Adrift on an Ice-Pan by Sir Wilfred Grenfell ~ Full Audiobook [biography]

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05/18/23

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61m

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Adrift on an Ice-Pan by Sir Wilfred Grenfell audiobook.

Genre: biography

In Adrift on an Ice-Pan, Sir Wilfred Grenfell, the famed doctor and medical missionary of northern Newfoundland and Labrador, recounts a single harrowing journey that became one of the defining stories of his life. On Easter Sunday in 1908, a desperate call pulls him from St. Anthony into the white expanse: a young patient needs urgent help, and Grenfell sets out fast with a komatik and a team of trusted dogs. Trying to save time by cutting across a bay, he is suddenly betrayed by spring ice that fractures and moves underfoot, leaving man and animals soaked, stranded, and drifting seaward on a floating pan as wind and current open the water around them. With supplies lost, visibility failing, and cold closing in, Grenfell must improvise shelter, warmth, and a plan from whatever remains, making split-second decisions that test endurance, ingenuity, and conscience. Told with vivid detail and plainspoken intensity, this short memoir blends survival narrative with Grenfell's deep faith and his lifelong commitment to isolated coastal communities, revealing what it costs to keep going when help feels impossibly far away.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:11:36) Chapter 02

(00:52:11) Chapter 03

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The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott ~ Full Audiobook [adventure]

May 18, 2023

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880m

The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott audiobook.

Genre: adventure

Set amid the dust, heat, and rivalries of the Third Crusade, Sir Walter Scott's The Talisman follows Sir Kenneth of Scotland, a weary but unbending knight who arrives in the crusader camp as alliances fray and tempers flare. King Richard the Lionheart burns with ambition and illness in equal measure, while jealous princes, scheming counselors, and factions within the army threaten to undo the entire holy venture from within. When a mysterious act of sabotage endangers the crusaders' fragile unity, Kenneth is drawn into a perilous web of suspicion, secret errands, and courtroom-like trials of honor. His path intersects with Edith Plantagenet, a noblewoman caught between duty and desire, and with figures from the opposing side whose intelligence and generosity complicate the simple labels of friend and foe. From tense councils to daring rides across hostile ground, the novel explores chivalry under pressure, the cost of pride, and the uneasy space where faith, politics, and personal loyalty collide. Scott blends romance, intrigue, and vivid historical spectacle into a tale where a single mistake can ignite a war within a war.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:26:32) Chapter 01

(00:45:09) Chapter 02

(01:20:06) Chapter 03

(01:52:51) Chapter 04

(02:18:15) Chapter 05

(02:54:56) Chapter 06

(03:07:57) Chapter 07

(03:39:00) Chapter 08

(04:11:35) Chapter 09

(04:41:20) Chapter 10

(05:14:59) Chapter 11

(05:38:57) Chapter 12

(05:59:07) Chapter 13

(06:25:57) Chapter 14

(06:46:26) Chapter 15

(07:08:52) Chapter 16

(07:30:55) Chapter 17

(07:52:36) Chapter 18

(08:06:57) Chapter 19

(08:28:51) Chapter 20

(09:05:51) Chapter 21

(09:36:55) Chapter 22

(10:13:09) Chapter 23

(10:33:41) Chapter 24

(11:04:55) Chapter 25

(11:29:09) Chapter 26

(12:02:56) Chapter 27

(12:24:19) Chapter 28

(12:54:24) Chapter 29

(13:16:45) Chapter 30

(13:39:01) Chapter 31

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The Autobiography of St. Ignatius by St. Ignatius Loyola ~ Full Audiobook [biography]

May 18, 2023

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140m

The Autobiography of St. Ignatius by St. Ignatius Loyola audiobook.

Genre: biography

This account of the life of St. Ignatius, dictated by himself to Father Gonzalez, is a most valuable record of the great Founder of the Society of Jesus. It, more than any other work, gives an insight into the spiritual life of St. Ignatius. Few works in ascetical literature, except the writings of St. Teresa and St. Augustine, impart such a knowledge of the soul.The saint in his narrative always refers to himself in the third person, and this mode of speech has here been retained. Many persons who have neither the time, nor, perhaps, the inclination, to read larger works, will read, we trust, with pleasure and profit this autobiography. Ignatius, as he lay wounded in his brother's house, read the lives of the saints to while away the time. Touched by grace, he cried, 'What St. Francis and St. Dominic have done, that, by God's grace, I will do.' May this little book, in like manner, inspire its readers with the desire of imitating St. Ignatius. This autobiography is a valuable key for the understanding of his Spiritual Exercises. It was kept in the archives for about 150 years

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 0

(00:07:39) Chapter 1

(00:17:32) Chapter 2

(00:33:49) Chapter 3

(00:51:40) Chapter 4

(01:02:24) Chapter 5

(01:16:12) Chapter 6

(01:31:56) Chapter 7

(01:48:44) Chapter 8

(02:02:47) Chapter 9