Adventure Biography

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    • From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
    • By: Cheryl Strayed
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24,999 ratings
    • A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe - and built her back up again....

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    • Bring That Horizon to Me
    • By: Neil Peart
    • Narrated by: Paul Hecht
    • Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 558 ratings
    • This third volume in Peart's travel series shares all-new tales that transport the listener across North America and through memories of 50 years of playing drums....

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    • By: Stanley Booth
    • Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
    • Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 06-19-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • Stanley Booth, a member of the Rolling Stones’ inner circle, met the band just a few months before Brian Jones drowned in a swimming pool, in 1969....

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    • The Biography of a Language
    • By: Melvyn Bragg
    • Narrated by: Robert Powell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,924 ratings
    • This is the remarkable story of the English language; from its beginnings as a minor guttural Germanic dialect to its position today as a truly established global language....

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    • A German Soldier on the Eastern Front 1941-45
    • By: Armin Scheiderbauer
    • Narrated by: James A. Gillies
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 770 ratings
    • Armin Scheiderbauer served as an infantry officer with the 252nd Infantry Division, German army, and saw four years of bitter combat on the Eastern Front, being wounded six times....

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    • By: Jamaica Kincaid
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 579 ratings
    • Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright by turns, in a Swiftian mode, A Small Place cannot help but amplify our vision of one small place and all that it signifies....

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    • Adventures in Reaching the Summit
    • By: Robert Macfarlane
    • Narrated by: James A. Gillies
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • Combining accounts of legendary mountain ascents with vivid descriptions of his own forays into wild, high landscapes, Robert Macfarlane reveals how the mystery of the world's highest places has come to grip the Western imagination....

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    • A 6000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land
    • By: Noé Álvarez
    • Narrated by: Ramon de Ocampo
    • Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 126 ratings
    • Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noe Álvarez worked at an apple-packing plant alongside his mother. A university scholarship offered escape, but as a first-generation Latino college-goer, Álvarez struggled to fit in. At 19, he learned about a Native American/First Nations movement....

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    • By: Will Hobbs
    • Narrated by: Ramon De Ocampo
    • Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 08-21-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 137 ratings
    • With nothing but dogged determination, 15year-old Victor leaves his Mexican village to illegally enter the U.S. and help his starving family....

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    • By: Margi Preus
    • Narrated by: Jeff Woodman
    • Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • Shadow on the Mountain recounts the adventures of a 14-year-old Norwegian boy named Espen during World War II....

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    • Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
    • By: Candice Millard
    • Narrated by: Paul Michael
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 10-21-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,843 ratings
    • The River of Doubt brings alive extraordinary events in a powerful nonfiction narrative thriller that happens to feature one of the most famous Americans who ever lived....

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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: 11-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 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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    • Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race
    • By: Lara Prior-Palmer
    • Narrated by: Henrietta Meire
    • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 231 ratings
    • At the age of 19, Lara Prior-Palmer discovered a website devoted to "the world's longest, toughest horse race" - an annual competition of endurance and skill that involves dozens of riders racing a series of 25 wild ponies across 1,000 kilometers of Mongolian grassland....

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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: 02-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,573 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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    • By: Dr. Sanjay Gupta
    • Narrated by: Sanjay Gupta
    • Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 533 ratings
    • Paging Dr. Gupta brings you on high-octane thrill rides through Iraq’s war-torn deserts and Haiti’s earthquake rubble, where the renowned medical correspondent reported amid tremendous chaos....

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    • My Life in the Frozen North
    • By: Peter Freuchen
    • Narrated by: Bobby Brill
    • Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Explorer Peter Freuchen describes polar bear hunts, of meeting Eskimos who had resorted to cannibalism during a severe famine, and of the thrill of seeing the sun after three months of winter darkness.

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    • A Baseball Card Adventure
    • By: Dan Gutman
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Series: Baseball Card Adventures, Book 10
    • Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 07-22-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • When Stosh travels into the past to meet Roberto Clemente, a legendary ballplayer and a beloved humanitarian, he’s got only one goal - to warn Roberto not to get on the doomed plane that will end his life in a terrible crash....

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    • By: Gordon Alexander
    • Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 04-17-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Join Gordon Alexander in Nepal as he drags his "heavy ass" over the Himalayas in this hilarious, adventure-soaked account of the Three Passes Trek, culminating in a visit to Everest Base Camp....

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    • The Fascinating, True Account of the Discovery of the Old Testament's Most Infamous City
    • By: Dr Steven Collins, Dr. Latayne C. Scott
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • The audiobook follows Dr. Collins as he tracks down Biblical, archaeological, and geological clues to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, narrowing down the list of possible sites....

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    • The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook
    • By: Martin Dugard
    • Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
    • Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 390 ratings
    • Dugard's gripping account of the life and death of Captain James Cook is a thrilling story of a discoverer hell-bent on going farther than any man....

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