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Adrift on an Ice-Pan by Sir Wilfred Grenfell ~ Full Audiobook [biography]
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Adrift on an Ice-Pan by Sir Wilfred Grenfell ~ Full Audiobook [biography]

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May 18, 20231h 1m

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Adrift on an Ice-Pan by Sir Wilfred Grenfell audiobook.

Genre: biography

In Adrift on an Ice-Pan, Sir Wilfred Grenfell, the famed doctor and medical missionary of northern Newfoundland and Labrador, recounts a single harrowing journey that became one of the defining stories of his life. On Easter Sunday in 1908, a desperate call pulls him from St. Anthony into the white expanse: a young patient needs urgent help, and Grenfell sets out fast with a komatik and a team of trusted dogs. Trying to save time by cutting across a bay, he is suddenly betrayed by spring ice that fractures and moves underfoot, leaving man and animals soaked, stranded, and drifting seaward on a floating pan as wind and current open the water around them. With supplies lost, visibility failing, and cold closing in, Grenfell must improvise shelter, warmth, and a plan from whatever remains, making split-second decisions that test endurance, ingenuity, and conscience. Told with vivid detail and plainspoken intensity, this short memoir blends survival narrative with Grenfell's deep faith and his lifelong commitment to isolated coastal communities, revealing what it costs to keep going when help feels impossibly far away.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:11:36) Chapter 02

(00:52:11) Chapter 03

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