Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration by David Roberts

Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration

David Roberts with Matthew Brenher (Narrator)

11 hours, 39 minutes first pub 2013 (editions) user-added

nonfiction biography history adventurous slow-paced

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His two companions were dead, his food and supplies had vanished in a crevasse, and Douglas Mawson was still one hundred miles from camp. On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was ...

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informative 73%
inspiring 39%
tense 39%
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sad 26%
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dark 13%
funny 4%
mysterious 4%

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medium 29%
fast 12%

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