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  • The Worst Journey in the World cover art

    • The Worst Journey in the World

    • By: Apsley Cherry-Garrard
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 20 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 29-04-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 296 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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    • Farthest North

    • The Epic Adventure of a Visionary Explorer
    • By: Fridtjof Nansen
    • Narrated by: Ulf Bjorklund
    • Length: 28 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 27-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings

    • 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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    • Fatal North

    • Murder and Survival on the First North Pole Expedition
    • By: Bruce Henderson
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 23-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 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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    • Mawson

    • And the Ice Men of the Heroic Age - Scott, Shackelton and Amundsen
    • By: Peter FitzSimons
    • Narrated by: Paul English
    • Length: 23 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings

    • Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, was Australia’s greatest Antarctic explorer.

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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
    • Release date: 30-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 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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    • Scott and Amundsen

    • Their Race to the South Pole
    • By: Roland Huntford
    • Narrated by: Tim Piggott-Smith
    • Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 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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    • Scott's Last Expedition

    • The Journals
    • By: Robert Falcon Scott
    • Narrated by: William Sutherland
    • Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 16-01-01
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 29 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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    • Wanderlust

    • An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age
    • By: Reid Mitenbuler
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 21-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 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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    • 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
    • Release date: 28-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • A remarkable true story of adventure, betrayal, and survival set in one of the world's most inhospitable places....

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    • Race for the South Pole

    • The Expedition Diaries of Scott and Amundsen
    • By: Roland Huntford
    • Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
    • Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • 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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    • N-4 Down

    • The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia
    • By: Mark Piesing
    • Narrated by: Matt Jamie
    • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 31-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings

    • Triumphantly returning from the North Pole on May 24, 1928, the world-famous exploring airship Italia — code-named N-4 — was struck by a terrible storm and crashed somewhere over the Arctic ice, triggering the largest polar rescue mission in history....

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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
    • By: Anthony Galvin
    • Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 18-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 81 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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    • My Life with the Eskimo

    • By: Vilhjálmur Stefánsson
    • Narrated by: Chris Matthess
    • Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 26-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • 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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    • Ice Ghosts

    • The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition
    • By: Paul Watson
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 21-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 157 ratings
    • Ice Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the Lost Franklin Expedition of 1845 with the modern tale behind the incredible discovery of the flagship's wreck....

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    • Searching for Franklin

    • New Answers to the Great Arctic Mystery
    • By: Ken McGoogan
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • 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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    • Floating Coast

    • An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
    • By: Bathsheba Demuth
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 31-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • 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....

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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
    • Release date: 11-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • 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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    • Surface at the Pole

    • The Extraordinary Voyages of the USS Skate
    • By: James Calvert
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 25-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 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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