Bestsellers
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Endurance
- Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
- By: Alfred Lansing
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall27,074
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Performance24,018
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Story23,977
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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The best book I've had
- By Thomas Allen on 09-17-08
By: Alfred Lansing
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Realm of Ice and Sky
- Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue
- By: Buddy Levy
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall104
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Performance92
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Story92
"Damron's subtle pacing manages the tension perfectly." —AudioFile on Empire of Ice and Stone "Listen to this if you want to hear a narrator at the top of his game recount a fascinating—and at times disturbing—true story of adventure, disaster, discovery, cannibalism, and more. Will Damron...
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a great book, read by a good naratator
- By Amazon Customer on 02-27-25
By: Buddy Levy
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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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Overall496
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Performance437
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Story435
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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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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Overall726
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Performance539
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Story536
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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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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Overall978
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Performance850
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Story845
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The “exquisitely researched and deeply engrossing” (The New York Times) 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 “The energy of...
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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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Overall332
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Performance295
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Story295
By the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a powerful true story of adventure and obsession in the Antarctic Henry Worsley was a devoted husband and father and a decorated British special forces officer who believed in honor and sacrifice. He was also a man...
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Will Patton's narration
- By Carol on 01-18-19
By: David Grann
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Endurance
- Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
- By: Alfred Lansing
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall27,074
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Performance24,018
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Story23,977
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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The best book I've had
- By Thomas Allen on 09-17-08
By: Alfred Lansing
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Realm of Ice and Sky
- Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue
- By: Buddy Levy
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall104
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Performance92
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Story92
"Damron's subtle pacing manages the tension perfectly." —AudioFile on Empire of Ice and Stone "Listen to this if you want to hear a narrator at the top of his game recount a fascinating—and at times disturbing—true story of adventure, disaster, discovery, cannibalism, and more. Will Damron...
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a great book, read by a good naratator
- By Amazon Customer on 02-27-25
By: Buddy Levy
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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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Overall496
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Performance437
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Story435
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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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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Overall726
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Performance539
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Story536
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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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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Overall978
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Performance850
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Story845
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The “exquisitely researched and deeply engrossing” (The New York Times) 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 “The energy of...
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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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Overall332
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Performance295
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Story295
By the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a powerful true story of adventure and obsession in the Antarctic Henry Worsley was a devoted husband and father and a decorated British special forces officer who believed in honor and sacrifice. He was also a man...
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Will Patton's narration
- By Carol on 01-18-19
By: David Grann
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Island of the Blue Foxes
- Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition
- By: Stephen R. Bown
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall265
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Performance222
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Story221
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...
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Vivid History of Russia's First Contact In Alaska
- By Neil Ring on 09-01-18
By: Stephen R. Bown
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Secrets of Antarctica
- The Untold History of the Ice Continent
- By: Brad Olsen
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
Secrets of Antarctica will reveal Brad Olsen’s exploration and firsthand experience with this strange continent. The book will question the ...
By: Brad Olsen
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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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Overall638
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Performance478
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Story482
"A treasure of a book."—David McCullough The harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, dwarfing Lewis and Clark with its discoveries, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye. A New York...
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A good solid voyage of discovery
- By Ken Sundermeyer on 06-18-05
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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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Overall24
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Performance19
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Story19
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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Best narration possible for this
- By Amazon Customer on 08-19-24
By: F.A. Worsley, and others
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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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Overall267
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Performance236
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Story236
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. Deep in the Arctic wilderness, Peter Freuchen awoke to find himself...
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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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My Life with the Eskimo
- By: Vilhjálmur Stefánsson
- Narrated by: Chris Matthess
- Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall42
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Performance40
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Story40
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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Interesting book
- By Anonymous on 02-12-26
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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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Overall297
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Performance253
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Story253
The enthralling and often harrowing history of the adventurers who searched for the Northwest Passage, the holy grail of nineteenth-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...
