Arctic History

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    • What Everyone Needs to Know
    • By: Klaus Dodds, Mark Nuttall
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • 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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    • In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier
    • By: David Welky
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 07-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • A remarkable true story of adventure, betrayal, and survival set in one of the world's most inhospitable places....

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    • The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
    • By: Julian Sancton
    • Narrated by: Vikas Adam
    • Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 823 ratings
    • 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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    • 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
    • Release date: 11-18-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • 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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    • 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
    • Release date: 03-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The frozen wilderness of the Arctic captivated and mystified voyagers and explorers in the 1800s, driven by greed for riches, fame, and the search ...

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    • A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
    • By: Jennifer Niven
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 117 ratings
    • 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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    • The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917
    • By: Sir Ernest Shackleton
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 222 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Charles Emmerson
    • Narrated by: Vikas Adam
    • Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Long at the margins of global affairs and at the edge of our mental map of the world, the Arctic has found its way to the center of the issues which will challenge and define our world....

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    • Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition
    • By: Stephen R. Bown
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 217 ratings
    • The 18th-century story of the world's largest, longest, and best-financed scientific expedition of all time, triumphantly successful, gruesomely tragic, and never before fully told....

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    • Murder and Survival on the First North Pole Expedition
    • By: Bruce Henderson
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 133 ratings
    • 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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    • Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science
    • By: Edward J. Larson
    • Narrated by: John Allen Nelson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-11
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • 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....

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    • The Extraordinary Voyages of the USS Skate
    • By: James Calvert
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • 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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    • The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
    • By: Hampton Sides
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,467 ratings
    • 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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    • An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age
    • By: Reid Mitenbuler
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 201 ratings
    • 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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    • Roald Amundsen’s Journey in Flight
    • By: Garth James Cameron
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • Roald Amundsen was the most successful polar explorer of his era using sledges, dogs, skis, and ships....

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    • The Trailblazing Life of Jackie Ronne
    • By: Joanna Kafarowski
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Jackie was an ordinary American woman whose life changed after a blind date with rugged Antarctic explorer Finn Ronne. After marrying, they began planning the 1946-1948 Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition....

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    • By: Apsley Cherry-Garrard
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 20 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 04-29-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 708 ratings
    • 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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    • Bletchley Park and the War for the Seas
    • By: David Kenyon
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • An incisive account of the Arctic convoys, and the essential role Bletchley Park and Special Intelligence played in Allied success....

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    • Inuit Memories from the Eastern Arctic (McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies, Book 1)
    • By: Dorothy Harley Eber
    • Narrated by: Brianne Tucker
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-24
    • Language: English
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    • During the 19th and early 20th centuries, whaling vessels plied their trade in the waters off the Eastern Arctic of North America. This trade has, until now, been documented solely from the perspective of the whalers. Here, finally, is a rich view from from the perspective of the Inuit....

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    • The Life of Roald Amundsen
    • By: Stephen R. Bown
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 468 ratings
    • 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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