Explorer Memoirs

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    • Tragic Ambitions on Everest
    • By: Anatoli Boukreev
    • Narrated by: Richard Davidson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Anatoli Boukreev’s first-hand account of the worst human disaster in the history of Mt. Everest will hold listeners spellbound....

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    • The Life-Saving Adventures of a Travelling Doctor
    • By: Ben MacFarlane
    • Narrated by: Sam Devereaux
    • Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 13-06-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • Doctor Ben MacFarlane flies around the world picking up the pieces when Britons get into trouble abroad. A must-listen for anyone who enjoys real-life stories....

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    • The True Story of One Family's Survival and Courage in the Alaskan Wilds
    • By: Norma Cobb, Charles W. Sasser
    • Narrated by: Emily Beresford
    • Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 29-05-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In 1973, Norma Cobb, her husband Lester, and their five children pulled up stakes in the lower 48 and headed north to Alaska to follow a pioneer dream of claiming land under the Homestead Act. They survived on the strength of Norma Cobb. Arctic Homestead is her story....

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    • By: Gabrielle Stone
    • Narrated by: Gabrielle Stone
    • Series: Eat, Pray, FML, Book 1
    • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-2020
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • A year and a half into our marriage, I found out my husband had been having an affair with a 19-year-old for six months. I filed for divorce and left. Two weeks later I met a man, and we fell madly in love. It was a fairy-tale romance for a month and a half....

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    • Weird Travel Series, Book 1: From Chernobyl to North Korea - One Man’s Quest to Lose Himself and Find Everyone Else in the World’s Strangest Places
    • By: Adam Fletcher
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Series: Weird Travel Series, Book 1
    • Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 17-11-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Adam Fletcher visits places everyone else is trying to escape from, and tourists don't normally go to. In this hilarious travel memoir, he'll enter a blizzard in China armed with only biscuits; pose as a scientist to sneak into Chernobyl; and more....

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    • Wit, Wisdom, and True Stories from 60 Years on the Road
    • By: Ed Miller
    • Narrated by: Arthur Flavell
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 24-03-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • They say that only truck drivers experience the true grandeur and landscape of America. In A Trucker's Tale, Ed Miller gives an inside look at the allure of the work and the colorful characters who haul our goods on the open road....

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    • A Couple’s Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail
    • By: Michael Tyler
    • Narrated by: William Sarris
    • Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 27-08-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Bored and fed up with life, staring down a 50th birthday, Mike Tyler was looking for a change. Mike decides to try hiking from Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail, just to see what happens....

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    • By: Grantlee Kieza
    • Narrated by: Peter Houghton
    • Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • Fearless, sharp-eyed and handsome, Matthew Flinders was one of the greatest of all maritime adventurers and undertook one of the most important voyages of discovery – to circumnavigate and map the famed Great Southern Land....

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    • The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia's Most Famous Explorers
    • By: Peter FitzSimons
    • Narrated by: Michael Carman
    • Length: 23 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 31-10-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 515 ratings
    • The iconic Australian exploration story - brought to life by Peter FitzSimons, Australia's storyteller....

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    • Climbing and Skiing the Seven Summits
    • By: Kit DesLauriers
    • Narrated by: Gina Rogers
    • Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 13-04-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In 2006, Kit DesLauriers made history by becoming the first person to climb - and then ski - from the summit of each continent's highest mountain, the famed Seven Summits....

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    • Explorer. Leader. Legend.
    • By: Ranulph Fiennes
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 16-09-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • In 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton's attempt to traverse the Antarctic was cut short when his ship, Endurance, became trapped in ice....

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    • John Colter, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and the Call of the American West
    • By: David Weston Marshall
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-2021
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In 1804, John Colter set out with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the first US expedition to traverse the North American continent. During the 28-month ordeal, Colter served as a hunter and scout, and honed his survival skills on the western frontier....

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    • By: Alan Dean Foster
    • Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-2013
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • An adrenaline-fueled travel memoir of life in the wild among the planet’s most ferocious and fascinating predators....

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    • The Memoir of a Surfing Legend
    • By: Frosty Hesson, Ian Spiegelman
    • Narrated by: Gary Dikeos
    • Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 22-04-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Affecting and poignant, Making Mavericks is a celebration of Hesson’s determination to live with joy and purpose, and his desire to help others do the same....

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    • One Man's Journey into the Alaskan Wilderness
    • By: Ray Ordorica
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 25-03-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • In the fall of 1978, Ray Ordorica packed everything he thought he would need into his Toyota LandCruiser and drove north to Alaska. He came to a land he had never seen....

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    • Strategies for an Unbreakable Mind and Body
    • By: Ross Edgley
    • Narrated by: Ross Edgley
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 18-06-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 575 ratings
    • Ross Edgley famously ran a marathon pulling a 1.4-tonne car and climbed a rope the height of Everest (8,848 m), after living with Yamabushi warrior monks in Japan and partaking in Shamanic pain rituals with fire ants in the Amazon jungle....

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    • By: Jon Krakauer
    • Narrated by: Philip Franklin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 650 ratings
    • One of the inspirations for the major motion picture Everest, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Keira Knightley....

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    • And the Ice Men of the Heroic Age - Scott, Shackelton and Amundsen
    • By: Peter FitzSimons
    • Narrated by: Paul English
    • Length: 23 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-2012
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 194 ratings
    • Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, was Australia’s greatest Antarctic explorer.

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