Audiobooks narrated by Nick Sampson

Winner of Publisher's Weekly 'Listen Up' Award. Year after year, in spite of monumental dangers, climbers return to the world's most difficult mountains, whether it's the cliffs of Yosemite or the peaks of the Himalaya. At these places, even the most cautious climber must accept the possibilities of moving unroped to save time, braving terrain vulnerable to rockfall, trusting afternoon thunderstorms to hold off long enough to get below treeline. Mistakes, bad weather and bad luck often lead to death. Climb offers harrowing accounts of extreme mountaineering and its potentially fatal consequences. Everest and K2--two of the most feared and respected peaks in the world. High offers a unique perspective on climbing these two peaks, from early exploration disasters, to the modern tragedies. These stories remind us, in vivid written accounts, why Everest and K2 are among the world's most dangerous places, yet why the world's best climbers can't stay away from them.

Brummie Stokes, Charles Clarke, Charles Houston, Chris Bonington, Daniel Duane, David Roberts, Ed Webster, Evelyn Waugh, Fs Smythe, Galen Rowell, H.G. Wells, Hamish Macinnes, Jim Haberl, John Long, Matt Dickinson, Maureen O'neill, Pete Sinclair, Robert Bates, Tom Patey (Author), Alan Sklar, Eric Conger, Gary Telles, George Guidall, Graeme Malcolm, Kimberly Schraf, Nick Sampson, Simon Prebble, Terence Aselford (Narrator)

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An Audio Bundle: Explore & Rescue

Explore offers first-hand accounts from the world’s boldest explorers, men and women encountering storms, starvation, cannibals, predators and disease in their pursuit of adventure. Their stories are immediate, passionate and dramatic accounts of contact with the unknown, discovered in the Himalaya, the ruins of Peru, the jungles of New Guinea and the Amazon, the ice flows of the Arctic, along with death in the big city. With selections from Tim Cahill, Redmond O’Hanlon, John Long, Fridtjof Nansen and Harold Brodkey, Explore will take you off the map to those few refuges where true discovery is still possible. Rescue: Stories of Survival From Land and Sea offers stories about what happens when things go terribly wrong in some of the world’s most perilous places: Himalayan peaks, African plains, vast oceans, remote Arctic wilderness. But mostly, Rescue is about what humans can endure and achieve in the face of overwhelming duress. Both Explore and Rescue are Publishers Weekly 'Listen Up' Award winners.

Alan Kesselheim, Dorcas S. Miller, Dwight Brooks, Fridtjof Nansen, Gene Savoy, Geoffrey Childs, Harold Brodkey, Jack Olsen, John Long, Kenneth Grahame, Lawrence Millman, Nina Mazuchelli, Pete Sinclair, Ralph Barker, Redmond O’hanlon, Sir Wilfred Grenfell, Thomas James, Tim Cahill (Author), Anne Flosnik, Colleen Delany, David Elias, Gary Telles, Graeme Malcolm, Grover Gardner, Nick Sampson, Terence Aselford (Narrator)

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An Audio Bundle: Storm & Deep Blue

Most people associate storms and other big weather with death-with the kind of force that makes each of us wonder about life, and time and the nature of our surroundings. Some people go out looking for bad weather or go to places where they're likely to encounter it. Others have the misfortune of being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Still, the stories in Storm have more to say than that. They tell us about what happens when people find that treacherous weather-or when it finds them-and we are reminded of the fragility of life, the capriciousness of Nature's will, and how little we can do when both cross paths. In Deep Blue, for those who dare, things often go wrong under the sea. Such tragedies, spurred by the booming interest in the Titanic and the Andrea Doria, have been the focus of tremendous literature form the world's finest authors. Deep Blue offers compelling tales of shipwrecks and salvage, submarine adventure and free diving, nautical survival and cannibalism.

