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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 37
"Feeder" mindset means being in control of a situation, proactive rather than reactive. It is an optimistic outlook that reframes any situation as a learning experience. Kevin Estela teaches survival skills from this feeder-based perspective, which is what separates his teaching style from other wilderness instructors. Kevin has written the quintessential guide for an outdoor enthusiast's "bucket list" of skills - how to make a fire, build a shelter, gather food, find water, use a knife correctly, and make cordage.
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5 out of 5 stars
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All great skills
- By Crus458 on 11-09-20
By: Kevin Estela
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Tomorrow War
- The Chronicles of Max [Redacted], Book 1
- By: J. L. Bourne
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder, Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,397
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,160
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,157
In the not-too-distant future, during an unacknowledged mission inside the Syrian border, a government operative unwittingly triggers an incredible event that alters the course of society. A terrible weapon has been unleashed - a weapon that, left to run its course, will destroy the moral fabric of humanity.
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4 out of 5 stars
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STUD FINDER
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 08-19-16
By: J. L. Bourne
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Smokejumper
- A Memoir by One of America's Most Select Airborne Firefighters
- By: Jason A. Ramos, Julian Smith
- Narrated by: Ned Vaughn
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 594
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 525
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 521
In this extraordinarily rare memoir by an active-duty jumper, Jason Ramos takes listeners into his exhilarating and dangerous world, explores smokejumping's remarkable history, and explains why their services are more essential than ever before.
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5 out of 5 stars
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About damn time a book on wildland firefighting was written!!!
- By Jefferer R. Beren on 07-16-15
By: Jason A. Ramos, and others
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How to Walk on Water and Climb up Walls
- Animal Movement and the Robots of the Future
- By: David Hu
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 44
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Story5 out of 5 stars 44
Insects walk on water, snakes slither, and fish swim. Animals move with astounding grace, speed, and versatility: how do they do it, and what can we learn from them? In How to Walk on Water and Climb up Walls, David Hu takes listeners on an accessible, wondrous journey into the world of animal motion. From basement labs at MIT to the rain forests of Panama, Hu shows how animals have adapted and evolved to traverse their environments, taking advantage of physical laws with results that are startling and ingenious.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fun, entertaining, hilarious, and informative
- By Susan T on 11-04-19
By: David Hu
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Ranger Confidential
- Living, Working, and Dying in the National Parks
- By: Andrea Lankford
- Narrated by: Julia Motyka
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,284
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,148
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,145
The real stories behind the scenery of America’s national parks. For 12 years, Andrea Lankford lived in the biggest, most impressive national parks in the world, working a job she loved. She chaperoned baby sea turtles on their journey to sea. She pursued bad guys on her galloping patrol horse. She jumped into rescue helicopters bound for the heart of the Grand Canyon. She won arguments with bears. She slept with a few too many rattlesnakes. Hell yeah, it was the best job in the world! Fortunately, Andrea survived it.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Depressing from Cover to Cover
- By Drew (@drewsant) on 04-13-15
By: Andrea Lankford
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Unleashed V Plague Book One
- By: Dirk Patton
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 685
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 629
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 628
John Chase has just arrived in Atlanta on a business trip when America experiences the worst attacks in history. Nuclear bombs destroy cities and the widespread release of nerve gas sends the majority of the surviving population into a murderous rage. Rescuing a woman who survived the attacks he must lead her to safety as Atlanta burns, raging infected roam unchecked and society disintegrates into savagery.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Junk food for the mind
- By James on 04-24-15
By: Dirk Patton
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American Buffalo
- In Search of a Lost Icon
- By: Steven Rinella
- Narrated by: Steven Rinella
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 10,102
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 8,949
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Story5 out of 5 stars 8,904
Both a captivating narrative and a book of environmental and historical significance, American Buffalo tells us as much about ourselves as Americans as it does about the creature who perhaps best of all embodies the American ethos.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Phenomenal
- By Hunter Cole on 08-01-19
By: Steven Rinella
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The Risk Agent
- Risk Agent, Book 1
- By: Ridley Pearson
- Narrated by: Todd Haberkorn
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 103
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 86
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 90
Grace Chu is an American-educated Chinese national now working as a forensic accountant after serving in the Chinese army as an intelligence officer. John Knox is an American who parlayed his military service during the first Iraqi war into a lucrative import/export business, which now provides him the official access he needs to work freelance undercover operations throughout the world. Both are highly skilled operatives capable of deft subterfuge or extreme violence, if circumstances require.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Ridley is back, but he wasn't far away.
