Women Explorers

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    • What Running Across Mountains Taught Me About Life
    • By: Jenny Tough
    • Narrated by: Jenny Tough
    • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 140 ratings
    • Growing up in the Canadian Rockies, the mountains have always been home for Jenny Tough. Travelling the world, she's always discovered commonalities with mountains—and mountain people....

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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: 30-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 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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    • Climbing and Skiing the Seven Summits
    • By: Kit DesLauriers
    • Narrated by: Gina Rogers
    • Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 13-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 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 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: 02-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 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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    • 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: 30-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • Ireland to India with a Bicycle
    • By: Dervla Murphy
    • Narrated by: Emma Lowe
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 31-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 116 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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    • The First British Woman to Motorcycle Around the World
    • By: Elspeth Beard
    • Narrated by: Wendy Wolfson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 21-02-19
    • 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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    • Adventures with Extraordinary Women
    • By: Louise Minchin
    • Narrated by: Louise Minchin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 25-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Louise Minchin embarks on adventures with trailblazing women who are breaking down barriers, smashing records and challenging stereotypes in the world of sports and endurance....

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    • A Woman, a Motorcycle, and a Journey to Reinvent Herself
    • By: Linda Crill
    • Narrated by: Tamara Marston
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 30-09-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • After months of following one-size-fits-all advice for a 57-year-old widow, Linda Crill is still miserable, until she makes a rebellious spur-of-the-moment decision....

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    • The First Woman to Row the Kon-Tiki Route
    • By: Maud Fontenoy
    • Narrated by: Eliza Foss
    • Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • Named one of Time Magazine International's 30 most important people of 2005, Maud Fontenoy presents us with a terrific, entertaining adventure story on the high seas....

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    • One Woman's Record-Breaking Pedal Around the Planet
    • By: Jenny Graham
    • Narrated by: Jenny Graham
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 13-04-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 149 ratings
    • 16 countries, 124 days and 18,000 miles. This is the story of one woman’s solo lap of the planet by bike....

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    • Child Abuse True Stories
    • By: Kat Ward
    • Narrated by: Bridget Thomas
    • Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 23-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • When Kat Ward put down her pen after finishing the seventh book in her “KERI” series, she considered her mission complete.

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    • Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World
    • By: Matthew Goodman
    • Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
    • Length: 18 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 26-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • On November 14, 1889, Nellie Bly, the crusading young female reporter for Joseph Pulitzer’s World newspaper, left New York City by steamship on a quest to break the record for the fastest trip around the world....

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    • A Mother, A Sect, And a Journey to Freedom
    • By: Maria Compton
    • Narrated by: Deryn Edwards
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 15-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Maria Compton was born and raised in a strict Christian sect. Encouraged to keep her distance from outsiders, she grew up in a world of Church meetings, banishments and with the fear that the end of the world - known as the Rapture - was nigh.

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    • The True Story of a Pioneer Woman
    • By: Mary Mann Hamilton
    • Narrated by: Barbara Benjamin Creel
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Near the end of her life, Mary Mann Hamilton (1866-c.1936) was encouraged to record her experiences as a female pioneer. The result is the only known firsthand account....

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