Polar 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • The Heroes of America's Forgotten Invasion of Russia, 1918-1919
    • By: James Carl Nelson
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 19-02-2019
    • Language: English
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    • An extraordinary lost chapter in the history of World War I: the story of America’s year-long invasion of Russia, in which a contingency of brave soldiers fought the Red Army and brutal conditions during the fall and winter of 1918-1919....

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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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    • 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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    • A Short History of Bipolar Disorder
    • By: David Healy
    • Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
    • Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 20-06-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This provocative history of bipolar disorder illuminates how perceptions of illness, if not the illnesses themselves, are mutable over time....

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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: 07-06-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 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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    • John Cade, Lithium and the Taming of Bipolar Disorder
    • By: Greg de Moore, Ann Westmore
    • Narrated by: Paul English
    • Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 23-01-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Lithium is the penicillin story of mental health - the first effective medication discovered for the treatment of a mental illness - and it is, without doubt, Australia's greatest mental health story....

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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: 03-03-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A gripping history of the polar continent, from the great discoveries of the 19th century to modern scientific breakthroughs....

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    • The Journals
    • By: Robert Falcon Scott
    • Narrated by: William Sutherland
    • Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 16-01-2001
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 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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    • Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue
    • By: Buddy Levy
    • Narrated by: Will Damron
    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 28-01-2025
    • Language: English
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    • National Outdoor Book Award-winning author Buddy Levy's presents a thrilling narrative of polar exploration via airship―and the men who sacrificed everything to make history.

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    • Antarctica's Forgotten Hero and the Secret Love Lives of Penguins
    • By: Lloyd Spencer Davis
    • Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 18-02-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A captivating blend of true adventure and natural history by one of today's leading penguin experts and Antarctic explorers....

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    • The History of Adolphus Greely's Harrowing Journey to Reach the Farthest North
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Scott R. Pollak
    • Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
    • Release date: 15-04-2015
    • Language: English
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    • The North Pole proved to be as elusive for many brave explorers as jolly old Santa has been for children who wait up at night by the chimney....

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    • El Rescate de un Oso Polar Huérfano [Rescue of a Polar Bear Orphan]
    • By: Jennifer Keats Curtis
    • Narrated by: Rosalyna Toth
    • Length: 6 mins
    • Release date: 20-11-2015
    • Language: Spanish
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    • Sigue la historia mientras Kali, el oso polar es rescatado y cuidado por sus trabajadores de cuidado de animales en el Zoológico de Alaska y el Zoológico de Buffalo....

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    • A Polar Adventure
    • By: Samantha Seiple
    • Narrated by: Stephanie Tucker
    • Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 01-04-2014
    • Language: English
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    • From the author of Ghosts in the Fog comes a story that will appeal to lovers of history, adventure, and dogs....

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    • Alaska Through the Eyes of American Presidents
    • By: Charles Boardman
    • Narrated by: Charles Boardman
    • Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Alaska, is an American frontier that makes the United States an Arctic nation. No other state makes the United States a nation of Inuit peoples. No other state places American citizens in the backyard of its historic rival Russia....

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