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Polar Regions Audiobooks

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    Alone on the Ice

    The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration

    by David Roberts, Jenny Piening ...
    Narrated by Matthew Brenher ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 40 min

    His two companions were dead, his food and supplies had vanished in a crevasse, and Douglas Mawson was still one hundred miles from camp.On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp. The dogs were gone. Now Mawson himself plunged through a snow bridge, dangling over an abyss by the sledge ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    South

    The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917

    by Sir Ernest Shackleton ...
    Narrated by Steven Crossley ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 37 min

    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. But their initial optimism was short-lived as ice floes closed around their ship, gradually crushing it and marooning twenty-eight men on the polar ice. Alone in the world's most unforgiving environment, Shackleton and his team began a ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Snow Widows: Scott’s Fatal Antarctic Expedition Through the Eyes of the Women They Left Behind

    by Katherine MacInnes ...
    Narrated by Jane McDowell ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 14 min

    ‘An elegant, densely textured work, like a tapestry … A welcome contribution to polar studies.’ Sara Wheeler, Spectator‘[MacInness] handles the whole thing with masterly skill…takes us to the heart of the hope, love, anguish and grief’ The TimesThe men of Captain Scott’s Polar Party were heroes of their age, enduring tremendous hardships to further the reputation of the Empire they served by ... Read more

    $58.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Leading on the Edge

    Extraordinary Stories and Leadership Insights from the World's Most Extreme Workplace

    by Rachael Robertson ...
    Narrated by Lucy Paterson ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 6 min

    What can an Antarctic expedition teach you about leadership? More than you might think! If you think your job is tough, try leading a one-year expedition where you’re on duty all day, every day. Where it’s cold, windy, dark and desolate. And you’re stuck inside with 17 strangers. Rachael Robertson was one of the youngest people to ever lead an Antarctic expedition and one of the first women. In ... Read more

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    Farthest North

    The Epic Adventure of a Visionary Explorer

    by Fridtjof Nansen ...
    Narrated by Ulf Bjorklund ...

    Unabridged

    28 hours 10 min

    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 and that the mission was tantamount to suicide.Farthest North, first published in 1897 to great popular appeal, is the stirring ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Erebus

    Ein Schiff, zwei Fahrten und das weltweit größte Rätsel auf See

    by Michael Palin, Barbara Glauning ...
    Narrated by Gert Heidenreich ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 18 min

    Die HMS Erebus war eines der wichtigsten Forschungsschiffe ihrer Zeit, ihre Expeditionen galten als bahnbrechend. Im Jahr 1848 verschwand sie spurlos in der Arktis – 2014 wurde sie gefunden. Dies ist ihre Geschichte – voller Aufbruchsgeist und Entdeckerlust, Abenteuer, Tragödien, Mut und Menschheitsgeschichte, mitreißend geschildert von niemand geringerem als Michael Palin: Monty-Python-Star, ... Read more

    $38.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Life Among the Qallunaat

    by Mini Aodla Freeman ...
    Narrated by Taqralik Partridge ...
    Audiobook 3 - First Voices, First Texts

    Unabridged

    14 hours 16 min

    Life Among the Qallunaat is the story of Mini Aodla Freeman’s experiences growing up in the Inuit communities of James Bay and her journey in the 1950s from her home to the strange land and stranger customs of the Qallunaat, those living south of the Arctic. Her extraordinary story, sometimes humourous and sometimes heartbreaking, illustrates an Inuit woman’s movement between worlds and ways of ... Read more

    $37.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    When Your Life Depends On It

    Extreme Decision Making Lessons from the Antarctic

    by Brad Borkan, David Hirzel ...
    Narrated by Dennis Kleinman ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 53 min

    Winner of multiple book awards. Finalist in audiobook awards.In the Top 100 Best Decision Making Books of All Time.Endorsed by Sir Ranulph Fiennes, the greatest living Polar explorer.Jump right into the action of the life-and-death decisions made by early Antarctic explorers. This book is packed with unforgettable stories about the challenges and decisions they faced, and the lessons we can learn ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Frozen Empires

    An Environmental History of the Antarctic Peninsula

    by Adrian Howkins ...
    Narrated by Charles Constant ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 31 min

    Perpetually covered in ice and snow, the mountainous Antarctic Peninsula stretches southward towards the South Pole where it merges with the largest and coldest mass of ice anywhere on the planet. Yet far from being an otherworldly "Pole Apart," the region has the most contested political history of any part of the Antarctic Continent. Since the start of the twentieth century, Argentina, Britain, ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Arctic

    What Everyone Needs to Know

    by Klaus Dodds, Mark Nuttall ...
    Narrated by Paul Heitsch ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 22 min

    Conversations defining the Arctic region often provoke debate and controversy-for scientists, this lies in the imprecise and imaginary line known as the Arctic Circle; for countries like Canada, Russia, the United States, and Denmark, such discussions are based in competition for land and resources; for indigenous communities, those discussions are also rooted in issues of rights. These shifting ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Stowaway

    A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica

    by Laurie Gwen Shapiro ...
    Narrated by Jacques Roy ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 27 min

    The spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York’s Lower East Side who stowed away on the most remarkable feat of science and daring of the Jazz Age, The Stowaway is “a thrilling adventure that captures not only the making of a man but of a nation” (David Grann, bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon).It was 1928: a time of illicit booze, of Gatsby and Babe Ruth, of ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Two Years Below the Horn

