4.27 avg rating — 518,129 ratings

"The narrator was the wonderful John Cleese from Monty Python and Fawlty Towers. He was perfect as the devil!"

4.23 avg rating — 67,646 ratings

4.01 avg rating — 165,712 ratings

"Once it was over I suspected that the entire reason I thoroughly enjoyed this implausible Victorian tale was the haunting, evocative, fabulous narration by actor Ian Holm. His performance was mesmerizing! "

4.04 avg rating — 156,072 ratings

"Edwina Wren handled a very difficult task - expressing a dozen different accents, rapidly back and forth. She managed so well that it assisted in the listener's understanding of the text. Her mispronunciation of several Jewish words was lamentable, of course, but the overall performance was still excellent. "

4.46 avg rating — 163,850 ratings

"The narration was utterly gripping, well paced with the action and emotion, a fantastic job. I was shaking for some time after finishing this, my heart was still pounding so hard and I could hardly catch my breath; I could only think 'men used to be like this!' Now I want to know everything about all the polar explorers because this is a breed of men I have never encountered. Shackleton is my new hero: he had a genius for survival and leadership, and he returned to rescue all his men without loss of life. Incredible. This is an exceptional story about human nature."