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 71 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 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 36 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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    • 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 278 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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    • 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 115 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 279 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 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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    • 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 2,353 ratings
    • West with the Night is the story of a remarkable woman molded and shaped by many things....

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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 111 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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    • 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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    • The Trailblazing Life of Fanny Bullock Workman
    • By: Cathryn J. Prince
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
    • Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Fanny Bullock Workman was a complicated and restless woman who defied the rigid Victorian morals she found as restrictive as a corset. With her frizzy, brown hair tucked under a topee, Workman was a force on the mountain and off....

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    • Voyages of a Viking Woman
    • By: Nancy Marie Brown
    • Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
    • Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say....

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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 59 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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    • One Woman's Journey to Every Country in the World
    • By: Jessica Nabongo
    • Narrated by: Jessica Nabongo
    • Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 178 ratings
    • In this inspiring travelogue, celebrated traveler and photographer Jessica Nabongo—the first Black woman on record to visit all 195 countries in the world—shares her journey around the globe with fascinating stories of adventure, culture, travel musts, and human connections....

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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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    • 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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