Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some sleep.

So find a comfortable spot.

Adjust your volume,

take a nice deep breath in,

let it out slowly,

and off we go.

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check them out. Now let's get to the reading.

I know a lot of you love travel logs.

So tonight we're returning to the wintry north with an epic story of adventure.

The North Pole, its discovery in 1999 under the auspices of the Perry Arctic Club by Robert E Perry,

with an introduction by Theodore Roosevelt

and a forward by Gilbert H. Grovener, director and editor of the National Geographic

Society, originally published in 1910 by Frederick A Stokes Company.

Let's pick up where we left off.

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