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The Moth and the Mountain
- A True Story of Love, War, and Everest
- ナレーター: James Langton
- 再生時間: 7 時間 19 分
- カテゴリー: 自伝・回顧録, 歴史
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Shook
- An Earthquake, a Legendary Mountain Guide, and Everest's Deadliest Day
- 著者: Jennifer Hull
- ナレーター: Adam Verner
- 再生時間: 6 時間 23 分
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Dave Hahn, a local of Taos, New Mexico, is a legendary figure in mountaineering. Elite members of the climbing community have likened him to the Michael Jordan, Cal Ripkin, or Michael Phelps of the climbing world. The 2015 expedition he would lead came just one short year after the notorious Khumbu Icefall avalanche claimed the lives of 16 Sherpas. Dave and his team spent weeks honing the techniques that would help keep them alive through the Icefall and the Death Zone. None of this could have prepared them for the earthquake that shook Everest and all of their lives on April 25, 2015.
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Raven's Witness
- The Alaska Life of Richard K. Nelson
- 著者: Hank Lentfer, Barry Lopez - foreword
- ナレーター: Basil Sands
- 再生時間: 8 時間 29 分
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In Raven's Witness, Lentfer tells Nelson's story - from his midwestern childhood to his first experiences with Native culture in Alaska through his own lifelong passion for the land where he so belonged. Nelson was the author of the best-selling The Island Within and Heart and Blood. The recipient of multiple honorary degrees and numerous literary awards, he regularly packed auditoriums when he spoke. His depth of experience allowed him to become an intermediary between worlds. This is his story.
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Icebound
- 著者: Andrea Pitzer
- ナレーター: Fred Sanders
- 再生時間: 9 時間 18 分
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In Icebound, Andrea Pitzer combines a movie-worthy tale of survival with a sweeping history of the period - a time of hope, adventure and seemingly unlimited scientific and geographic frontiers. At the story’s centre is William Barents, one of the 16th century’s greatest navigators, whose larger-than-life ambitions and obsessive quest to find a path through the deepest, most remote regions of the Arctic ended in both catastrophe and glory.
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Unsinkable
- Five Men and the Indomitable Run of the USS Plunkett
- 著者: James Sullivan
- ナレーター: Jacques Roy
- 再生時間: 10 時間 9 分
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In the best-selling tradition of Indianapolis and In Harm’s Way comes a thrilling and vividly told account of the USS Plunkett - a US Navy destroyer that sustained the most harrowing attack on any Navy ship by the Germans during World War II, that gave as good as it got, and that was later made famous by John Ford and Herman Wouk.
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Buried in the Sky
- The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day
- 著者: Amanda Padoan, Peter Zuckerman
- ナレーター: David Doersch
- 再生時間: 7 時間 12 分
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When Edmund Hillary first conquered Mt. Everest, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay was at his side. Indeed, for as long as Westerners have been climbing the Himalaya, Sherpas have been the unsung heroes in the background. In August 2008, when eleven climbers lost their lives on K2, the world’s most dangerous peak, two Sherpas survived. They had emerged from poverty and political turmoil to become two of the most skillful mountaineers on earth. Based on unprecedented access and interviews, Buried in the Sky reveals their astonishing story for the first time.
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V2
- A Novel of World War II
- 著者: Robert Harris
- ナレーター: David Rintoul
- 再生時間: 8 時間 41 分
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It's November 1944 - Willi Graf, a German rocket engineer, is launching Nazi Germany's V2 rockets at London from Occupied Holland. Kay Connolly, once an actress, now a young English Intelligence officer, ships out for Belgium to locate the launch sites and neutralize the threat. But when rumors of a defector circulate through the German ranks, Graf becomes a suspect. Unknown to each other, Graf and Connolly find themselves on opposite sides of the hunt for the saboteur.