Farley Mowat, Gordon Chaplin, Herman Melville, Jack Lemoyne, Jack London, John Muir, John Vaillant, Michael Groom, Nathaniel Philbrick, Patrick O'brian, Philip Ashton, Richard Byrd, Rick Bass, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rockwell Kent, Sebastian Junger, Stephen Crane, Whitney Balliett (Author), Barrett Whitener, Gary Telles, Nick Sampson, Richard Rohan, Rick Foucheux, Terence Aselford (Narrator)

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An Audio Bundle: Wild & Survive

. YALSA Award Winner - Selected Audiobooks for Young Adults · Publishers Weekly 'Listen Up' Award Winner. The wilderness--forest, desert, glacier, jungle--has been the scene of the past century's most exciting stories, inspiring many of its greatest writers, including Jack London, Norman Maclean, Evelyn Waugh, Redmond O'Hanlon, Sir Wilfred Thesiger, H.M. Tomlinson and Algernon Blackwood. Selections from these authors' most gripping works are delivered by equally compelling narration producing an audiobook experience ideal for people who are fascinated by the beauty, insight and danger that awaits us all in the wild! The stories in Survive are full of suffering: From the savagery of the Donner Party snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountains during the winter of 1846, to the extreme hunger and brutal cold endured by Ernest Shackleton’s support team in Antarctica in 1915. Such suffering may be hard to listen to, but it engages us, offering glimpses of something essential. When the most basic needs become paramount, some people can achieve a kind of clarity. This clarity in turn can lead to acts of compassion and genuine courage!

Algernon Blackwood, Daniel Zalewski, Evelyn Waugh, H.M. Tomlinson, Herman Melville London, J. Ross Browne, Jack London, Lennard Bickel, Mark Twain, Norman Maclean, Patrick O'brian, Redmond O’hanlon, Richard Cunningham, Sir Wilfred Thesiger, Steven Callahan, Virginia Reed Murphy (Author), Albert Coia, Colleen Delany, Erik Synnestvedt, Gary Telles, Nick Sampson, Richard Rohan (Narrator)

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Climb: Stories of Survival From Rock, Snow and Ice

Year after year, in spite of monumental dangers, climbers return to the world's most difficult mountains, whether it's the cliffs of Yosemite or the peaks of the Himalaya. At these places, even the most cautious climber must accept the possibilities of moving unroped to save time, braving terrain vulnerable to rockfall, trusting afternoon thunderstorms to hold off long enough to get below treeline. Mistakes, bad weather and bad luck often lead to death. This collection offers harrowing accounts of extreme mountaineering and its potentially fatal consequences.

Daniel Duane, Evelyn Waugh, Galen Rowell, H.G. Wells, Hamish Macinnes, John Long, Maureen O'neill, Pete Sinclair, Tom Patey (Author), Gary Telles, Graeme Malcolm, Kimberly Schraf, Nick Sampson, Terence Aselford (Narrator)

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Deep Blue: Stories of Shipwreck, Sunken Treasure and Survival

For those who dare, things often go wrong under the sea. Such tragedies, spurred by the booming interest in the Titanic and the Andrea Doria, have been the focus of tremendous literature form the world's finest authors. Deep Blue offers compelling tales of shipwrecks and salvage, submarine adventure and free diving, nautical survival and cannibalism.

Farley Mowat, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Philbrick, Patrick O'brian, Philip Ashton, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rockwell Kent, Stephen Crane (Author), Barrett Whitener, Nick Sampson, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford (Narrator)

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Destiny (2 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]: Even Legends Die

Diana Vertue, known in an earlier life as the terrifying esper Jenny Psycho, had been a hard-core terrorist and a saint of the uber-esper Mater Mundi, but she'd outgrown both those roles. Now it's time for a psychic showdown with the Mater Mundi herself. In another part of the galaxy, Ruby Journey delivers Parliament's offer of a reprieve from Jack Random's persecution as an outlaw, as long as he joins in a desperate plan to save the Empire from the decimating forces of Shub, approaching humanity's homeworld with genocide on their artificial minds. As the relentless forces of the monstrous Recreated descend upon humanity, Owen Deathstalker and Hazel D'ark return to the Wolfling World, home of the Madness Maze. The Maze was thought to be destroyed, but has miraculously reappeared, and perhaps holds the key to humanity's survival. But in order to seize that last desperate chance, Owen must face startling revelations, challenge an old ally, and defy the prophecy of his own death by embracing his destiny.

Simon R. Green (Author), A Full Cast, Anne Flosnik, Casey Jones, Colleen Delany, David Coyne, Delores King Williams, Karen Carbone, Mort Shelby, Nanette Savard, Nick Sampson, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford (Narrator)

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Explore: Stories of Survival from Off the Map

Gene Savoy, Lawrence Millman, Tim Cahill (Author), Colleen Delany, Gary Telles, Nick Sampson (Narrator)

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Explore: Stories of Survival From Off The Map

Explore offers first-hand accounts from the world's boldest explorers, men and women encountering storms, starvation, cannibals, predators and disease in their pursuit of adventure. Their stories are immediate, passionate and dramatic accounts of contact with the unknown, discovered in the Himalaya, the ruins of Peru, the jungles of New Guinea and the Amazon, the ice flows of the Arctic, along with death in the big city. With selections from Tim Cahill, Redmond O'Hanlon, John Long, Fridtjof Nansen and Harold Brodkey, Explore will take you off the map to those few refuges where true discovery is still possible.

