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    • Batavia

    • By: Peter FitzSimons
    • Narrated by: Richard Aspel
    • Length: 17 hrs
    • Release date: 13-12-2012
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 729 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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    • Mawson

    • And the Ice Men of the Heroic Age - Scott, Shackelton and Amundsen
    • By: Peter FitzSimons
    • Narrated by: Paul English
    • Length: 23 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-2012
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 195 ratings

    • Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, was Australia’s greatest Antarctic explorer.

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    • A Land So Strange

    • The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
    • By: Andres Resendez
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 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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    • Endurance

    • Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
    • By: Alfred Lansing
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble
    • Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-2008
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 979 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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    • Children of Ash and Elm

    • A History of the Vikings
    • By: Neil Price
    • Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
    • Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 25-08-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 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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    • Atlantic

    • Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
    • By: Simon Winchester
    • Narrated by: Simon Winchester
    • Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-2010
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • From best-selling author Simon Winchester comes the immense and thrilling story of the world's most mysterious and breathtaking natural wonder: the Atlantic Ocean....

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    • An Unsung Hero

    • Tom Crean – Antarctic Survivor
    • By: Michael Smith
    • Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
    • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings

    • 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....

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    • Beyond the Trees

    • A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic
    • By: Adam Shoalts
    • Narrated by: Adam Shoalts
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings

    • A mesmerizing odyssey through an unforgiving landscape, and the rich history it reveals....

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    • Rocket Men

    • 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: 03-04-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 106 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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    • Moon Shot

    • The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings
    • By: Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton, Jay Barbree, Neil Armstrong - introduction by
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings

    • Desperate to beat the Russians into space, NASA put together a crew of the nation's most daring test pilots: the seven men who were to lead America to the moon. The first into space was Alan Shepard; the last was Deke Slayton, whose irregular heartbeat kept him grounded until 1975....

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    • Where the Falcon Flies

    • A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey from My Doorstep to the Arctic
    • By: Adam Shoalts
    • Narrated by: Adam Shoalts
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-2023
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • Looking out his porch window one spring morning, Adam Shoalts spotted a majestic peregrine falcon flying across the neighbouring fields near Lake Erie. Each spring, falcons migrate from southernmost Canada to remote arctic mountains.

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    • South

    • 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: 23-03-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 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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    • 1493

    • Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
    • By: Charles C. Mann
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings

    • More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals....

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    • Dead Mountain

    • The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
    • By: Donnie Eichar
    • Narrated by: Donnie Eichar
    • Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 18-03-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 88 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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    • Apollo

    • By: Charles Murray, Catherine Bly Cox
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 30-04-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 45 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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    • The Best Land Under Heaven

    • The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny
    • By: Michael Wallis
    • Narrated by: Michael Wallis
    • Length: 16 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 27-06-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Cutting through 160 years of mythmaking, best-selling historian Michael Wallis presents the ultimate cautionary tale of America's westward expansion....

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    • An Empire of Ice

    • Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science
    • By: Edward J. Larson
    • Narrated by: John Allen Nelson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 22-06-2011
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Published to coincide with the centenary of the first expeditions to reach the South Pole, An Empire of Ice presents a fascinating new take on Antarctic exploration....

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    • The Man Who Ate His Boots

    • The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage
    • By: Anthony Brandt
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-2010
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings

    • The enthralling and often harrowing history of the adventurers who searched for the Northwest Passage, the holy grail of 19th-century British exploration....

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    • Marco Polo

    • The Journey That Changed the World
    • By: John Man
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-2015
    • Language: English
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    • In 1271 a young Italian merchant named Marco Polo embarked on a groundbreaking expedition from Venice, through the Middle East and Central Asia to China....

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    • Over the Edge of the World

    • Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
    • By: Laurence Bergreen
    • Narrated by: Laurence Bergreen
    • Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 29-01-2004
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • In 1519 Magellan and his fleet of five ships set sail from Seville, Spain, to discover a water route to the fabled Spice Islands in Indonesia, where the most sought-after commodities flourished....

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