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Shook
- An Earthquake, a Legendary Mountain Guide, and Everest's Deadliest Day
- 著者: Jennifer Hull
- ナレーター: Adam Verner
- 再生時間: 6 時間 23 分
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Dave Hahn, a local of Taos, New Mexico, is a legendary figure in mountaineering. Elite members of the climbing community have likened him to the Michael Jordan, Cal Ripkin, or Michael Phelps of the climbing world. The 2015 expedition he would lead came just one short year after the notorious Khumbu Icefall avalanche claimed the lives of 16 Sherpas. Dave and his team spent weeks honing the techniques that would help keep them alive through the Icefall and the Death Zone. None of this could have prepared them for the earthquake that shook Everest and all of their lives on April 25, 2015.
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Raven's Witness
- The Alaska Life of Richard K. Nelson
- 著者: Hank Lentfer, Barry Lopez - foreword
- ナレーター: Basil Sands
- 再生時間: 8 時間 29 分
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In Raven's Witness, Lentfer tells Nelson's story - from his midwestern childhood to his first experiences with Native culture in Alaska through his own lifelong passion for the land where he so belonged. Nelson was the author of the best-selling The Island Within and Heart and Blood. The recipient of multiple honorary degrees and numerous literary awards, he regularly packed auditoriums when he spoke. His depth of experience allowed him to become an intermediary between worlds. This is his story.
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Icebound
- 著者: Andrea Pitzer
- ナレーター: Fred Sanders
- 再生時間: 9 時間 18 分
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In Icebound, Andrea Pitzer combines a movie-worthy tale of survival with a sweeping history of the period - a time of hope, adventure and seemingly unlimited scientific and geographic frontiers. At the story’s centre is William Barents, one of the 16th century’s greatest navigators, whose larger-than-life ambitions and obsessive quest to find a path through the deepest, most remote regions of the Arctic ended in both catastrophe and glory.
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Unsinkable
- Five Men and the Indomitable Run of the USS Plunkett
- 著者: James Sullivan
- ナレーター: Jacques Roy
- 再生時間: 10 時間 9 分
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In the best-selling tradition of Indianapolis and In Harm’s Way comes a thrilling and vividly told account of the USS Plunkett - a US Navy destroyer that sustained the most harrowing attack on any Navy ship by the Germans during World War II, that gave as good as it got, and that was later made famous by John Ford and Herman Wouk.
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Buried in the Sky
- The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day
- 著者: Amanda Padoan, Peter Zuckerman
- ナレーター: David Doersch
- 再生時間: 7 時間 12 分
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When Edmund Hillary first conquered Mt. Everest, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay was at his side. Indeed, for as long as Westerners have been climbing the Himalaya, Sherpas have been the unsung heroes in the background. In August 2008, when eleven climbers lost their lives on K2, the world’s most dangerous peak, two Sherpas survived. They had emerged from poverty and political turmoil to become two of the most skillful mountaineers on earth. Based on unprecedented access and interviews, Buried in the Sky reveals their astonishing story for the first time.
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V2
- A Novel of World War II
- 著者: Robert Harris
- ナレーター: David Rintoul
- 再生時間: 8 時間 41 分
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It's November 1944 - Willi Graf, a German rocket engineer, is launching Nazi Germany's V2 rockets at London from Occupied Holland. Kay Connolly, once an actress, now a young English Intelligence officer, ships out for Belgium to locate the launch sites and neutralize the threat. But when rumors of a defector circulate through the German ranks, Graf becomes a suspect. Unknown to each other, Graf and Connolly find themselves on opposite sides of the hunt for the saboteur.
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Inferno
- 著者: Joe Pappalardo
- ナレーター: Matt Godfrey
- 再生時間: 11 時間 48 分
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Joe Pappalardo's Inferno tells the true story of the men who flew the deadliest missions of World War II, and an unlikely hero who received the Medal of Honor in the midst of the bloodiest military campaign in aviation history.
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Winter 8000
- Climbing the World's Highest Mountains in the Coldest Season
- 著者: Bernadette McDonald
- ナレーター: Merryn D. Griffin
- 再生時間: 11 時間 39 分
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Of all the games mountaineers play on the world’s high mountains, the hardest - and cruelest - is climbing the 14 peaks over 8,000 meters in the bitter cold of winter. Ferocious winds that can pick you up and throw you down, freezing temperatures that burn your lungs and numb your bones, weeks of psychological torment in dark isolation - these are adventures for those with an iron will and a ruthless determination.
