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The first full-length biography of George Ingle Finch - maverick Australian mountaineer, scientist, concert pianist and father of actor Peter Finch.
George Ingle Finch, mountaineer, soldier, scientist, rebellious spirit, boy from the bush, was in his day one of the most famous men in the world.
In 1922 he stood at the highest point on Everest, a feat not bettered for 30 years. He invented the predecessor to the puffer jacket and pioneered the use of oxygen in climbing. A World War I hero whose skills also helped save London from burning to the ground during the Blitz of World War II, he was a renowned scientist who was personally chosen by Nehru, the first Indian prime minister, to help lead his nation into the modern world.
With a private life torn by war and misguided by social norms, a reputation as an outsider among the British alpine climbing establishment, and some rough and ready 'colonial' habits, Finch was a brilliantly colourful character - so why has he vanished from the pages of history?
In this first full-length biography, Robert Wainwright surveys the man who is now best known as the father of Academy Award-winning actor Peter Finch - but who was so much more.
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 411
In this magisterial work of history and adventure, based on more than a decade of prodigious research in British, Canadian, and European archives, and months in the field in Nepal and Tibet, Wade Davis vividly re-creates British climbers’ epic attempts to scale Mount Everest in the early 1920s. With new access to letters and diaries, Davis recounts the heroic efforts of George Mallory and his fellow climbers to conquer the mountain in the face of treacherous terrain and furious weather.
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4 out of 5 stars
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He wrote exquisite Eel-agies?
- De Florence en 11-29-12
De: Wade Davis
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The White Darkness
- De: David Grann
- Narrado por: Will Patton
- Duración: 2 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 309
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 274
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 274
Henry Worsley spent his life idolizing Ernest Shackleton, the 19th-century polar explorer who tried to become the first person to reach the South Pole and later sought to cross Antarctica on foot. Worsley felt an overpowering connection to those expeditions. In 2008, Worsley set out across Antarctica with two other descendants of Shackleton's crew, battling the freezing, desolate landscape and life-threatening physical exhaustion. He soon felt compelled to go back. In 2015, Worsley bid farewell to his family and embarked on his most perilous quest: to walk across Antarctica alone.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Will Patton's narration
- De Carol en 01-18-19
De: David Grann
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The Last Viking
- The Life of Roald Amundsen
- De: Stephen R. Bown
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 12 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 475
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 420
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 418
The Last Viking unravels the life of the man who stands head and shoulders above all those who raced to map the last corners of the world. In 1900, the four great geographical mysteries - the Northwest Passage, the Northeast Passage, the South Pole, and the North Pole - remained blank spots on the globe. Within twenty years Roald Amundsen would claim all four prizes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding.
- De Leon Miller en 12-01-15
De: Stephen R. Bown
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A Wretched and Precarious Situation
- In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier
- De: David Welky
- Narrado por: Joel Richards
- Duración: 15 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 52
A remarkable true story of adventure, betrayal, and survival set in one of the world's most inhospitable places. In 1906, from atop a snow-swept hill in the ice fields northwest of Greenland, hundreds of miles from another human being, Commander Robert E. Peary spotted a line of mysterious peaks looming in the distance. He called this unexplored realm "Crocker Land". Scientists and explorers agreed that the world-famous explorer had discovered a new continent rising from the frozen Arctic Ocean.
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4 out of 5 stars
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it all comes together at the end
- De Kat en 01-30-18
De: David Welky
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Gertrude Bell
- Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
- De: Georgina Howell
- Narrado por: Corrie James
- Duración: 18 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 117
She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire: a nation builder, the driving force behind the creation of modern-day Iraq. Born in 1868 into a world of privilege, Bell turned her back on Victorian society, choosing to read history at Oxford and going on to become an archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author, poet, photographer, and legendary mountaineer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Shattering The Glass Ceiling in Britain
- De Nostromo en 08-05-18
De: Georgina Howell
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Denali's Howl
- The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak
- De: Andy Hall
- Narrado por: Jim Manchester
- Duración: 7 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,037
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 908
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 904
In 1967, 12 young men attempted to climb Alaska's Mount McKinley—known to the locals as Denali—one of the most popular and deadly mountaineering destinations in the world. Only five survived. Journalist Andy Hall, son of the park superintendent at the time, investigates the tragedy. He spent years tracking down survivors, lost documents, and recordings of radio communications. In Denali's Howl, Hall reveals the full story.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De David Shear en 07-07-14
De: Andy Hall
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To the Edges of the Earth
- 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration
- De: Edward J. Larson
- Narrado por: Paul Michael Garcia
- Duración: 12 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
As 1909 dawned, the greatest jewels of exploration - set at the world's frozen extremes - lay unclaimed: the North and South Poles and the so-called "Third Pole", the pole of altitude, located in unexplored heights of the Himalaya. Before the calendar turned, three expeditions had faced death, mutiny, and the harshest conditions on the planet to plant flags at the furthest edges of the Earth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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brutally honest accounts unbelievable stories
- De Troy Hamilton en 07-17-18
De: Edward J. Larson
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A Woman in Arabia
- The Writings of the Queen of the Desert
- De: Gertrude Bell, Georgina Howell - introduction, Georgina Howell - editor
- Narrado por: Sian Thomas, Adjoa Andoh
- Duración: 9 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 65
Gertrude Bell was leaning in 100 years before Sheryl Sandberg. One of the great woman adventurers of the 20th century, she turned her back on Victorian society to study at Oxford and travel the world and became the chief architect of British policy in the Middle East after World War I. Mountaineer, archaeologist, Arabist, writer, poet, linguist, and spy, she dedicated her life to championing the Arab cause and was instrumental in drawing the borders that define today's Middle East.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Raw historiography of a spectacular heroine
