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Bestsellers
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Endurance
- Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
- Written by: Alfred Lansing
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 770
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 679
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Story5 out of 5 stars 678
In August of 1914, the British ship Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic. In October 1915, still half a continent away from its intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in the ice
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the best stories ever, plus great narrator
- By Ben on 2018-01-31
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Madhouse at the End of the Earth
- The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
- Written by: Julian Sancton
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the best of this genre!
- By Nicholas Yaremchuk on 2023-09-22
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In the Kingdom of Ice
- The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
- Written by: Hampton Sides
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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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1 out of 5 stars
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Not written by a lover of artic exploration
- By Alexander Turner on 2020-01-09
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The Worst Journey in the World
- Written by: Apsley Cherry-Garrard
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 20 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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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2 out of 5 stars
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know what you are getting into
- By A on 2022-06-16
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Farthest North
- The Epic Adventure of a Visionary Explorer
- Written by: Fridtjof Nansen
- Narrated by: Ulf Bjorklund
- Length: 28 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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 White Darkness
- Written by: David Grann
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Story5 out of 5 stars 8
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Insightful
- By Hayseed on 2018-12-29
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Endurance
- Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
- Written by: Alfred Lansing
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 770
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 679
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Story5 out of 5 stars 678
In August of 1914, the British ship Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic. In October 1915, still half a continent away from its intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in the ice
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the best stories ever, plus great narrator
- By Ben on 2018-01-31
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Madhouse at the End of the Earth
- The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
- Written by: Julian Sancton
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the best of this genre!
- By Nicholas Yaremchuk on 2023-09-22
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In the Kingdom of Ice
- The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
- Written by: Hampton Sides
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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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1 out of 5 stars
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Not written by a lover of artic exploration
- By Alexander Turner on 2020-01-09
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The Worst Journey in the World
- Written by: Apsley Cherry-Garrard
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 20 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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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2 out of 5 stars
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know what you are getting into
- By A on 2022-06-16
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Farthest North
- The Epic Adventure of a Visionary Explorer
- Written by: Fridtjof Nansen
- Narrated by: Ulf Bjorklund
- Length: 28 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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 White Darkness
- Written by: David Grann
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Story5 out of 5 stars 8
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Insightful
- By Hayseed on 2018-12-29
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My Life with the Eskimo
- Written by: Vilhjálmur Stefánsson
- Narrated by: Chris Matthess
- Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 5
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Story5 out of 5 stars 5
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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3 out of 5 stars
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Incredible Story nearly lost on bad editing
- By Nicholas van Beinum on 2022-08-15
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Realm of Ice and Sky
- Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue
- Written by: Buddy Levy
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
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Story0 out of 5 stars 0
National Outdoor Book Award-winning author Buddy Levy's presents a thrilling narrative of polar exploration via airship―and the men who sacrificed everything to make history.
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Mawson
- And the Ice Men of the Heroic Age - Scott, Shackelton and Amundsen
- Written by: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Paul English
- Length: 23 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2
Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, was Australia’s greatest Antarctic explorer.
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The Stowaway
- A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica
- Written by: Laurie Gwen Shapiro
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2
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 out of 5 stars
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StowawayS
- By Roberta W on 2025-03-02
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The Man Who Ate His Boots
- The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage
- Written by: Anthony Brandt
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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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5 out of 5 stars
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For the true enthousiaste of artic exploration.
- By Megings on 2021-11-05
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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
- Written by: Edward J. Larson
- Narrated by: Paul Michael Garcia
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
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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Fatal North
- Murder and Survival on the First North Pole Expedition
- Written by: Bruce Henderson
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
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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South
- Written by: Ernest Shackleton
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 15 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
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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Leading at the Edge
- Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition
- Written by: Dennis N. T. Perkins, Margaret P. Holtman - contributor, Jillian B. Murphy - contributor
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance2 out of 5 stars 1
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Story3 out of 5 stars 1
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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Scott and Amundsen
- Their Race to the South Pole
- Written by: Roland Huntford
- Narrated by: Tim Piggott-Smith
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Abridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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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The Great Polar Fraud
- Cook, Peary, and Byrd - How Three American Heroes Duped the World into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole
- Written by: Anthony Galvin
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Good context North and South
- By Roberta W on 2022-11-19
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Mad Trapper of Rat River
- A True Story of Canada's Biggest Manhunt
- Written by: Dick North
- Narrated by: Walter Brown
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Abridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance1 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
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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Wanderlust
- An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age
- Written by: Reid Mitenbuler
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book
- By Amazon Customer on 2023-09-09
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South
- The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917
- Written by: Sir Ernest Shackleton
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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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5 out of 5 stars
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excellent story. just fascinating.
- By Stephane on 2019-05-07
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Resolute, Revised Edition
- John Franklin’s Lost Expedition and the Discovery of the Queen's Ghost Ship
- Written by: Martin W. Sandler
- Narrated by: Todd Menesses
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
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Few know that the president’s desk in the Oval Office plays a part in one of the world’s most extraordinary sagas; in Resolute, noted historian Martin Sandler brings the story to light.
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The Ice at the End of the World
- An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
- Written by: Jon Gertner
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders, Jon Gertner
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story5 out of 5 stars 6
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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Searching for Franklin
- New Answers to the Great Arctic Mystery
- Written by: Ken McGoogan
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance1 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Two of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin's expeditions were monumental failures. Yet many still see the Royal Navy man as a heroic figure who sacrificed himself to discover the Northwest Passage.
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4 out of 5 stars
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excellent writer but A.I. voice ruins it
- By Anonymous User on 2025-01-07
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Life Among the Qallunaat
- Written by: Mini Aodla Freeman
- Narrated by: Taqralik Partridge
- Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 13
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 13
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Story5 out of 5 stars 13
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Such GREAT insights to Inuit culture!
- By Roberta W on 2022-08-17
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Race for the South Pole
- The Expedition Diaries of Scott and Amundsen
- Written by: Roland Huntford
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 3
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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The Hard Way Home
- Alaska Stories of Adventure, Friendship, and the Hunt (Outdoor Lives)
- Written by: Steve Kahn
- Narrated by: Gary Malhiot
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
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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The Arctic
- What Everyone Needs to Know
- Written by: Klaus Dodds, Mark Nuttall
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Arctic, Klaus Dodds and Mark Nuttall offer concise answers to the myriad questions that arise when looking at the circumpolar North....
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Endurance
- An Epic of Polar Adventure
- Written by: F.A. Worsley, Patrick O’Brian - preface
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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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....
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Icebound
- Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
- Written by: Andrea Pitzer
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story4 out of 5 stars 4
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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3 out of 5 stars
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decent...
- By A on 2021-04-20
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Against the Ice
- The Classic Arctic Survival Story
- Written 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....