Dwight Brooks, Fridtjof Nansen, Gene Savoy, Harold Brodkey, John Long, Lawrence Millman, Nina Mazuchelli, Redmond O'hanlon, Tim Cahill (Author), Anne Flosnik, Colleen Delany, Gary Telles, Grover Gardner, Nick Sampson (Narrator)

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Honor (2 of 3) [Dramatized Adaptation]: No More Secrets

Owen Deathstalker was compelled to make a questionable decision when he reawakened the cyborg army of Hadenmen from suspended animation to enlist their aid in the Great Rebellion. Now he must face the consequences, for the Hadenmen have begun to act on their own agenda. The augmented race have ensnared a planet's population to facilitate the next stage in mankind's evolution, and recreate all humanity in their own likeness. Finlay Campbell was a hero of the Great Rebellion, but now he's a man adrift, a warrior without a clear enemy to fight. In an earlier guise, his true identity unknown to all but a select few, he unwittingly killed the brother of Julian Skye, the man who would later become his best friend. But Finlay's not the only one with secrets. His true love Evangeline has never told him the full extent of her twisted father's depredations. These and other dark revelations have been dormant until now, when the web of deceit begins to unravel, with devastating consequences for the guilty and innocent alike.

Simon R. Green (Author), A Full Cast, Colleen Delany, Mort Shelby, Nanette Savard, Nick Sampson, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford (Narrator)

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Honor (3 of 3) [Dramatized Adaptation]: Cry Havoc

The armies of Shub have come to the planet Loki and the over-extended parliament of the New Republic can only send the legendary hero Jack Random and his loose cannon companion Ruby Journey to do their damnedest with the powers they've acquired from the Madness Maze. But when they get to the mining planet, they find the colony engaged in a civil war, with the representative government in the hands of unsavory profiteers who are at war with justifiably aggrieved rebel forces, who have unjustifiably aligned themselves with the rogue AIs of Shub. In an empire of technological wonders, an old human affliction has reared its ugly head, and the Empire's scientists can do nothing about it but quarantine the afflicted on the jungle planet Lachrymae Christi. Mother Superior Beatrice has taken on the holy mission of ministering to the poor victims. It's a brutally difficult task, but when the Hadenmen come to claim the planet as their own, Saint Bea's pleas for help can only be answered by Owen Deathstalker and his unique squad of fighters. There's something else to deal with, too, a mysterious life form indigenous to the planet. And by the time the conflict resolves, Owen may have lost forever the one he holds most dear.

Simon R. Green (Author), A Full Cast, Anne Flosnik, Casey Jones, Cate Torre, Colleen Delany, Ken Jackson, Mort Shelby, Nanette Savard, Nick Sampson, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford (Narrator)

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Legacy (1 of 3) [Dramatized Adaptation]: The Ceremony of Innocence

Two hundred years after the events chronicled in Deathstalker Destiny, it is a Golden Age for the Human Empire. Lewis Deathstalker is a remote descendant of the legendary Owen and foremost among the Paragons, an elite force of noble warriors in service to a benevolent constitutional monarchy. The new monarch Douglas Campbell, grandson of Robert and Constance, and his reluctant Champion Lewis Deathstalker find themselves in deep and treacherous waters on Campbell's first day in Parliament. However, the king's Head of Protocol, Anne Barclay, and his betrothed, the beautiful opera star Jesamine Flowers, have him prepared well. That is, until the political battlefield becomes a literal one. An assassination attempt will call some of Douglas's most cherished relationships into question. Elsewhere, the Empire's greatest Paragon begins assembling his network of treachery, designed to destroy everything Douglas Campbell holds dear.

Simon R. Green (Author), A Full Cast, Casey Jones, Cate Torre, Chris Rohan, David Coyne, Jeff Baker, Ken Jackson, Michael Glenn, Mort Shelby, Nanette Savard, Nick Sampson, Richard Rohan, Sunny Lasskey, Terence Aselford, Vanessa Benjamin (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Nick Sampson