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A Life of Louise Arner Boyd
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The first comprehensive biography of Louise Arner Boyd - the intrepid American socialite who reinvented herself as the leading female polar explorer of the 20th century.
Born in the late 1880s to a gritty mining magnate who made his millions in the California gold rush and a well-bred mother descended from one of New York’s distinguished families, society beauty Louise Arner Boyd was raised during a glittering era.
After inheriting a staggering family fortune, she began leading a double life. She fell under the spell of the north in the late 1920s after a sailing excursion to the Arctic Ocean. Over the next three decades, she achieved international notoriety as a rugged and audacious polar explorer while maintaining her flamboyant lifestyle as a leading society woman. Yet despite organizing, financing, and directing seven daring Arctic expeditions between 1926 and 1955, she is virtually unknown today.
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Michael Palin brings the fascinating story of the Erebus and its occupants to life, from its construction as a bomb vessel in 1826 through the flagship years of James Clark Ross’s Antarctic expedition and finally to Sir John Franklin’s quest for the holy grail of navigation - a route through the Northwest Passage, where the ship disappeared into the depths of the sea for more than 150 years. It was rediscovered under the arctic waters in 2014.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Engrossing story
- De Anonymous User en 10-01-24
De: Michael Palin
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The Last Viking
- The Life of Roald Amundsen
- De: Stephen R. Bown
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 12 h y 9 m
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The Last Viking unravels the life of the man who stands head and shoulders above all those who raced to map the last corners of the world. In 1900, the four great geographical mysteries - the Northwest Passage, the Northeast Passage, the South Pole, and the North Pole - remained blank spots on the globe. Within twenty years Roald Amundsen would claim all four prizes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding.
- De Leon Miller en 12-01-15
De: Stephen R. Bown
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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
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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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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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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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The Ship of Dreams
- The Sinking of the Titanic and the End of the Edwardian Era
- De: Mr. Gareth Russell
- Narrado por: Jenny Funnell
- Duración: 12 h y 35 m
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In this original and meticulously researched narrative history, the author of the “stunning” (The Sunday Times) Young and Damned and Fair uses the sinking of the Titanic as a prism through which to examine the end of the Edwardian era and the seismic shift modernity brought to the Anglo-American world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of my favorites
- De M. M. Jones en 04-13-20
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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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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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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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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 Stowaway
- A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica
- De: Laurie Gwen Shapiro
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 6 h y 27 m
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It was 1928: a time of illicit booze, of Gatsby and Babe Ruth, of freewheeling fun. The Great War was over, and American optimism was higher than the stock market. What better moment to launch an expedition to Antarctica, the planet's final frontier? The night before the expedition's flagship launched, Billy Gawronski - a skinny, first-generation New York City high schooler desperate to escape a dreary future in the family upholstery business - jumped into the Hudson River and snuck aboard. Could he get away with it?
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Nice Little Story About A Nice Young Man...
- De Gillian en 01-23-18
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The Ice Diaries
- The Untold Story of the USS Nautilus and the Cold War’s Most Daring Mission
- De: Captain William R. Anderson, Don Keith - contributor
- Narrado por: Roger Mueller
- Duración: 10 h y 1 m
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The Ice Diaries tells the incredible true story of Captain William R. Anderson and his crew's harrowing top-secret mission aboard the USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear-powered submarine. Bristling with newly classified, never-before-published information, The Ice Diaries takes listeners on a dangerous journey beneath the vast, unexplored Arctic ice cap during the height of the Cold War.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a great book about brave men
- De TDL Martin en 02-05-20
De: Captain William R. Anderson, y otros
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The Man Who Ate His Boots
- The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage
- De: Anthony Brandt
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 15 h y 18 m
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The enthralling and often harrowing history of the adventurers who searched for the Northwest Passage, the holy grail of 19th-century British exploration. After the triumphant end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the British took it upon themselves to complete something they had been trying to do since the 16th century: Find the fabled Northwest Passage, a shortcut to the Orient via a sea route over Northern Canada. For the next 35 years the British Admiralty sent out expedition after expedition to probe the ice-bound waters of the Canadian Arctic in search of a route.
