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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/660602 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Consequences Part I & II Author: Dorcas S. Miller, Alan Kesselheim Narrator: Terrence Aselford, Colleen Delany Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 34 minutes Release date: February 1, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: "In Consequences I," Kesselheim recalls how when things sometimes go wrong, the key players have to make an immediate decisions. In 1979, Kesselheim and companions were involved in a canoe capcize in the frigid lake waters of northern Quebec when he was thrust into the role of rescuer. In "Consequences II," the story is told from the perspective of one of the capcized paddlers. This selection is part of the full length audiobook, "Rescue: Stories of Survival From Land and Sea."

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/660597 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Wind Storm In The Forest Author: John Muir Narrator: Terrence Aselford Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 16 minutes Release date: February 1, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In this essay, Muir tells his experience of climbing to the top of a tree and riding it for hours through a wild Sierra storm. As he writes, “the danger to life and limb is hardly greater than one would experience crouching deprecatingly beneath a roof.” This selection is part of the full length audiobook, "Storm: Stories of Survival From Land and Sea."

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/660594 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cahill Among The Ruins of Peru Author: Tim Cahill Narrator: Gary Telles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 12 minutes Release date: February 1, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Tim Cahill's adventures typically include equal parts farce and discovery. "Cahill Among The Ruins of Peru" is no exception. Here Cahill sets out to find undiscovered pre-Incan ruins in northeatern Peru. Oily beaueaucrats, superstitious locals, a know-it-all companion and the Peruvian wilderness did not daunt him. Though they were annoying. This selection is part of the full length audiobook, "Explore: Stories of Survival From Off The Map."

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/660593 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bikpela Hol Author: John Long, Dwight Brooks Narrator: Gary Telles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 42 minutes Release date: February 1, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Published in Rock and Ice Magazine in 1986, this essay, co-written by John Long and Dwight Brooks, tells the story of a hair-raising caving adventure in Papua New Guinea. This selection is part of the full length audiobook, "Explore: Stories of Survival From Off The Map."

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/660600 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ship That Vanished Author: John Valliant Narrator: Terrence Aselford Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 43 minutes Release date: February 1, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: John Valliant's essay about the sinking of the Fantome, a Caribbean pleasure cruiser during Hurricane Mitch in 1998, and the subsequent lawsuit. The disaster was the Atlantic’s worst sailing accident in over forty years. This selection is part of the full length audiobook, "Storm: Stories of Survival From Land and Sea."

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/660601 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Leeward Side Author: Whitney Balliett Narrator: Gary Telles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 11 minutes Release date: February 1, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Whitney Balliett's magnificent essay on the Great Hurricane of 1938 appeared in The New Yorker fifty years after the event. This selection is part of the full length audiobook, "Storm: Stories of Survival From Land and Sea."

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/660596 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Storm Author: Sebastian Junger Narrator: Rick Foucheux Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 32 minutes Release date: February 1, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: On October 29, 1991, the 70-foot longliner Andrea Gail,on day 40 of an extended commercial swordfishing trip, was lost in a convergence of three powerful storms off Canada’s Grand Banks. Data buoys measured waves as high as 100 feet, and the boat was hit with winds measuring 80 knots (92 miles per hour). The Andrea Gail’s emergency beacon washed ashore that November on Sable Island, off the coast of Nova Scotia, but the boat and 6-man crew were never found. The crew left behind five children among them, and the entire small town mourned the loss. Junger article, “The Storm,” which ran in the October 1994 issue of Outside, grew into the 1997 bestselling book The Perfect Storm, and the 2000 movie of the same name, starring George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg. This selection is part of the full length audiobook, "Storm: Stories of Survival From Land and Sea."

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/660598 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In The Storm Author: James Lemoyne Narrator: Rick Foucheux Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 23 minutes Release date: February 1, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: "In The Storm" is LeMoyne's personal account of the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew in south Florida. The writer, with his wife, daughter, and sister-in-law, evacuated their apartment near downtown Miami and drove to a friend's concrete-block house about five miles inland. The worst of the storm struck just 10 miles farther south. In the end, Hurricane Andrew severely damaged 300 square miles, with about 100 square miles blasted or simply gone. Fifteen people were killed that night by the storm. This selection is part of the full length audiobook, "Storm: Stories of Survival From Land and Sea."

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/643421 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Princess Margaret: A Life of Contrasts Author: Christopher Warwick Narrator: Julian Elfer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 31 minutes Release date: January 31, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Princess Margaret was one of the most controversial royal figures of the twentieth century. Widely admired as a young woman, she was famous for her beauty and charisma, but also for her sense of loyalty and duty. The charismatic Princess not only brought color and sex appeal into an otherwise colorless royal family, but did much to help bring the monarchy and its attitudes into the modern world. In recent years, dogged by accidents and ill-health, much of the Princess's youthful vigor and charm, not to mention her hard work, has been forgotten. Following her death on 9 February, in the Queen's golden jubilee year, and poignantly close to the anniversary of George VI's death, the story of her life is once again front pages news. In this fully updated memorial edition of his acclaimed study, originally undertaken with the cooperation of the Princess and many of those closest to her, her authorized biographer Christopher Warwick looks again at the life and work of this enigmatic and individual royal figure, and brings her story to a close with her funeral in Windsor. Written with authority and insight, Princess Margaret: A Life of Contrasts is a fitting tribute to an exceptional, deeply complex woman.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/643426 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jim Bridger: Trailblazer of the American West Author: Jerry Enzler Narrator: Danny Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 41 minutes Release date: January 31, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Even among iconic frontiersmen like John C. Frémont, Kit Carson, and Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger stands out. A mountain man of the American West, straddling the fur trade era and the age of exploration, he lived the life legends are made of. Here, in a biography that finally gives this outsize character his due, Jerry Enzler takes this frontiersman's full measure for the first time—and tells a story that would do Jim Bridger proud. Born in 1804 and orphaned at thirteen, Bridger made his first western foray in 1822, traveling up the Missouri River with Mike Fink and a hundred enterprising young men to trap beaver. At twenty he 'discovered' the Great Salt Lake. In the following years, he led trapping brigades into Blackfeet territory; guided expeditions of Smithsonian scientists, topographical engineers, and army leaders; and, though he could neither read nor write, mapped the tribal boundaries for the Great Indian Treaty of 1851. Enzler charts Bridger's path from the fort he built on the Oregon Trail to the route he blazed for Montana gold miners to avert war with Red Cloud and his Lakota coalition. Tapping sources uncovered in the six decades since the last documented Bridger biography, Enzler's book fully conveys the drama and details of the larger-than-life history of the 'King of the Mountain Men.'