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Icebound
- Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
- Written by: Andrea Pitzer
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
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In the best-selling tradition of Hampton Sides’ In the Kingdom of Ice, a riveting and cinematic tale of Dutch polar explorer William Barents and his three harrowing Arctic expeditions - the last of which resulted in a relentlessly challenging yearlong fight for survival....
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The Worst Journey in the World
- Written by: Apsley Cherry-Garrard
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 20 hrs and 6 mins
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This gripping story of courage and achievement is the account of Robert Falcon Scott's last fateful expedition to the Antarctic, as told by surviving expedition member Apsley Cherry-Garrard....
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Ice Ghosts
- The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition
- Written by: Paul Watson
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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The spellbinding story of the greatest cold case in Arctic history - and how the rare mix of marine science and Inuit knowledge finally led to the recent discovery of the shipwrecks....
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Great Canadian Story
- By Steve G Munday on 2017-10-19
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Race for the South Pole
- The Expedition Diaries of Scott and Amundsen
- Written by: Roland Huntford
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
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For the first time ever Roland Huntford presents each man's account of the race to the South Pole in their own words....
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South
- Written by: Ernest Shackleton
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 15 hrs and 48 mins
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On 8 August 1914, five days after the outbreak of World War One, the Endurance, a wooden-hulled, coal-fired icebreaker, set sail for the South Pole, in a bid to complete the first-ever trans-Antarctic expedition, which would cross the continent from the Weddell Sea to Cape Evans....
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Erebus
- One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time
- Written by: Michael Palin
- Narrated by: Michael Palin
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
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Intrepid voyager, writer, and comedian Michael Palin follows the trail of two expeditions made by the Royal Navy's HMS Erebus to opposite ends of the globe, reliving the voyages and investigating the ship itself, lost on the final Franklin expedition and discovered with the help of Inuit knowledge in 2014....
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Such a gripping story!
- By Amazon Customer on 2019-02-07
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Icebound
- Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
- Written by: Andrea Pitzer
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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In the best-selling tradition of Hampton Sides’ In the Kingdom of Ice, a riveting and cinematic tale of Dutch polar explorer William Barents and his three harrowing Arctic expeditions - the last of which resulted in a relentlessly challenging yearlong fight for survival....
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The Worst Journey in the World
- Written by: Apsley Cherry-Garrard
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 20 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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This gripping story of courage and achievement is the account of Robert Falcon Scott's last fateful expedition to the Antarctic, as told by surviving expedition member Apsley Cherry-Garrard....
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Ice Ghosts
- The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition
- Written by: Paul Watson
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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The spellbinding story of the greatest cold case in Arctic history - and how the rare mix of marine science and Inuit knowledge finally led to the recent discovery of the shipwrecks....
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Great Canadian Story
- By Steve G Munday on 2017-10-19
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Race for the South Pole
- The Expedition Diaries of Scott and Amundsen
- Written by: Roland Huntford
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
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For the first time ever Roland Huntford presents each man's account of the race to the South Pole in their own words....
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South
- Written by: Ernest Shackleton
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 15 hrs and 48 mins
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On 8 August 1914, five days after the outbreak of World War One, the Endurance, a wooden-hulled, coal-fired icebreaker, set sail for the South Pole, in a bid to complete the first-ever trans-Antarctic expedition, which would cross the continent from the Weddell Sea to Cape Evans....
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Erebus
- One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time
- Written by: Michael Palin
- Narrated by: Michael Palin
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
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Intrepid voyager, writer, and comedian Michael Palin follows the trail of two expeditions made by the Royal Navy's HMS Erebus to opposite ends of the globe, reliving the voyages and investigating the ship itself, lost on the final Franklin expedition and discovered with the help of Inuit knowledge in 2014....
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Such a gripping story!
- By Amazon Customer on 2019-02-07
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In the Kingdom of Ice
- The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
- Written by: Hampton Sides
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
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New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides returns with a white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and survival in the Gilded Age....
