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  • Between A Rock And A Hard Place
    "It's 3:05 on Sunday, April 27, 2003. This marks my twenty-four-hour mark of being stuck in Blue John Canyon. My name is Aron Ralston. My parents are Donna and Larry Ralston, of Englewood,...
    
    
  • 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.
    
    
  • Climb
    Harrowing accounts of extreme mountaineering and its potentially fatal consequences.
    
    
  • Explore
    Takes you off the map to those few places where true discovery is still possible. Audio for the armchair traveller.
    
    
  • 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. With tales of head-hunters in...
    
    
  • 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.
    
    
  • Last Voyage Of Columbus, The
    The epic, never-before-told story of Columbus’s final, and perhaps greatest journey.
    
    
  • Left for Dead
    On May 10, 1996, nine climbers perished in a blizzard high on Mount Everest, the single deadliest day ever on the peak. The following day, one of these victims was given a second chance. His name...
    
    
  • 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...
    
    
  • 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...
    
    
  • On The Wing
    In this extraordinary narrative, Alan Tennant recounts his all-out effort to radio-track the transcontinental migration of the peregrine falcon—an investigation no one before him had ever taken...
    
    
  • Over the Edge of the World
    In 1519 Magellan and his fleet of five ships set sail from Seville, Spain, to discover a water route to the fabled Spice Islands in Indonesia, where the most sought-after commodities -- cloves,...
    
    
  • Pole to Pole
    Three years after going Around the World in 80 Days, Michael Palin was off again. Travelling from one end of the globe to the other, Palin and his team endured extremes of heat and cold as they...
    
    
  • 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.
    
    
  • 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...
    
    
  • 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
    Michael Palin's latest journey is across the Sahara desert, a place of romantic, almost magical appeal. Although famous as a geological location, its life, landscape and rich history are not so...
    
    
  • 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.
    
    
  • 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, across the forbidding Rockies, and -- by way of the Snake and...
    
    
  • 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, and -- by way of the Snake and...
    
    
  • 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.
    
    
  • Zoo Quest for a Dragon
    David Attenborough, Britain's voice of natural history, narrates his early adventures in the wilds of Indon...