- Arctic & Antarctica (42)
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Alone on the Ice
- The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
- 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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Enthralling
- By Anonymous User on 21-07-2020
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Mawson and the Ice Men of the Heroic Age
- Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen
- 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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The Ice Men
- By Vivien on 29-04-2018
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Erebus: The Story of a Ship
- By: Michael Palin
- Narrated by: Michael Palin
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
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In his major new work, Michael Palin - former Monty Python stalwart and much-loved television globe-trotter - brings to life the world and voyages of HMS Erebus....
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Totally absorbing
- By The Quiet Reader on 14-10-2018
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Leading at the Edge
- Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition
- 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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Alone on the Ice
- The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
- By: David Roberts
- Narrated by: Matthew Brenher
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Enthralling
- By Anonymous User on 21-07-2020
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Mawson and the Ice Men of the Heroic Age
- Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen
- 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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The Ice Men
- By Vivien on 29-04-2018
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Erebus: The Story of a Ship
- By: Michael Palin
- Narrated by: Michael Palin
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
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In his major new work, Michael Palin - former Monty Python stalwart and much-loved television globe-trotter - brings to life the world and voyages of HMS Erebus....
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Totally absorbing
- By The Quiet Reader on 14-10-2018
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Leading at the Edge
- Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition
- 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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Leading on the Edge
- Extraordinary Stories and Leadership Insights from the World's Most Extreme Workplace
- By: Rachael Robertson
- Narrated by: Lucy Paterson
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
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In Leading on the Edge, successful business speaker and consultant Rachael Robertson shares the lessons she learned as leader of a year–long expedition to the wilds of Antarctica....
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Solid good leadership book, poor narration
- By Anonymous User on 06-01-2021
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My Life with the Eskimo
- By: Vilhjálmur Stefánsson
- Narrated by: Chris Matthess
- Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
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Vilhjálmur Stefánsson left New York in April 1908 to begin his journey northwards and into the Arctic Circle. For the next two years, he made his way northwards to Victoria Island to study an isolated group of Inuit who still used primitive tools....
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The Worst Journey in the World
- 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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Superb narration. Wonderful presentation.
- By Lauren Wilson on 21-02-2021
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The Hard Way Home
- Alaska Stories of Adventure, Friendship, and the Hunt (Outdoor Lives)
- 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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South
- The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917
- 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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Narration questionable
- By Lauren Wilson on 13-12-2020
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Floating Coast
- An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
- 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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Race for the South Pole
- The Expedition Diaries of Scott and Amundsen
- 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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A listen that requires ‘concentration’ throughout
- By karl on 17-02-2018
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South
- 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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Ice Ghosts
- The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition
- By: Paul Watson
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
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Ice Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the Lost Franklin Expedition of 1845 with the modern tale behind the incredible discovery of the flagship's wreck....
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Ada Blackjack
- A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
- 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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The Man Who Ate His Boots
- The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage
- 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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Informative though patchy history
- By The Quiet Reader on 26-06-2018
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Scott and Amundsen
- Their Race to the South Pole
- 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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Great adventure but seems bias
- By Anonymous User on 28-07-2020
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Surface at the Pole
- The Extraordinary Voyages of the USS Skate
- 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 Stowaway
- A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica
- 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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3 hours in - no story yet.
- By Lisa on 30-01-2018
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Scott's Last Expedition
- The Journals
- 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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fabulous
- By Anonymous User on 31-12-2020
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Farthest North
- The Epic Adventure of a Visionary Explorer
- 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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The Adrenaline Series
- High, Epic, and Rough Water
- By: Matt Dickinson, Sebastian Junger, Greg Child
- Narrated by: uncredited
- Length: 17 hrs
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For fans of Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air and other T-type personalities, comes this collection of thrill-seeking adventures...
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The Ice Diaries
- The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Daring Mission
- By: Captain William R. Anderson, Don Keith - contributor
- Narrated by: Roger Mueller
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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The Ice Diaries tells the incredible true story of Captain William R. Anderson and his crew's harrowing top-secret mission aboard the USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear-powered submarine....
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A Wretched and Precarious Situation
- In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier
- 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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An Empire of Ice
- Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science
- 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....
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Ice Bear
- The Cultural History of an Arctic Icon
- 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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Finding Franklin
- The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search
- 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 Great Polar Fraud
- Cook, Peary, and Byrd - How Three American Heroes Duped the World into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole
- 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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Unknown Waters
- A First-Hand Account of the Historic Under-Ice Survey of the Siberian Continental Shelf by USS Queenfish
- By: Dr. Alfred S. McLaren
- Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
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This audiobook tells the story of the brave officers and men of the nuclear attack submarine USS Queenfish....
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Fatal North
- Murder and Survival on the First North Pole Expedition
- 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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To the Edges of the Earth
- 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration
- 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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The Hidden Life of Ice
- Dispatches from a Disappearing World
- By: Marco Tedesco, Alberto Flores d'Arcais, Elizabeth Kolbert - foreword
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
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A pioneering researcher's illuminating account of Arctic ice - its secret history and dire future....
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A First Rate Tragedy
- By: Diana Preston
- Narrated by: Philip Franks
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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On November 12, 1912, a rescue team trekking across Antarctica's Great Ice Barrier finally found what they sought....
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Antarctica
- Exploring a Fragile Eden
- By: Jonathan Scott, Angela Scott
- Narrated by: Sarah Sherborne
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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A journey to Antarctica changes your life. It forces you to take a long hard look at the state of our planet and its last wild places....
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Ernest Shackleton: A Life from Beginning to End
- Biographies of Explorers, Book 1
- 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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Life Among the Qallunaat
- 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 North Pole
- Its Discovery in 1909 Under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic Club
- By: Robert E. Peary
- Narrated by: Jonathan Reese
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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The North Pole, originally published in 1910, makes available Robert E. Peary's own account of his expedition in the Arctic....