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Not written by a lover of artic exploration
- By Alexander Turner on 2020-01-09
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Ada Blackjack
- A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
- Written by: Jennifer Niven
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
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In September 1921, four young men and Ada Blackjack, a diminutive 25-year-old Eskimo woman, ventured deep into the Arctic in a secret attempt to colonize desolate Wrangel Island for Britain. Two years later, Ada Blackjack emerged as the sole survivor of this ambitious polar expedition.....
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Alone on the Ice
- The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
- Written by: David Roberts
- Narrated by: Matthew Brenher
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
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On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp - the dogs were gone....
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Misleading
- By Tony on 2020-08-05
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The Man Who Ate His Boots
- The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage
- Written by: Anthony Brandt
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
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The enthralling and often harrowing history of the adventurers who searched for the Northwest Passage, the holy grail of nineteenth-century British exploration....
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The Stowaway
- A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica
- Written by: Laurie Gwen Shapiro
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
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The spectacular true story of a scrappy teenager from New York's Lower East Side who stowed away on the Roaring Twenties' most remarkable feat of science and daring....
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Life Among the Qallunaat
- Written by: Mini Aodla Freeman
- Narrated by: Taqralik Partridge
- Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins
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Life Among the Qallunaat is the story of Mini Aodla Freeman’s experiences growing up in the Inuit communities of James Bay and her journey in the 1950s from her home to the strange land and stranger customs of the Qallunaat, those living south of the Arctic....
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The Hard Way Home
- Alaska Stories of Adventure, Friendship, and the Hunt (Outdoor Lives)
- Written by: Steve Kahn
- Narrated by: Gary Malhiot
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
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A lifelong Alaskan, Steve Kahn moved at the age of nine from the “metropolis” of Anchorage to the foothills of the Chugach Mountains. A childhood of berry picking, fishing, and hunting led to a life as a big-game guide....
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The Great Polar Fraud
- Cook, Peary, and Byrd - How Three American Heroes Duped the World into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole
- Written by: Anthony Galvin
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
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The Great Polar Fraud explores the history of the three men who claimed the pole, their claims, and the subsequent doubts of those claims....
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Scott and Amundsen
- Their Race to the South Pole
- Written by: Roland Huntford
- Narrated by: Tim Piggott-Smith
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
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A brilliant dual biography charting British Robert Scott's and Norwegian Roald Amundsen's race to the South Pole during 1911-12....
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Floating Coast
- An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
- Written by: Bathsheba Demuth
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
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The first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada, Floating Coast breaks away from familiar narratives to provide a fresh and fascinating perspective on an overlooked landscape....
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A Wretched and Precarious Situation
- In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier
- Written by: David Welky
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
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A remarkable true story of adventure, betrayal, and survival set in one of the world's most inhospitable places....
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South
- The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917
- Written by: Sir Ernest Shackleton
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
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As war clouds darkened over Europe in 1914, a party led by Sir Ernest Shackleton set out to make the first crossing of the entire Antarctic continent via the Pole....
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excellent story. just fascinating.
- By Stephane on 2019-05-07
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Mawson and the Ice Men of the Heroic Age
- Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen
- Written by: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Paul English
- Length: 23 hrs and 54 mins
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Australia's best-selling nonfiction author of all time. Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, was Australia's greatest Antarctic explorer....
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Farthest North
- The Epic Adventure of a Visionary Explorer
- Written by: Fridtjof Nansen
- Narrated by: Ulf Bjorklund
- Length: 28 hrs and 10 mins
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In 1893 Norwegian zoologist Fridtjof Nansen set sail for the North Pole in the Fram, a ship specially designed to be frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pressures, and travel north with the sea's drift. Experts said that such a ship couldn't be built....
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Leading at the Edge
- Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition
- Written by: Dennis N. T. Perkins, Margaret P. Holtman (contributor), Jillian B. Murphy (contributor)
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
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In December of 1914, the British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition sailed from the island of South Georgia in the Southern Ocean. Its goal: the first overland crossing of Antarctica.....
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The Arctic
- What Everyone Needs to Know
- Written by: Klaus Dodds, Mark Nuttall
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
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In The Arctic, Klaus Dodds and Mark Nuttall offer concise answers to the myriad questions that arise when looking at the circumpolar North....