- De Josef en 01-07-16
De: Gertrude Bell, y otros
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River of the Gods
- Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
- De: Candice Millard
- Narrado por: Paul Michael
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,537
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,344
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,339
For millennia the location of the Nile River’s headwaters was shrouded in mystery. In the 19th century, there was a frenzy of interest in ancient Egypt. At the same time, European powers sent off waves of explorations intended to map the unknown corners of the globe—and extend their colonial empires.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Good book by Millard, narrator ruined it
- De Tally D Lykins en 05-25-22
De: Candice Millard
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The Promise of the Grand Canyon
- John Wesley Powell's Perilous Journey and His Vision for the American West
- De: John F. Ross
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 13 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 109
John Wesley Powell’s first descent of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon in 1869 counts among the most dramatic chapters in American exploration history. When the Canyon spit out the surviving members of the expedition - starving, battered, and nearly naked - they had accomplished what others thought impossible and finished the exploration of continental America that Lewis and Clark had begun almost 70 years before.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Parallels
- De Bruce McClenahan en 01-25-19
De: John F. Ross
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109 East Palace
- Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos
- De: Jennet Conant
- Narrado por: Anne Twomey
- Duración: 5 h y 57 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 290
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 198
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 197
They were told as little as possible. Their orders were to go to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and report for work at a classified Manhattan Project site, a location so covert it was known to them only by the mysterious address: 109 East Palace.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Listen
- De John H. Davis III en 10-22-05
De: Jennet Conant
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Master of Thin Air
- Life and Death on the World's Highest Peaks
- De: Andrew Lock
- Narrado por: P. J. Ochlan
- Duración: 12 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 46
Master of Thin Air opens with a fall that the author very nearly could not stop down an almost vertical rock ramp leading to a 3,000-foot drop. The qualities that saved him then on K2 - in addition to his mountaineering know-how and sheer good luck - drove his 16-year journey to summit all of the world's 8,000ers, the 14 peaks that exceed 8,000 meters (26,000-plus feet) and take climbers into the death zone. Incredibly, he accomplished that feat without the aid of bottled oxygen for every mountain but one.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Tedious, redundant
- De Mike Milward en 11-06-16
De: Andrew Lock
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The Lost Men
- The Horrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party
- De: Kelly Tyler-Lewis
- Narrado por: Graeme Malcolm
- Duración: 6 h y 16 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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, the support crew he dispatched to the opposite side of the continent to build a vital lifeline of food and fuel depots.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Just OK
- De Michael en 05-17-07
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Desert Queen
- The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
- De: Janet Wallach
- Narrado por: Jean Gilpin
- Duración: 20 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 279
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 236
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 240
Turning her back on her privileged life in Victorian England, Gertrude Bell (1868-1926), fired by her innate curiosity, journeyed the world and became fascinated with all things Arab. Traveling the length and breadth of the Arab region, armed with a love for its language and its people, she not only produced several enormously popular books based on her experiences but became instrumental to the British foreign office. When World War I erupted, and the British needed the loyalty of the Arab leaders, it was Gertrude Bell's work and connections that helped provided the brain for T. E. Lawrence's military brawn.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great beginning, then gets boring
- De Msz en 03-31-16
De: Janet Wallach
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To Conquer the Air
- The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight
- De: James Tobin
- Narrado por: Boyd Gaines
- Duración: 6 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36
To Conquer the Air is a hero's tale of overcoming obstacles within and without that plumbs the depths of creativity and character. With a historian's accuracy and a novelist's eye, Tobin has captured the interplay of remarkable personalities at an extraordinary moment in our history. In the centennial year of human flight, To Conquer the Air is itself a heroic achievement.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A great story
- De Jere en 05-30-03
De: James Tobin
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Mud, Sweat, and Tears
- The Autobiography
- De: Bear Grylls
- Narrado por: Tom Patrick Stephens
- Duración: 9 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 829
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 739
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 735
Already a number-one London Sunday Times best seller, Mud, Sweat, and Tears is the adrenaline-fueled autobiography of the mega-popular star of the hit survival series Man vs. Wild, adventurer Bear Grylls. A former British Special Forces commando, a man who has always sought the ultimate in dangerous challenges, Bear's true story reads like an outdoors action-and-adventure novel. But Bear's story is true - full of breathtaking escapes and remarkable exploits that would make any Jack London or H. Ryder Haggard hero proud.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love this book
- De Aaron en 04-07-13
De: Bear Grylls
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Barrow's Boys
- De: Fergus Fleming
- Narrado por: James Gillies
- Duración: 17 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 52
Barrow's Boys is a spellbinding account of perilous journeys to uncharted areas under the most challenging conditions. Fergus Fleming captures the passion for exploration that led a band of men into situations that would humble today's bravest adventurers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow
- De Robert B. Golson en 07-05-17
De: Fergus Fleming
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Maverick Mountaineer
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
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Historia5 out of 5 stars
- Marie Elaina Wilke
- 07-06-21
Excellent
A Great Man not celebrated in his own time for all his achievements & contributions to science & mountaineering, The war effort & many many other acts of genius!
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