Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/231335 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Vanity Fair: January–April 2015 Issue Author: Vanity Fair Narrator: Graydon Carter Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 25 minutes Release date: May 5, 2015 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: Listen to Vanity Fair on the goGet the latest issue as it hits newsstandsBuy a single issue or subscribeVanity Fair is a cultural filter, sparking the global conversation about the people and ideas that matter most. With a dedication to journalistic excellence and powerful storytelling, Vanity Fair is the first choice—often the only choice—for the world's most influential and important audience. From print to social media, the big screen to the smartphone and now on audio, Vanity Fair is the arbiter of our era.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230217 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Social Contract Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau Narrator: Neville Jason Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 18 minutes Release date: April 15, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. In The Social Contract, Rousseau explores the concept of freedom and the political structures that may enable people to acquire it. He argues that the sovereign power of a state lies not in any one ruler, but in the will of the general population. Rousseau argues that the ideal state would be a direct democracy where executive decision-making is carried out by citizens who meet in assembly, as they would in the ancient city-state of Athens. The thoughts contained in the work were instrumental to the advent of the American Revolution and became sacred to those leading the French Revolution. With traces of Aristotle and echoes of Plato's Republic, The Social Contract is an exhilarating look at society and the definition of democracy. New translation by Ian Johnston.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230776 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Vanity Fair: April 2015 Issue Author: Vanity Fair Narrator: Graydon Carter Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 59 minutes Release date: March 6, 2015 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: Vanity Fair is a cultural filter, sparking the global conversation about the people and ideas that matter most. With a dedication to journalistic excellence and powerful storytelling, Vanity Fair is the first choice—often the only choice—for the world’s most influential and important audience. From print to social media, the big screen to the smartphone and now on audio, Vanity Fair is the arbiter of our era. This month’s issue features: Editor’s Letter: Graydon Carter introduces the Special Issue on the Age of MoneyHollywood: As House of Cards enters Season Three, its fearless first lady Robin Wright opens upSociety: The killing that shocked New YorkInnovation: Richard Branson’s risky bet on Virgin Galactic Nostalgia: A. A. Gill on the death of the phone callPlus: Flash Boys’ Michael Lewis, Saudi Arabia’s world-class shopaholic, and the White House’s war on journalists

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228754 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Spring Brides: A Year of Weddings Novella Collection Series: Part of A Year of Weddings Novella Collection Author: Lenora Worth, Meg Moseley, Rachel Hauck Narrator: Kristy Ragland, Amber Quick, Julie Carr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 38 minutes Release date: March 3, 2015 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: Happily ever after begins today. The honor of your presence is requested at three spring weddings . . . A March Bride by Rachel Hauck Susanna Truitt (Once Upon a Prince) is three weeks from royalty. She’ll soon marry King Nathaniel II of Brighton Kingdom. But when the government insists she renounce her American citizenship before the wedding, coupled with the lack of involvement by family and friends, Susanna’s heart begins to doubt whether this marriage is God's plan for her. An April Bride by Lenora Worth Bride-to-be Stella Carson cannot wait another day to marry soldier Marshall Henderson. But when Marshall returns home to Louisiana, it becomes clear to them both that he is not the man he used to be. With only weeks until the wedding, Stella and Marshall must choose between a marriage built on the past and faith in long-ago love or a very different future than the one Stella imagined. A May Bride by Meg Moseley Ellie Martin, a country girl living in Atlanta, has dreamed of a traditional wedding all her life, but she’s missing a key ingredient to her plans for the future: a groom. Then Ellie meets Gray Whitby—at a wedding of all places. But when Ellie jeopardizes her own future for the sake of her sister, Gray feels like he'll always be second to Ellie's family. Can Ellie and Gray find their own way together amidst the demands and perceptions of others, or will their romance end before it has truly begun?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228960 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Creatures of a Day, and Other Tales of Psychotherapy Author: Irvin D. Yalom Narrator: Traber Burns Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 42 minutes Release date: February 24, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: In his long career, eminent psychotherapist and author Irvin Yalom has pressed his patients and readers to grapple with life's two greatest challenges: that we all must die, and that each of us is responsible for leading a life worth living. In Creatures of a Day, he and his patients confront the difficulty of these challenges. Although these people have come to Yalom seeking relief, recognition, or meaning, they discover that such things are rarely found in the places where we think to look. Like Love's Executioner and Yalom's other writings, Creatures of a Day lays bare the necessary task we each face every day: to make our own lives meaningful.