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

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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