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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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South
- The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917
- By: Sir Ernest Shackleton
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall244
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Performance218
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Story218
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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This is a must read.
- By Charles on 10-01-12
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Ada Blackjack
- A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
- By: Jennifer Niven
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall150
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Performance133
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Story133
In September 1921, four young men and Ada Blackjack, a diminutive 25-year-old Eskimo woman, ventured deep into the Arctic in a secret attempt to colonize desolate Wrangel Island for Britain. Two years later, Ada Blackjack emerged as the sole survivor of this ambitious polar expedition.....
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Great true story
- By Michael L Benken on 03-22-22
By: Jennifer Niven
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall146
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Performance135
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Story134
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...
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An average reader says 10
- By Barbara on 11-10-16
By: Bruce Henderson
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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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Overall34
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Performance30
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Story30
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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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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Overall60
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Performance52
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Story53
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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Leading at the Edge-Second Edition
- Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition
- By: Dennis N.T. Perkins, Margaret P. Holtman, Jillian B. Murphy
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall95
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Performance81
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Story82
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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Masterful !
- By JANICE on 02-04-23
By: Dennis N.T. Perkins, and others
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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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Overall102
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Performance83
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Story81
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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Resolute (Revised Edition)
- John Franklin’s Lost Expedition and the Discovery of the Queen's Ghost Ship
- By: Martin W. Sandler
- Narrated by: Todd Menesses
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
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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Scott and Amundsen
- Their Race to the South Pole
- By: Roland Huntford
- Narrated by: Tim Piggott-Smith
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Abridged
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Overall181
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Performance148
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Story149
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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Floating Coast
- An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
- By: Bathsheba Demuth
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall52
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Performance41
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Story41
The first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada, Floating Coast breaks away from familiar narratives to provide a fresh and fascinating perspective on an overlooked landscape. The unforgiving territory along the Bering Strait had...
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Beautiful and necessary
- By elisabethan on 02-08-22
By: Bathsheba Demuth
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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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Overall295
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Performance254
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Story253
In the bestselling tradition of Hampton Sides’s In the Kingdom of Ice, a “gripping adventure tale” (The Boston Globe) recounting Dutch polar explorer William Barents’ three harrowing Arctic expeditions—the last of which resulted in a relentlessly challenging year-long fight for...
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Great book - missing maps :(
- By Stephen on 01-20-21
By: Andrea Pitzer
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Finding Franklin
- The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search
- By: Russell A. Potter
- Narrated by: Gary L. Willprecht
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance12
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Story12
In 2014, the wreck of HMS Erebus, the flagship of Sir John Franklin’s lost expedition to find the Northwest Passage, was discovered. Finding Franklin outlines the larger story and the cast of detectives that led to the discovery....
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Absolute must-read for Franklin fanatics
- By Michael on 08-25-23
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The Endurance
- By: Caroline Alexander
- Narrated by: Michael Tezla, Martin Rubin
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Abridged
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Overall125
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Performance104
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Story104
In August 1914, renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in the history of exploration....
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Wonderful Story - Listen To Others As Well
- By Mark M. on 11-13-18
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Against the Ice
- The Classic Arctic Survival Story
- By: Ejnar Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau - introduction, Maurice Michael - translator
- Narrated by: Tristan Wright
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall96
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Performance82
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Story81
Now a major Netflix film co-written by and starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones) The harrowing, amazing, and often amusing personal account of two mismatched Arctic explorers who banded together to keep themselves sane on an historic expedition gone horribly wrong Ejnar Mikkelsen was...
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Accent
- By Sarabeth on 03-03-22
By: Ejnar Mikkelsen, and others
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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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Overall62
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Performance62
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Story62
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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Incredible
- By Samuel on 10-07-25
By: James Calvert
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South
- By: Ernest Shackleton
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 15 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance18
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Story18
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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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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Overall24
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Performance24
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Story24
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