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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. Cherry-Garrard, whom Scott lauded as a tough, efficient member of the team, tells of the journey from England to South Africa and southward to the ice floes. From there began the unforgettable polar journey across a forbidding and inhospitable region. On November 12, 1912, in arctic temperatures, the author, in a search party, found the bodies of Scott and his companions along with poignant last notebook entries, some of them recorded in this work.
Among Apsley Cherry-Garrard's friends and admirers were John Galsworthy, H. G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, and Bernard Shaw. His background in the arts and humanities makes The Worst Journey in the World stand out as a literary accomplishment as well as a classic in the annals of exploration.
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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. On 2 December 1911, he led an expedition from Hobart to explore the virgin frozen coastline below, 2000 miles of which had never felt the tread of a human foot. After setting up Main Base at Cape Denision and Western Base on Queen Mary Land, he headed east on an extraordinary sledging trek with his companions, Belgrave Ninnis and Dr Xavier Mertz.
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A Real Life "Boys Own" Adventure Story
- De Windswept en 11-21-12
De: Peter FitzSimons
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Labyrinth of Ice
- The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition
- De: Buddy Levy
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 13 h y 13 m
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In July 1881, Lt. A. W. Greely and his crew of 24 scientists and explorers were bound for the last region unmarked on global maps. Their goal: Farthest North. What would follow was one of the most extraordinary and terrible voyages ever made. Greely and his men confronted every possible challenge - vicious wolves, sub-zero temperatures, and months of total darkness - as they set about exploring one of the most remote, unrelenting environments on the planet. In May 1882, they broke the 300-year-old record, and returned to camp to eagerly await the resupply ship. Only nothing came.
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An incredible read
- De Lauren Olson en 12-06-19
De: Buddy Levy
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Fatal North
- Murder and Survival on the First North Pole Expedition
- De: Bruce Henderson
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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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 under suspicious circumstances, dissension among sailors, scientists, and explorers, and the ship's evacuation and eventual sinking. Then came a brutal struggle for survival by 33 men, women, and children stranded on the polar ice.
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An average reader says 10
- De Barbara en 11-10-16
De: Bruce Henderson
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Race for the South Pole
- The Expedition Diaries of Scott and Amundsen
- De: Roland Huntford
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 14 h y 38 m
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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. In 1910, Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen set sail for Antarctica, each from his own starting point, and the epic race for the South Pole was on. 2010 marks the centenary of the last great race of terrestrial discovery. For the first time Scott's unedited diary entries run alongside those of Amundsen and Bjaaland, never before translated into English.
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Great account, might be better in hard copy
- De Error9312 en 05-24-22
De: Roland Huntford
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The Last Viking
- The Life of Roald Amundsen
- De: Stephen R. Bown
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 12 h y 9 m
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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. In 1900, the four great geographical mysteries - the Northwest Passage, the Northeast Passage, the South Pole, and the North Pole - remained blank spots on the globe. Within twenty years Roald Amundsen would claim all four prizes.
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Outstanding.
- De Leon Miller en 12-01-15
De: Stephen R. Bown
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The Man Who Ate His Boots
- The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage
- De: Anthony Brandt
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 15 h y 18 m
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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. After the triumphant end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the British took it upon themselves to complete something they had been trying to do since the 16th century: Find the fabled Northwest Passage, a shortcut to the Orient via a sea route over Northern Canada. For the next 35 years the British Admiralty sent out expedition after expedition to probe the ice-bound waters of the Canadian Arctic in search of a route.
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They don't get any better than this
- De Christopher en 08-15-14
De: Anthony Brandt
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Mawson
- And the Ice Men of the Heroic Age - Scott, Shackelton and Amundsen
- De: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrado por: Paul English
- Duración: 23 h y 54 m
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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. On 2 December 1911, he led an expedition from Hobart to explore the virgin frozen coastline below, 2000 miles of which had never felt the tread of a human foot. After setting up Main Base at Cape Denision and Western Base on Queen Mary Land, he headed east on an extraordinary sledging trek with his companions, Belgrave Ninnis and Dr Xavier Mertz.
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A Real Life "Boys Own" Adventure Story
- De Windswept en 11-21-12
De: Peter FitzSimons
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Labyrinth of Ice
- The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition
- De: Buddy Levy
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 13 h y 13 m
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In July 1881, Lt. A. W. Greely and his crew of 24 scientists and explorers were bound for the last region unmarked on global maps. Their goal: Farthest North. What would follow was one of the most extraordinary and terrible voyages ever made. Greely and his men confronted every possible challenge - vicious wolves, sub-zero temperatures, and months of total darkness - as they set about exploring one of the most remote, unrelenting environments on the planet. In May 1882, they broke the 300-year-old record, and returned to camp to eagerly await the resupply ship. Only nothing came.
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An incredible read
- De Lauren Olson en 12-06-19
De: Buddy Levy
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Fatal North
- Murder and Survival on the First North Pole Expedition
- De: Bruce Henderson
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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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 under suspicious circumstances, dissension among sailors, scientists, and explorers, and the ship's evacuation and eventual sinking. Then came a brutal struggle for survival by 33 men, women, and children stranded on the polar ice.