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226476 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London Author: Mohsin Hamid Narrator: Mohsin Hamid Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 26 minutes Release date: February 24, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: From “one of his generation’s most inventive and gifted writers” (The New York Times), intimate and sharply observed commentary on life, art, politics, and “the war on terror.”   Mohsin Hamid’s brilliant, moving, and extraordinarily clever novels have not only made him an international bestseller, they have earned him a reputation as a “master critic of the modern global condition” (Foreign Policy). His stories are at once timeless and of-the-moment, and his themes are universal: love, language, ambition, power, corruption, religion, family, identity. Here he explores this terrain from a different angle in essays that deftly counterpoise the personal and the political, and are shot through with the same passion, imagination, and breathtaking shifts of perspective that gives his fiction its unmistakable electric charge.   A “water lily” who has called three countries on three continents his home—Pakistan, the birthplace to which he returned as a young father; the United States, where he spent his childhood and young adulthood; and Britain, where he married and became a citizen—Hamid writes about overlapping worlds with fluidity and penetrating insight. Whether he is discussing courtship rituals or pop culture, drones or the rhythms of daily life in an extended family compound, he transports us beyond the scarifying headlines of an anxious West and a volatile East, beyond stereotype and assumption, and helps to bring a dazzling diverse global culture within emotional and intellectual reach.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226313 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Uganda Be Kidding Me Author: Chelsea Handler Narrator: Chelsea Handler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 16 minutes Release date: February 17, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.18 of Total 56 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 10 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: In this uproarious collection of travel essays, Chelsea Handler sneaks her sharp wit through airport security and delivers her most absurd and hilarious stories ever. On safari in Africa, it's anyone's guess as to what's more dangerous: the wildlife or Chelsea. But whether she's fumbling the seduction of a guide by not knowing where tigers live (Asia, duh) or wearing a bathrobe into the bush because her clothes stopped fitting seven margaritas ago, she's always game for the next misadventure. The situation gets down and dirty as she defiles a kayak in the Bahamas, and outright sweaty as she escapes from a German hospital on crutches. When things get truly scary, like finding herself stuck next to a passenger with bad breath, she knows she can rely on her family to make matters even worse. Thank goodness she has the devoted Chunk by her side-except for the time she loses him in Telluride. Complete with answers to the most frequently asked traveler's questions, hot travel trips, and travel etiquette, none of which should be believed, Uganda Be Kidding Me has Chelsea taking on the world, one laugh-out-loud incident at a time.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229836 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Vanity Fair: March 2015 Issue Author: Vanity Fair Narrator: Graydon Carter Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 31 minutes Release date: February 3, 2015 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: Vanity Fair is a cultural filter, sparking the global conversation about the people and ideas that matter most. With a dedication to journalistic excellence and powerful storytelling, Vanity Fair is the first choice—often the only choice—for the world’s most influential and important audience. From print to social media, the big screen to the smartphone and now on audio, Vanity Fair is the arbiter of our era. This month’s issue features: Editor’s Letter: Graydon Carter introduces the Hollywood IssueKim Jong Un vs. Sony: Details on the cyber-attack, North Korea’s leader, and the country’s growing film industry50th Anniversary: The costars of The Sound of Music reunite and trade memoriesMy Hollywood: Jerry Weintraub, Delia Ephron, and David Steinberg on their days in LATop 10 Tribute: Vanity Fair ranks the best movies set in New York CityPlus: The 125-year history of the tuxedo

