- Arctic & Antarctica (50)
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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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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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Arctic Convoys
- Bletchley Park and the War for the Seas
- By: David Kenyon
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
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An incisive account of the Arctic convoys, and the essential role Bletchley Park and Special Intelligence played in Allied success....
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Wanderlust
- An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age
- By: Reid Mitenbuler
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
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The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance networks of World War II....
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Fascinating
- By Jacinda on 18-08-2023
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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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My Life with the Eskimo
- By: Vilhjálmur Stefánsson
- Narrated by: Chris Matthess
- Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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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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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
- Unabridged
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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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Arctic Convoys
- Bletchley Park and the War for the Seas
- By: David Kenyon
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
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An incisive account of the Arctic convoys, and the essential role Bletchley Park and Special Intelligence played in Allied success....
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Wanderlust
- An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age
- By: Reid Mitenbuler
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
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The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance networks of World War II....
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Fascinating
- By Jacinda on 18-08-2023
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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
- 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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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 jasper on 28-07-2020
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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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Against the Ice
- The Classic Arctic Survival Story
- By: Ejnar Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau - foreword, Maurice Michael - translator
- Narrated by: Tristan Wright
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
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Ejnar Mikkelsen was devoted to Arctic exploration. In 1910 he decided to search for the diaries of the ill-fated Mylius-Erichsen expedition, which had set out to prove that Robert Peary’s outline of the East Greenland coast was a myth, erroneous and presumably self-serving....
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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 must read for all in or entering Leadership!
- By Anonymous User on 08-08-2022
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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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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 19th-century British exploration....
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Informative though patchy history
- By The Quiet Reader on 26-06-2018
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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 Kindle Customer on 31-12-2020
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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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Snow Widows
- Scott’s Fatal Antarctic Expedition Through the Eyes of the Women They Left Behind
- By: Katherine MacInnes
- Narrated by: Jane McDowell
- Length: 20 hrs and 14 mins
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Robert Falcon Scott and the men of his polar expedition were heroes of their age, but they were also husbands, fathers, sons and brothers. Katherine MacInnes retells the story of the race for the South Pole from the perspective of the women whose lives would be forever changed by it....
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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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N-4 Down
- The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia
- By: Mark Piesing
- Narrated by: Matt Jamie
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
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Triumphantly returning from the North Pole on May 24, 1928, the world-famous exploring airship Italia — code-named N-4 — was struck by a terrible storm and crashed somewhere over the Arctic ice, triggering the largest polar rescue mission in history....
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The Ice Diaries
- The Untold Story of the USS Nautilus and 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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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
- Unabridged
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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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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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Frozen Empires
- An Environmental History of the Antarctic Peninsula
- By: Adrian Howkins
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
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Adrian Howkins argues that there has been a fundamental continuity in the ways in which imperial powers have used the environment to support their political claims in the Antarctic Peninsula region....
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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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Antarctic Pioneer
- The Trailblazing Life of Jackie Ronne
- By: Joanna Kafarowski
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
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Jackie was an ordinary American woman whose life changed after a blind date with rugged Antarctic explorer Finn Ronne. After marrying, they began planning the 1946-1948 Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition....
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Extreme North
- A Cultural History
- By: Bernd Brunner, Jefferson Chase - translator
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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Scholars and laymen alike have long projected their fantasies onto the great expanse of the global North, whether it be as a frozen no-man's-land, an icy realm of marauding Vikings, or an unspoiled cradle of prehistoric human life....
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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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Mad Trapper of Rat River
- A True Story of Canada's Biggest Manhunt
- By: Dick North
- Narrated by: Walter Brown
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
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They called it "The Arctic Circle War." It was a forty-eight-day manhunt across the harshest terrain in the world, the likes of which we will never see again....
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good story spoilt by AI narration.
- By Amazon Customer on 29-05-2023
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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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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....