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Rescue: Stories of Survival from Land and Sea
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Rescue: 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
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"The Stories are vivid and lively." - Seattle Times

"...masterful storytellers, bringing delicately wrought drama or gusto to each narrative." - The Los Angeles Times

Rescue offers riveting stories about what happens when things go terribly wrong in some of the world's most perilous places: the wild west, the Grand Tetons, a remote lake in northern Quebec, the Eiger, the Labrador coast. The result is a collection of first-rate prose read by masterful narrators that makes for compulsive listening.

"... will take your breath away and send your heart racing." - Audiophile

"Absolutely gripping." - Kliatt

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Over the Edge of the World

Over the Edge of the World

Written By : Laurence Bergreen
Narrated By : Laurence Bergreen
Published By : Harper Collins US
Runtime : 6 hours
Categories : Adventurers & Explorers
Pre 1900
Price : $29.95 $16.95
This is the first full account in nearly half a century of this voyage into history: a tour of the world emerging from the Middle Ages into the Renaissance. More info...
Sufferings In Africa

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...
Explore

Explore

Written By : Various
Narrated By : Various
Published By : Listen & Live
Runtime : 6 hours
Categories : Adventurers & Explorers
Price : $24.95 $16.25
Takes you off the map to those few places where true discovery is still possible. Audio for the armchair traveller. More info...
Full Circle

Full Circle

Written By : Michael Palin
Narrated By : Michael Palin
Published By : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime : 6 hours 5 minutes
Categories : Adventurers & Explorers
Non Fiction
Price : $29.49
The actor and writer reads the account of his third and most ambitious world adventure: an anti-clockwise circumnavigation of the world’s largest ocean, the Pacific. More info...
Between A Rock And A Hard Place

Between A Rock And A Hard Place

Written By : Aron Ralston
Narrated By : Aron Ralston
Published By : Simon & Schuster
Runtime : 6 hours
Categories : Adventurers & Explorers
Autobiography
Price : $26.00 $15.95
One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told—Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and one inspired act of bravery. More info...