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228653 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To: The Letters of Paul “Buddy” Frees and Annelle Frees Author: Annelle Frees, Paul Frees Narrator: Jen Olivier, Fred Frees Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 11 minutes Release date: February 3, 2015 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: World War II was a difficult time for separated couples everywhere. Paul 'Buddy' Frees would soon become one of America's most popular voice-over artists. Audrey 'Annelle' Frees was the love of his life. One of them wouldn't make it through the war. This is the story of their all-too-short marriage, told in the letters they wrote to each other. With the exclusive cooperation of Annelle's family, author Ben Ohmart has painstakingly edited this moving collection of personal correspondence into a volume that paints a remarkable picture of two wartime lovers just beginning their life together. You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To is a companion book to Ohmart's popular biography Welcome, Foolish Mortals: The Life and Voices of Paul Frees.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228821 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee Author: Robert E. Lee Narrator: John Pruden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 40 minutes Release date: January 27, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: Robert E. Lee, the famed Confederate forces commander and icon of the South, is a towering figure in U.S. and military history. The son of a famed Revolutionary War officer, his path to greatness included graduating at the top of his class at West Point, serving with distinction in the Mexican-American War, and being asked to command the Union Forces at the start of the Great War. Declining the offer, he chose to remain with his home state of Virginia, which had seceded. His memoirs, here gathered and edited by his youngest son Robert Jr., bring to life a seismic period in American history.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228436 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Vanity Fair: February 2015 Issue Author: Vanity Fair Narrator: Graydon Carter Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 52 minutes Release date: January 6, 2015 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: Vanity Fair is a cultural filter, sparking the global conversation about the people and ideas that matter most. With a dedication to journalistic excellence and powerful storytelling, Vanity Fair is the first choice—often the only choice—for the world's most influential and important audience. From print to social media, the big screen to the smartphone and now on audio, Vanity Fair is the arbiter of our era. This month's issue features: Rosamund Pike: From Bond Girl to Gone Girl to 2015's It Girl Special Investigation: How Dallas conquered Ebola Hollywood: Inside the filming of Fifty Shades of Grey The Met vs. MoMA: New York's big-money museum war Scandal: Why did a YouTube video bring Bill Cosby down? Plus: Larry David's Broadway debut

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225791 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War & God Author: Will Durant Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 19 minutes Release date: December 9, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: The final and most personal work from Pulitzer Prize–winning author and historian Will Durant—discovered thirty-two years after his death—is a message of insight for everyone who has sought meaning in life or the council of a wise friend in navigating life's journey. From 1968 to 1978, Will Durant made four public allusions to the existence of Fallen Leaves. One, in 1975, hinted at its contents: 'a not very serious book that answers the questions of what I think about government, life, death, and God.' And in 1975: 'I propose…to answer all the important questions, simply, fairly, and imperfectly.' Even into his nineties, he worked on the book daily, writing it out on legal notepads. Upon his death in 1981, no one, not even the Durant heirs, knew if he had completed it, or even if it still existed. Thirty-two years later, in a granddaughter's attic trunk, the manuscript was discovered. Fallen Leaves is Will Durant's most personal book. It is precisely as he described: twenty-two short chapters on everything from youth and old age, religion and morals, to sex, war, politics, and art. The culmination of Durant's sixty-plus years spent researching the philosophies, religions, arts, sciences, and civilizations from across the world, Fallen Leaves is the distilled wisdom of a gifted scholar with a renowned talent for rendering the insights of the past accessible. In its preface Durant mentions that over the course of his career he received letters from 'curious readers who have challenged me to speak my mind on the timeless questions of human life and fate.' With Fallen Leaves he accepted their challenge. It contains strong opinions, elegant prose, and deep insights into the human condition as only Will Durant could provide, as well as his revealing conclusions about the perennial problems and greatest joys we face as a species.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226089 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Vanity Fair: January 2015 Issue Author: Vanity Fair Narrator: Graydon Carter Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 2 minutes Release date: December 2, 2014 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: Vanity Fair is a cultural filter, sparking the global conversation about the people and ideas that matter most. With a dedication to journalistic excellence and powerful storytelling, Vanity Fair is the first choice—often the only choice—for the world's most influential and important audience. From print to social media, the big screen to the smartphone and now on audio, Vanity Fair is the arbiter of our era. This month's issue features: Exclusive: Bradley Cooper has always been willing to take risks, but the Academy Award–nominated actor reaches a new dimension with this month's American Sniper. Plus: Maureen Orth on the world's most powerful leader—Angela Merkel Sarah Ellison on how Tony Blair, one of the most popular prime ministers in British history, became one of its most despised public figures. Todd S. Purdum on James Patterson, the planet's best-selling author Laura Jacobs celebrates the 50th anniversary of George Balanchine's The Nutcracker And: James Wolcott on this year's high-drama elevator videos

