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Alone on the Ice
- The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
- ナレーター: Matthew Brenher
- 再生時間: 11 時間 39 分
- カテゴリー: 自伝・回顧録, 冒険家・探検家・サバイバル
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Buried in the Sky
- The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day
- 著者: Amanda Padoan, Peter Zuckerman
- ナレーター: David Doersch
- 再生時間: 7 時間 12 分
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When Edmund Hillary first conquered Mt. Everest, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay was at his side. Indeed, for as long as Westerners have been climbing the Himalaya, Sherpas have been the unsung heroes in the background. In August 2008, when eleven climbers lost their lives on K2, the world’s most dangerous peak, two Sherpas survived. They had emerged from poverty and political turmoil to become two of the most skillful mountaineers on earth. Based on unprecedented access and interviews, Buried in the Sky reveals their astonishing story for the first time.
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The Twenty-Ninth Day
- Surviving a Grizzly Attack in the Canadian Tundra
- 著者: Alex Messenger
- ナレーター: Alex Messenger
- 再生時間: 7 時間 42 分
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This true-life wilderness survival epic recounts 17-year-old Alex Messenger's near-lethal encounter with a grizzly bear during a canoe trip in the Canadian tundra. The story follows Alex and his five companions as they paddle north through harrowing rapids and stunning terrain. Twenty-nine days into the trip, while out hiking alone, Alex is attacked by a barren-ground grizzly. Left for dead, he wakes to find that his summer adventure has become a struggle to stay alive.
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Labyrinth of Ice
- The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition
- 著者: Buddy Levy
- ナレーター: Will Damron
- 再生時間: 13 時間 13 分
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The Forgotten Highlander
- My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East
- 著者: Alistair Urquhart
- ナレーター: David Rintoul
- 再生時間: 3 時間 14 分
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Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He not only survived working on the notorious Bridge on the River Kwai , but he was subsequently taken on one of the Japanese ‘hellships’ which was torpedoed. Nearly everyone else on board died and Urquhart spent 5 days alone on a raft in the South China Sea before being rescued by a whaling ship. He was taken to Japan and then forced to work in a mine near Nagasaki.
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Endurance
- Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
- 著者: Alfred Lansing
- ナレーター: Simon Prebble
- 再生時間: 10 時間 20 分
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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. For five months, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways in one of the most savage regions of the world.
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Adrift
- 76 Days Lost at Sea
- 著者: Steven Callahan
- ナレーター: Steven Callahan
- 再生時間: 6 時間 53 分
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Before The Perfect Storm, before In the Heart of the Sea, Steven Callahan's Adrift chronicled one of the most astounding voyages of the century and one of the great sea adventures of all time. In some ways the model for the new wave of adventure books, Adrift is now an undeniable seafaring classic, a riveting firsthand account by the only man known to have survived for more than a month alone at sea, fighting for his life in an inflatable raft after his small sloop capsized.
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Buried in the Sky
- The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day
- 著者: Amanda Padoan, Peter Zuckerman
- ナレーター: David Doersch
- 再生時間: 7 時間 12 分
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The Twenty-Ninth Day
- Surviving a Grizzly Attack in the Canadian Tundra
- 著者: Alex Messenger
- ナレーター: Alex Messenger
- 再生時間: 7 時間 42 分
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Labyrinth of Ice
- The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition
- 著者: Buddy Levy
- ナレーター: Will Damron
- 再生時間: 13 時間 13 分
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In July 1881, Lt. A. W. Greely and his crew of 24 scientists and explorers were bound for the last region unmarked on global maps. Their goal: Farthest North. What would follow was one of the most extraordinary and terrible voyages ever made. Greely and his men confronted every possible challenge - vicious wolves, sub-zero temperatures, and months of total darkness - as they set about exploring one of the most remote, unrelenting environments on the planet. In May 1882, they broke the 300-year-old record, and returned to camp to eagerly await the resupply ship. Only nothing came.
