Explorer Memoirs

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    • A Return to the Silent Places
    • By: Peter Hathaway Capstick
    • Narrated by: Paul Maitrejean
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-25
    • Language: English
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    • Hailed as the adventure-writing successor to Hemingway and Ruark, only Peter Hathaway Capstick “can write action as cleanly and suspensefully as the best of his predecessors’ (Sports Illustrated).

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    • A Biography
    • By: Robert Morgan
    • Narrated by: James Jenner
    • Length: 20 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,348 ratings
    • Robert Morgan's Gap Creek was an Oprah's Book Club selection and a phenomenal New York Times best-seller. Here he turns his talent to chronicling the life of Daniel Boone....

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    • Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific
    • By: Robert M. Utley
    • Narrated by: Richard Davidson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 347 ratings
    • If you have ever wondered what is was like to be an explorer in the unspoiled American West of the early 1800s, then this is the audiobook for you....

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    • The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail
    • By: Stephen Taylor
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • A brilliant telling of the history of the common seaman in the age of sail and his role in Britain's trade, exploration, and warfare....

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    • The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II
    • By: Vicki Constantine Croke
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble
    • Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,335 ratings
    • Part biography, part war story, and part wildlife adventure, Croke delivers an utterly charming narrative and an important, little-known piece of the legacy of World War II....

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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: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 126 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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    • Violent Tornadoes, Killer Hurricanes, and Death-defying Adventures in Extreme Weather
    • By: Reed Timmer, Andrew Tilin
    • Narrated by: Joshua Swanson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 10-14-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 125 ratings
    • Reed Timmer is one of the most successful and most extreme storm chasers in the world....

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    • Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
    • By: Hampton Sides
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,204 ratings
    • From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook’s death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day....

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    • From the Alps to Annapurna
    • By: Lionel Terray, David Roberts - foreword
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • Frenchman Lionel Terray is one of mountaineering history's greatest alpinists, and his autobiography, Conquistadors of the Useless, stands among the "100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time", according to National Geographic Adventure magazine....

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    • A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Break of the Great War
    • By: Neal Bascomb
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 109 ratings
    • Neal Bascomb, a New York Times best-selling author, delivers the spellbinding story of the downed Allied airmen who masterminded the remarkably courageous - and ingenious - breakout from Germany's most devilish POW camp....

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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: 03-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 339 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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    • One Man's Journey into the Alaskan Wilderness
    • By: Ray Ordorica
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 03-25-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 122 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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    • One Woman's Journey with China's Kazakh Herders
    • By: Li Juan
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Li Juan and her mother own a small convenience store in the Altai Mountains in Northwestern China, where she writes about her life among grasslands and snowy peaks....

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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: 04-22-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 73 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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    • A Memoir of Five Million Steps Along the Appalachian Trail
    • By: Amanda K. Jaros
    • Narrated by: Ally Ibach
    • Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-25
    • Language: English
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    • When Amanda K. Jaros learns about the 2,160-mile Appalachian Trail after college, she walks away from a sheltered life dominated by an angry and volatile father and does something unexpected: spends six months backpacking. Alone.

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Roman Dial
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,005 ratings
    • In the predawn hours of July 10, 2014, 27-year-old Cody Roman Dial, the son of preeminent Alaskan scientist and National Geographic Explorer Roman Dial, walked alone into Corcovado National Park, an untracked rainforest along Costa Rica’s remote Pacific Coast....

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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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    • Trailblazer of the American West
    • By: Jerry Enzler
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 486 ratings
    • Even among iconic frontiersmen like John C. Fremont, Kit Carson, and Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger stands out. A mountain man of the American West, straddling the fur trade era and the age of exploration, he lived the life legends are made of....

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    • Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman
    • By: Patrick Hutchison
    • Narrated by: Patrick Hutchison
    • Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 107 ratings
    • A memoir of the author's journey from an office job to restoring a cabin in the Pacific Northwest, Cabin is based on his wildly popular Outside Magazine piece.

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    • A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
    • By: Jon Krakauer
    • Narrated by: Philip Franklin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-98
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13,202 ratings
    • Into Thin Air is the definitive, personal account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest...

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