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Travels

By: Michael Crichton
Narrated by: Christopher Lane
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From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere, comes a deeply personal memoir full of fascinating adventures as he travels everywhere from the Mayan pyramids to Kilimanjaro.

Fueled by a powerful curiosity - and by a need to see, feel, and hear, firsthand and close-up - Michael Crichton's journeys have carried him into worlds diverse and compelling - swimming with mud sharks in Tahiti, tracking wild animals through the jungle of Rwanda. This is a record of those travels - an exhilarating quest across the familiar and exotic frontiers of the outer world, a determined odyssey into the unfathomable, spiritual depths of the inner world. It is an adventure of risk and rejuvenation, terror and wonder, as exciting as Michael Crichton's many masterful and widely heralded works of fiction.

For Michael Crichton, being a Harvard-trained physician, the author of two bestsellers, and a movie director is not enough. It is, he resolves, time to travel. From swimming with sharks in Tahiti to psychic experiences in the American desert, Crichton records his exhilarating quest through the familiar and exotic frontiers of the outer world.

©1958 Michael Crichton and © 2014 by Taylor Crichton's Family Trust (P)2015 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved. Grateful acknowledgment is made to Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., for permission to reprint an excerpt from “The Way In” from The Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke. Translated from the German by Robert Bly. © 1981 by Robert Bly. Reprinted by permission of Harper & Row Publishers, Inc.

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This was one of the best books that I have listened to in a long time.
High Five for Michael Crichton for packing so much in 66 years on this planet.
Thanks for giving us the opportunity to evolve from your experiences.
Well read Christopher!!!
I highly recommend this book for anyone who has an open heart.

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took a while to get into it

It took about 3 hours plus to actually get into the "travel" bit. I'll be honest there were a few things in here that were a little disturbing. If the author was alive today i'm sure there would be issues. Made me very uncomfortable. There are things in this world that are just wrong, yet the author did not not speak out, just went out for a smoke. That is not normal behaviour. I lost respect.

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