Explorer Memoirs

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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 1,347 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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    • Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science
    • By: Edward J. Larson
    • Narrated by: John Allen Nelson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-11
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • Published to coincide with the centenary of the first expeditions to reach the South Pole, An Empire of Ice presents a fascinating new take on Antarctic exploration....

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    • John Colter, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and the Call of the American West
    • By: David Weston Marshall
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 159 ratings
    • In 1804, John Colter set out with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the first US expedition to traverse the North American continent. During the 28-month ordeal, Colter served as a hunter and scout, and honed his survival skills on the western frontier....

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    • A Strenuous Life
    • By: Kathleen Dalton
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 27 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-15-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 164 ratings
    • Esteemed Harvard University historian and Associate Fellow Kathleen Dalton has been studying Theodore Roosevelt since 1975....

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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 2,604 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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    • 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 True Story of One Family's Survival and Courage in the Alaskan Wilds
    • By: Norma Cobb, Charles W. Sasser
    • Narrated by: Emily Beresford
    • Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 281 ratings
    • In 1973, Norma Cobb, her husband Lester, and their five children pulled up stakes in the lower 48 and headed north to Alaska to follow a pioneer dream of claiming land under the Homestead Act. They survived on the strength of Norma Cobb. Arctic Homestead is her story....

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    • A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
    • By: Jennifer Niven
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 124 ratings
    • In September 1921, four young men and Ada Blackjack, a diminutive 25-year-old Eskimo woman, ventured deep into the Arctic in a secret attempt to colonize desolate Wrangel Island for Britain. Two years later, Ada Blackjack emerged as the sole survivor of this ambitious polar expedition.....

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    • Alexander von Humboldt's New World
    • By: Andrea Wulf
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,561 ratings
    • Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His restless life was packed with adventure and discovery....

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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 1,161 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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    • My Journey Home from Everest
    • By: Beck Weathers, Stephen G. Michaud
    • Narrated by: Roger Wayne
    • Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 437 ratings
    • In 1996, Beck Weathers and a climbing team pushed toward the summit of Mount Everest. Then a storm exploded on the mountain, ripping the team to shreds, forcing brave men to scratch and crawl for their lives. In this powerful memoir, Weathers describes his escape....

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    • The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness
    • By: Robert Specht, Anne Purdy
    • Narrated by: Caroline McLaughlin
    • Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 299 ratings
    • The author tells the story as told to him of Anne Hobbs, a woman who went to Alaska in the 1920s to teach, but who had trouble due to her kindness to the Indians there....

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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 2,330 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 Biography
    • By: Mary V. Dearborn
    • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
    • Length: 29 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 231 ratings
    • This is a revelatory look into the life and work of Ernest Hemingway, considered in his time to be the greatest living American novelist and short story writer....

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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 125 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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    • 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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    • 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 1,999 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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    • A Swimmers Journey Through Britain
    • By: Roger Deakin
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • A masterpiece of nature writing, Roger Deakin's Waterlog is a fascinating and inspiring journey into the aquatic world that surrounds us....

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    • The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard
    • By: Russell Miller
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
    • Length: 18 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 139 ratings
    • How did an obscure science fiction writer become one of the world's most notorious religious leaders? Find out....

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