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Thrilling tales of people and the wild.Join me, Michelle Douglass, wildlife producer and natural history super-fan, as we uncover the juiciest, strangest and most gripping true stories from our planet’s past.From perilous polar expeditions and extreme survival stories to…
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Terra Nova Expedition: Sex, Death and Survival in Antarctica (Part 2) (opens the original)
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It’s 1912, and on the Terra Nova British Antarctic Expedition, scientist and explorer George Murray Levick and five other men are marooned on what they’ll come to call ‘Inexpressible Island’. Their ship has failed to return. The Antarctic winter is closing in — seven months of brutal cold and constant darkness. With time running out, the men must build a tiny ice cave, hunt seals and penguins for food, and somehow survive the most hostile environment on Earth. They’ll battle hunger, illness and
Terra Nova Expedition: Sex, Death and Survival in Antarctica (Part 1) (opens the original)
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You may have heard of Captain Scott's doomed race to the South Pole. But do you know about the other gripping survival stories on history's most infamous Antarctic Expedition? Scientist and explorer George Murray Levick makes discoveries about Adélie penguins’ sex lives that shock him and could scandalise Edwardian British sensibilities. But will Levick even live to share his story? When he and five other men are marooned on ‘Inexpressible Island’, they must summon all their mental and physical
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