A Life of Extremes
The Life and Times of a Polar Filmmaker
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From his childhood in a remote town in New Zealand's North Island to the wilds of the Arctic and Antarctic, life has been an incredible journey for filmmaker Max Quinn. How he got himself into this field is a story in itself, but A Life of Extremes is so much more. It's a journey that lovers of natural history, travel, adventure, and filmmaking will revel in as he takes you to some of the harshest environments in which anyone could be expected to work. For this book is the absorbing life of a polar filmmaker.
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Adventure, Science, Advocacy
- De EM Goodkind en 09-08-19
De: Jon Gertner
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Madhouse at the End of the Earth
- The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
- De: Julian Sancton
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam
- Duración: 13 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 853
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 742
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 737
In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three-year expedition aboard the good ship Belgica with dreams of glory. His destination was the uncharted end of the earth: the icy continent of Antarctica. But de Gerlache’s plans to be first to the magnetic South Pole would swiftly go awry. After a series of costly setbacks, the commandant faced two bad options: turn back in defeat and spare his men the devastating Antarctic winter, or recklessly chase fame by sailing deeper into the freezing waters.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Excellent story
- De Ginger 3701 en 05-23-21
De: Julian Sancton
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The Worst Journey in the World
- De: Apsley Cherry-Garrard
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 20 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 714
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 529
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 526
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. Cherry-Garrard, whom Scott lauded as a tough, efficient member of the team, tells of the journey from England to South Africa and southward to the ice floes. From there began the unforgettable polar journey across a forbidding and inhospitable region.
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4 out of 5 stars
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What a story!
- De A. Massey en 05-25-04
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An Unsung Hero
- Tom Crean – Antarctic Survivor
- De: Michael Smith
- Narrado por: Gerry O'Brien
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 66
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 63
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 63
Tom Crean was the farmer’s son from Kerry who sailed on three major expeditions to the unknown Antarctic over a century ago. He served with both Captain Robert Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton, spent longer on the ice than either and outlived them both. But Tom Crean returned to Ireland and never spoke about his exploits, taking his incredible story to the grave - until the publication of An Unsung Hero, which unearthed his story and saw him rightfully placed amongst the annals of the great explorers.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not much new here
- De Lucy D en 06-21-23
De: Michael Smith
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Empire of Ice and Stone
- The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk
- De: Buddy Levy
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 14 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 381
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 336
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 335
In the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine Karluk departed Canada for the Arctic Ocean. At the helm was Captain Bob Bartlett, considered the world’s greatest living ice navigator. The expedition’s visionary leader was a flamboyant impresario named Vilhjalmur Stefansson hungry for fame. Just six weeks after the Karluk departed, giant ice floes closed in around her. As the ship became icebound, Stefansson disembarked with five companions and struck out on what he claimed was a 10-day caribou hunting trip. Most on board would never see him again.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My Second Favorite Polar Exploration Book
- De Than en 02-23-24
De: Buddy Levy
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Life Lived Wild
- Adventures at the Edge of the Map (Patagonia)
- De: Rick Ridgeway
- Narrado por: Rick Ridgeway
- Duración: 12 h y 10 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 338
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 304
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 302
At the beginning of his memoir Life Lived Wild: Adventures at the Edge of the Map, Rick Ridgeway tells us that if you add up all his many expeditions, he’s spent over five years of his life sleeping in tents: “And most of that in small tents pitched in the world’s most remote regions.” It’s not a boast so much as an explanation. Whether at elevation or raising a family back at sea level, those years taught him, he writes, “to distinguish matters of consequence from matters of inconsequence.” He leaves it to his listeners to do the final sort of which is which.
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1 out of 5 stars
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The hypocrisy and boasting ego. Blood boiling.
