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Bestsellers
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The Ice at the End of the World
- An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
- By: Jon Gertner
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders, Jon Gertner
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Adventure, Science, Advocacy
- By EM Goodkind on 09-08-19
By: Jon Gertner
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Madhouse at the End of the Earth
- The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
- By: Julian Sancton
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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The true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry—with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter....
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Excellent story
- By Ginger 3701 on 05-23-21
By: Julian Sancton
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The White Darkness
- By: David Grann
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Will Patton's narration
- By Carol on 01-18-19
By: David Grann
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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
- Unabridged
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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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Amazingly in-depth look at an amazing person.
- By Dave on 06-18-23
By: Reid Mitenbuler
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In the Kingdom of Ice
- The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
- By: Hampton Sides
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Superb tale that unravels at an iceburg's pace
- By Mel on 03-19-15
By: Hampton Sides
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The Worst Journey in the World
- 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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What a story!
- By A. Massey on 05-25-04
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The Ice at the End of the World
- An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
- By: Jon Gertner
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders, Jon Gertner
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Adventure, Science, Advocacy
- By EM Goodkind on 09-08-19
By: Jon Gertner
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Madhouse at the End of the Earth
- The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
- By: Julian Sancton
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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The true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry—with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter....
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Excellent story
- By Ginger 3701 on 05-23-21
By: Julian Sancton
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The White Darkness
- By: David Grann
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Will Patton's narration
- By Carol on 01-18-19
By: David Grann
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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
- Unabridged
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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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Amazingly in-depth look at an amazing person.
- By Dave on 06-18-23
By: Reid Mitenbuler
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In the Kingdom of Ice
- The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
- By: Hampton Sides
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Superb tale that unravels at an iceburg's pace
- By Mel on 03-19-15
By: Hampton Sides
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The Worst Journey in the World
- 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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What a story!
- By A. Massey on 05-25-04
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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
- Unabridged
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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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They don't get any better than this
- By Christopher on 08-15-14
By: Anthony Brandt
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Sea of Glory
- America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
- By: Nathaniel Philbrick
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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The New York Times best-selling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye presents the harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, dwarfing Lewis and Clark with its discoveries....
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A good solid voyage of discovery
- By Ken Sundermeyer on 06-18-05
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The Lost Men
- The Horrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party
- 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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Just OK
- By Michael on 05-17-07
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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
- Unabridged
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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 great book about brave men
- By TDL Martin on 02-05-20
By: Captain William R. Anderson, and others
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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
- Unabridged
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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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FABULOUS.
- By Lori J on 01-22-22
By: Ejnar Mikkelsen, and others
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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
- Unabridged
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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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Great account, might be better in hard copy
- By Error9312 on 05-24-22
By: Roland Huntford
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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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Needs edited
- By Amazon Customer on 03-01-24
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Icebound
- Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
- 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 “gripping adventure tale” (The Boston Globe) recounting Dutch polar explorer William Barents’ three harrowing Arctic expeditions....
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Great book - missing maps :(
- By Stephen on 01-20-21
By: Andrea Pitzer
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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
- Unabridged
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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 most boring of all polar exploration stories.
- By ASakaeva on 01-15-20
By: Fridtjof Nansen
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The Ice Balloon
- S. A. Andrée and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration
- By: Alec Wilkinson
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Very Interesting Look at Little Known Event
- By Chris Reich on 06-18-12
By: Alec Wilkinson
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The Last Viking
- The Life of Roald Amundsen
- By: Stephen R. Bown
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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The Last Viking unravels the life of the man who stands head and shoulders above all those who raced to map the last corners of the world....
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Outstanding.
- By Leon Miller on 12-01-15
By: Stephen R. Bown
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Endurance
- An Epic of Polar Adventure
- By: F.A. Worsley, Patrick O’Brian - preface
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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The legendary tale of Ernest Shackleton's grueling Antarctic expedition, recounted in riveting first-person detail by the captain of HMS Endurance....
By: F.A. Worsley, and others
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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
- Unabridged
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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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brutally honest accounts unbelievable stories
- By Troy Hamilton on 07-17-18
By: Edward J. Larson
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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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Outstanding author and narrator - best version
- By Stephen on 12-17-19
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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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Good but could have been great
- By Pierre on 05-19-08
By: Roland Huntford
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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
- Unabridged
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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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it all comes together at the end
- By Kat on 01-30-18
By: David Welky
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Mawson's Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written
- By: Lennard Bickel
- Narrated by: Scott Slocum
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Mawson's Will of IRON!
