Polar History

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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: 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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    • 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 295 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 Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917
    • By: Sir Ernest Shackleton
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 23-03-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 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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    • 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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    • By: Ernest Shackleton
    • Narrated by: Rupert Degas
    • Length: 15 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 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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    • 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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    • The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition
    • By: Buddy Levy
    • Narrated by: Will Damron
    • Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 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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    • Gold Fever and Disaster in the Klondike
    • By: Brian Castner
    • Narrated by: Brian Castner
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 13-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 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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    • Inside the Strange & Menacing World of Antarctica
    • By: Nicholas Johnson, Eirik Sonneland - foreword
    • Narrated by: Aaron Abano
    • Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-16
    • Language: English
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    • When Johnson went to work for the US Antarctic Program, he figured he'd find adventure, beauty, penguins, and lofty-minded scientists. Instead he found boredom, alcohol, and bureaucracy....

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    • The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of Its Ice
    • By: Gillen D’Arcy Wood
    • Narrated by: Nigel Anthony
    • Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-20
    • Language: English
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    • A gripping history of the polar continent, from the great discoveries of the 19th century to modern scientific breakthroughs....

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    • John Cade, Lithium and the Taming of Bipolar Disorder
    • By: Greg de Moore, Ann Westmore
    • Narrated by: Paul English
    • Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 23-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Lithium is the penicillin story of mental health - the first effective medication discovered for the treatment of a mental illness - and it is, without doubt, Australia's greatest mental health story....

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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: 20-06-23
    • 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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    • The History of Adolphus Greely's Harrowing Journey to Reach the Farthest North
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Scott R. Pollak
    • Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
    • Release date: 15-04-15
    • Language: English
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    • The North Pole proved to be as elusive for many brave explorers as jolly old Santa has been for children who wait up at night by the chimney....

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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: 19-02-19
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • 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: 21-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • Antarctica's Forgotten Hero and the Secret Love Lives of Penguins
    • By: Lloyd Spencer Davis
    • Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 18-02-20
    • Language: English
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    • A captivating blend of true adventure and natural history by one of today's leading penguin experts and Antarctic explorers....

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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: 24-09-08
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue
    • By: Buddy Levy
    • Narrated by: Will Damron
    • Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 28-01-25
    • Language: English
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    • National Outdoor Book Award-winning author Buddy Levy's presents a thrilling narrative of polar exploration via airship―and the men who sacrificed everything to make history.

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    • Leadership Lessons From Polar Extremes
    • By: Phillips L Johnston J.D.
    • Narrated by: Joseph D Adams
    • Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 08-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The Scott/Amundsen race to the South Pole in 1911 is a legendary outdoor misadventure that has captured the imaginations of people the world for over a century. The lessons chronicled in True South are poignant....

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