- De Amazon Customer en 12-30-21
De: Rick Ridgeway
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Into the Deep
- A Memoir from the Man Who Found Titanic
- De: Robert D. Ballard, Christopher Drew
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 176
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 153
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 153
The legendary explorer of the Titanic shares inside stories of danger, suspense, and discovery - plus previously untold stories about his own dyslexia and how it has shaped his life.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Study of the Ego
- De Thomas en 06-08-21
De: Robert D. Ballard, y otros
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South
- De: Ernest Shackleton
- Narrado por: Rupert Degas
- Duración: 15 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 18
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 18
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 Scott's base at Cape Evans, via the Pole. However, despite the best planning, the ship succumbs to the ice floes of the Weddell Sea, and is subjected to months of uncontrollable drifting before its crew makes a scramble for Elephant Island, where they battle constant cold and starvation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding author and narrator - best version
- De Stephen en 12-17-19
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Surface at the Pole
- The Extraordinary Voyages of the USS Skate
- De: James Calvert
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 7 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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 impossibly feat of Arctic exploration. It also had huge implications for military strategy during the height of the Cold War.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Early Nuclear Sub Polar Exploration
- De John en 02-21-25
De: James Calvert
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Labyrinth of Ice
- The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition
- De: Buddy Levy
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 13 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,131
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,013
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,010
In July 1881, Lt. A. W. Greely and his crew of 24 scientists and explorers were bound for the last region unmarked on global maps. Their goal: Farthest North. What would follow was one of the most extraordinary and terrible voyages ever made. Greely and his men confronted every possible challenge - vicious wolves, sub-zero temperatures, and months of total darkness - as they set about exploring one of the most remote, unrelenting environments on the planet. In May 1882, they broke the 300-year-old record, and returned to camp to eagerly await the resupply ship. Only nothing came.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An incredible read
- De Lauren Olson en 12-06-19
De: Buddy Levy
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N-4 Down
- The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia
- De: Mark Piesing
- Narrado por: Matt Jamie
- Duración: 11 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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. Helping lead the search was Roald Amundsen, the poles’ greatest explorer, who himself soon went missing in the frozen wastes. Amundsen’s body has never been found, the last victim of one of the Arctic’s most enduring mysteries....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interesting and entertaining
- De 2451 en 09-01-21
De: Mark Piesing
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The Third Pole
- Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest
- De: Mark Synnott
- Narrado por: Steve Campbell
- Duración: 12 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 488
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 415
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 417
A hundred-year mystery lured veteran climber Mark Synnott into an unlikely expedition up Mount Everest during the spring 2019 season that came to be known as “the Year Everest Broke”. What he found was a gripping human story of impassioned characters from around the globe and a mountain that will consume your soul - and your life - if you let it.
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3 out of 5 stars
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This is not a book about the search for Sandy Irvine
- De erik en 09-15-21
De: Mark Synnott
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The World Beneath Their Feet
- Mountaineering, Madness, and the Deadly Race to Summit the Himalayas
- De: Scott Ellsworth
- Narrado por: Scott Ellsworth
- Duración: 13 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 42
While tension steadily rose between European powers in the 1930s, a different kind of battle was raging across the Himalayas. Contingents from Great Britain, Nazi Germany, and the United States had set up rival camps at the base of the mountains, all hoping to become recognized as the fastest, strongest, and bravest climbers in the world. Climbing the Himalayas was the Greatest Generation's moonshot - one shrouded in the onset of war, interrupted by it, and then fully accomplished.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Near fatal flaws
- De A. Hill en 04-23-20
De: Scott Ellsworth
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Icebound
- Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
- De: Andrea Pitzer
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 9 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 284
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 243
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 242
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 - the last of which resulted in a relentlessly challenging year-long fight for survival.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great book - missing maps :(
- De Stephen en 01-20-21
De: Andrea Pitzer
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Wanderlust
- An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age
- De: Reid Mitenbuler
- Narrado por: Peter Noble
- Duración: 19 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 229
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 198
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 198
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 dogsled and become trapped there while he slept. Now, as feeling drained from his body, he managed to claw a hole through the ice only to find himself in even greater danger: his beard, wet with condensation from his struggling breath, had frozen to his sled runners and lashed his head in place, exposing it to icy winds that needed only a few minutes to kill him. If Freuchen could escape that, he could escape anything.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazingly in-depth look at an amazing person.
- De Dave en 06-18-23
De: Reid Mitenbuler
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Frozen in Time
- An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II
- De: Mitchell Zuckoff
- Narrado por: Mitchell Zuckoff
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 672
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 614
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 608
On November 5, 1942, a U.S. cargo plane slammed into the Greenland ice cap. Four days later, a B-17 on the search-and-rescue mission also crashed. Miraculously, all nine men on the B-17 survived. The U.S. military launched a second daring rescue operation, but the Grumman Duck amphibious plane sent to find the men vanished. In this thrilling adventure, Mitchell Zuckoff offers a spellbinding account of these harrowing crashes and the fate of the survivors and their would-be saviors.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting Survival Story
- De Jennifer en 05-20-13
De: Mitchell Zuckoff
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The Last of His Kind
- The Life and Adventures of Bradford Washburn, America's Boldest Mountaineer
- De: David Roberts
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 11 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 56
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 56
In The Last of His Kind, renowned adventure writer David Roberts gives readers a spellbinding history of mountain climbing in the twentieth century as told through the biography of Brad Washburn, legendary mountaineering pioneer and photographer. Jon Krakauer, author of Into Thin Air, has praised David Roberts, saying, “Nobody alive writes better about mountaineering” - and nowhere is that truth more evident than in this breathtaking account of the life and exploits of America’s greatest mountain climber.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great introduction to Washburn & climbing elites
- De Geoffrey en 04-27-22
De: David Roberts
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The Great Quake
- How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet
- De: Henry Fountain
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 252
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 220
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 219
A riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North American recorded history - the 1964 Alaska earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and swept away the island village of Chenega - and the geologist who hunted for clues to explain how and why it took place.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating to hear the full story
- De Debby A Davis en 08-18-17
De: Henry Fountain