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In 1986, George Foreman stood at a precipice. Once a heavyweight champion and a symbol of indomitable might, he discovered a betrayal that would shatter anyone: his trusted manager had mismanaged his finances, leaving him almost bankrupt. But Foreman was no ordinary man; he was a fighter in more ways than one. This book describes his comeback attempt- an odyssey of resilience, self-discovery, and unexpected triumph.Starting with Foreman’s post fallout and the humbling reality of his financial turmoil, the book transports readers into the depths of his struggle. Far from the dazzle of the ...

On May 24, 1869 a one-armed Civil War veteran, John Wesley Powell, and a ragtag band of nine mountain men embarked on the last great quest in the American West. The Grand Canyon, not explored before, was as mysterious as Atlantis - and as perilous. The 10 men set out from Green River Station, Wyoming Territory, down the Colorado in four wooden rowboats. Ninety-nine days later, six half-starved wretches came ashore near Callville, Arizona.

When the San José mine collapsed outside of Copiapó, Chile, in August 2010, it trapped thirty-three miners beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days. After the disaster, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Héctor Tobar received exclusive access to the miners and their tales, and in Deep Down Dark, he brings them to haunting, visceral life. We learn what it was like to be imprisoned inside a mountain, understand the horror of being slowly consumed by hunger, and experience the awe of working in such a place-underground passages filled with danger.