60 acast.com What to Carry, What to Burn https://shows.acast.com/what-to-carry-what-to-burn en What to Carry, LLC survival,outdoors,nonfiction,stories Blair Braverman Edge-of-your-seat survival stories, as told by adventurer and dogsledder Blair Braverman Edge-of-your-seat survival stories, as told by adventurer and dogsledder Blair Braverman.


How did Ada Blackjack endure a brutal Arctic winter alone? Why did one shipwreck crew work together to survive, while another crew–on the same island–hunted each other for food? What can we learn from survivors about getting through the impossible–in the wilderness, and in our own lives?


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]]> Edge-of-your-seat survival stories, as told by adventurer and dogsledder Blair Braverman.


How did Ada Blackjack endure a brutal Arctic winter alone? Why did one shipwreck crew work together to survive, while another crew–on the same island–hunted each other for food? What can we learn from survivors about getting through the impossible–in the wilderness, and in our own lives?


New stories every other week!

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]]> true What to Carry, LLC info+69f8b83e3a143563ed7c9014@mg-eu.acast.com 69f8b83e3a143563ed7c9014 what-to-carry-what-to-burn episodic https://assets.pippa.io/shows/cover/1777907706338-2a9602e5-9922-44d3-b583-30971e16ec86.jpeg https://shows.acast.com/what-to-carry-what-to-burn What to Carry, What to Burn Ep 5: Lauren Elder Ep 5: Lauren Elder Tue, 23 Jun 2026 05:01:00 GMT 40:06 6a39d35600998a7fc8719b4b true https://shows.acast.com/what-to-carry-what-to-burn/episodes/lauren-elder 6a39d35600998a7fc8719b4b 69f8b83e3a143563ed7c9014 lauren-elder full 5 It’s 1976, and a 20-something aspiring painter, Lauren Elder, is flying over California’s Sierra Mountains to pick up a cat named Ferocious. When the plane crashes, she’s faced with a decision: stay and wait for rescue, or cross a wilderness where—in her hallucinatory state—she can’t even tell what's real.


Sources for this episode include the book And I Alone Survived by Lauren Elder and Shirley Streshinsky, articles in Artforum and the LA Times by Maria Borges and Cecilia Rasmussen, LaurenElder.com, and the Women Eco-Artists Dialogue (weadartists.org).


https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-07-me-then7-story.html

https://www.artforum.com/events/lauren-elder-216640/

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]]> It’s 1976, and a 20-something aspiring painter, Lauren Elder, is flying over California’s Sierra Mountains to pick up a cat named Ferocious. When the plane crashes, she’s faced with a decision: stay and wait for rescue, or cross a wilderness where—in her hallucinatory state—she can’t even tell what's real.


Sources for this episode include the book And I Alone Survived by Lauren Elder and Shirley Streshinsky, articles in Artforum and the LA Times by Maria Borges and Cecilia Rasmussen, LaurenElder.com, and the Women Eco-Artists Dialogue (weadartists.org).


https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-07-me-then7-story.html

https://www.artforum.com/events/lauren-elder-216640/

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]]> Ep 4: Bob and the Invercauld Ep 4: Bob and the Invercauld Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:01:00 GMT 54:41 6a275c29a917ce4c702c7012 true https://shows.acast.com/what-to-carry-what-to-burn/episodes/ep-4-bob-and-the-invercauld 6a275c29a917ce4c702c7012 69f8b83e3a143563ed7c9014 ep-4-bob-and-the-invercauld full 4 It's bad enough that 19th-century sailor Bob Holding gets stranded on an island after a shipwreck—but to make it worse, his companions are entitled, incompetent, and straight up murderous. Plus, they're not as alone on the island as they think...


Sources for this episode include the books The Wake of the Invercauld: Shipwrecked in the Subantarctic by Madelene Ferguson Allen and Island of the Lost by Joan Druett.

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]]> It's bad enough that 19th-century sailor Bob Holding gets stranded on an island after a shipwreck—but to make it worse, his companions are entitled, incompetent, and straight up murderous. Plus, they're not as alone on the island as they think...


