The Polar Adventures of a Rich American Dame Audiobook By Joanna Kafarowski cover art

The Polar Adventures of a Rich American Dame

A Life of Louise Arner Boyd

Preview
Try for $0.00
Prime logo Prime members: New to Audible?
Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

The Polar Adventures of a Rich American Dame

By: Joanna Kafarowski
Narrated by: Kate Mulligan
Try for $0.00

$14.95/month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $13.97

Buy for $13.97

Confirm purchase
Pay using card ending in
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use, License, and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.
Cancel

About this listen

The first comprehensive biography of Louise Arner Boyd - the intrepid American socialite who reinvented herself as the leading female polar explorer of the 20th century.

Born in the late 1880s to a gritty mining magnate who made his millions in the California gold rush and a well-bred mother descended from one of New York’s distinguished families, society beauty Louise Arner Boyd was raised during a glittering era.

After inheriting a staggering family fortune, she began leading a double life. She fell under the spell of the north in the late 1920s after a sailing excursion to the Arctic Ocean. Over the next three decades, she achieved international notoriety as a rugged and audacious polar explorer while maintaining her flamboyant lifestyle as a leading society woman. Yet despite organizing, financing, and directing seven daring Arctic expeditions between 1926 and 1955, she is virtually unknown today.

©2017 Joanna Kafarowski (P)2021 Blackstone Publishing
Adventure Travel Adventurers, Explorers & Survival Outdoors & Nature Women Adventure Explorer Polar Region Outdoor Polar Exploration
adbl_web_global_use_to_activate_T1_webcro805_stickypopup
All stars
Most relevant  
The facts are semi interesting. The narrator was dull and mispronounced too many key words. This book felt more like listening to an unending bibliography. Fact after fact read from different logs and diaries. Glad I didn’t waste a valuable credit.

Rich lady pays for exotic vacations.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Interesting story, but HORRIBLE narrator. She wildly overennunciated. While I could see this (maybe) for the foreign names, she sounded like she was reading the book to toddlers (however without any kind of engaging inflection) or auditioning to be a GPS reader. It got in the way of the story.

Rerecord with a new narrator

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

This writing is put together by conjecture in many instances assuming she “likely” would have or they probably did this or that. I couldn’t finish it. Has no drama of other polar adventure stories.

Too boring

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.