Fast in the Ice by R. M. Ballantyne ~ Full Audiobook [adventure]

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03/16/23

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Fast in the Ice by R. M. Ballantyne audiobook.

Genre: adventure

In Fast in the Ice, R. M. Ballantyne throws listeners aboard the brig Hope as she sails from England into the blank white spaces of the Arctic in pursuit of a bold idea: that beyond the pack lies an open polar sea waiting to be reached. Captain Harvey is a driven, capable commander, but he is also a man who knows what his ambition costs the people he leaves behind. At his side is his nephew, Tom Gregory, a young ship's surgeon eager to trade classroom learning for real danger and discovery. As Greenland and Baffin's Bay close around them, the Hope is battered by storms, then gripped by the ice, turning a voyage of exploration into a long fight for endurance. The crew must improvise shelter and food, contend with sickness and scarcity, and venture out across a frozen wilderness where polar bears, darkness, and crushing cold are as threatening as any enemy. Along the way, Ballantyne mixes tense sea adventure with detailed, lived-in glimpses of Arctic travel, dog sledging, and hard-won lessons learned from the region's native people, testing what leadership and comradeship mean when the world itself will not let you go.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:06:58) Chapter 02

(00:17:15) Chapter 03

(00:33:20) Chapter 04

(00:49:26) Chapter 05

(01:06:31) Chapter 06

(01:24:46) Chapter 07

(01:51:25) Chapter 08

(02:05:39) Chapter 09

(02:20:27) Chapter 10

(02:33:25) Chapter 11

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Away in the Wilderness by R. M. Ballantyne ~ Full Audiobook [adventure]

March 16, 2023

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189m

Away in the Wilderness by R. M. Ballantyne audiobook.

Genre: adventure

In 19th-century Canada, famed backwoods hunter and trapper Jasper Derry sets out from the far reaches of Rupert's Land with one urgent goal: reach civilization in time to marry the woman he loves, Marie Laroche, and finally trade a life of wandering for a home. The journey should be straightforward for a man as capable as Jasper, but the wilderness has its own plans. Traveling with two unlikely companions, Arrowhead, a sharp-eyed Indigenous guide, and John Heywood, a young artist whose sketches and curiosity often slow the pace, Jasper must thread his way through swarming insects, dangerous rivers, isolated outposts, and sudden encounters with wild animals, including a terrifying bear. As the three friends push onward, their camaraderie is tested by exhaustion, hard choices, and the long shadow of human conflict on the frontier, including the schemes of Darkeye, a hostile chief who sees opportunity in their passage. Fast-moving, vivid, and moral in spirit, Away in the Wilderness blends survival adventure with humor, friendship, and a hard-earned lesson about pride, mercy, and revenge.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:06:27) Chapter 02

(00:15:48) Chapter 03

(00:26:31) Chapter 04

(00:34:44) Chapter 05

(00:50:12) Chapter 06

(01:09:59) Chapter 07

(01:24:31) Chapter 08

(01:45:19) Chapter 09

(01:59:47) Chapter 10

(02:15:20) Chapter 11

(02:35:02) Chapter 12

(02:48:52) Chapter 13

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Bacon by R. W. Church ~ Full Audiobook [biography]

March 16, 2023

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432m

Bacon by R. W. Church audiobook.

Genre: biography

In this concise, vivid volume from the English Men of Letters series, Victorian scholar and churchman R. W. Church traces the extraordinary contradictions of Francis Bacon (1561-1626): philosopher of a new science, master of English prose, and ambitious servant of power in the volatile world of Elizabethan and Jacobean politics. Church follows Bacon from a brilliant, restless youth and early legal promise into the rivalries of court, where patronage, strategy, and survival often clash with principle. Along the way, he makes Bacon's big intellectual wager feel urgent and human: that knowledge should be rebuilt from the ground up through disciplined observation and experiment, so that humanity might gain practical command of nature. With clear explanations of Bacon's major writings and aims, and a steady eye for the pressures that shaped his choices, Church examines how a mind devoted to public good and intellectual reform could also accept compromises that darken its legacy. The result is both an accessible introduction to Bacon's ideas and a probing character study of greatness tested by temptation, ambition, and the costs of living at the center of power.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:02:27) Chapter 01

(00:33:37) Chapter 02

(00:53:22) Chapter 03

(01:21:14) Chapter 04

(01:52:24) Chapter 05

(02:10:23) Chapter 06

(02:36:34) Chapter 07

(02:54:27) Chapter 08

(03:13:22) Chapter 09