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The Indomitable Florence Finch
- The Untold Story of a War Widow Turned Resistance Fighter and Savior of American POWs
- 著者: Robert J. Mrazek
- ナレーター: Dan Woren
- 再生時間: 10 時間 19 分
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When Florence Finch died at the age of 101, few of her Ithaca, NY, neighbors knew that this unassuming Filipina native was a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, whose courage and sacrifice were unsurpassed in the Pacific War against Japan. Long accustomed to keeping her secrets close in service of the Allies, she waited 50 years to reveal the story of those dramatic and harrowing days to her own children.
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The Outlaw Ocean
- Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
- 著者: Ian Urbina
- ナレーター: Jason Culp, Ian Urbina
- 再生時間: 17 時間 50 分
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There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water play host to rampant criminality and exploitation. Traffickers and smugglers, pirates and mercenaries, wreck thieves and repo men, vigilante conservationists and elusive poachers, seabound abortion providers, clandestine oil-dumpers, shackled slaves and cast-adrift stowaways....
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The Nine Lives of Pakistan
- Dispatches from a Precarious State
- 著者: Declan Walsh
- ナレーター: Roger Clark
- 再生時間: 11 時間 13 分
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Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times's most distinguished international correspondents. His electrifying portrait of Pakistan over a tumultuous decade captures the sweep of this strange, wondrous, and benighted country through the dramatic lives of nine fascinating individuals. On assignment as the country careened between crises, Walsh traveled from the raucous port of Karachi to the salons of Lahore, and from Baluchistan to the mountains of Waziristan. He met a diverse cast of extraordinary Pakistanis....
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Oak Flat
- A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West
- 著者: Lauren Redniss
- ナレーター: Lauren Redniss, Darrell Dennis, Kyla Garcia, 、その他
- 再生時間: 4 時間 15 分
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Oak Flat is a serene high-elevation mesa that sits above the Southeastern Arizona desert, 15 miles to the west of the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation. For the San Carlos tribe, Oak Flat is a holy place, an ancient burial ground and religious site where Apache girls celebrate the coming-of-age ritual known as the Sunrise Ceremony. In 1995, a massive untapped copper reserve was discovered nearby.
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Island of the Lost
- Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
- 著者: Joan Druett
- ナレーター: David Colacci
- 再生時間: 8 時間 35 分
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Auckland Island is a godforsaken place in the middle of the Southern Ocean, 285 miles south of New Zealand. With year-round freezing rain and howling winds, it is one of the most forbidding places in the world. To be shipwrecked there means almost certain death. In 1864, Captain Thomas Musgrave and his crew of four aboard the schooner Grafton wreck on the southern end of the island. Utterly alone in a dense coastal forest, plagued by stinging blowflies and relentless rain, Captain Musgrave inspires his men to take action.
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Alone on the Ice
- The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
- 著者: David Roberts
- ナレーター: Matthew Brenher
- 再生時間: 11 時間 39 分
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On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp - the dogs were gone. Mawson plunged through a snow bridge, dangling over an abyss by the sledge harness. A line of poetry gave him the will to haul himself back to the surface. On February 8, when he staggered back to base, his features unrecognizable, the first teammate to reach him blurted out, "Which one are you?"
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Rock Force
- The American Paratroopers Who Took Back Corregidor and Exacted MacArthur's Revenge on Japan
- 著者: Kevin Maurer
- ナレーター: Stephen Graybill
- 再生時間: 7 時間 44 分
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From the number-one New York Times best-selling coauthor of No Easy Day comes a thrilling World War II story of the American airborne soldiers who captured a Japanese-held island fortress.
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Agent Sonya
- Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy
- 著者: Ben Macintyre
- ナレーター: Ben Macintyre
- 再生時間: 14 時間 14 分
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In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottage with her three children and her husband, who worked as a machinist nearby. Ursula Burton was friendly but reserved, and spoke English with a slight foreign accent. By all accounts, she seemed to be living a simple, unassuming life. Her neighbors in the village knew little about her.
