HOME || Art|| Biography || Business || Crime Stories || Fiction || Foreign Languages|| Healthy Living || History || Humor ||
Kids Books Radio Shows || Spiritual || Self Help || TV/Film ||

 
Lost Men, The
Play Windows Media Sample  Play Real Sample

Lost Men, The

Kelly Tyler-Lewis
Narrated By : Graeme Malcolm
Published By : Simon & Schuster
6 hours
Categories : Adventurers & Explorers
Historical
Biographical
Download Price : $29.95 $17.95
Purchase...
" Amazingly detailed... a gripping work ." — Publishers Weekly

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.

When the Ross Sea ship, the Aurora, broke free of her moorings and disappeared in a gale in 1915, she left ten men stranded on the continent with only the clothes on their backs and little hope of rescue. Against all odds, the men decided to go forward with their mission, sledging 1, 700 miles in a record-setting two-year odyssey. They never imagined that their immense sacrifice was futile—for Shackleton never set foot on the continent, and the Endurance lay crushed at the bottorn of the Weddell Sea.

Inexperienced and poorly equipped, the men of the Ross Sea party endured the unspeakable suffering of malnutrition, hypothermia, and extreme weather conditions with fortitude, With their personal journals and previously unpublished documents, Kelly Tyler-Lewis brings us close to these men in their best and bleakest times and revives for us their heroic, astounding story of survival in the most hostile environment on earth.

Historian Kelly Tyler-Lewis traveled for research to Britain, Australia, New Zealand. and Antarctica, where she spent two months with the National Science Foundation's Artists and Writers Program. She was a visiting scholar of the Scou Polar Research Institute of the University of Cambridge from 2002 to2004.

She is also an Emmy Award-winning documentary film writer and producer. Graeme Malcolm has appeared on and off Broadway in Alio, The King and I, Lincoln Center's Hapgood , and M. Butterfly (National Tour). His television appearances include Law & Order, Follow the River , and Mr. Helpern and Mr. Johnson (with Laurence Olivier). Film credits include National Treasure, A Further Gesture, The Adventures of Sebastian Cole , and Reunion .

Other Audiobooks you may be interested in :

Burton: A Biography of Sir Richard Frances Burton

Burton: A Biography of Sir Richard Frances Burton

Byron Farwell
Narrated By : Simon Vance
Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc
18 hours 30 minutes
Categories : Biography
Download Price : $33.95
Explorer, inventor, soldier, poet, archaeologist and diplomat, Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) was the most remarkably versatile man of his age. The explorer in Central Africa who discovered Lake Tanganyika also translated The Arabian Nights, made a dangerous pilgrimage to Mecca in disguise,... View...
Famous People in History

Famous People in History

Nicholas Soames
Narrated By : Various
Published By : Select Music & Distribution
2 hours 30 minutes
Categories : Biographical
Historical
Download Price : $11.99
Here are the stories of nine people whose energy, imagination, courage and determination changed the world. View...
Last Marlin, The

Last Marlin, The

Fred Waitzkin
Narrated By : Lloyd James
Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc
10 hours
Categories : Biography
Download Price : $19.95
The Last Marlin is an unforgettable memoir of growing up in the 1950s. Young Fred is a Jewish boy stretched between the divergent values of parents who cannot tolerate one another. Fred’s father, Abe, is a brilliantly talented salesman whose relentless will drives him to succeed, whatever the... View...
Anatomy of Greed

Anatomy of Greed

Brian Cruver
Narrated By : Mel Foster
Published By : Brilliance Audio Inc
10 hours 46 minutes
Categories : True Crime
Biography
Business
Download Price : $24.95
Brian Cruver first entered the "Death Star," Enron's office complex, in March 2001. He was twenty-nine years old, an eager MBA ready to cash in with Enron. View...
Audio Books - Create a Free Blog