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Amerigo
- By: Stefan Zweig
- Narrated by: Marc Hamon
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
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Si les Vikings ont abordé le continent américain bien avant lui, c'est indéniablement Christophe Colomb qui a ouvert à l'ouest la route d'un "Nouveau Monde". Pourquoi a-t-on utilisé, pour baptiser cette partie du monde, le prénom d'Amerigo Vespucci ? Alors même qu'il s'installe en Amérique, Stefan Zweig reconstitue l'enchevêtrement des circonstances, des hasards, des malentendus qui sont à l'origine de cette étrange erreur.
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Amerigo
- Narrated by: Marc Hamon
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 31-08-18
- Language: French
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Operation Cowboy
- The Secret American Mission to Save the World's Most Beautiful Horses in the Last Days of World War II
- By: Stephan Talty
- Narrated by: Wes Talbot
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
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In the final days of World War II, with the ravenous Red Army marching across Czechoslovakia, a wily band of American soldiers did the unexpected: They teamed up with the Nazis and went behind enemy lines to save the world's rarest horses from imminent extinction at the hands of the Russians - including the exquisite white Lipizzaner, whose bloodlines date back to Genghis Khan.
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Operation Cowboy
- The Secret American Mission to Save the World's Most Beautiful Horses in the Last Days of World War II
- Narrated by: Wes Talbot
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 27-06-14
- Language: English
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The Day the World Discovered the Sun
- An Extraordinary Story of Scientific Adventure and the Race to Track the Transit of Venus
- By: Mark Anderson
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
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On June 3, 1769, the planet Venus briefly passed across the face of the sun in a cosmic alignment that occurs twice per century. Anticipation of the rare celestial event sparked a worldwide competition among aspiring global superpowers, each sending their own scientific expeditions to far-flung destinations to time the planet’s trek.
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The Day the World Discovered the Sun
- An Extraordinary Story of Scientific Adventure and the Race to Track the Transit of Venus
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 31-08-12
- Language: English
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On Savage Shores
- How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
- By: Caroline Dodds Pennock
- Narrated by: Caroline Dodds Pennock
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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AN ECONOMIST AND SMITHSONIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Age of Discovery by telling the story of the Indigenous Americans who journeyed across the Atlantic to Europe after 1492 "On Savage Shores...
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On Savage Shores
- How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
- Narrated by: Caroline Dodds Pennock
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 24-01-23
- Language: English
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A Voyage Long and Strange
- Rediscovering the New World
- By: Tony Horwitz
- Narrated by: John H. Mayer
- Length: 17 hrs and 16 mins
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On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz makes an unsettling discovery. A history buff since early childhood, expensively educated at university—a history major, no less!—he’s reached middle age with a third-grader’s grasp of early America. In fact, he’s mislaid more than a...
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A Voyage Long and Strange
- Rediscovering the New World
- Narrated by: John H. Mayer
- Length: 17 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 02-07-08
- Language: English
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Una excursión a los indios ranqueles [An Excursion to the Ranquel Indians]
- By: Lucio V. Mansilla
- Narrated by: Ezequiel Romero
- Length: 18 hrs and 52 mins
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Originariamente publicadas como folletín, en 1870, en el diario La Tribuna, las cartas que componen este libro son el particular relato de la expedición de Lucio V. Mansilla Tierra Adentro y de su encuentro con los indios ranqueles. Con una minuciosidad por momentos cercana a la obsesión, en ellas el autor toma nota de los detalles de la geografía pampeana y describe lúcidamente los hábitos, costumbres y comportamientos del mundo indígena, ese gran Otro de la literatura argentina.
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Una excursión a los indios ranqueles [An Excursion to the Ranquel Indians]
- Narrated by: Ezequiel Romero
- Length: 18 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 20-10-22
- Language: Spanish
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Spain in America, 1450-1580
- The American Nation Series, Book 3
- By: Edward Gaylord Bourne, Albert Bushnell Hart
- Narrated by: Joseph Tabler
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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This is volume 3 of 27 in The American Nation: A History, edited by Albert Bushnell Hart, Professor of History at Harvard University. This volume begins with the detailed narrative of the founding and development of the communities now included within the United States of America, and the story necessarily goes back to the discovery of the American islands and continents. Professor Bourne in his earlier chapters summarizes and restates, with many original conclusions, the controverted points with regard to the discovery of America.
