Polar History

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    • An Epic of Polar Adventure
    • By: F.A. Worsley, Patrick O’Brian - preface
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • 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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    • 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 219 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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    • The Heroes of America's Forgotten Invasion of Russia, 1918-1919
    • By: James Carl Nelson
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • An extraordinary lost chapter in the history of World War I: the story of America’s year-long invasion of Russia, in which a contingency of brave soldiers fought the Red Army and brutal conditions during the fall and winter of 1918-1919....

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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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    • 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 815 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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    • 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 3,463 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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    • A Collection of Extraordinary Tales From Our World's Greatest Explorers
    • By: Jonathan Hunt
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-24
    • Language: English
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    • Explore the Uncharted with The Most Incredible Exploration Stories Ever Told! Embark on an unforgettable journey through time and across the globe ...

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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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    • 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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    • The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition
    • By: Buddy Levy
    • Narrated by: Will Damron
    • Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,113 ratings
    • Based on the author's exhaustive research, the incredible true story of the Greely Expedition, one of the most harrowing adventures in the annals of polar exploration....

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    • By: David Grann
    • Narrated by: Will Patton
    • Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 300 ratings
    • 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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    • Gold Fever and Disaster in the Klondike
    • By: Brian Castner
    • Narrated by: Brian Castner
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • A gripping and wholly original account of the epic human tragedy that was the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-98. One hundred thousand men and women rushed heedlessly north to make their fortunes; very few did, but many thousands of them died in the attempt....

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    • Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
    • By: Andrea Pitzer
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 278 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Ernest Shackleton
    • Narrated by: Rupert Degas
    • Length: 15 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • 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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    • Their Race to the South Pole
    • By: Roland Huntford
    • Narrated by: Tim Piggott-Smith
    • Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 175 ratings
    • 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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    • A Short History of Bipolar Disorder
    • By: David Healy
    • Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
    • Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-23
    • Language: English
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    • This provocative history of bipolar disorder illuminates how perceptions of illness, if not the illnesses themselves, are mutable over time....

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    • By: Michael Palin
    • Narrated by: Michael Palin
    • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • In his major new work, Michael Palin - former Monty Python stalwart and much-loved television globe-trotter - brings to life the world and voyages of HMS Erebus....

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    • The Journals
    • By: Robert Falcon Scott
    • Narrated by: William Sutherland
    • Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-01
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • In November 1910, the vessel Terra Nova left New Zealand carrying an international team of explorers led by Robert Falcon Scott...

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    • Its Discovery in 1909 Under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic Club
    • By: Robert E. Peary
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Reese
    • Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • The North Pole, originally published in 1910, makes available Robert E. Peary's own account of his expedition in the Arctic....

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