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En El viaje a Echo Spring, Olivia Laing examina la relación entre creatividad y alcohol a través de las obras y la vida de seis escritores extraordinarios: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever y Raymond Carver. Los seis escritores eran alcohólicos y la bebida asoma en sus páginas más conocidas, desde Un tranvía llamado Deseo a Suave es la noche, El nadador o París era una fiesta. A menudo bebían juntos: Hemingway y Fitzgerald iban de bar en bar por el París de los años veinte; y Carver y Cheever compartían borracheras en Iowa...

A birth that doesn't go as expected; a kid diagnosed with an incurable disease that keeps her in bed for more than a year; a teenage girl attacked by a stranger while strolling around the countryside; a woman that escapes a fatal accident by a hair's breadth. These are some of the episodes that are collected in this astonishing and intimate memoir: seventeen grazes with death, as the author calls them, that could have ended up in disaster.

Las historias personales de más de 20 "héroes" que desempeñaron un destacado papel durante la construcción, diseño y explosión de la mayor mina de la Primera Guerra Mundial en los Dolomitas, sobre la localidad de Cortina d'Ampezzo.

When flying an airplane was no more than a reckless act, Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly cross the Atlantic and the Pacific alone. Besides her exploits as a pilot, she wrote three books and many articles reporting on her trips, and become one of the primary promoters of aviation. Her last adventure was to fly around the world. Before arriving at the second-to-last phase of her itinerary, a storm ended her life and that of her copilot, Frederick J. Noonan.