Here's a Selection of our Adventurer & Explorers Audio Books
- Kabloona
This extraordinary classic has been variously acclaimed as one of the great books of adventure, travel, anthropology, and spiritual awakening. In 1938 and 1939, a French nobleman spent fifteen mont...
- Road to McCarthy, The
Determined to pin down mythical tales of his own clan history, Pete is thrust into a world-wide adventure that reveals an unsettled and poignant history, while unearthing a good pint in the most...
- Adrift: 76 Days Lost at Sea
The true story of Steven Callahan alone and adrift at sea for 76 days
- Around the World in 80 Days
Michael Palin set out from the Reform Club with an ambitious plan: to circumnavigate the world, following the route taken by fictional hero Phileas Fogg 115 years earlier.
- Between A Rock And A Hard Place
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.
- Climb
Harrowing accounts of extreme mountaineering and its potentially fatal consequences.
- Epic: Stories of Survival from the World's Highest Peaks
A collection of the most memorable accounts of legend-making expeditions to the world's most famous peaks and often in the worst possible conditions.
- Explore
Takes you off the map to those few places where true discovery is still possible. Audio for the armchair traveller.
- Exploring and Mapmaking
The first known navigators were the Phoenicians, who 3000 years ago sailed the Mediterranean and beyond from their base near modern Lebanon. Justinian's mission to China in the 6th century A.D., th...
- Fatal Forecast: An Incredible True Story of Disaster and Survival at Sea
Fatal Forecast chronicles a dramatic fight for survival aboard two small fishing boats that were ambushed by a horrific surprise storm just southeast of Cape Cod.
- Four Against the Arctic
First it is the tale of four men who, in 1743, were marooned in the Arctic for six years with supplies for only one day, and secondly, it is a contemporary author's search to retrace their steps an...
- Full Circle
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.
- Great Explorers
Here are the stories of nine great adventures and the lives of the men who took part in them.
- High: Stories of Survival from Everest and K2
An audio anthology of stories from two of the most feared peaks in the world including tales of early exploration through to more recent tragedies.
- Himalaya
Michael Palin reads his own account of an epic journey across the Himalaya in his sixth international expedition.
- How to Build a Tin Canoe
Robb White knows everything there is to know about getting on the water and staying there as long as you possibly can. While still a young boy, he built his first boat, hewn from the tin roof of an...
- Last of The Plainsmen, The
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- Last Voyage Of Columbus, The
The epic, never-before-told story of Columbus’s final, and perhaps greatest journey.
- Left for Dead
The personal story of a survivor of the doomed 1996 Mt. Everest expedition.
- Lost Men, The
In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed south aboard the Endurance to be the first to cross Antarctica. Shackleton's endeavor is legend, but few know the astonishing story- of the Ross Sea party...
- Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure
The author reads his own book unabridged, bringing out all the humour and evocation of time and place which feature throughout his examination of one of the twentieth century's most colourful legends
- Miracle in the Andes
A horendous plane crash saw many members of a top Uruguayan rugby team killed, this is the moving true story of survival against all the odds...
- Nick Adams Stories, The
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- On The Wing
In this extraordinary narrative, Alan Tennant recounts his all-out effort to radio-track the transcontinental migration of the peregrine falcon.
- Over the Edge of the World
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.
- Pole to Pole
Three years after going Around the World in 80 Days, Michael Palin was off again.
- Rescue: Stories of Survival from Land and Sea
Riveting stories about what happens when things go terribly wrong in some of the world's most perilous places.
- Rocket Boys
In this uniquely American memoir, Homer Hickam beautifully captures a moment when a dying town, a divided family, and a band of teenage dreamers dared to set their sights on the stars.
- Rough Water
Tales of why men and women are drawn to the sea and the battles they find there; savage storms, rough waves, mountainous icebergs, sharks, starvation.
- Sahara
Periods of difficult travel will be repaid with new sights and sounds, people, languages, food and customs.
- Secret Life of Houdini, The
Jouney to find the man behind the myth, from the passions that drove Houdini to perform ever-more-dangerous feats to his secret life as a spy, and the pernicious plot to subvert his legacy.
- Storm: Stories of Survival from Land and Sea
Gripping stories of what happens when people find themselves caught up in treacherous weather - or when it finds them.
- Sufferings In Africa
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...
- Survive: Stories of Castaways and Cannibals
Selection of stories full of suffering, compassion, genuine courage and how bad things can get when events transpire against us.
- Undaunted Courage (Abridged)
In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River.
- Undaunted Courage (Unabridged)
In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River, across the forbidding Rockies.
- Wild: Stories of Survival from the World's Most Dangerous Places
A classic collection of traveller's tales from the wilderness, forest, desert, glacier and jungle.
- Wild Trees, The
Believed to be impossible to ascend, these majestic giants have remained unexplored until recently ...
- Zoo Quest for a Dragon
David Attenborough, Britain's voice of natural history, narrates his early adventures in the wilds of Indon...
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