Exploration & Journeys
Through the first Antarctic night, 1898-1899
Frederick Albert Cook · narrated by Moss
2026
13h 11m
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Frederick Cook's account of the Belgica expedition, the first ship ever to winter in the Antarctic ice. Trapped through the long polar night of 1898, the crew battled darkness, scurvy, and near madness. A gripping firsthand chronicle of the earliest overwintering below the Antarctic Circle, told by the expedition surgeon himself.
Inside this audiobook
35 chapters
- 1INTRODUCTION.17m
- 2CHAPTER I IN AND ABOUT RIO DE JANEIRO22m
- 3CHAPTER II FROM RIO DE JANEIRO TO MONTEVIDEO39m
- 4CHAPTER III ORGANISATION OF THE EXPEDITION18m
- 5CHAPTER IV THE “BELGICA,” HER EQUIPMENT, HER COMFORTS AND DISCOMFORTS15m
- 6CHAPTER V MONTEVIDEO TO PUNTA ARENAS39m
- 7CHAPTER VI PUNTA ARENAS, THE SOUTHERNMOST TOWN16m
- 8CHAPTER VII FROM PUNTA ARENAS TO USHUAIA, THROUGH THE FUEGIAN CHANNELS10m
- 9CHAPTER VIII A RACE OF FUEGIAN GIANTS34m
- 10CHAPTER IX DISCOVERIES IN A NEW WORLD OF ICE27m
- 11CHAPTER X DISCOVERIES IN A NEW WORLD OF ICE (CONTINUED)24m
- 12CHAPTER XI FROM DANCOLAND TO ALEXANDER ISLANDS18m
- 13CHAPTER XII ACROSS THE ANTARCTIC CIRCLE—FIRST EFFORTS TO PENETRATE THE PACK22m
- 14CHAPTER XIII ALONG THE EDGE OF THE PACK-ICE34m
- 15CHAPTER XIV OVER UNKNOWN WATERS INTO THE FROZEN SEA25m
- 16CHAPTER XV HELPLESS IN A HOPELESS SEA OF ICE12m
- 17CHAPTER XVI BIRD’S-EYE VIEW OF THE PACK—AUTUMNAL TEMPESTS19m
- 18CHAPTER XVII THE FADING DAYS OF THE AUTUMN24m
- 19CHAPTER XVIII THE AUTUMN (CONTINUED). WORK AND PASTIME19m
- 20CHAPTER XIX THE FADING DAYS OF THE AUTUMN (CONTINUED)23m
- 21CHAPTER XX THE DAYS OF TWILIGHT PRECEDING THE LONG NIGHT24m
- 22CHAPTER XXI THE SOUTH POLAR NIGHT—DEPARTURE OF THE SUN.24m
- 23CHAPTER XXII THE SOUTH POLAR NIGHT (CONTINUED)—DAYS OF DISCONTENTMENT.21m
- 24CHAPTER XXIII THE SOUTH POLAR NIGHT (CONTINUED)—THE DEATH OF DANCO25m
- 25CHAPTER XXIV THE SOUTH POLAR NIGHT (CONTINUED). MIDNIGHT TO DAWN26m
- 26CHAPTER XXV SPRING—SUNRISE—TWILIGHT OF DAWN17m
- 27CHAPTER XXVI THE SPRING (CONTINUED)—RETURN OF LIGHT—A SLEDGE JOURNEY25m
- 28CHAPTER XXVII SUMMER23m
- 29CHAPTER XXVIII SUMMER (CONTINUED).20m
- 30CHAPTER XXIX FREED FROM THE ICE-EMBRACES—RETURN TO CIVILISATION29m
- 31APPENDICES33m
- 32Appendix No. II15m
- 33Appendix No. III7m
- 34Appendix No. V10m
- 35Appendix No. VI32m
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