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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: 08-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 197 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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    • Endurance

    • Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
    • By: Alfred Lansing
    • Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 23-05-00
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 871 ratings
    • The year was 1915. Equipment and food supplies were totally inadequate. After battling its way for six weeks through thousands of miles of pack ice and located only a day's sail from its destination...

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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: 07-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 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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    • Empire of Ice and Stone

    • The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk
    • By: Buddy Levy
    • Narrated by: Will Damron
    • Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings

    • The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it....

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    • Infinite Powers

    • How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
    • By: Steven Strogatz
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 20-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings

    • Without calculus, we wouldn't have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn't have unraveled DNA or discovered Neptune or figured out how to put 5,000 songs in your pocket....

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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: 03-02-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings

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

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    • Everest, Inc.

    • The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World
    • By: Will Cockrell
    • Narrated by: Pete Simonelli
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 16-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • Anyone who has heard of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air or has seen a recent photo of climbers standing in line to get to the top of Everest may think they have a sense of what the world’s highest mountain is like....

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    • The Adventures of the Mountain Men

    • True Tales of Hunting, Trapping, Fighting, and Survival
    • By: Stephen Brennan
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 28-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Experience the true “great outdoors” through the stories of the men who lived it.....

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    • The Last Englishmen

    • Love, War and the End of the Empire
    • By: Deborah Baker
    • Narrated by: Cameron James Stewart
    • Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • John Auden was a pioneering geologist of the Himalayas. Michael Spender was the first to survey the northern approach to the summit of Mount Everest. While their younger brothers achieved literary fame, they vied for a place on an expedition that would finally conquer Everest....

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    • Ancient Bones

    • Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human
    • By: Madelaine Böhme
    • Narrated by: Aimée Ayotte
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 16-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • Fans of Sapiens will love this “fascinating forensic inquiry into human origins” (Kirkus), where a renowned paleontologist takes listeners behind the scenes of one of the most groundbreaking investigations into the origins of humankind....

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    • The Riddle of the Labyrinth

    • The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
    • By: Margalit Fox
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 23-09-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • This audiobook tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative....

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    • Scott and Amundsen

    • Their Race to the South Pole
    • By: Roland Huntford
    • Narrated by: Tim Piggott-Smith
    • Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 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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    • Disappointment River

    • Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage
    • By: Brian Castner
    • Narrated by: Brian Castner
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 13-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In 1789, Alexander Mackenzie traveled the 1,125 miles of the immense river in Canada that now bears his name, in search of the fabled Northwest Passage....

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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: 09-08-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 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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    • Our America

    • A Hispanic History of the United States
    • By: Felipe Fernández-Armesto
    • Narrated by: David DeSantos
    • Length: 18 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 20-01-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • An eminent scholar finds a new American history in the Hispanic past of our diverse nation....

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    • Thirteen

    • The Apollo Flight that Failed
    • By: Henry S. F. Cooper Jr.
    • Narrated by: Christopher David
    • Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 15-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • On the evening of April 13, 1970, just hours from the third lunar landing in history, an explosion badly damaged the Apollo 13. Thirteen is the shocking and miraculous true story of how the astronauts and ground crew guided Apollo 13 back to Earth....

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    • Percy Fawcett and the Lost City of Z

    • The History of the Explorer's Mysterious Disappearance in Search of El Dorado
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Scott Clem
    • Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
    • Release date: 24-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • The heroes of each generation reflect the conditions, priorities, and goals of the era in which they reside....

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    • Wanderlust

    • An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age
    • By: Reid Mitenbuler
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 21-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 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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    • Captain John Franklin's Lost Expedition

    • The History of the British Explorer's Arctic Voyage in Search of the Northwest Passage
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Kenneth Ray
    • Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Most anyone who has received a basic education in world history knows the story of how "in 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue."....

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    • Emperors of the Ice

    • A True Story of Disaster and Survival in the Antarctic, 1910-13
    • By: Richard Farr
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 20-04-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Rife with captivating details of survival in an icy wilderness, this reimagining of the famous 1910 expedition to the South Pole, told in Cherry's voice, is an unforgettable tale of courage and camaraderie....

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