    Operation Tabarin, Field Science, and Antarctic Sovereignty, 1944-1946

    by Andrew Taylor ...
    Narrated by Speechki ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 54 min

    In Two Years Below the Horn, engineer Andrew Taylor vividly recounts his experiences and accomplishments during Operation Tabarin, a landmark British expedition to Antarctica to establish sovereignty and conduct science during the Second World War. When mental strain led the operation’s first commander to resign, Taylor—a military engineer with extensive prewar surveying experience—became the ... Read more

    $59.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Floating Coast

    An Environmental History of the Bering Strait

    by Bathsheba Demuth ...
    Narrated by Christa Lewis ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 30 min

    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 long been home to humans-the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia-before ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Antarctic Pioneer

    The Trailblazing Life of Jackie Ronne

    by Joanna Kafarowski ...
    Narrated by Laural Merlington ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 5 min

    Jackie Ronne reclaims her rightful place in polar history as the first American woman in Antarctica. 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. Her participation was not welcomed by the expedition team of red-blooded males eager to prove ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Surface at the Pole

    The Extraordinary Voyages of the USS Skate

    by James Calvert ...
    Narrated by Tom Perkins ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 31 min

    On 17 March 1959, the USS Skate became the first submarine to surface at the North Pole. 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. This mission, however, was not just about completing a seemingly ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The North Pole

    Its Discovery in 1909 Under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic Club

    by Robert E. Peary ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Reese ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 28 min

    In September 1909-after nearly two decades of determined effort and numerous attempts, during which he lost eight toes to frostbite-American polar explorer Robert E. Peary emerged from the Arctic's frozen wasteland and declared that his final expedition had been victorious: on April 6, 1909, Peary had attained the North Pole, a long-sought prize that had thwarted and even killed his predecessors. ... Read more

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    The Hidden Life of Ice

    Dispatches from a Disappearing World

    by Marco Tedesco, Alberto Flores d'Arcais ...
    Narrated by Joel Richards ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 58 min

    A pioneering researcher's illuminating account of Arctic ice-its secret history and dire future Barely inhabited, the Arctic is an alien world to most of us. It also holds critical clues about the future of our planet. In The Hidden Life of Ice, Marco Tedesco invites us to Greenland, where he and his fellow scientists are doggedly researching the dramatic changes afoot. Following the arc of his ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    N-4 Down

    The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia

    by Mark Piesing ...
    Narrated by Matt Jamie ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 17 min

    "GRIPPING. ... One of the greatest polar rescue efforts ever mounted." —Wall Street JournalThe riveting true story of the largest polar rescue mission in history: the desperate race to find the survivors of the glamorous Arctic airship Italia, which crashed near the North Pole in 1928.Triumphantly returning from the North Pole on May 24, 1928, the world-famous exploring airship Italia—code-named N ... Read more

    $42.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Worst Journey in the World

    by Apsley Cherry-Garrard ...
    Narrated by Simon Vance ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 7 min

    This gripping story of courage and achievement is an account of Robert Falcon Scott's last fateful expedition to the Antarctic, as told by surviving expedition member Apsley Cherry-Garrard. Cherry-Garrard tells of the journey from England to South Africa and southward to the ice floes, where began the unforgettable polar journey across a forbidding and inhospitable region. On November 12, 1912, in ... Read more

    $46.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    South

    A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage

    by Sir Ernest Shackleton ...
    Narrated by Geoffrey Howard ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 14 min

    In 1911, veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton set out to lead the first expedition across Antarctica, the last unknown continent. Instead, his ship, the Endurance, became locked in sea ice, and for nine months, Shackleton fought a losing battle with the elements before the drifting ship was crushed, marooning him and his crew.This gripping first-hand account follows Shackleton and his men on ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    My Attainment of the North Pole

    by Frederick Albert Cook ...
    Narrated by Andre Stojka ...
    series American Adventure Library

    Unabridged

    18 hours 13 min

    A wild epic journey by an American phusician and two Inuit companions struggling to be the first humans to reach the North Pole. The adventure continues with a year long, near dath journey back to civilization and concludes with the wrath of an angry unbelieving establishment. Liste as Dr. Frederick Albert Cook, a respectd physician and experienced explorer, tells you how he became the first man ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Erebus: The Story of a Ship

    by Michael Palin ...
    Narrated by Michael Palin ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 5 min

    Random House presents the audiobook edition of Erebus, written and read by Michael Palin.N**_______________**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the first, she ventured further south than any human had ever been. On the second, she va... ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Wanderlust

    An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age

    by Reid Mitenbuler ...
    Narrated by Peter Noble ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 13 min

    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 buried alive under the snow. During a sudden blizzard the night before, he had taken shelter underneath his ... Read more

    $42.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Ice Ghosts

    The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition

    by Paul Watson ...
    Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 23 min

    Ice Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the Lost Franklin Expedition of 1845―whose two ships and crew of 129 were lost to the Arctic ice―with the modern tale of the scientists, divers, and local Inuit behind the incredible discovery of the flagship’s wreck in 2014.Paul Watson, a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was on the icebreaker that led the discovery expedition, tells a fast-paced ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial