Read by Steve Backshall. — BBC Digital, 2019. — 63 kbps. — Duration 13:07:36. — ASIN B07TY2SMP8. There are still dark corners of our planet that are yet to be explored. In this remarkable book, Steve Backshall offers an unflinching account of his adventures into these uncharted territories around the globe, in search of world firsts. Each location brings its own epic challenges -...
Read by Steve Backshall. — BBC Digital, 2019. — 63 kbps. — Duration 13:07:36. — ASIN B07TY2SMP8. There are still dark corners of our planet that are yet to be explored. In this remarkable book, Steve Backshall offers an unflinching account of his adventures into these uncharted territories around the globe, in search of world firsts. Each location brings its own epic challenges -...
Read by Wendy Wolfson. — Elspeth Beard RTW, 2019. — 64 kbps. — Duration 11:16:00. — ASIN B07NYTZFCL. In 1982, at the age of just 23 and halfway through her architecture studies, Elspeth Beard left her family and friends in London and set off on a 35,000-mile solo adventure around the world on her 1974 BMW R60/6. Reeling from a recent breakup and with only limited savings from...
Read by Wendy Wolfson. — Elspeth Beard RTW, 2019. — 64 kbps. — Duration 11:16:00. — ASIN B07NYTZFCL. In 1982, at the age of just 23 and halfway through her architecture studies, Elspeth Beard left her family and friends in London and set off on a 35,000-mile solo adventure around the world on her 1974 BMW R60/6. Reeling from a recent breakup and with only limited savings from...
Read by David Prickett. — Spoken Realms, 2018. — 64 kbps. — Duration 17:23:00. Relive the history, adventure, tension and dangers faced by the Conquistadors, led by Hernan Cortes - the Alexander of the Americas - as they make their way along the coast of the new world before delving deep into it’s heartland to clash wits and do battle with the mighty Aztec Emperor Moctesuma...
Read by Crispin Redman. — JM, 2014. — 64 kbps. — Duration 12:51:00. In 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey by foot - from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the first volume in a trilogy recounting the trip, and takes the listener with him as far as Hungary. It is a book of compelling glimpses - not only of the...
Read by Crispin Redman. — JM, 2014. — 64 kbps. — Duration 10:03:00. Winner of the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, Silver PEN Award, 1987.The acclaimed travel writer's youthful journey - as an 18-year-old - across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the author's exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as Hungary. Picking up from the very spot on a bridge...
Read by Crispin Redman. — Hodder, 2014. — 64 kbps. — Duration 12:43:00. The long-awaited final volume of the trilogy by Patrick Leigh Fermor. A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water were the first two volumes in a projected trilogy that would describe the walk that Patrick Leigh Fermor undertook at the age of 18 from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. 'When are you...
Read by Crispin Redman. — Hodder, 2014. — 64 kbps. — Duration 12:43:00. The long-awaited final volume of the trilogy by Patrick Leigh Fermor. A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water were the first two volumes in a projected trilogy that would describe the walk that Patrick Leigh Fermor undertook at the age of 18 from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. 'When are you...
Read by Mike Grady, Ranulph Fiennes. — Whole Story Audiobooks, 2018. — 48 kbps. — Duration 16:05:00. — ASIN B07GXVNXP4. Fresh from finishing the Marathon des Sables, Ranulph Fiennes has become the oldest Briton to complete this ultimate endurance test. The world's greatest living explorer, he has travelled to some of the most remote, dangerous parts of the globe. Well known for...
Read by Mike Grady, Ranulph Fiennes. — Whole Story Audiobooks, 2018. — 48 kbps. — Duration 16:05:00. — ASIN B07GXVNXP4. Fresh from finishing the Marathon des Sables, Ranulph Fiennes has become the oldest Briton to complete this ultimate endurance test. The world's greatest living explorer, he has travelled to some of the most remote, dangerous parts of the globe. Well known for...
