MacCVS Talking book store   MacCVS Talking book store- The best in spoken entertainment

Biography Audio books -   Home | Biography| Audio Books Home |

| Adventure and Explorers |  Arts and Drama | Autobiography | Business | Comedy | Historical | Journalism | Military | Politics | Radio Shows | Rich and Famous | Royalty and Heads of State | Sports | True Crime | TV and Film | Women |

Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure Written By - Michael Palin Narrated By - Michael Palin Published By : Orion Publishing Group Runtime : 6 hours Categories : Adventurers & Explorers TV & Film Price : $14.25 Buy Now... One hundred years after the birth of Ernest Hemingway , Michael Palin sets out to discover the man behind the legend: a hard-drinking womanizer who liked cats and shooting but who wrote like a dream and left an indelible impression on the Twentieth Century through his work. Inspired by the research for his bestselling novel, Hemingway's Chair , and as always driven by a desire to discover new places, Michael Palin explores Hemingway's world. Past and present intertwine when Michael travels to First World War battlefields in Italy, to Paris, and to Spain, where he learns about both bullfighting and the Civil War. He sees Florida celebrate the Hemingway centenary — with a look-alike competition, fishes on the Gulf Stream, goes on camera-safari in Africa, and visits Hemingway's hideaway in Idaho.   The author reads his own book unabridged, bringing out all the wit, humour and evocation of time and place which feature throughout his examination of one of the twentieth century's most colourful legends. Michael Palin established his reputation with Monty Python's Flying Circus and Ripping Yarns . His work also includes several films with Monty Python as well as The Missionary , A Private Function , an award-winning performance as the haplesss Ken in A Fish Called Wanda , and more recently American Friends and Fierce Creatures . He has also written many books, most notably Around the World in 80Days , Vole to Vole, Full Circle and a number of children's stories. His television credits include two films for the BBC's Great Railway journeys series and GBH . He is also the author of the play The Weekend and the novel Hemingway's Chair . Other titles you may be interested in Exploring and Mapmaking Written By - Dr. Ian Jackson Narrated By - Edwin Newman Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc Runtime : 3 hours Categories : Adventurers & Explorers Price : $12.95 The first known navigators were the Phoenicians, who 3000 years ago sailed the Mediterranean and beyond from their base near modern Lebanon. Justinian's mission to China in the 6th century A.D., th... More info... 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... Wild Trees, The Written By - Richard Preston Narrated By - Richard Preston Published By : Simon & Schuster Runtime : 6 hours Categories : Adventurers & Explorers American Price : $29.95 $17.95 Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained - the coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens.... More info... Storm: Stories of Survival from Land and Sea Written By - Various Narrated By - Full Cast Production Published By : Listen & Live Runtime : 6 hours Categories : Adventurers & Explorers Price : $24.95 $16.25 Gripping stories of what happens when people find themselves caught up in treacherous weather - or when it finds them. 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...