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Explore Written By - Various Narrated By - Various Published By : Listen & Live Runtime : 6 hours Categories : Adventurers & Explorers Price : $24.95 $16.25 Buy Now... Explore offers first-hand accounts from the world's boldest explorers, men and women encountering storms, starvation, cannibals and disease in their persuit of adventure. Their stories are immediate, passionate and dramatic accounts of contact with the unknown, discovered in the mountains of the Himalaya, the jungles of New Guinea, the ice flows of the Arctic and the ruins of Peru. With selections from Tim Cahill, Redmond O'Hanlon, John Long, Fridtjof Nansen and Harold Brodkey, Explore will take you off the map to those few refuges where true discovery is still possible. Listening to the audiobooks is an armchair adventurer's dream, as you sit back, close your eyes, and let your imagination go." - Independent Publisher Absolutely gripping." - Kliatt Other titles you may be interested in Sufferings In Africa Written By - Captain James Riley Narrated By - Brian Emerson Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc Runtime : 10 hours Categories : Adventurers & Explorers Price : $34.95 $19.95 Young American sea captain James Riley, shipwrecked off the coast of north Africa in 1815, was captured by nomadic Arabs and sold into slavery. This dramatic account of Riley's trials and suffering... More info... Fatal Forecast: An Incredible True Story of Disaster and Survival at Sea Written By - Michael Tougias Narrated By - Jeff Cummings Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc Runtime : 6 hours Categories : Adventurers & Explorers Price : $19.95 $14.95 "[A] dramatic, pared-down account...Tougias smartly leavens his spare narrative with similar worst-case scenarios that resulted when other seamen miscalculated the sea's wrathful... More info... On The Wing Written By - Alan Tennant Narrated By - Alan Tennant Published By : Simon & Schuster Runtime : 6 hours Categories : Adventurers & Explorers Price : $26.00 $15.95 In this extraordinary narrative, Alan Tennant recounts his all-out effort to radio-track the transcontinental migration of the peregrine falcon—an investigation no one before him had ever taken... More info... Over the Edge of the World Written By - Laurence Bergreen Narrated By - Laurence Bergreen Published By : Harper Collins US Runtime : 6 hours Categories : Adventurers & Explorers Pre 1900 Price : $29.95 $16.95 In 1519 Magellan and his fleet of five ships set sail from Seville, Spain, to discover a water route to the fabled Spice Islands in Indonesia, where the most sought-after commodities -- cloves,... More info... Lost Men, The Written By - Kelly Tyler-Lewis Narrated By - Graeme Malcolm Published By : Simon & Schuster Runtime : 6 hours Categories : Adventurers & Explorers Historical Biographical Price : $29.95 $17.95 In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed south aboard the Endurance to be the first to cross Antarctica. Shackleton's endeavor is legend, but few know the astonishing story- of the Ross Sea party... More info...