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Fossil Men
- The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
- 著者: Kermit Pattison
- ナレーター: Roger Wayne
- 再生時間: 15 時間 21 分
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In 1994, a team led by fossil-hunting legend Tim White - ”the Steve Jobs of paleoanthropology” - uncovered the bones of a human ancestor in Ethiopia’s Afar region. Radiometric dating of nearby rocks indicated the skeleton, classified as Ardipithecus ramidus, was 4.4 million years old, more than a million years older than “Lucy”, then the oldest known human ancestor.
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The Greatest Beer Run Ever
- A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty, and War
- 著者: John "Chick" Donohue, J.T. Molloy
- ナレーター: Malcolm Hillgartner
- 再生時間: 5 時間 41 分
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One night in 1967, 26-year-old John Donohue - known as Chick - was out with friends, drinking in a New York City bar. The friends gathered there had lost loved ones in Vietnam. Now, they watched as anti-war protesters turned on the troops themselves. One neighborhood patriot came up with an inspired - some would call it insane - idea. Someone should sneak into Vietnam, track down their buddies there, give them messages of support from back home, and share a few laughs over a can of beer. It would be the Greatest Beer Run Ever.
あらすじ・解説
“An outstanding book.” (The Wall Street Journal)
“Gripping at every turn.” (Outside)
“A gem of a book.” (The Guardian)
“A hell of a ride.” (The Times, London)
An extraordinary true story about one man’s attempt to salve the wounds of war and save his own soul through an audacious adventure.
In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Mount Everest, a little-known World War I veteran named Maurice Wilson conceives his own crazy, beautiful plan: He will fly a plane from England to Everest, crash-land on its lower slopes, then become the first person to reach its summit - all utterly alone.
Wilson doesn’t know how to climb. He barely knows how to fly. But he has the right plane, the right equipment, and a deep yearning to achieve his goal. In 1933, he takes off from London in a Gipsy Moth biplane with his course set for the highest mountain on earth. Wilson’s 11-month journey to Everest is wild: full of twists, turns, and daring. Eventually, in disguise, he sneaks into Tibet. His icy ordeal is just beginning.
Wilson is one of the Great War’s heroes, but also one of its victims. His hometown of Bradford in northern England is ripped apart by the fighting. So is his family. He barely survives the war himself. Wilson returns from the conflict unable to cope with the sadness that engulfs him. He begins a years-long trek around the world, burning through marriages and relationships, leaving damaged lives in his wake. When he finally returns to England, nearly a decade after he first left, he finds himself falling in love once more - this time with his best friend’s wife - before depression overcomes him again.
He emerges from his funk with a crystalline ambition. He wants to be the first man to stand on top of the world. Wilson believes that Everest can redeem him.
This is the tale of an adventurer unlike any you have ever encountered: complex, driven, wry, haunted, and fully alive. He is a man written out of the history books - dismissed as an eccentric, and gossiped about because of rumors of his transvestism. The Moth and the Mountain restores Maurice Wilson to his rightful place in the annals of Everest and tells an unforgettable story about the power of the human spirit in the face of adversity.
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- shane richard
- 2020/12/03
Great topic but limited facts
Unfortunately, we will never know the whole story of this man. The Crux of the story is based solely on personal diaries of Wilson who by the authors own admission tended to embellish his feats on occasion.
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- Murat
- 2021/01/01
great story
Certainly a worthwhile listen. Remarkable man, great story, well researched, written and narrated. Too much detail and background history at some points, but never dull.
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- 匿名
- 2020/12/27
Marriage between Quixote and Melquiadis
Great story full of courage, romanticism, and mystery. Wilson is such an character that he inherited both Don Quixote's courage and Melquiadis kind of enchantment.
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- steve
- 2020/12/01
this is very misleading as most of it is wwone
very disappointing as i was expecting a book on an attempt on Everest but most was long drawn out history of wwone. . unless one wants a book on wwone pass on this book