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/224075 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Winter Brides: A Year of Weddings Novella Collection Series: Part of A Year of Weddings Novella Collection Author: Betsy St. Amant, Denise Hunter, Deborah Raney Narrator: Kristy Ragland, Amber Quick, Julie Carr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 31 minutes Release date: November 25, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: Cozy up by the fireplace for three heartwarming stories of love and weddings in the wintertime. The honor of your presence is requested at three winter weddings . . . A December Bride by Denise Hunter When Layla O'Reilly and Seth Murphy make their engagement public, she knows it's only to convince a major client that she's high-society enough to work for his agency. Seth has secretly loved Layla for years, but she’s never given him the time of day. For Layla, this engagement of convenience is the chance to save her career. And for Seth, it's the chance to finally win her heart. A January Bride by Deborah Raney Novelist Madeleine Houser arranges a temporary office in a local bed and breakfast to escape the distracting renovations on her own house. Although she's never laid eyes on the inn's owner, an unlikely friendship blossoms between them as they leave daily notes for each other, and before long, Maddie finds herself falling for her mysterious host—a man likely many years her senior—and a man she's never even met. A February Bride by Betsy St. Amant History repeats itself when Allie Andrews escapes the church on her wedding day—wearing the same wedding dress passed down for generations of women in her family, all women with histories of failed marriages. Allie loves Marcus but fears she's destined to repeat her family's mistakes. When thrown unexpectedly together for a wedding months later, Allie and Marcus discover their own story might be far from over.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223716 to listen full audiobooks. Title: V Wars: Blood and Fire: New Stories of the Vampire Wars Series: #2 of The V Wars Series Author: Jonathan Maberry Narrator: Jamye Grant, Sunil Malhotra, Roxanne Hernandez, Richard Gilliland, Gabrielle De Cuir, Stefan Rudnicki, Arthur Morey, Stephen Hoye Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 14 minutes Release date: November 18, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: It's been one year since a virus triggered junk DNA and people all over the world started changing, becoming something else, craving blood. It's been ten months since the word vampire stopped being something from old monster stories and Hollywood movies. It's been six months since our world and theirs erupted into war, two since an uneasy peace was signed, and one hour since that peace was shattered. The war is here again—the vampire war. Our world will burn; our world will bleed. When anyone can turn, when every street is a battlefield, there is nowhere to run. V Wars: Blood and Fire features all-new stories of the Vampire Wars by Kevin J. Anderson, Scott Sigler, Larry Correia, Joe McKinney, Yvonne Navarro, Weston Ochse, James A. Moore, and Jonathan Maberry.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/222040 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Russian Journal Author: John Steinbeck Narrator: Richard Poe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 1 minute Release date: November 13, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 6 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: Steinbeck and Capa’s account of their journey through Cold War Russia is a classic piece of reportage and travel writing.Just after the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune. This rare opportunity took the famous travelers not only to Moscow and Stalingrad – now Volgograd – but through the countryside of the Ukraine and the Caucasus. Hailed by the New York Times as 'superb' when it first appeared in 1948, A Russian Journal is the distillation of their journey and remains a remarkable memoir and unique historical document. What they saw and movingly recorded in words and on film was what Steinbeck called 'the great other side there … the private life of the Russian people.' Unlike other Western reporting about Russia at the time, A Russian Journal is free of ideological obsessions. Rather, Steinbeck and Capa recorded the grim realities of factory workers, government clerks, and peasants, as they emerged from the rubble of World War II—represented here in Capa’s stirring photographs alongside Steinbeck’s masterful prose. Through it all, we are given intimate glimpses of two artists at the height of their powers, answering their need to document human struggle. This edition features an introduction by Steinbeck scholar Susan Shillinglaw.