Women Explorers

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    • The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
    • By: Melissa L. Sevigny
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • Brave the Wild River is a spellbinding adventure of two women who risked their lives to make an unprecedented botanical survey of a defining landscape in the American West....

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    • The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
    • By: Janet Wallach
    • Narrated by: Jean Gilpin
    • Length: 20 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 279 ratings
    • 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....

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    • The Untold Story of the Globetrotting Women Who Trekked, Flew, and Fought Their Way Around the World
    • By: Jayne Zanglein
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • The Girl Explorers is the inspirational and untold story of the founding of the Society of Women Geographers - an organization of adventurous female world explorers - and how key members served as early advocates for human rights and paved the way for today's women scientists....

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    • A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon
    • By: Robert Whitaker
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • In the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to measure the precise shape of the earth....

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    • Ireland to India with a Bicycle
    • By: Dervla Murphy
    • Narrated by: Emma Lowe
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • Full Tilt is the inspiring true story of Dervla Murphy's 1963 journey from Ireland to India on an Armstrong Cadet bicycle, and the trials, landscapes, and cultures she encountered along the way....

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    • By: Beryl Markham
    • Narrated by: Julie Harris
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 01-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,355 ratings
    • West with the Night is the story of a remarkable woman molded and shaped by many things....

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    • A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
    • By: Jennifer Niven
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 117 ratings
    • In September 1921, four young men and Ada Blackjack, a diminutive 25-year-old Eskimo woman, ventured deep into the Arctic in a secret attempt to colonize desolate Wrangel Island for Britain. Two years later, Ada Blackjack emerged as the sole survivor of this ambitious polar expedition.....

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    • By: Beryl Markham
    • Narrated by: Anna Fields
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-03-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 516 ratings
    • Beryl Markham, the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west, describes her childhood on a farm in Kenya, her apprenticeship as a horse trainer, and her later career....

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    • The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness
    • By: Robert Specht, Anne Purdy
    • Narrated by: Caroline McLaughlin
    • Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 284 ratings
    • The author tells the story as told to him of Anne Hobbs, a woman who went to Alaska in the 1920s to teach, but who had trouble due to her kindness to the Indians there....

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    • A Journey into the Lives of Africans in China
    • By: Noo Saro-Wiwa
    • Narrated by: Noo Saro-Wiwa
    • Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Noo Saro-Wiwa goes in search of China's 'Black Ghosts', African economic migrants in the People's Republic, who live in separate communities and are vigorously involved in the trade between the continents....

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    • A Missing Person Memoir
    • By: Aspen Matis
    • Narrated by: Susannah Jones
    • Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 175 ratings
    • Aspen’s and Justin’s paths serendipitously aligned on the Pacific Crest Trail when both were walking from Mexico to Canada, separately and alone - both using thru-hiking in hopes of escaping their pasts....

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    • Three Women Tackle the John Muir Trail
    • By: Joan M. Griffin
    • Narrated by: Anna Crowe
    • Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 12-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 122 ratings
    • Three friends, women in their fifties, set out to hike "the most beautiful long-distance trail in the world," the John Muir Trail....

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    • Her Life
    • By: Susan Hertog
    • Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
    • Length: 17 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • Susan Hertog plumbs the depths of Anne Lindbergh's search for her own identity and vision as she struggles to remain faithful to her marriage and to motherhood....

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    • Climbing and Skiing the Seven Summits
    • By: Kit DesLauriers
    • Narrated by: Gina Rogers
    • Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • In 2006, Kit DesLauriers made history by becoming the first person to climb - and then ski - from the summit of each continent's highest mountain, the famed Seven Summits....

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    • The True Story of One Woman's Miraculous Survival
    • By: Juliane Diller Koepcke, Ross Benjamin - translator
    • Narrated by: Judith Georgi
    • Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • She was 17 years old on a Christmas Eve flight 40 years ago to join her father for Christmas when the unimaginable happened. The Lockheed L-188A Electra, on the way from Lima to Pucallpa, flew directly into a thunderstorm.

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    • By: M. Wylie Blanchet
    • Narrated by: Heather Henderson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 06-17-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • At a time when Vancouver Island was still an extremely remote, a young widow packed her five children into a 25-foot boat dubbed The Caprice and set off on an adventure....

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    • The First British Woman to Motorcycle Around the World
    • By: Elspeth Beard
    • Narrated by: Wendy Wolfson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 364 ratings
    • 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....

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