Sources for this episode include the books The Wake of the Invercauld: Shipwrecked in the Subantarctic by Madelene Ferguson Allen and Island of the Lost by Joan Druett.

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]]> Ep 3: The Wreck of the Grafton Ep 3: The Wreck of the Grafton Tue, 26 May 2026 05:01:00 GMT 1:08:16 6a10a21a80978431da073b36 true https://shows.acast.com/what-to-carry-what-to-burn/episodes/the-wreck-of-the-grafton 6a10a21a80978431da073b36 69f8b83e3a143563ed7c9014 the-wreck-of-the-grafton full 3 Francois Raynal and his buddy, Captain Musgrave, are looking for a rumored island full of silver when they end up stranded in the Southern Ocean, surrounded by thousands of belching sea lions. After surviving a year in the wilderness, they accept that the world won’t save them—so they develop an ingenious (and terrifying) plan to save themselves.

Sources for this episode include the books Island of the Lost, by Joan Druett; The Wreck of the Grafton from the Private Journals of Thomas Musgrave, by Thomas Musgrave; and Wrecked on a Reef or 20 Months on the Auckland Islands, by Francois Raynal.

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]]> Francois Raynal and his buddy, Captain Musgrave, are looking for a rumored island full of silver when they end up stranded in the Southern Ocean, surrounded by thousands of belching sea lions. After surviving a year in the wilderness, they accept that the world won’t save them—so they develop an ingenious (and terrifying) plan to save themselves.

Sources for this episode include the books Island of the Lost, by Joan Druett; The Wreck of the Grafton from the Private Journals of Thomas Musgrave, by Thomas Musgrave; and Wrecked on a Reef or 20 Months on the Auckland Islands, by Francois Raynal.

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]]> Ep 1: The Friendly Arctic Ep 1: The Friendly Arctic Tue, 12 May 2026 05:01:00 GMT 1:01:04 69f8bd363a143563ed7f4756 true https://shows.acast.com/what-to-carry-what-to-burn/episodes/the-friendly-arctic 69f8bd363a143563ed7f4756 69f8b83e3a143563ed7c9014 the-friendly-arctic full 1 Ada Blackjack wants one thing: To make enough money to bring her son home from an orphanage. But good work is hard to find in 1920s Nome, Alaska, so when four strangers come to town, looking to hire someone for a secret yearlong expedition, Ada embarks on the trip—not knowing that she’ll be the only one of them to survive. 


Featuring guest Sarah Marshall of You’re Wrong About.

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]]> Ada Blackjack wants one thing: To make enough money to bring her son home from an orphanage. But good work is hard to find in 1920s Nome, Alaska, so when four strangers come to town, looking to hire someone for a secret yearlong expedition, Ada embarks on the trip—not knowing that she’ll be the only one of them to survive. 


Featuring guest Sarah Marshall of You’re Wrong About.

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]]> Ep 2: Ada Alone Ep 2: Ada Alone Tue, 12 May 2026 05:01:00 GMT 1:08:10 69f8bdd39d4faa1506dd9c24 true https://shows.acast.com/what-to-carry-what-to-burn/episodes/ada-alone 69f8bdd39d4faa1506dd9c24 69f8b83e3a143563ed7c9014 ada-alone full 2 When five explorers are abandoned on a frozen island, with ever-dwindling food and supplies, they try to arrange their own rescue by dogsledding across the frozen Arctic Ocean. Twenty-three-year-old seamstress Ada Blackjack is left completely alone--with no idea when, or if, she'll escape.


Featuring guest Sarah Marshall of You’re Wrong About.

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]]> When five explorers are abandoned on a frozen island, with ever-dwindling food and supplies, they try to arrange their own rescue by dogsledding across the frozen Arctic Ocean. Twenty-three-year-old seamstress Ada Blackjack is left completely alone--with no idea when, or if, she'll escape.


Featuring guest Sarah Marshall of You’re Wrong About.

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