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Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection.A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe and built her back up again.At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State and to do it alone. She had no experience as a long-distance hiker, and the trail was little more than an idea, vague and outlandish and full of promise. But it was a promise of piecing back together a life that had come undone.Strayed faces down rattlesnakes and black bears, intense heat and record snowfalls, and both the beauty and loneliness of the trail. Told with great suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild vividly captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.

Cheryl Strayed (Author), Bernadette Dunne (Narrator)

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Following Atticus: Forty-Eight High Peaks, One Little Dog, and an Extraordinary Friendship

A middle-aged, overweight, and acrophobic newspaper editor Tom Ryan and a little dog, Atticus M. Finch, are an unlikely pair of mountaineers, but after a close friend dies of cancer, the two pay tribute to her by attempting to climb all forty-eight of New Hampshire's four-thousand-foot peaks twice in one winter. Tom and Atticus set out on an adventure of a lifetime that takes them across hundreds of miles and deep into an enchanting but dangerous winter wonderland. Little did they know that their most difficult test would lie ahead, after they returned home. . . . Following Atticus is ultimately a story of transformation: how a five-pound puppy pierced the heart of a tough-as-nails newspaperman, opening his eyes to the world's beauty and its possibilities. An unforgettable saga of adventure, friendship, and the unlikeliest of family, it's an inspiring tale of finding love and discovering your true self.

Tom Ryan (Author), Tom Ryan (Narrator)

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One Man's Wilderness

Richard Proenneke, Sam Keith (Author), Norman Dietz (Narrator)

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Life on the Mississippi

Mark Twain (Author), Michael Prichard (Narrator)

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Discovering America

This fascinating historical introduction to the Americas, via their first voyagers, reads with all the excitement of a 21st century blockbuster film! From the gripping accounts of Norseman Leif The Lucky Ericsson's journey to the Vinland with his treacherous sister, Freydis, to the exuberant letter from Columbus announcing his discovery to the Treasurer of Aragon, the suspense is fast-paced. Also included are Amerigo Vespucci's fascinating descriptions of native peoples and wildlife, and John Cabot's sailing from England to the North American coast. Listeners will be delighted with these wonderfully narrated accounts of America's earliest history.

Various Artists, Various Artists (Author), Robin Field (Narrator)

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The House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind

A nominee for the National Book Award, Ivan Doig's brilliant memoir shares the experiences and culture that shaped his early years and made him fall in love with the West. From his childhood in a family of homesteaders through the death of his mother and his move to Montana to herd sheep, Doig shows his intimate connection with the American West.

Ivan Doig (Author), Tom Stechschulte (Narrator)

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Spiral Jetta: A Road Trip through the Land Art of the American West

Erin Hogan hit the road in her Volkswagen Jetta and headed west from Chicago in search of the monuments of American land art: a salty coil of rocks, four hundred stainless steel poles, a gash in a mesa, four concrete tubes, and military sheds filled with cubes. Her journey took her through the states of Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. It also took her through the states of anxiety, drunkenness, disorientation, and heat exhaustion. Spiral Jetta is a chronicle of this journey. A lapsed art historian and devoted urbanite, Hogan initially sought firsthand experience of the monumental earthworks of the 1970s and the 1980s—Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels, Walter De Maria’s Lightning Field, James Turrell’s Roden Crater, Michael Heizer’s Double Negative, and the contemporary art mecca of Marfa, Texas. Armed with spotty directions, no compass, and less-than-desert-appropriate clothing, she found most of what she was looking for and then some. “I was never quite sure what Hogan was looking for when she set out . . . or indeed whether she found it. But I loved the ride. In Spiral Jetta, an unashamedly honest, slyly uproarious, ever-probing book, art doesn’t magically have the power to change lives, but it can, perhaps no less powerfully, change ways of seeing.”—Tom Vanderbilt, New York Times Book Review “The reader emerges enlightened and even delighted. . . . Casually scrutinizing the artistic works . . . while gamely playing up her fish-out-of-water status, Hogan delivers an ingeniously engaging travelogue-cum-art history.”—Atlantic “Smart and unexpectedly hilarious.”—Kevin Nance, Chicago Sun-Times “One of the funniest and most entertaining road trips to be published in quite some time.”—June Sawyers, Chicago Tribune “Hogan ruminates on how the work affects our sense of time, space, size, and scale. She is at her best when she reexamines the precepts of modernism in the changing light of New Mexico, and shows how the human body is meant to be a participant in these grand constructions.”—New Yorker

Erin Hogan (Author), Jo Anna Perrin (Narrator)

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The Last Decent Parking Place in North America

Tom Bodett (Author), Tom Bodett (Narrator)

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Growing Up, Growing Old and Going Fishing at the End of the Road

Tom Bodett (Author), Tom Bodett (Narrator)

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Roads To Quoz

About a quarter century ago, a previously unknown writer named William Least Heat-Moon wrote a book called Blue Highways. Acclaimed as a classic, it was a travel book like no other. Quirky, discursive, endlessly curious, Heat-Moon had embarked on an American journey off the beaten path. Sticking to the small places via the small roads--those colored blue on maps--he uncovered a nation deep in character, story, and charm. Now, for the first time since Blue Highways, Heat-Moon is back on the backroads. ROADS TO QUOZ is his lyrical, funny, and touching account of a series of American journeys into small-town America.

William Least Heat-Moon (Author), Author, Elizabeth Mccracken, William Least Heat-Moon (Narrator)

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Amerika.: Reisenotizen (Leicht gekürzt aus: Gesichter und Zeiten. Erinnerungen. Amerika.)

Was ist der American Dream? Harry Graf Kessler besuchte 1896/97 Amerika und ging dabei eben jener Frage auf den Grund. Auf der Reise lernte er kanadische Holzhütten, den New Yorker Geldadel, chinesische Bordelle in San Francisco und den amerikanischen Präsidenten Harrison kennen. Scharfsinnig und humorvoll beschrieb er die amerikanische Gesellschaft in seinen außerordentlich anregenden Reisenotizen ... Harry Graf Kessler (1868 - 1937), aufgewachsen in Frankreich und England, studierte Jura und Kunstgeschichte in Bonn und Leipzig. Er unternahm mehrere Weltreisen und machte Bekanntschaft mit so berühmten Zeitgenossen wie Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Henry van de Velde, Reiner Maria Rilke und Walther Rathenau. Er arbeitete für das Nietzsche-Archiv in Weimar und wurde 1918 deutscher Gesandter in Warschau. 1933 emigrierte Kessler nach Paris, später nach Mallorca. Er gehört zu den faszinierndsten Persönlichkeiten des deutschen Kulturlebens in der Zeit des Umbruchs zwischen Kaiserreich und Diktatur. Der Schauspieler Johannes Steck hat sich mit seinem vielfältigen stimmlichen Können in den letzten Jahren einen hervorragenden Ruf als Sprecher von Hörbüchern erworben.

Harry Graf Kessler (Author), Johannes Steck (Narrator)

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Coming into the Country

Those who have traveled into America's only remaining frontier rarely come back out the same. Only in Alaska can we come close to understanding what our forefathers must have felt upon their arrival in the New World. McPhee brings to this narrative the qualities that have distinguished him in the field of travel literature-tolerance, brisk, and entertaining prose, and a fascination with things most of us never bother to notice.

John McPhee (Author), Nelson Runger (Narrator)

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