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  • Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
  • Written by: Andrea Pitzer
  • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
  • Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
  • 3.6 out of 5 stars (5 ratings)

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Icebound

Written by: Andrea Pitzer
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
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Publisher's Summary

In the best-selling tradition of Hampton Sides’ In the Kingdom of Ice, a “gripping adventure tale” (The Boston Globe) recounting Dutch polar explorer William Barents’ three harrowing Arctic expeditions - the last of which resulted in a relentlessly challenging year-long fight for survival.
©2021 Andrea Pitzer. All rights reserved (P)2021 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.
Adventurers, Explorers & Survival Arctic & Antarctica World Polar Exploration
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"Narrator Fred Sanders's grave voice and understated performance work well for this grim and brutal history of Arctic exploration. In the sixteenth century, Dutch explorer William Barents set out three times from Amsterdam to search for a northeastern passage through the Arctic to China. Everyone made it home the first time. The second time, Barents lost crew members to polar bear attacks, drowning, and a mutiny. The third expedition was a disaster, with the ship lost and the crew forced to overwinter in the Arctic. Sanders's narration is quiet and grim, a style that makes the grisly polar bear attacks easier to handle." (AudioFile Magazine)

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  • 2021-04-20

decent...

Decent story of adventure. I found the tone kind of impersonal which made it hard to really get into. I think it was important to include all three journeys, but the true survival story is really the third journey. This is worth the credit to listen tp, but not nearly as good as Endurance.

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