Read by George Newbern. — Simon & Schuster Audio, 2015. — Duration 07:07:00. — 64kbps. — ISBN: 978-1442396029. 438 Days is the miraculous account of the man who survived alone and adrift at sea longer than anyone in recorded history - as told to journalist Jonathan Franklin in dozens of exclusive interviews. On November 17, 2012, Salvador Alvarenga left the coast of Mexico for...
Read by Tom Patrick Stephens. — Random House Audiobooks, 2013. — 48 kbps. — Duration 1:51:00. — ASIN B00CW6CRYW. Released to coincide with the 60th Anniversary of the first ever ascent of Mount Everest. On the 29th May 1953 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made history as they took their first triumphant steps on the top of the world. On 16 May 1998, Bear Grylls followed those...
Издательство,год: неизвестны The story of how six young men defied expert advice and crossed the Pacific on a balsa wood raft, in order to prove the possibility of Heyerdahl's theory of Polynesian origins from early America. Kon-Tiki was the raft used by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in his 1947 expedition across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the...
Read by Julie Harris. — Blackstone, 2006. — 64 kbps. — Duration 09:10:00. One of the most beautifully crafted books I have ever read, with some of the most poetic prose passages I could imagine, such as the following, resonating with a stately and timeless quality so absent in our modern life: There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is...
Read by Alexandra O'Karma. — Recorded Books, 1987. — 64 kbps. — Duration 09:18:00. One of the most beautifully crafted books I have ever read, with some of the most poetic prose passages I could imagine, such as the following, resonating with a stately and timeless quality so absent in our modern life: There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing....
Read by Alexandra O'Karma. — Recorded Books, 1987. — 64 kbps. — Duration 09:18:00. One of the most beautifully crafted books I have ever read, with some of the most poetic prose passages I could imagine, such as the following, resonating with a stately and timeless quality so absent in our modern life: There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing....
Read by Paul Bellantoni. — Dreamscape Media, 2020. — 64 kbps. — Duration 08:02:00. — ASIN B07ZG4Z5JF. By the 1930s, no one had yet crossed Antarctica, and its vast interior remained a mystery frozen in time. Hoping to write his name in the history books, wealthy American Lincoln Ellsworth announced he would fly across the unexplored continent, and to honor his hero, Wyatt Earp,...
Read by Paul Bellantoni. — Dreamscape Media, 2020. — 64 kbps. — Duration 08:02:00. — ASIN B07ZG4Z5JF. By the 1930s, no one had yet crossed Antarctica, and its vast interior remained a mystery frozen in time. Hoping to write his name in the history books, wealthy American Lincoln Ellsworth announced he would fly across the unexplored continent, and to honor his hero, Wyatt Earp,...
Read by Stephen Bel Davies. — Audible Studios, 2016. — 64 kbps. — Duration 06:55:00. — ASIN B01DCJ3KNY. 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, to find something he wasn't even sure existed: a wilderness cabin he could use for a year or more to live,...
Read by Steven Brand. — Audible, 2016. — 64 kbps. — Duration 12:16:00. Mungo Park was an explorer of the real kind. In 1795, only aged 24, he left Gambia for the uncharted interior of Africa, in a journey that would be filled with tragedy, heroism, and adventure. Park was the first European to ever reach the river Niger and the legendary city of Timbuctoo, thus resolving, once...
Read by Norman Dietz. — Howes, 2006. — 64 kbps. — Duration 22:45:00 "Safari" in Swahili means a journey, typically a long one. In Dark Star Safari, Theroux's itinerary is African, from Cairo to Cape Town - down the Nile, through Sudan and Ethiopia, to Kenya, Uganda and beyond to South Africa. Journeying by train, boat and cattle truck, he passes through some of the most...
Read by Norman Dietz. — Howes, 2006. — 64 kbps. — Duration 22:45:00 "Safari" in Swahili means a journey, typically a long one. In Dark Star Safari, Theroux's itinerary is African, from Cairo to Cape Town - down the Nile, through Sudan and Ethiopia, to Kenya, Uganda and beyond to South Africa. Journeying by train, boat and cattle truck, he passes through some of the most...
