de formation, il effectue en 1993 un tour du monde à bicyclette avec Alexandre Poussin avec qui il traverse l'Himalaya à pied en 1997. Il traverse également les steppes d'Asie centrale à cheval avec la photographe et compagne Priscilla Telmon, sur plus de 3 000 km du Kazakhstan à l'Ouzbékistan. En 2004, il reprend l'itinéraire des évadés du goulag en suivant le récit de Sławomir Rawicz : The Long Walk (1955)1. Ce périple l'emmène de la Sibérie jusqu'en Inde à pied.
Sylvain était également un « escaladeur de cathédrales » et au sein d'un cercle d'acrobates on le surnommait « le prince d
Buy books on Amazon
Rachel Ward

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.
Buy books on Amazon
Marcel Pagnol

Marcel Pagnol was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. In 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the Académie Française.
Buy books on Amazon
Bernard Werber

Bernard Werber's "Ants" trilogy made him one of France's most popular science fiction novelists in the 90s. Werber began studying journalism in 1982 in Paris, where he discovered the work of sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick. In 1991 he published the novel Les Fourmis (Empire of the Ants), a complex fantasy novel in which ants were the heroes and humans the pesty antagonists. The novel became a cult hit across Europe, and Werber followed it with two other books in the same vein: Le Jour des Fourmis (Day of the Ants,1992) and La Révolution des Fourmis (Revolution of the Ants, 1995). His other books include L'Empire des Anges (Empire of the Angels, 2000) and L'Arbre des possibles (The Tree of Possibles, 2002).
Buy books on Amazon
René Barjavel

René Barjavel, né le 24 janvier 1911 à Nyons (Drôme) et décédé le 24 novembre 1985 à Paris, est un écrivain et journaliste français principalement connu pour ses romans d'anticipation.

Certains thèmes y reviennent fréquemment : chute de la civilisation causée par les excès de la science et la folie de la guerre, caractère éternel et indestructible de l'amour (Ravage, Le Grand Secret, La Nuit des temps, Une rose au paradis). Son écriture se veut poétique, onirique et, parfois, philosophique. Il a aussi abordé dans de remarquables essais l'interrogation empirique et poétique sur l'existence de Dieu (notamment, La Faim du tigre), et le sens de l'action de l'homme sur la Nature. Il fut aussi scénariste/dialoguiste de films. On lui doit en partic
Buy books on Amazon
Romain Gary

Romain Gary was a Jewish-French novelist, film director, World War II aviator and diplomat. He also wrote under the pen name Émile Ajar .

Born Roman Kacew (Yiddish: קצב, Russian: Кацев), Romain Gary grew up in Vilnius to a family of Lithuanian Jews. He changed his name to Romain Gary when he escaped occupied France to fight with Great Britain against Germany in WWII. His father, Arieh-Leib Kacew, abandoned his family in 1925 and remarried. From this time Gary was raised by his mother, Nina Owczinski. When he was fourteen, he and his mother moved to Nice, France. In his books and interviews, he presented many different versions of his father's origin, parents, occupation and childhood.

He later studied law, first in Aix-en-Provence and then
Buy books on Amazon
Charles Baudelaire

Public condemned Les fleurs du mal (1857), obscene only volume of French writer, translator, and critic Charles Pierre Baudelaire; expanded in 1861, it exerted an enormous influence over later symbolist and modernist poets.

Reputation of Charles Pierre Baudelaire rests primarily on perhaps the most important literary art collection, published in Europe in the 19th century. Similarly, his early experiment Petits poèmes en prose (1868) ( Little Prose Poems ) most succeeded and innovated of the time.

From financial disaster to prosecution for blasphemy, drama and strife filled life of known Baudelaire with highly controversial and often dark tales of Edgar Allan Poe. Long after his death, his name represents depravity and vice. He se
Buy books on Amazon
Karin Slaughter

Karin Slaughter is the author of twenty-five instant NEW YORK TIMES bestselling novels, including the Edgar–nominated COP TOWN and standalone novels THE GOOD DAUGHTER, PRETTY GIRLS, and GIRL, FORGOTTEN. She is published in 120 countries with more than 40 million copies sold across the globe. PIECES OF HER is a #1 Netflix original series starring Toni Collette. The Will Trent Series is on ABC (and streaming on Hulu in the U.S and Disney+ internationally). THE GOOD DAUGHTER and FALSE WITNESS are in development for film/tv. Slaughter is the founder of the Save the Libraries project—a nonprofit organization established to support libraries and library programming. A native of Georgia, she lives in Atlanta.

