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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 Buy Now... " Amazingly detailed... a gripping work ." — Publishers Weekly 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, the support crew he dispatched to the opposite side of the continent to build a vital lifeline of food and fuel depots. When the Ross Sea ship, the Aurora, broke free of her moorings and disappeared in a gale in 1915, she left ten men stranded on the continent with only the clothes on their backs and little hope of rescue. Against all odds, the men decided to go forward with their mission, sledging 1, 700 miles in a record-setting two-year odyssey. They never imagined that their immense sacrifice was futile—for Shackleton never set foot on the continent, and the Endurance lay crushed at the bottorn of the Weddell Sea. Inexperienced and poorly equipped, the men of the Ross Sea party endured the unspeakable suffering of malnutrition, hypothermia, and extreme weather conditions with fortitude, With their personal journals and previously unpublished documents, Kelly Tyler-Lewis brings us close to these men in their best and bleakest times and revives for us their heroic, astounding story of survival in the most hostile environment on earth. Historian Kelly Tyler-Lewis traveled for research to Britain, Australia, New Zealand. and Antarctica, where she spent two months with the National Science Foundation's Artists and Writers Program. She was a visiting scholar of the Scou Polar Research Institute of the University of Cambridge from 2002 to2004. She is also an Emmy Award-winning documentary film writer and producer. Graeme Malcolm has appeared on and off Broadway in Alio, The King and I, Lincoln Center's Hapgood , and M. Butterfly (National Tour). His television appearances include Law & Order, Follow the River , and Mr. Helpern and Mr. Johnson (with Laurence Olivier). Film credits include National Treasure, A Further Gesture, The Adventures of Sebastian Cole , and Reunion . Other titles you may be interested in Rough Water Written By - Various Narrated By - Full Cast Production Published By : Listen & Live Runtime : 6 hours Categories : Adventurers & Explorers Price : $24.95 $16.25 Tales of why men and women are drawn to the sea and the battles they find there; savage storms, rough waves, mountainous icebergs, sharks, starvation. More info... Undaunted Courage (Abridged) Written By - Stephen E. Ambrose Narrated By - Cotter Smith Published By : Simon & Schuster Runtime : 4 hours 30 minutes Categories : American Pre 1900 Adventurers & Explorers Historical Price : $30.00 $15.95 In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River, across the forbidding Rockies, and -- by way of the Snake and... More info... Left for Dead Written By - Stephen G. Michaud Narrated By - Buck Schirner Published By : Brilliance Audio Inc Runtime : 6 hours 46 minutes Categories : Adventurers & Explorers Price : $24.95 On May 10, 1996, nine climbers perished in a blizzard high on Mount Everest, the single deadliest day ever on the peak. The following day, one of these victims was given a second chance. His name... More info... Kabloona Written By - Gontran de Poncins in collaboration with Lewis Galantire Narrated By - Grover Gardner Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc Runtime : 9 hours 30 minutes Categories : Adventurers & Explorers Autobiography Travel Biographical 20th Century Price : $34.95 $19.95 This extraordinary classic has been variously acclaimed as one of the great books of adventure, travel, anthropology, and spiritual awakening. In 1938 and 1939, a French nobleman spent fifteen mont... More info... Four Against the Arctic Written By - David Roberts Narrated By - Robertson Dean Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc Runtime : 10 hours Categories : Adventurers & Explorers Pre 1900 Price : $34.95 $23.95 First it is the tale of four men who, in 1743, were marooned in the Arctic for six years with supplies for only one day, and secondly, it is a contemporary author's search to retrace their steps an... More info...