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Scott's Last Expedition
- The Journals
- Written by: Robert Falcon Scott
- Narrated by: William Sutherland
- Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
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In November 1910, the vessel Terra Nova left New Zealand carrying an international team of explorers led by Robert Falcon Scott...
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voice work was terrible
- By Del grams on 2021-01-15
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To the Edges of the Earth
- 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration
- Written by: Edward J. Larson
- Narrated by: Paul Michael Garcia
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, an entwined narrative of the most adventurous year of all time, when three expeditions simultaneously raced to the top, bottom, and heights of the world....
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Mawson's Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written
- Written by: Lennard Bickel
- Narrated by: Scott Slocum
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
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Sir Douglas Mawson is remembered as the young Australian who would not go to the South Pole with Robert Scott in 1911....
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The Ice at the End of the World
- An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
- Written by: Jon Gertner
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders, Jon Gertner
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
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In The Ice at the End of the World, Jon Gertner explains how Greenland has evolved from one of earth’s last frontiers to its largest scientific laboratory....
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The Lost Men
- The Horrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party
- Written by: Kelly Tyler-Lewis
- Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
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Sir Ernest Shackleton's endeavor to Antarctica is legend, but few know the astonishing story of the Ross Sea party, the support crew he dispatched to the opposite side of the continent....
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Fatal North
- Murder and Survival on the First North Pole Expedition
- Written by: Bruce Henderson
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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It began as President Ulysses S. Grant's bid for international glory after the Civil War - America's first attempt to reach the North Pole. It ended with Captain Charles Hall's death....
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Finding Franklin
- The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search
- Written by: Russell A. Potter
- Narrated by: Gary L. Willprecht
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
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In 2014, the wreck of HMS Erebus, the flagship of Sir John Franklin’s lost expedition to find the Northwest Passage, was discovered. Finding Franklin outlines the larger story and the cast of detectives that led to the discovery....
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The White Darkness
- Written by: David Grann
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
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By the number one New York Times best-selling author of Killers of the Flower Moon comes a powerful true story of adventure and obsession in the Antarctic....
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Insightful
- By Elise A Gignac on 2018-12-29
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South with the Sun
- Roald Amundsen, His Polar Explorations, and the Quest for Discovery
- Written by: Lynne Cox
- Narrated by: Christine Williams
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
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A powerfully built man more than six feet tall, Amundsen’s career of adventure began at the age of fifteen (he was born in Norway in 1872 to a family of merchant sea captains and rich ship owners)....
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Not about Amundsen
- By Anonymous User on 2020-12-13
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Ice Bear
- The Cultural History of an Arctic Icon
- Written by: Michael Engelhard
- Narrated by: Philip Benoit
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
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Prime Arctic predator and nomad of the sea ice and tundra, the polar bear endures as a source of wonder, terror, and fascination. Humans have seen it as spirit guide and fanged enemy, as trade good and moral metaphor, as food source and symbol of ecological crisis....
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Surface at the Pole
- The Extraordinary Voyages of the USS Skate
- Written by: James Calvert
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
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Under the guidance of James Calvert this nuclear submarine had navigated through polar ice packs, braved atrociously cold conditions, and broken through layers of thick ice to arrive at their destination; the northernmost point of the world....
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The Ice Balloon
- S. A. Andrée and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration
- Written by: Alec Wilkinson
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
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The story of S. A. Andrée, the visionary Swedish aeronaut who, in 1897, during the great age of Arctic endeavor, left to discover the North Pole by flying to it in a hydrogen balloon....
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Ernest Shackleton: A Life from Beginning to End
- Biographies of Explorers, Book 1
- Written by: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
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Ernest Shackleton was not just a great explorer - he was also a great commander. When the chips were down, he could always be depended upon to put others ahead of himself....
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An Empire of Ice
- Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science
- Written by: Edward J. Larson
- Narrated by: John Allen Nelson
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
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Published to coincide with the centenary of the first expeditions to reach the South Pole, An Empire of Ice presents a fascinating new take on Antarctic exploration....