Facebook: Facebook.com/AuthorKarinSlaug
Buy books on Amazon
Émile Zola

Émile Zola was a prominent French novelist, journalist, and playwright widely regarded as a key figure in the development of literary naturalism. His work profoundly influenced both literature and society through its commitment to depicting reality with scientific objectivity and exploring the impact of environment and heredity on human behavior. Born and raised in France, Zola experienced early personal hardship following the death of his father, which deeply affected his understanding of social and economic struggles—a theme that would later permeate his writings.
Zola began his literary career working as a clerk for a publishing house, where he developed his skills and cultivated a passion for literature. His early novels, such as Thérèse
Buy books on Amazon
Alain Damasio

Alain Damasio, né Alain Raymond le 1er août 1969 à Lyon, est un écrivain français de science-fiction. Il choisit ce patronyme en l'honneur de sa grand-mère Andrée Damasio.

Né d'un père carrossier et d'une mère agrégée d'anglais1, Alain Damasio obtient un bac scientifique. Après une classe préparatoire HEC, il intègre l'ESSEC, qu'il quitte en 1991. Il choisit de s'isoler (d'abord dans le Vercors puis à Nonza, en Corse) pour s'adonner à l'écriture. Son domaine de prédilection est l'anticipation politique. Il marie ce genre à des éléments de science-fiction ou de fantasy.

Jeune, il écrit de nombreuses nouvelles. Son premier texte long vendu à plus de 50 000 exemplaires est La Zone du dehors, roman d’anticipation qui s’intéresse aux sociétés de c
Buy books on Amazon
Sarah Marquis

Sarah Marquis is a Swiss adventurer and explorer. From 2010 to 2013, she walked 20,000 kilometres (12,000 mi) alone from Siberia to the Gobi Desert, into China, Laos, Thailand, and then across Australia. In 2011, she gave a TED talk and in 2014 she was named one of National Geographic's Adventurers of the Year.
Buy books on Amazon
Roger Frison-Roche

Born in 1906 in Paris, Roger Frison-Roche, an alpinist, mountain guide, journalist, and explorer before he turned novelist, produced fiction that celebrated the splendors and rigors of the Alps, the Sahara, and the Scandinavian North. Two of his Alpine novels, Premier de cordée, translated into English as First on the Rope, and La Grande Crevasse, present adventure stories whose mountain-guide protagonists titillate readers with the appealing skill and daring exacted by the mountain.

Source : Literature of Nature: An International Sourcebook by Patrick D. Murphy, Terry Gifford, Katsunori Yamazato (p. 203)
Buy books on Amazon
Guirec Soudée

Guirec Soudée sails around the world on his yacht Yvinec accompanied by a red hen named Monique. At age 22, he crossed the Atlantic Ocean alone. At 23, he went 130 days without assistance after being stuck in ice near Greenland. At 24, he became the youngest navigator in the world to cross the Northwest Passage alone! He and Monique are currently crossing the Pacific Ocean. They invite you to visit them online at guirecsoudee.com or on Instagram @guirecsoudeeadventure.
Buy books on Amazon
Alexandre Jardin

Alexandre Jardin, né le 14 avril 1965 à Neuilly-sur-Seine, est un écrivain et un cinéaste français.

Il est le fils de Pascal Jardin, écrivain et scénariste et le petit-fils de Jean Jardin (1904-1976), homme politique, éminence grise de Pierre Laval. Il a 2 frères et une demi sœur. Il se marie à l'âge de 23 ans et a cinq enfants.

Il écrit à 20 ans son premier roman, intitulé Bille en tête (1985) (prix du 1er Roman en 1986). Il obtient en 1986 son diplôme de Sciences po. Il est réalisateur de plusieurs films dont Bille en tête ou Fanfan, mais a aussi été, à l'époque chroniqueur au Figaro.

En 1988 il reçoit le prix Fémina pour son livre : Le Zèbre. Ouvrage qui sera adapté au cinéma par Jean Poiret en 1992 (avec Thierry Lhermitte dans le rôle prin
Buy books on Amazon
Charles Duchaussois

Born 27 January 1940 to diplomats, he was hit in the eye by shrapnel during a morning air raid when he was 4 months and 8 days old. This left him blind in one eye, a detail often evoked in his novels. In his 20s, he decided to leave for the south of France after getting fed up with the Île-de-France. After various thefts, frauds, and multiple trips to prison, he left for Lebanon to meet a friend. This is where "Flash ou le grand voyage" starts.

It was 1969 at the zenith of the hippie movement, from Marseille to Beirut, from Istanbul to Baghdad, taking long detours in India, by boat, on foot, in car, Charles bit by bit got closer to Kathmandu, the height of drugs and hippies. His trip began by accident in Lebanon, with arms and hashish tradin
Buy books on Amazon