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The Forgotten Highlander
- My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East
- 著者: Alistair Urquhart
- ナレーター: David Rintoul
- 再生時間: 3 時間 14 分
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Endurance
- Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
- 著者: Alfred Lansing
- ナレーター: Simon Prebble
- 再生時間: 10 時間 20 分
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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. For five months, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways in one of the most savage regions of the world.
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Adrift
- 76 Days Lost at Sea
- 著者: Steven Callahan
- ナレーター: Steven Callahan
- 再生時間: 6 時間 53 分
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Touching the Void
- 著者: Joe Simpson
- ナレーター: Andrew Wincott, Daniel Weyman
- 再生時間: 6 時間 52 分
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Joe Simpson, with just his partner, Simon Yates, tackled the unclimbed West Face of the remote 21,000-foot Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in June of 1995. But before they reached the summit, disaster struck. A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frostbitten, to tell their non-climbing companion that Joe was dead. For three days he wrestled with guilt as they prepared to return home. Then a cry in the night took them out with torches, where they found Joe, badly injured.
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The Moth and the Mountain
- A True Story of Love, War, and Everest
- 著者: Ed Caesar
- ナレーター: James Langton
- 再生時間: 7 時間 19 分
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In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Mount Everest, a little-known World War I veteran named Maurice Wilson conceives his own crazy, beautiful plan: He will fly a plane from England to Everest, crash-land on its lower slopes, then become the first person to reach its summit - all utterly alone.
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Out of the Clouds
- 著者: Linda Carroll, David Rosner
- ナレーター: Kevin T. Collins
- 再生時間: 10 時間 55 分
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In the wake of World War II, as turmoil and chaos were giving way to optimism, Americans were looking for inspiration and role models showing that it was possible to start from the bottom and work your way up to the top - and they found it in Stymie, the failed racehorse plucked from the discard heap by trainer Hirsch Jacobs. Taking readers on a crowd-pleasing ride with Stymie and Jacobs, Out of the Clouds unwinds a real-life Horatio Alger tale of a dauntless team and its working-class fans who lived vicariously through the stouthearted little colt they embraced as their own.
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Lost in the Wild
- Danger and Survival in the North Woods
- 著者: Cary J. Griffith
- ナレーター: Roger Wayne
- 再生時間: 7 時間 47 分
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On a beautiful summer afternoon in 1998, Dan Stephens, a 22-year-old canoeist, was leading a trip deep into Ontario's Quetico Provincial Park. He stepped into a gap among cedar trees to look for the next portage - and did not return. More than four hours later, Dan awakened from a fall with a lump on his head and stumbled deeper into the woods, confused. Three years later, Jason Rasmussen, a third-year medical student who loved the forest's solitude, walked alone into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness on a crisp fall day.
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Follow Me to Alaska
- 著者: Ann Parker
- ナレーター: Theresa Bakken
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A retired law enforcement officer turned pilot and a former math teacher chose to leave their home in Texas for a cabin in the wilderness of Alaska. They left life as they knew it behind to start fresh in the land of the Last Frontier. Their cabin on Cub Lake was only accessible by bush plane in the summer or snow machine during the winter, making life challenging. They knew their learning curve would be steep. What they didn't realize was living on a homestead in the wilderness of Alaska would make them face obstacles they had never experienced before.
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Limits of the Known
- 著者: David Roberts
- ナレーター: David Chandler
- 再生時間: 12 時間 11 分
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David Roberts, "veteran mountain climber and chronicler of adventures" (Washington Post), has spent his career documenting voyages to the most extreme landscapes on earth. In Limits of the Known, he reflects on humanity's - and his own - relationship to extreme risk. Part memoir and part history, this book tries to make sense of why so many have committed their lives to the desperate pursuit of adventure.
