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Written by Diana Gabaldon - Audio book performed by Geraldine James - Abridgement approved by author - COMPACT DISCS - 6 hours

Publisher, Random House Audiobooks (July 2001)

Outlander is the first audiobook in Gabaldon's romance trilogy (Outlander --> Dragonfly in Amber --> Voyager).

Received the coveted "AUDIOFILE EARPHONES AWARD" for exceptional narrative voice and style, vocal characterizations, appropriateness for audio format and enhancement of the text!

"Absorbing and heartwarming...lavishly evokes the land and lore of Scotland." --Publishers Weekly

"Stunning!" --Los Angeles Daily News

"It is a large canvas that Gabaldon paints, filled with strong passions and derring-do. Strong willed and sensual, Claire is an engaging modern heroine plopped down in a simpler, more primitive time.... Great fun ...marvelous and fantastic adventures, romance, sex...perfect escape reading!" --San Francisco Chronicle

"Travel to the eighteenth century to the breathtaking Scottish Highlands and share romantic, swashbuckling adventures with Claire Randall, Jamie Fraser and the Clan MacKenzie. Claire is on her second honeymoon when she's transported to 1743 by a magical ring of stones. Will she be taken for a witch? Geraldine James brings the story to life with excellent characterizations of men and women. Scottish and British accents are charged with the energy and excitement of the times. The listener is mesmerized, living Claire's loves, adventures and dreams until the end of the tale." --M.B.K. An AUDIOFILE Earphones Award winner, ©AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century, and a lover in another...

In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon—when she innocently touches a boulder in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an "outlander"—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of our Lord...1743.

Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire's destiny in soon inextricably intertwined with Clan MacKenzie and the forbidden Castle Leoch. She is catapulted without warning into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life ...and shatter her heart. For here, James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a passion so fierce and a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire...and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.

About the Author: Diana Gabaldon holds a master's degree in marine biology and a Ph.D. in ecology, and spent a dozen years as a university professor before turning to write fiction full-time. Her previous publishing history includes scholarly articles and comic book stories for Walt Disney, as well as the award-winning novels Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, and Voyager. She lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, with her husband, three children, and a large number of animals.