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- De Barbara en 11-10-16
De: Bruce Henderson
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In the Kingdom of Ice
- The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
- De: Hampton Sides
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 17 h y 30 m
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In the late nineteenth century, people were obsessed by one of the last unmapped areas of the globe: The North Pole. No one knew what existed beyond the fortress of ice rimming the northern oceans. On July 8, 1879, the USS Jeannette set sail from San Francisco to cheering crowds in the grip of "Arctic Fever." The ship sailed into uncharted seas, but soon was trapped in pack ice. Two years into the harrowing voyage, the hull was breached. Amid the rush of water and the shrieks of breaking wooden boards, the crew abandoned the ship.
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Superb tale that unravels at an iceburg's pace
- De Mel en 03-19-15
De: Hampton Sides
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South
- The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917
- De: Sir Ernest Shackleton
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 14 h y 37 m
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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. But their initial optimism was short-lived as ice floes closed around their ship, gradually crushing it and marooning twenty-eight men on the polar ice. Alone in the world's most unforgiving environment, Shackleton and his team began a brutal quest for survival.
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This is a must read.
- De Charles en 10-01-12
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Mawson's Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written
- De: Lennard Bickel
- Narrado por: Scott Slocum
- Duración: 7 h y 32 m
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Mawson's Will is the dramatic story of what Sir Edmund Hillary calls "the most outstanding solo journey ever recorded in Antarctic history." For weeks in Antarctica, Douglas Mawson faced some of the most daunting conditions ever known to man: blistering wind, snow, and cold; loss of his companion, his dogs and supplies, the skin on his hands and the soles of his feet; thirst, starvation, disease, snowblindness - and he survived.
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Mawson's Will of IRON!
- De Kath Gilliam en 09-17-18
De: Lennard Bickel
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Scott and Amundsen
- Their Race to the South Pole
- De: Roland Huntford
- Narrado por: Tim Piggott-Smith
- Duración: 6 h y 34 m
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This is a brilliant dual biography charting British Robert Scott's and Norwegian Roald Amundsen's race to the South Pole during 1911-12. Huntuford's is the accepted, definitive account of the race and a reassessment of the two men. Thoroughly researched, revealing the adventures and misfortunes that befell them both, he describes the driving ambitions of the era, and the complex, often deeply flawed individuals who were charged with carrying them out.
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Good but could have been great
- De Pierre en 05-19-08
De: Roland Huntford
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Wanderlust
- An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age
- De: Reid Mitenbuler
- Narrado por: Peter Noble
- Duración: 19 h y 13 m
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Deep in the Arctic wilderness, Peter Freuchen awoke to find himself buried alive under the snow. During a sudden blizzard the night before, he had taken shelter underneath his dogsled and become trapped there while he slept. Now, as feeling drained from his body, he managed to claw a hole through the ice only to find himself in even greater danger: his beard, wet with condensation from his struggling breath, had frozen to his sled runners and lashed his head in place, exposing it to icy winds that needed only a few minutes to kill him. If Freuchen could escape that, he could escape anything.
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Amazingly in-depth look at an amazing person.
- De Dave en 06-18-23
De: Reid Mitenbuler
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Madhouse at the End of the Earth
- The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
- De: Julian Sancton
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam
- Duración: 13 h y 28 m
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In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three-year expedition aboard the good ship Belgica with dreams of glory. His destination was the uncharted end of the earth: the icy continent of Antarctica. But de Gerlache’s plans to be first to the magnetic South Pole would swiftly go awry. After a series of costly setbacks, the commandant faced two bad options: turn back in defeat and spare his men the devastating Antarctic winter, or recklessly chase fame by sailing deeper into the freezing waters.
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Excellent story
- De Ginger 3701 en 05-23-21
De: Julian Sancton
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The Lost Men
- The Horrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party
- De: Kelly Tyler-Lewis
- Narrado por: Graeme Malcolm
- Duración: 6 h y 16 m
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In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed south aboard the Endurance to be the first to cross Antarctica. Shackleton's endeavor 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 to build a vital lifeline of food and fuel depots.
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Just OK
- De Michael en 05-17-07
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Erebus
- One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time
- De: Michael Palin
- Narrado por: Michael Palin
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
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Michael Palin brings the fascinating story of the Erebus and its occupants to life, from its construction as a bomb vessel in 1826 through the flagship years of James Clark Ross’s Antarctic expedition and finally to Sir John Franklin’s quest for the holy grail of navigation - a route through the Northwest Passage, where the ship disappeared into the depths of the sea for more than 150 years. It was rediscovered under the arctic waters in 2014.
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Fascinating survey of the intrepid polar explorers
- De Nick Blaha en 08-24-24
De: Michael Palin
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An Empire of Ice
- Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science
- De: Edward J. Larson
- Narrado por: John Allen Nelson
- Duración: 10 h y 35 m
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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. Retold with added information, it's the first book to place the famed voyages of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, his British rivals Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton, and others in a larger scientific, social, and geopolitical context.