- By Dave Staats on 06-27-12
By: Ridley Pearson
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Bird Dream
- Adventures at the Extremes of Human Flight
- By: Matt Higgins
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 35
Human flight is one of the last great challenges on Earth. Not like how the Wright brothers flew, but how we fly in our dreams. This is the goal of the Wingsuit Landing Project: to soar through the sky at speeds up to one hundred miles per hour and to land without the aid of a parachute. This project is the creation of 37-year-old Jeb Corliss, Jr., a Southern Californian who seeks to emulate a mode of flight more like a flying squirrel than bird or plane.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good read
- By Jowly on 04-22-15
By: Matt Higgins
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Never Quit
- From Alaskan Wilderness Rescues to Afghanistan Firefights as an Elite Special Ops PJ
- By: Jimmy Settle, Don Rearden
- Narrated by: Chris Abell
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,394
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,168
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,164
"That Others May Live" is a mantra that defines the fearless men of Alaska's 212th Pararescue Unit, the PJs, one of the most elite military forces on the planet. Whether they are rescuing citizens injured and freezing in the Alaskan wilderness or saving wounded Rangers and SEALs in blazing firefights at war, the PJs are the least known and most highly trained of America's warriors. Never Quit is the true story of how Jimmy Settle, an Alaskan shoe-store clerk, became a Special Forces Operator and war hero.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unbelievable Heroism by AF Parajumpers
- By Larry on 11-26-17
By: Jimmy Settle, and others
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Never Quit
- How I Became a Special Ops Pararescue Jumper
- By: Jimmy Settle, Don Rearden
- Narrated by: Ramon De Ocampo
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 84
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Story5 out of 5 stars 84
Never Quit is the true story of how Jimmy Settle, an Alaskan shoe store clerk, became a Special Forces Operator and war hero. After being shot in the head during a dangerous high mountain operation in Afghanistan, Jimmy returns to battle with his teammates for a heroic rescue, the bullet fragments stitched over and still in his skull. In a cross between a suicide rescue mission and an against-all-odds mountain battle, his team of PJs risk their lives again in an epic firefight.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Too emotional
- By Amazon Customer on 10-30-24
By: Jimmy Settle, and others
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Plague Year
- By: Jeff Carlson
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 380
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 340
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Story4 out of 5 stars 338
The nanotechnology was designed to fight cancer. Instead, it evolved into the machine plague, killing nearly five billion people and changing life on Earth forever.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Poorly executed
- By KimQ on 09-05-19
By: Jeff Carlson
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Alaska Justice
- By: M. D. Kincaid
- Narrated by: Reed McColm
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 61
Trooper Jack Blake pilots bush planes, mushes dogteams, and climbs on snowshoes to catch the bad guy. With horrible weather, blood-thirsty grizzly bears, politics, and plane crashes, his job to find real justice is hard enough. Then Blake learns that one particularly powerful guy is making it his job to kill him with the unlimited resources of his wealth and power.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Pretty cool
- By Richard on 03-27-09
By: M. D. Kincaid
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Assembling California
- By: John McPhee
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 247
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 208
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 203
At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the Mother Lode and across the Great Central Valley to the wine country of the Coast Ranges, the rock of San Francisco, and the San Andreas family of faults.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Subduction leads to orogeny zones in California
- By Darwin8u on 11-30-13
By: John McPhee
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The Ledge
- An Adventure Story of Friendship and Survival on Mount Rainier
- By: Jim Davidson, Kevin Vaughan
- Narrated by: Jim Davidson
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 208
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 183
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 183
On June 21, 1992, two best friends summited Mount Rainier. Within hours, their exquisite accomplishment would be overshadowed by tragedy. On their descent, Jim Davidson fell through an ice bridge on Rainier's northeast flank, plunging eighty feet into a narrow crevasse inside the Emmons Glacier and dragging Mike Price in after him. Mike fell to his death; Jim, badly injured and armed with minimal gear, faced an almost impossible climb back out of the crevasse, up a nearly vertical ice wall.
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5 out of 5 stars
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wholesome and honest account of tragedy
- By Flip on 05-21-18
By: Jim Davidson, and others
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- Jen-nay!
- 03-12-16
Good info to have in case of an emergency.
Would you consider the audio edition of The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook to be better than the print version?
No... because of the subject matter. I am sure there are drawings and pictures that could come in handy in an emergency.
What did you like best about this story?
Penn Jillette narrating.
What does Penn Jillette bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
A sense of humor and wit.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- Anonymous User
- 05-05-13
I came to listen to Penn
This was Ok . I only got this to listen to Penn Jillette talk .
I was saddened that this was not as funny as I thought it would be .
This would be good as a blog or a few articles .
I really should have thought this one through before this purchase.
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