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    • Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
    • By: Alfred Lansing
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble
    • Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-08
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 25,801 ratings
    • In August of 1914, the British ship Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic. In October 1915, still half a continent away from its intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in the ice

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    • By: Stephen E. Ambrose
    • Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
    • Length: 21 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,949 ratings
    • Meriwether Lewis and his partner, William Clark, endured incredible hardships and witnessed astounding sights on their 1803 cross-country trip to unexplored West....

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    • Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
    • By: Candice Millard
    • Narrated by: Paul Michael
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 10-21-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,870 ratings
    • The River of Doubt brings alive extraordinary events in a powerful nonfiction narrative thriller that happens to feature one of the most famous Americans who ever lived....

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    • A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
    • By: David Grann
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 02-24-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4,244 ratings
    • The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable jungle canopy of the Amazon....

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    • A History of the Vikings
    • By: Neil Price
    • Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
    • Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,478 ratings
    • The Viking Age - from 750 to 1050 saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the wider world. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they ranged from eastern North America to the Asian steppe....

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    • The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
    • By: Hampton Sides
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,470 ratings
    • New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides returns with a white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and survival in the Gilded Age....

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    • The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
    • By: Julian Sancton
    • Narrated by: Vikas Adam
    • Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 828 ratings
    • The true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry—with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter....

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    • The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
    • By: Donnie Eichar
    • Narrated by: Donnie Eichar
    • Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,722 ratings
    • In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain....

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    • A True Story
    • By: Douglas Preston
    • Narrated by: Bill Mumy
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,900 ratings
    • Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City....

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    • Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
    • By: Candice Millard
    • Narrated by: Paul Michael
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,512 ratings
    • For millennia the location of the Nile River’s headwaters was shrouded in mystery. In the 19th century, there was a frenzy of interest in ancient Egypt. At the same time, European powers sent off waves of explorations intended to map the unknown corners of the globe....

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    • By: Jim Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,382 ratings
    • In April 1970, during the glory days of the Apollo space program, NASA sent Navy Captain Jim Lovell and two other astronauts on America's fifth mission to the moon. Only 55 hours into the flight of Apollo 13, disaster struck: a mysterious explosion rocked the ship....

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    • The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
    • By: Andres Resendez
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,476 ratings
    • In 1528, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong. Of the 300 men who had embarked on the journey, only four survived....

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    • John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon
    • By: Edward Dolnick
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 289 ratings
    • On May 24, 1869 a one-armed Civil War veteran, John Wesley Powell, and a ragtag band of nine mountain men embarked on the last great quest in the American West. The Grand Canyon, not explored before, was as mysterious as Atlantis - and as perilous....

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    • By: Charles Murray, Catherine Bly Cox
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,631 ratings
    • Apollo is the behind-the-scenes story of an epic achievement. Based on exhaustive research that included many exclusive interviews, Apollo tells how America went from a standing start to a landing on the moon at a speed that now seems impossible....

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    • By: Peter FitzSimons
    • Narrated by: Richard Aspel
    • Length: 17 hrs
    • Release date: 12-13-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 553 ratings
    • The story begins in 1629, when the pride of the Dutch East India Company, the Batavia, is on its maiden voyage en route from Amsterdam to the Dutch East Indies, laden down with the greatest treasure to leave Holland....

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    • The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
    • By: Robert Kurson
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter, Robert Kurson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,586 ratings
    • The riveting inside story of three heroic astronauts who took on the challenge of mankind's historic first mission to the moon, from the best-selling author of Shadow Divers....

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    • John Colter, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and the Call of the American West
    • By: David Weston Marshall
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 143 ratings
    • In 1804, John Colter set out with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the first US expedition to traverse the North American continent. During the 28-month ordeal, Colter served as a hunter and scout, and honed his survival skills on the western frontier....

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    • The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk
    • By: Buddy Levy
    • Narrated by: Will Damron
    • Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 362 ratings
    • The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it....

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    • An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age
    • By: Reid Mitenbuler
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 209 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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    • An American Epic of Discovery
    • By: Lewis, Clark
    • Narrated by: Patrick Cullen
    • Length: 18 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 388 ratings
    • In their own words, recorded in the famous journals of Lewis and Clark, the members of the Corps of Discovery tell their story with an immediacy and power missing from secondhand accounts....

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