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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • By: John Byron
    • Narrated by: Graham Scott
    • Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-24
    • Language: English
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    • Embarking from England as part of Commodore Anson’s expedition to the Pacific, HMS Wager was wrecked on a desert island to the southward of Chiloe. Following the wreck, the crew suffered dreadful privations from famine and descended into mutinous factionalism, theft, and murder.

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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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    • By: Jon Krakauer
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • This classic essay from Jon Krakauer is now available as an unabridged audiobook download. This essay is also included in the Classic Krakauer collection....

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    • Being the Record of the Expetition that First Reached the Boreal Center 1907-1909
    • By: Frederick Albert Cook
    • Narrated by: Andre Stojka
    • Length: 18 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-13
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • A wild epic journey by an American with two Inuit companions, struggling to be the first humans to reach the North Pole....

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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 Story of Friendship and Endurance Skiing Unsupported Across the Arctic Greenland Ice Cap
    • By: Terry Williams, Aaron Linsdau
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-24
    • Language: English
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    • Can two friends ski across Greenland in the Arctic late in life? Terry Williams and Aaron Linsdau were one of the oldest teams ever to ski across ...

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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: Kathleen Jamie
    • Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • In this remarkable blend of memoir, cultural history, and travelogue, poet and author Kathleen Jamie touches points on a timeline spanning millennia, and considers what surfaces and what reconnects us to our past....

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