https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/polaris--7420113
From William Barentsz spending the first polar winter in a house built of driftwood, to Fridtjof Nansen drifting for three years in the Fram, to Ernest Shackleton, Douglas Mawson, Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott, Polaris is the history of human beings at the limit of what a body can endure. Meticulously researched, honest about the disputes that remain unsettled, and clear about the difference between the record and the legend. Clean and suitable for all ages. A new expedition every week

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From William Barentsz spending the first polar winter in a house built of driftwood, to Fridtjof Nansen drifting for three years in the Fram, to Ernest Shackleton, Douglas Mawson, Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott, Polaris is the history of human beings at the limit of what a body can endure. Meticulously researched, honest about the disputes that remain unsettled, and clear about the difference between the record and the legend. Clean and suitable for all ages. A new expedition every week

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