- By Kath Gilliam on 09-17-18
By: Lennard Bickel
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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
- Unabridged
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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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Great moments in Submarine history.
- By james on 05-06-24
By: James Calvert
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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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A good read
- By rjay on 09-08-17
By: Anthony Galvin
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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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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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A Real Life "Boys Own" Adventure Story
- By Windswept on 11-21-12
By: Peter FitzSimons
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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, awful AI narration.
- By Simon on 10-12-23
By: Dick North
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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
- Unabridged
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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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Interesting and entertaining
- By 2451 on 09-01-21
By: Mark Piesing
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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
- Unabridged
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An incisive account of the Arctic convoys, and the essential role Bletchley Park and Special Intelligence played in Allied success....
By: David Kenyon
New releases
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South! (Annotated)
- The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition 1914-1917
- By: Ernest Shackleton
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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The Greatest Expedition Rescue in History Experience one of the most unexpected survival stories in modern history. Read the first-hand account of Sir Ernest Shackleton as he takes you through the grand trials and tribulations of being marooned in the Southern Ocean for nearly two years. His original plan was to trek across Antarctica, a feat that had yet to be achieved. The turn of events that should have ended in tragedy is worth reading time and again. Annotated with a bonus biography of Ernest Shackleton Illustrations included Timed with the outbreak of World War I, this ill-fated ...
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The Most Incredible Exploration Stories Ever Told
- A Collection of Extraordinary Tales From Our World's Greatest Explorers
- By: Jonathan Hunt
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Explore the Uncharted with The Most Incredible Exploration Stories Ever Told! Embark on an unforgettable journey through time and across the globe with this captivating collection of exploration stories that will ignite your sense of adventure and curiosity. In The Most Incredible Exploration Stories Ever Told, we invite you to dive headfirst into the thrilling tales of intrepid explorers who dared to venture into the unknown, unveiling the mysteries of our world. Among several others, you’ll learn about the exploits and adventures of: Marco Polo, the Venetian explorer who became an ...
By: Jonathan Hunt
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Searching for Franklin
- New Answers to the Great Arctic Mystery
- By: Ken McGoogan
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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This book interweaves two narratives. The first treats the Royal Navy's Arctic Overland Expedition of 1819, a harbinger-misadventure during which Franklin rejected the advice of Dene and Metis leaders and lost eleven of his twenty-one men. The second discovers a startling new answer to that greatest of Arctic mysteries: what was the root cause of the catastrophe that engulfed Franklin's last expedition?
By: Ken McGoogan
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Frozen Frontier
- Arctic Expedition Book about Epic Journeys, Heroic Explorations, and Tragedies in the Early Voyages of Discovery to the Arctic and Polar Regions.
- By: Bo Carson
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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The frozen wilderness of the Arctic captivated and mystified voyagers and explorers in the 1800s, driven by greed for riches, fame, and the search for the elusive Northwest Passage. Delve into the jaw-dropping courage and awe-inspiring expeditions from the Golden Age of Arctic exploration with "Frozen Frontier" Follow the footsteps of heroic explorers and their courageous penetrations into an unknown world of mammoth ice floes, terrifying polar bears, and bone-chilling cold. Witness their incredible triumphs and heartbreaking tragedies, and discover the untold stories of the earliest ...
By: Bo Carson
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A Journey Across Iceland
- A True 19th Century Adventure
- By: Jon Svensson
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Jon Svensson ("Nonni") is the only Jesuit priest ever born in Iceland. He left his homeland as a boy, with his brother “Manni” to follow their mutual call to become Jesuit missionaries. Manni has since passed on during his studies, Nonni is now the Reverend Jon Svensson S. J. The boys had wished to become Jesuit missionaries, like St. Francis Xavier, yet Jon Svensson has spent most of his career as either a student or instructor in academia. Still longing to fulfill his dream of being a missionary he has volunteered to travel to Iceland to care for the souls of his fellow countrymen. ...