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In the Heart of the Sea
- The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
- 著者: Nathaniel Philbrick
- ナレーター: Scott Brick
- 再生時間: 10 時間 3 分
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The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the sinking of the Titanic was in the twentieth. In 1819 the Essex left Nantucket for the South Pacific with 20 crew members aboard. In the middle of the South Pacific the ship was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale. The crew drifted for more than 90 days in three tiny whaleboats, succumbing to weather, hunger, and disease and ultimately turning to drastic measures in the fight for survival.
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Icebound
- 著者: Andrea Pitzer
- ナレーター: Fred Sanders
- 再生時間: 9 時間 18 分
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In Icebound, Andrea Pitzer combines a movie-worthy tale of survival with a sweeping history of the period - a time of hope, adventure and seemingly unlimited scientific and geographic frontiers. At the story’s centre is William Barents, one of the 16th century’s greatest navigators, whose larger-than-life ambitions and obsessive quest to find a path through the deepest, most remote regions of the Arctic ended in both catastrophe and glory.
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The Billionaire Murders
- The Mysterious Deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman
- 著者: Kevin Donovan
- ナレーター: Kevin Donovan
- 再生時間: 10 時間 12 分
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Billionaires, philanthropists, socialites...victims. Barry and Honey Sherman appeared to lead charmed lives. But the world was shocked in late 2017 when their bodies were found in a bizarre tableau in their elegant Toronto home. First described as murder-suicide - belts looped around their necks, they were found seated beside their basement swimming pool - police later ruled it a staged, targeted double murder. Nothing about the case made sense to friends of the founder of one of the world’s largest generic pharmaceutical firms and his wife....
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In the Wake of Madness
- The Murderous Voyage of the Whaleship Sharon
- 著者: Joan Druett
- ナレーター: Dennis Boutsikaris
- 再生時間: 6 時間 16 分
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Commanded by Captain Howes Norris, the Sharon headed for the whaling grounds of the northwestern Pacific. At Pohnpei Island, 12 men from the Sharon deserted the ship, leaving her critically shorthanded. After steering for New Zealand to recruit more crew, the men on lookout raised a school of sperm whales. Two boats gave chase, each with a crew of six. Five men were left on board the Sharon: Norris, three pacific Islanders, and a Portuguese boy named Manuel.
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Alone on the Wall (Expanded Edition)
- 著者: Alex Honnold, David Roberts
- ナレーター: Andrew Eiden, Will Damron
- 再生時間: 8 時間 46 分
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Alone on the Wall recounts the most astonishing achievements of Honnold's extraordinary life and career, brimming with lessons on living fearlessly, taking risks, and maintaining focus even in the face of extreme danger. Now Honnold tells, for the first time and in his own words, the story of his three hours and 56 minutes on the sheer face of El Cap, which Outside called "the moon landing of free soloing.... A generation-defining climb. Bad ass and beyond words.... One of the pinnacle sporting moments of all time."
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Hellhound on His Trail
- The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
- 著者: Hampton Sides
- ナレーター: Hampton Sides
- 再生時間: 15 時間 9 分
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On April 23, 1967, Prisoner #416J, an inmate at the notorious Missouri State Penitentiary, escaped in a breadbox. Fashioning himself Eric Galt, this nondescript thief and con man - whose real name was James Earl Ray -drifted through the South, into Mexico, and then Los Angeles, where he was galvanized by George Wallace's racist presidential campaign. With relentless storytelling drive, Sides follows Galt and King as they crisscross the country, one stalking the other, until the crushing moment at the Lorraine Motel.
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His two companions were dead, his food and supplies had vanished in a crevasse, and Douglas Mawson was still 100 miles from camp.
On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp. The dogs were gone. Now Mawson himself plunged through a snow bridge, dangling over an abyss by the sledge harness. A line of poetry gave him the will to haul himself back to the surface.
Mawson was sometimes reduced to crawling, and one night he discovered that the soles of his feet had completely detached from the flesh beneath. On February 8, when he staggered back to base, his features unrecognizably skeletal, the first teammate to reach him blurted out, “Which one are you?”
This thrilling and almost unbelievable account establishes Mawson in his rightful place as one of the greatest polar explorers and expedition leaders.