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5 out of 5 stars
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They don't get any better than this
- De Christopher en 08-15-14
De: Anthony Brandt
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Fatal North
- Murder and Survival on the First North Pole Expedition
- De: Bruce Henderson
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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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 under suspicious circumstances, dissension among sailors, scientists, and explorers, and the ship's evacuation and eventual sinking. Then came a brutal struggle for survival by 33 men, women, and children stranded on the polar ice.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An average reader says 10
- De Barbara en 11-10-16
De: Bruce Henderson
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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
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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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Farther Than Any Man
- The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook
- De: Martin Dugard
- Narrado por: Jack Chekijian
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
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In the annals of seafaring and exploration, there is one name that immediately evokes visions of the open ocean, billowing sails, visiting strange, exotic lands previously uncharted, and civilizations never before encountered - Captain James Cook. Full of realistic action, lush descriptions of places and events, and fascinating historical characters such as King George III and the soon-to-be-notorious Master William Bligh, Dugard's gripping account of the life and death of Captain James Cook is a thrilling story of a discoverer hell-bent on going farther than any man.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Sloppy History
- De Kyle P. Dalton en 04-06-18
De: Martin Dugard
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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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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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A Game of Birds and Wolves
- The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II
- De: Simon Parkin
- Narrado por: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Duración: 10 h y 5 m
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Combining vibrant novelistic storytelling with extensive research, interviews, and previously unpublished accounts, Simon Parkin describes for the first time the role that women played in developing the Allied strategy that, in the words of one admiral, "contributed in no small measure to the final defeat of Germany." Rich with unforgettable cinematic detail and larger-than-life characters, A Game of Birds and Wolves is a heart-wrenching tale of ingenuity, dedication, perseverance, and love, bringing to life the imagination and sacrifice required to defeat the Nazis at sea.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A lost story thrillingly revealed
- De Maudiemanding en 02-18-20
De: Simon Parkin
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Sea of Glory
- America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
- De: Nathaniel Philbrick
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 12 h y 7 m
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America's first frontier was not the West; it was the sea, and no one writes more eloquently about that watery wilderness than Nathaniel Philbrick. In his best-selling In the Heart of the Sea, Philbrick probed the nightmarish dangers of the vast Pacific. Now, in an epic sea adventure, he writes about one of the most ambitious voyages of discovery the Western world has ever seen - the US Exploring Expedition of 1838-1842.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A good solid voyage of discovery
- De Ken Sundermeyer en 06-18-05
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Ada Blackjack
- A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
- De: Jennifer Niven
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 14 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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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 Great Britain. Two years later, Ada Blackjack emerged as the sole survivor of this ambitious polar expedition. This young, unskilled woman - who had headed to the Arctic in search of money and a husband - conquered the seemingly unconquerable north and survived all alone after her male companions had perished.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great true story
- De Michael L Benken en 03-22-22
De: Jennifer Niven
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Bare-Faced Messiah
- The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard
- De: Russell Miller
- Narrado por: Jonathan Cowley
- Duración: 18 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 139
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Bare-Faced Messiah tells the extraordinary story of L. Ron Hubbard, a penniless science fiction writer who founded the Church of Scientology, became a millionaire prophet, and convinced his adoring followers that he alone could save the world. Bare-Faced Messiah exposes the myths surrounding the fascinating and mysterious founder of the Church of Scientology - a man of hypnotic charm and limitless imagination - and provides the definitive account of how the notorious organization was created.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good Book, Awful Narration
- De Jessica en 04-28-21
De: Russell Miller
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Polar Adventures of a Rich American Dame
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-21-21
Rerecord with a new narrator
Interesting story, but HORRIBLE narrator. She wildly overennunciated. While I could see this (maybe) for the foreign names, she sounded like she was reading the book to toddlers (however without any kind of engaging inflection) or auditioning to be a GPS reader. It got in the way of the story.
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- Michael
- 08-24-21
Rich lady pays for exotic vacations.
The facts are semi interesting. The narrator was dull and mispronounced too many key words. This book felt more like listening to an unending bibliography. Fact after fact read from different logs and diaries. Glad I didn’t waste a valuable credit.
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-15-21
Too boring
This writing is put together by conjecture in many instances assuming she “likely” would have or they probably did this or that. I couldn’t finish it. Has no drama of other polar adventure stories.
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