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    • By: Barry Lopez
    • Narrated by: James Naughton
    • Length: 17 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 321 ratings
    • This best-selling, groundbreaking exploration of the Far North is a classic of natural history, anthropology, and travel writing....

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    • A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
    • By: Caroline Van Hemert
    • Narrated by: Xe Sands
    • Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 916 ratings
    • This gripping true story follows a biologist's human-powered journey from the Pacific Northwest to the Arctic to rediscover her love of birds, nature, and adventure—perfect for fans of Cheryl Strayed.​...

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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: 03-23-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 218 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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    • A Doctor's Pursuit of Life, Love, and Miracles in the Alaskan Frontier
    • By: Thomas J. Sims
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 176 ratings
    • Imagine a young doctor, trained in the latest medical knowledge and state-of-the-art equipment, suddenly transported back to one of the world’s most isolated and unforgiving environments - Nome, Alaska. That’s what happen to Dr. Sims....

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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: 12-03-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 175 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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    • Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North
    • By: Blair Braverman
    • Narrated by: Blair Braverman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 381 ratings
    • A rich and revelatory memoir of a young woman confronting her fears and finding home in the North....

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    • A Spiritual Odyssey in the Arctic
    • By: Alvah Simon
    • Narrated by: Robert Brown
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 79 ratings
    • With his world circumscribed by screaming blizzards and marauding polar bears and his only companion a kitten named Halifax, Simon withstands months of crushing loneliness....

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    • Extraordinary Stories and Leadership Insights from the World's Most Extreme Workplace
    • By: Rachael Robertson
    • Narrated by: Lucy Paterson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In Leading on the Edge, successful business speaker and consultant Rachael Robertson shares the lessons she learned as leader of a year-long expedition to the wilds of Antarctica....

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    • The Journals
    • By: Robert Falcon Scott
    • Narrated by: William Sutherland
    • Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-01
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 51 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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    • By: Ernest Shackleton
    • Narrated by: Rupert Degas
    • Length: 15 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 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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    • 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: 06-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • 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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    • A mais extraordinária aventura de todos os tempos
    • By: Alfred Lansing
    • Narrated by: Marcos Breda
    • Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-22
    • Language: Portuguese
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • No verão de 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton parte a bordo do Endurance. O objetivo de sua expedição era cruzar o continente antártico, passando pelo Pólo Sul. Alfred Lansing reconstrói as dificuldades que a tripulação do Endurance enfrentou....

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    • My Life in the Frozen North
    • By: Peter Freuchen
    • Narrated by: Bobby Brill
    • Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Explorer Peter Freuchen describes polar bear hunts, of meeting Eskimos who had resorted to cannibalism during a severe famine, and of the thrill of seeing the sun after three months of winter darkness.

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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • A gripping history of the polar continent, from the great discoveries of the 19th century to modern scientific breakthroughs....

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    • By: Ranulph Fiennes
    • Narrated by: Ranulph Fiennes
    • Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 11-20-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • Ranulph Fiennes has travelled to the most dangerous and inaccessible places on earth, almost died countless times, lost nearly half his fingers to frostbite....

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    • Roald Amundsen, His Polar Explorations, and the Quest for Discovery
    • By: Lynne Cox
    • Narrated by: Christine Williams
    • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-11
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • A powerfully built man more than six feet tall, Amundsen’s career of adventure began at the age of fifteen (he was born in Norway in 1872 to a family of merchant sea captains and rich ship owners)....

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    • A Perilous Expedition to Antarctica Reveals Clues to an Eighth Continent
    • By: Bruce Luyendyk, Edward J. Larson - foreword
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Four geologists and two mountain guides face the brutal beauty of West Antarctica eight hundred miles from the United States main base. Their search reaches far into the treacherous mountains of Marie Byrd Land....

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