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- Saman
- 2014/07/06
Title is misleading …
We have all heard about Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen and their heroic journeys and sacrifices during the golden age of Antarctic exploration. But who has really heard of Douglas Mawson? I certainly did not know of this man’s escapades during the early part of the 20th century until I heard this book recently. It is a painstakingly researched, well written story of Mawson’s adventures trying to explore the unexplored regions of Antartica. The Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AED) was a remarkable scientific foray into the hellishly cold and windy regions of the south pole. Many remarkable characters make up the expeditionary party and crew of the steamer Aurora as they journey towards packed ice fields, stormy seas and the hurricane gusts of Commonwealth Bay. Many early chapters of the book is devoted to Mawson’s earlier life as an explorer and his ambitions to create the AED. Individual party members are also studied in detail and described. I particularly enjoyed the stories of Frank Hurley, the expedition photographer. The actual harrowing story of how Mawson survives the perilous journey on the ice alone for 30 days after his two compatriots die is remarkable but only plays a smaller part of this book. That is the reason I think the book was mistitled. Nevertheless, the story is an amazing piece of history that needed to be told for future generations.
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- Jacqueline
- 2013/01/30
Historic Death-defying Antarctic Expedition
Australian Douglas Mawson set out on a journey in 1912 to explore the Antarctic, with a goal of scientific observations and specimen gathering. It was a year long undertaking with three other members of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE), Belgrave Ninnis and Xavier Mertz. Both of these men died during the expedition, one falling into a crevasse, and the other succumbed to spoiled meat. Mawson continues on alone and encounters extreme situations as he tries to find his way back to camp.
The story is comprised from journals kept by Mawson and the two other men from that perilous journey. It is definitely a raw, chilling account of the hardships they went through. Their supplies were insufficient, their clothing not warm enough, and the food scarce. As they trekked through the ice and blistering winds, most of their dogs were lost as they became too weak or sick to continue. The animals definitely did not fare well from the very beginning-and met with unpleasant ends- as a warning to tender-hearted readers.
Overal it is a good book for those who enjoy this kind of historical adventure.
So why did I only give it three stars? I didn't care for the narration, as it was too much the same type of monotone throughout. Also, the book was confusing at times, as it jumped from one event to another without enough of a break in narration or explanation about what was going on. I had to rewind several times just to clarify the content.
I could see myself enjoying this story much better in book form.
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- Bob
- 2013/02/04
Emotionless and Repetitive
I generally like true adventure tales and this one was on an exploration of Antarctica that was unknown to me.
However, the narration and delivery was devoid of almost all emotion. I contrast it to the story and narration of 'Into Thin Air' by Jon Krakauer. In that book, you could understand and empathize with the Everest quest and sense the extreme dangers involved.
Here, the story is told in an almost matter of fact, police report style. " Mawson fell down a crevass....he climbed out on his second attempt." Yawn.
Another issue was, and this is not the narrator's fault, that some information was repeated at times. I wondered if this book was written by a 'team' and several chapters made references to the same events or technical information.
If this is truly the 'Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration', it surely was delivered in dead-pan as I almost missed the climatic parts.
All in all, I am glad to have learned about Mawson and his experiences in Antarctica and the challenges, but they were delivered with such a lack of emotion that as another reviewer said, it probably would have been a better read.
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- Don
- 2013/03/16
Inspiring story, man against mother nature
If you could sum up Alone on the Ice in three words, what would they be?
Incredible human spirit
What did you like best about this story?
Detailed descriptions of life a century past, men performing feats that we would struggle to accomplish with current technology, and excelling at it.
What about Matthew Brenher’s performance did you like?
Very appropriate accent for the story.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Yes, very interesting listen.
Any additional comments?
