Arctic History

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

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    • By: Michael Palin
    • Narrated by: Michael Palin
    • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 20-09-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 150 ratings
    • In his major new work, Michael Palin - former Monty Python stalwart and much-loved television globe-trotter - brings to life the world and voyages of HMS Erebus....

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    • Cook, Peary, and Byrd - How Three American Heroes Duped the World into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole
    • By: Anthony Galvin
    • Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 18-11-2014
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • The Great Polar Fraud explores the history of the three men who claimed the pole, their claims, and the subsequent doubts of those claims....

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    • A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
    • By: Jennifer Niven
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 30-06-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • 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 Britain. Two years later, Ada Blackjack emerged as the sole survivor of this ambitious polar expedition.....

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    • Murder and Survival on the First North Pole Expedition
    • By: Bruce Henderson
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 23-08-2016
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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....

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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: 21-02-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 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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    • By: Apsley Cherry-Garrard
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 20 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 29-04-2004
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Alaska Stories of Adventure, Friendship, and the Hunt (Outdoor Lives)
    • By: Steve Kahn
    • Narrated by: Gary Malhiot
    • Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 19-09-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • A lifelong Alaskan, Steve Kahn moved at the age of nine from the “metropolis” of Anchorage to the foothills of the Chugach Mountains. A childhood of berry picking, fishing, and hunting led to a life as a big-game guide....

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    • What Everyone Needs to Know
    • By: Klaus Dodds, Mark Nuttall
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-2019
    • Language: English
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    • In The Arctic, Klaus Dodds and Mark Nuttall offer concise answers to the myriad questions that arise when looking at the circumpolar North....

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    • 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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    • By: Ernest Shackleton
    • Narrated by: Rupert Degas
    • Length: 15 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 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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    • 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 Epic Adventure of a Visionary Explorer
    • By: Fridtjof Nansen
    • Narrated by: Ulf Bjorklund
    • Length: 28 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 27-03-2018
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In 1893 Norwegian zoologist Fridtjof Nansen set sail for the North Pole in the Fram, a ship specially designed to be frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pressures, and travel north with the sea's drift. Experts said that such a ship couldn't be built....

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    • Bletchley Park and the War for the Seas
    • By: David Kenyon
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 21-11-2023
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • An incisive account of the Arctic convoys, and the essential role Bletchley Park and Special Intelligence played in Allied success....

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    • By: Vilhjálmur Stefánsson
    • Narrated by: Chris Matthess
    • Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 26-02-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Vilhjálmur Stefánsson left New York in April 1908 to begin his journey northwards and into the Arctic Circle. For the next two years, he made his way northwards to Victoria Island to study an isolated group of Inuit who still used primitive tools....

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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: 03-12-2007
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 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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    • The Expedition Diaries of Scott and Amundsen
    • By: Roland Huntford
    • Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
    • Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • For the first time ever Roland Huntford presents each man's account of the race to the South Pole in their own words....

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