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223406 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The David Foster Wallace Reader Author: David Foster Wallace Narrator: Sally Foster Wallace, Ben Shenkman, Khristine Hvam, Paul Garcia, Robert Petkoff, David Foster Wallace, Bobby Cannavale, Sean Pratt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 48 hours 30 minutes Release date: November 11, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: Where do you begin with a writer as original and brilliant as David Foster Wallace? Here -- with a carefully considered selection of his extraordinary body of work, chosen by a range of great writers, critics, and those who worked with him most closely. This volume presents his most dazzling, funniest, and most heartbreaking work -- essays like his famous cruise-ship piece, 'A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again,' excerpts from his novels The Broom of the System, Infinite Jest, and The Pale King, and legendary stories like 'The Depressed Person.' Wallace's explorations of morality, self-consciousness, addiction, sports, love, and the many other subjects that occupied him are represented here in both fiction and nonfiction. Collected for the first time are Wallace's first published story, 'The View from Planet Trillaphon as Seen In Relation to the Bad Thing' and a selection of his work as a writing instructor, including reading lists, grammar guides, and general guidelines for his students. A dozen writers and critics, including Hari Kunzru, Anne Fadiman, and Nam Le, add afterwords to favorite pieces, expanding our appreciation of the unique pleasures of Wallace's writing. The result is an astonishing volume that shows the breadth and range of 'one of America's most daring and talented writers' (Los Angeles Times Book Review) whose work was full of humor, insight, and beauty.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/220698 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace Author: Anne Lamott Narrator: Anne Lamott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 36 minutes Release date: November 10, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.71 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of Stitches, and Help, Thanks, Wow comes her long-awaited collection of new and selected essays on hope, joy, and grace. Anne Lamott writes about faith, family, and community in essays that are both wise and irreverent. It’s an approach that has become her trademark. Now in Small Victories, Lamott offers a new message of hope that celebrates the triumph of light over the darkness in our lives. Our victories over hardship and pain may seem small, she writes, but they change us—our perceptions, our perspectives, and our lives. Lamott writes of forgiveness, restoration, and transformation, how we can turn toward love even in the most hopeless situations, how we find the joy in getting lost and our amazement in finally being found. Profound and hilarious, honest and unexpected, the stories in Small Victories are proof that the human spirit is irrepressible.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/224118 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Vanity Fair: December 2014 Issue Author: Vanity Fair Narrator: Graydon Carter Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 58 minutes Release date: November 4, 2014 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: Vanity Fair is a cultural filter, sparking the global conversation about the people and ideas that matter most. With a dedication to journalistic excellence and powerful storytelling, Vanity Fair is the first choice—often the only choice—for the world's most influential and important audience. From print to social media, the big screen to the smartphone and now on audio, Vanity Fair is the arbiter of our era. This month's issue features: Exclusive: Angelina Jolie—actress, director, activist, newlywed, and mother of six—discusses kids, marriage, war, her new film, and the hero she just lost. Hollywood: In an adaptation from her new memoir, Anjelica Huston opens up about her relationship with Jack Nicholson. Investigation: Solving the great mystery of Van Gogh's death Tech: Who is Uber's most driven customer?Plus: The publishing dispute that everybody is talking about

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/224211 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Across the Australian Desert: Robert O'Hara Burke's Expedition Across Australia Author: Andrew Lang Narrator: Cathy Dobson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 47 minutes Release date: October 30, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: Robert O'Hara Burke (1821-1861) was one of the great Victorian explorers. In 1860 he was appointed to lead the Victorian Exploring Expedition, which aimed to cross the Australian continent from south to north. The expedition left Melbourne on Monday, 20 August 1860 with a total of 19 men, 27 (rum fuelled) camels, and 23 horses. The expedition was dogged by disputes and poor leadership decisions from the start. Even at the first staging post the second in command and the medical officer resigned. Burke left groups of men, horses and camels at staging posts along the way to provide a supply chain of provisions for the return journey. However the supply chain was poorly managed and provisions ran low.The small team of Burke, William Wills, John King, and Charley Gray set off on an impetuous dash for the northern coast and reached the mangroves on the estuary of the Flinders River, near where the town of Normanton now stands, on the 9th of February 1861. Weakened by starvation and exposure, progress on the return journey was slow and hampered by the tropical monsoon downpours. Gray died four days before they reached the staging point at Cooper's Creek. The other three rested for a day when they buried him. They finally reached the meeting point on 21 April 1861, 9 hours after the rest of the party had given up waiting and left, leaving a note and some food, as they had not been relieved by the party supposed to be arriving from base camp. The final three made a valiant attempt to find their way back from the desert, and despite much help given to them by local Aborigines, by the time a search party arrived, there was only one survivor left of the original party.