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Empire at the Edge of the World by Giles Milton Episodes

    5. The Reckoning

    5/5 Rescuer Harold Noice finally reaches Wrangel Island. Read by Edmund Kingsley.

    4. The Friendly Arctic

    4/5 Stefansson turns bestselling author, selling the Arctic as a paradise ripe for settlement.

    3. Presumed Dead

    3/5 Unaware of the Karluk's fate, Stefansson strikes out across the frozen Beaufort Sea.

    2. Trapped in the Ice

    2/5 Trapped in the ice, the Karluk's crew face scurvy and starvation. Read by Edmund Kingsley.

    1. The Race for a Lost Arctic Continent

    1/5 The race for a lost Arctic continent.