Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained - the coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens. The biggest redwoods are over a thousand years old, rising more than thirty-five stories in what's left of the once-vast ancient redwood forest. Believed to be impossible to ascend, these majestic giants have remained unexplored until recently ... when a tiny group of daring botanists and amateur naturalists discovered a lost, dangerous and hauntingly beautiful world high above California.
In The Wild Trees, Richard Preston unfolds the spellbounding story of these young voyagers who risk everything to explore the redwood canopy, where the massive trees form flying buttresses and cathedral-like structures in the air. They find a vertical Eden of hanging gardens and rare creatures, an untouched paradise where it's possible to stretch hammocks between tree branches and make love 300 feet in the air. But as they move through the treetops suspended on ropes, far out of sight of the ground, these young adventurers know that the smallest mistake can result in a plunge to one's death.
Preston mastered the techniques of tall-tree climbing to recount the discovery of this amazing world - a grand adventure by turns terrifying, moving, and fascinating, from a master of non-fiction narrative.
Author - Various
Narrator : Full Cast Production
Published By - Listen & Live
Length : 6 hours
Categories - Adventurers & Explorers
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A collection of the most memorable accounts of legend-making expeditions to the world's most famous peaks and often in the worst possible conditions. More...
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Author - Stephen E. Ambrose
Narrator : Cotter Smith
Published By - Simon & Schuster
Length : 4 hours 30 minutes
Categories - American Pre 1900 Adventurers & Explorers Historical
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In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River. More...
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Author - Alan Tennant
Narrator : Alan Tennant
Published By - Simon & Schuster
Length : 6 hours
Categories - Adventurers & Explorers Knowledge & Learning
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In this extraordinary narrative, Alan Tennant recounts his all-out effort to radio-track the transcontinental migration of the peregrine falcon. More...
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Author - Clint Willis
Narrator : James Adams
Published By - Blackstone Audio Inc
Length : 16 hours
Categories - Adventurers & Explorers
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This book tells the gripping story of Bonington’s Boys, a band legendary climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after Everest’s first ascent. It is a story of tremendous courage, astonishing achievement, and heartbreaking loss. More...
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