Makes me want to learn more of Shackleton, Scott and Amundson
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- Mel
- 2013/02/07
Put Another Log on the Fire
As far as books on exploration and historic expeditions, this is about as good as it gets--written by an award winning author familiar with mountaineering, exploration, etc., using the scientific journals, letters, and diaries of members of the 1911 Australian Antarctic Exploration (AAE)--particularly Australian heroes Douglas Mawson and Xavier Mertz. Roberts article about this historic expedition in the January edition of National Geographic piqued my interest, and the book expanded the fascinating article.
The explorers set out on a 600 mi. round trip journey across the unexplored frozen land, unprepared for the icy gales over 120 mph, week long blizzards, and perilous crevasses--hidden under *ice bridges* that gave no sign of the deep chasm beneath until the ice had cracked and swallowed the victims. Of the original 27 men and 36 dogs--only Mawson survives to meet the rescue ship, covering the last 100 miles by himself. Sir Edmund Hillary, of Mt. Everest fame, referred to Mawson's final lone push to the base camp (I will let you read about the terrifying incidents yourself) as, "the greatest survival story in the history of exploration."
Roberts did fastidious research but doesn't add flourish to the journals, keeping the story as accurate and real as possible. I thought the style was captivating and kept the events immediate--the desperation and fear felt threatening, the starvation was painful. The men write about the thin canvas tents in the relentless blizzards, layers of clothing frozen to them while they slept in their sleeping bags, the maddening loneliness and quiet, peeling off layers of frozen dead skin, the paralyzing fear that each step might crack open a bottomless icy cavern--it truly is chilling. Maybe I'm less fussy than other listeners, but I felt the narrator did a wonderful job balancing the sciene with the humanity.
I'm an animal lover and feel like my dog is people...so the fact that man's best friend became man's best meal bothered me immensely--just a little personal aside. (And wasn't it enough that they ate masses of the penguins and their eggs?..did they have to entertain themselves by antagonizing them first?!) It's hard to hear about in such expressive detail...*journalized for science* the taste of boiled Husky brain...(and the NG magazine had pre-expedition photos of the poor canines--gulp). Because of the scientific nature of the expedition, this is different from, say... Into Thin Air... and the type of adventure book that is more about a personal conquest. Know that there is a lot of detail and history of previous explorers. At times, the story jumps from one group's story to a previous group, and was a little challenging to follow. The epilogue is fantastic, detailing the impact of the expedition as well as the fate of Mawson. Sitting by my fireplace, I lookled out the window and thought the snowy-20 degree day didn't look so bad.
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- Bradley
- 2013/12/20
Great Story
If you could sum up Alone on the Ice in three words, what would they be?
A great adventure that I'd never heard of before, Mawson and the AAE was a completely new story.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Mawson, he never gave up
What does Matthew Brenher bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Great story teller.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
I did to the hardships they had to endure, as an outdoors person I've said to myself "is this worth it".
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- dss
- 2013/02/07
Thrilling Adventure
Would you listen to Alone on the Ice again? Why?
Not sure - I don't usually listen to a book again.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Alone on the Ice?
When you realize what a dire situation Mawson and Mertz are in with most of their food and tent gone and still hundreds of miles from base.
What does Matthew Brenher bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Great English accent - very suitable for the material.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No - too long for that, although, due to the intense nature of the experience, whenever I stopped listening, I felt disoriented for an hour or so realizing that I have all the food I want and am not freezing to death!
Any additional comments?
I disagree with the other reviewers that the performance was emotionless or monotonous. I thought it perfectly suited the material. I had just finished "Adrift", another survival story of 76 days alone at sea in an inflatable raft, so this was an interesting counterpoint. This makes me want to learn more about the Heroic Age of antarctic exploration.
One minor thing - I also noticed the mistake another reviewer noted about the narrator saying "feet" instead of "minutes" for geographical coordinates. Someone probably should have caught that and corrected it, but it's fine once you get used to it.
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- dave
- 2021/01/02
survival triumph and horror
amazing story of early antarctic exploration and the utter horror show it can become. the first heroes that traveled that continent may as well have been in space and the feeling is well outlined in this fantastically written book.