By: Jon Svensson
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Mammoth Remains: What Do They Indicate
- The Evidence Doesn't Support some Popularly-Held Ideas
- By: Robert Helfinstine
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Past articles about mammoth remains generally focus only on the frozen mammoth remains found in Russia and Alaska. Some articles mention the wide distribution of remains found in North America and Europe. However, to truly understand the "mystery of the mammoths" as it has been called, all evidence must been considered. This book starts out summarizing the information we know about mammoths, and then dives in to investigate evidence that others have ignored. The result is a surprising conclusion about the history and mystery of the mighty beast we know as the mammoth.
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South! (Annotated)
- The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition 1914-1917
- By: Ernest Shackleton
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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The Greatest Expedition Rescue in History Experience one of the most unexpected survival stories in modern history. Read the first-hand account of Sir Ernest Shackleton as he takes you through the grand trials and tribulations of being marooned in the Southern Ocean for nearly two years. His original plan was to trek across Antarctica, a feat that had yet to be achieved. The turn of events that should have ended in tragedy is worth reading time and again. Annotated with a bonus biography of Ernest Shackleton Illustrations included Timed with the outbreak of World War I, this ill-fated ...
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The Most Incredible Exploration Stories Ever Told
- A Collection of Extraordinary Tales From Our World's Greatest Explorers
- By: Jonathan Hunt
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Explore the Uncharted with The Most Incredible Exploration Stories Ever Told! Embark on an unforgettable journey through time and across the globe with this captivating collection of exploration stories that will ignite your sense of adventure and curiosity. In The Most Incredible Exploration Stories Ever Told, we invite you to dive headfirst into the thrilling tales of intrepid explorers who dared to venture into the unknown, unveiling the mysteries of our world. Among several others, you’ll learn about the exploits and adventures of: Marco Polo, the Venetian explorer who became an ...
By: Jonathan Hunt
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Searching for Franklin
- New Answers to the Great Arctic Mystery
- By: Ken McGoogan
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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This book interweaves two narratives. The first treats the Royal Navy's Arctic Overland Expedition of 1819, a harbinger-misadventure during which Franklin rejected the advice of Dene and Metis leaders and lost eleven of his twenty-one men. The second discovers a startling new answer to that greatest of Arctic mysteries: what was the root cause of the catastrophe that engulfed Franklin's last expedition?
By: Ken McGoogan
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Frozen Frontier
- Arctic Expedition Book about Epic Journeys, Heroic Explorations, and Tragedies in the Early Voyages of Discovery to the Arctic and Polar Regions.
- By: Bo Carson
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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The frozen wilderness of the Arctic captivated and mystified voyagers and explorers in the 1800s, driven by greed for riches, fame, and the search for the elusive Northwest Passage. Delve into the jaw-dropping courage and awe-inspiring expeditions from the Golden Age of Arctic exploration with "Frozen Frontier" Follow the footsteps of heroic explorers and their courageous penetrations into an unknown world of mammoth ice floes, terrifying polar bears, and bone-chilling cold. Witness their incredible triumphs and heartbreaking tragedies, and discover the untold stories of the earliest ...
By: Bo Carson
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A Journey Across Iceland
- A True 19th Century Adventure
- By: Jon Svensson
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Jon Svensson ("Nonni") is the only Jesuit priest ever born in Iceland. He left his homeland as a boy, with his brother “Manni” to follow their mutual call to become Jesuit missionaries. Manni has since passed on during his studies, Nonni is now the Reverend Jon Svensson S. J. The boys had wished to become Jesuit missionaries, like St. Francis Xavier, yet Jon Svensson has spent most of his career as either a student or instructor in academia. Still longing to fulfill his dream of being a missionary he has volunteered to travel to Iceland to care for the souls of his fellow countrymen. ...
By: Jon Svensson
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Mammoth Remains: What Do They Indicate
- The Evidence Doesn't Support some Popularly-Held Ideas
- By: Robert Helfinstine
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Past articles about mammoth remains generally focus only on the frozen mammoth remains found in Russia and Alaska. Some articles mention the wide distribution of remains found in North America and Europe. However, to truly understand the "mystery of the mammoths" as it has been called, all evidence must been considered. This book starts out summarizing the information we know about mammoths, and then dives in to investigate evidence that others have ignored. The result is a surprising conclusion about the history and mystery of the mighty beast we know as the mammoth.