Read by Edoardo Balerini — RB, 2018. — 64 kbps. — Duration 16:44:00. A delectable collection of Theroux's recent writing on great places, people, and prose. In the spirit of his much-loved Sunrise with Seamonsters and Fresh Air Fiend, Paul Theroux's latest collection of essays leads the listener through a dazzling array of sights, characters, and experiences, as Theroux applies...
Read by Edoardo Balerini — RB, 2018. — 64 kbps. — Duration 16:44:00. A delectable collection of Theroux's recent writing on great places, people, and prose. In the spirit of his much-loved Sunrise with Seamonsters and Fresh Air Fiend, Paul Theroux's latest collection of essays leads the listener through a dazzling array of sights, characters, and experiences, as Theroux applies...
Read by John McDonough. — Howes, 2009. — 64 kbps. — Duration 24:55:00 In Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Paul Theroux retraces the steps he took thirty years ago in his classic The Great Railway Bazaar. From the Eurostar in London, he once again sets out on a journey to the East, travelling overland through Eastern Europe, India and Asia. Infused with the changes that have...
Read by John McDonough. — Howes, 2009. — 64 kbps. — Duration 24:55:00 In Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Paul Theroux retraces the steps he took thirty years ago in his classic The Great Railway Bazaar. From the Eurostar in London, he once again sets out on a journey to the East, travelling overland through Eastern Europe, India and Asia. Infused with the changes that have...
Read by Ron Keith— RB, 2008. — 64 kbps. — Duration 14:24:00. Award winning writer Paul Theroux embarks on a journey that, though closer to home than most of his expeditions, uncovers some surprising truths about Britain and the British people in the '80s in The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain. Paul Theroux's round-Britain travelogue is funny,...
Read by Joseph Balderama. — Howes, 2019. — 64 kbps. — Duration 19:58:00 The master of contemporary travel writing, Paul Theroux, immerses himself in the beautiful and troubled heart of modern Mexico. Nogales is a border town caught between Mexico and the United States of America. A 40-foot steel fence runs through its centre, separating the prosperous US side from the...
Read by Joseph Balderama. — Howes, 2019. — 64 kbps. — Duration 19:58:00 The master of contemporary travel writing, Paul Theroux, immerses himself in the beautiful and troubled heart of modern Mexico. Nogales is a border town caught between Mexico and the United States of America. A 40-foot steel fence runs through its centre, separating the prosperous US side from the...
Read by Frank Muller. — Recorded Books, 2010. — 64 kbps. — Duration 10:53:00. The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux's account of his epic journey by rail through Asia. Filled with evocative names of legendary train routes - the Direct-Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Delhi Mail from Jaipur, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Hikari Super Express to Kyoto, and...
Read by Norman Dietz. — WSA, 2017. — 64 kbps. — Duration 16:43:00. The Old Patagonian Express tells of Paul Theroux's train journey down the length of North and South America. Beginning on Boston's subway, he depicts a voyage from ice-bound Massachusetts to the arid plateau of Argentina's most southerly tip. Shivering and sweating by turns as the temperature and altitude rise and...
Read by Norman Dietz. — WSA, 2017. — 64 kbps. — Duration 16:43:00. The Old Patagonian Express tells of Paul Theroux's train journey down the length of North and South America. Beginning on Boston's subway, he depicts a voyage from ice-bound Massachusetts to the arid plateau of Argentina's most southerly tip. Shivering and sweating by turns as the temperature and altitude rise and...
Read by Laurence Kennedy. — Naxos, 2018. — 64 kbps. — Duration 12:59:00. Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger’s stunning account of five years spent crossing the Arabian Peninsula by foot and on camels, with nomadic Bedouin tribesmen as guides. Travelling between 1945 and 1950, the British explorer treks through Yemen, the Empty Quarter, Oman, and parts of the then Trucial States,...
Read by Laurence Kennedy. — Naxos, 2018. — 64 kbps. — Duration 08:11:00. For a period of seven years, Wilfred Thesiger canoed through the marshes at the confluence of Iraq's Tigris and Euphrates rivers, living among the native Madan tribes and their islands made of reeds. Now extinct, their ancient way of life is speculated to have existed for 5,000 years, going back to the...
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