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- ron
- 2013/12/13
outstanding as always
I wish I had listened to this book before the endurance. this is the prior story leading up to Shackelton's surviving on his next trip. All I can say it. you must get this and those are some real men. and RIP to those that did not make it.
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- Kevin
- 2013/11/14
Great tale but ...
What do you think the narrator could have done better?
A narrator reading about geography should realise that latitude and longitude are measured in degrees and minutes - not degrees and feet. This and a few other strange pronunciations introduce a jarring note into an otherwise well read book.
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- James Tobiasen
- 2018/07/31
Astonishing Endurance
An amazing true story of human bravery, made all the more astonishing due to the relatively primitive equipment that the explorers were using. The book is read in a listenable and articulate manner for the most part, though there are a few jarring ticks which are, in all honesty quite shocking coming from a professional: the habit of reading dates as, for example, “May one” rather than “May the first”, the repeated mis-reading of certain words e.g. “magnanimous” read as magnaMiNous” (it isn’t the only example) - although the most jarring problem (the date format) may have been a production or editorial decision rather than the actors choice. A real shame as it partially spoils what would otherwise be a wonderful audio book.
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- birdie
- 2014/11/23
Don't bother!
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
The material in this book merely rehashes Mawson's well written autobiography, The Heart of the Blizzard. some of the comments about other antarctic explorers repeat Roland Huntsford's biased viewpoints as though they were gospel. the narration is extremely tedious and the pronounciation of many words is inaccurate and very annoying. If the story is new to you you may enjoy the content, but the narrator would need to be much more inspiring to make it worth the effort.
How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?
Read Mawson's original!
Who might you have cast as narrator instead of Matthew Brenher?
not sure.
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
irritation.
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- eriK koski
- 2020/09/01
Great stories of survival
This bookcwas well-detailed in explaining the struggles and battles the early arctic explores had to endure.
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- tintoy
- 2020/07/04
Cache, not cachet!!!
The book is a little arduous, much like the expedition. Not the most exciting of tellings of not the most exciting of expositions. I’d describe it as a ‘thorough account’ rather than a ‘scintillating read’
Also : The reader pronounces ‘cache’ as ‘cachet’, and it’s driving me bananas...
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- Andrew Redican
- 2020/04/26
A story worth retelling and listening again
I had never heard a more impressive story about exploration, enduramce and survival. I will pick up this audio book again to savor in any details that I might have missed.
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- Paul
- 2018/04/26
Excellent Book
A great book outlining the struggles and toil of men from a bygone age. Really enjoyed it.
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- Rose
- 2017/12/22
Great expectations that peter out in a welter of dawdling and bad writing
I’d like to say I enjoyed this book but that would be a lie. I had high hopes for this ook at the start due to its title, summary and description of text. However, even at the beginning I could see that I’d be disppointed. It dawdles, rambles and digresses all over the place. One gets the sense that somebody is writing this from a distance which is true of course but disappointing that a better job could not be made to really convey the difficulties of the polar expedition so that one never leaves the armchair in which one might be sitting to read this book. it isn’t helped by poor naration and pronunciation. It’s written, or so it seems, by an American since the words and emphasis is very much indicative of that region of the world. It’s written like a journalist’s account of something he never took part in and so I can say nothing positive about this book. If you want atmosphere and real sense of adventure avoid this one and stick instead to books which are better written though not necessarily any better read. I’ll finish it but never again will I open this book.
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- 匿名
- 2020/07/21
Enthralling
I loved this book. It's one of those one's where you're sad when it's finished and you have to find something else, which is rare for me to find.
Now all I want to do is read/watch/listen to stories about Antarctica.
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- David
- 2015/10/18
Really good
Where does Alone on the Ice rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
Top 2 for sure, along with "On the trail of Genghis Kahn".
Who was your favorite character and why?
Douglas Mawson.
Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Laugh at times but mostly just listen in awe.
Any additional comments?
I wish more people knew the storey of the man who at one stage was on Australia's $100 note.