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Rubbish
- De John Rodsted en 03-31-14
De: Edward J. Larson
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The White Darkness
- De: David Grann
- Narrado por: Will Patton
- Duración: 2 h y 28 m
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Henry Worsley spent his life idolizing Ernest Shackleton, the 19th-century polar explorer who tried to become the first person to reach the South Pole and later sought to cross Antarctica on foot. Worsley felt an overpowering connection to those expeditions. In 2008, Worsley set out across Antarctica with two other descendants of Shackleton's crew, battling the freezing, desolate landscape and life-threatening physical exhaustion. He soon felt compelled to go back. In 2015, Worsley bid farewell to his family and embarked on his most perilous quest: to walk across Antarctica alone.
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Will Patton's narration
- De Carol en 01-18-19
De: David Grann
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Island of the Blue Foxes
- Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition
- De: Stephen R. Bown
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
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The story of the world's largest, longest, and best-financed scientific expedition of all time, triumphantly successful, gruesomely tragic, and never before fully told. The immense 18th-century scientific journey, variously known as the Second Kamchatka Expedition or the Great Northern Expedition, from St. Petersburg across Siberia to the coast of North America, involved over 3,000 people and cost Peter the Great over one-sixth of his empire's annual revenue.
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Vivid History of Russia's First Contact In Alaska
- De Neil Ring en 09-01-18
De: Stephen R. Bown
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Empire of Ice and Stone
- The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk
- De: Buddy Levy
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 14 h y 40 m
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In the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine Karluk departed Canada for the Arctic Ocean. At the helm was Captain Bob Bartlett, considered the world’s greatest living ice navigator. The expedition’s visionary leader was a flamboyant impresario named Vilhjalmur Stefansson hungry for fame. Just six weeks after the Karluk departed, giant ice floes closed in around her. As the ship became icebound, Stefansson disembarked with five companions and struck out on what he claimed was a 10-day caribou hunting trip. Most on board would never see him again.
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Great adventure story
- De Elaine McCollough en 01-06-23
De: Buddy Levy
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- lisa kadison
- 05-13-23
skip to chapter 8 and circle back
if you're having a hard time getting into it!
It's a bit information heavy in the beginning but picks up. By the end, I wanted more information!
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- SLOmygosh
- 10-02-15
Puts things into perspective...
"I would never complain about heat again" that sentence really stuck with me - as did many more. This was not an easy book to get through, but Cherry's astute and sometimes humorous observations about the polar expedition, about Scott, about the men of this era... and about penguins proved well worth the time and effort. This would be a good book for a man coming-of-age in what is comparatively, a different world. A good book for anyone caught up in their own importance. It definitely made me rethink my own insignificant complaints.
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- C-lit
- 03-13-18
great read!
fantastic performance - a very interesting and poignant account of this polar journey and tragedy
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- Morgana
- 07-03-16
Amazing Journey
I was freezing as I listened to this story!
Author describes a glacial world, that
is long gone.
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- Thom Babbes
- 09-25-17
Exquisite Telling of a Phenomenal True Story
I became fascinated with the story of RF Scott and the Terra Nova upon seeing Terrance McNally’s play of the same name. Was delighted to find and devour the hardcover of The Worst Journey in the World many years ago.
Thrilled to find it read to perfection here. The narrator seems to channel each voice from beyond.
An age of heroism gone by. Stunning. Great listen!
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- Thomas M
- 10-08-16
Great example of grace under extreme circumstances
This book is fabulously entertaining and interesting. From the harrowing saga to the uplifting moral conclusion, it explains much about why the expeditions to the South Pole were undertaken and why they still matter.
Great story. Great performance.
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- Client d'Amazon
- 12-30-21
Deeply interesting and inspiring
I read this book after reading Endurance, about the failed Shackleton expedition, and while traveling to Antartica. The two books provided fascinating information about the history of exploration and the nature of Antartica, as well as inspiring insights about the inner workings of mankind. Both books are highly recommended, even if, like me, you never thought you were interested in Antarctica.
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- Robin
- 03-30-11
Heart felt description of Anartica
I felt as if I was part of the exploring party. So much so, that on days when I was tired, I was hesitant to listen. Cambridge's Scott Polar Research Institute has online photos of the people, hut, and ponies - powerful images to go with the reading of this diary. The book is about a British expedition, and read by an eloquent, British gentleman. Quite the right touch. The National Geographic Society has a list of the100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time and this story is in first place.
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- ellen
- 01-11-09
worst journey in the world
even though this is long it is worth every minute, waiting to see what would happen, knowing how difficult it was for them and how they endured such terrible conditions and still kept going. I went and bought indivdual biographies and other stories of the members to read more about these folks because I was so fascinated by them after listening to this story. I recommend this and don't stop even though one may think it is tedious. It deserves your time. The narration is great also.
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- Steve Adams
- 08-08-18
The Book to read when you are having a rough day
This is a very gripping story of the ill-fated Scott expedition to try to be the first man to get to the South Pole. If you feel like your life sucks, or you are having a tough day at the office. Going through these pages of everything that Scott expedition endured will make you re-assess just how tough your life is.
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