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Spain in America, 1450-1580
- The American Nation Series, Book 3
- Narrated by: Joseph Tabler
- Series: American Nation: A History, Book 3
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 26-07-22
- Language: English
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Pirates and Privateers
- The History of Piracy from Ancient Times to Today
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Bill Hare
- Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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The people who have lived outside the boundaries of normal societies and refused to play by the rules have long fascinated the world, and nowhere is this more evident than the continuing interest in the pirates of centuries past. As the subjects of books, movies, and even theme park rides, people continue to let their imaginations go when it comes to pirates, with buried treasure, parrots, and walking the plank all ingrained in pop culture’s perception of them.
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Loved it
- By Ross H on 03-08-21
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Pirates and Privateers
- The History of Piracy from Ancient Times to Today
- Narrated by: Bill Hare
- Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
- Release date: 26-01-18
- Language: English
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Christopher Columbus: A Life from Beginning to End
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Nate Sjol
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
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Everyone knows who Christopher Columbus is, and everyone knows what he discovered and what he is famous for. Who, really, is this man, so shrouded in mystery? Columbus would tell you he was inspired by God to make his voyages, and it takes a brave soul indeed to sail out into the ocean blue where no one has gone before. In this audiobook, you'll find out all about this most remarkable of men. You will uncover why he thought it so important to never give up on his dream.
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Christopher Columbus: A Life from Beginning to End
- Narrated by: Nate Sjol
- Series: Biographies of Explorers, Book 4
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
- Release date: 27-12-17
- Language: English
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Magallanes y Elcano: travesía al fin del mundo [Magellan and Elcano: crossing to the end of the world]
- By: Gabriel Sánchez Sorondo
- Narrated by: Joan Espinosa
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
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La aventura de Vasco de Gama que le llevó a las Indias através del cabo de Buena Esperanza abrió una guerra por el control de las especias y por el control estratégico mundial que concluiría con la gesta de Magallanes y Elcano: la expedición que dio, a ciegas, la primera vuelta al mundo.
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Magallanes y Elcano: travesía al fin del mundo [Magellan and Elcano: crossing to the end of the world]
- Narrated by: Joan Espinosa
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 23-01-18
- Language: Spanish
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The Burr Conspiracy
- Uncovering the Story of an Early American Crisis
- By: James E. Lewis Jr.
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 20 hrs and 15 mins
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In 1805 and 1806, Aaron Burr, former vice president of the newly formed American republic, traveled through the Trans-Appalachian West gathering support for a mysterious enterprise, for which he was arrested and tried for treason in 1807. This book explores the political and cultural forces that shaped how Americans made sense of the uncertain rumors and reports about Burr's intentions and movements, and examines what the resulting crisis reveals about their anxieties concerning the new nation's fragile union and uncertain republic.
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The Burr Conspiracy
- Uncovering the Story of an Early American Crisis
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 20 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 25-10-17
- Language: English
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Galileo Galilei - A Short Biography
- 30 Minute Book Series
- By: Doug West
- Narrated by: Gregory Diehl
- Length: 46 mins
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Galileo Galilei grew up in a time when nearly everyone thought the Earth was the center of the universe and the Sun and the planets revolved around the Earth. His intellectual world was dominated by the work of the ancient philosopher Aristotle. Science as we know it today was just starting to emerge from the dark ages and it was blended with religion so that the two at were hard to distinguish between. Galileo's work included a radial improvement in a parlor toy called a spyglass.
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Galileo Galilei - A Short Biography
- 30 Minute Book Series
- Narrated by: Gregory Diehl
- Series: 30 Minute Book
- Length: 46 mins
- Release date: 30-07-15
- Language: English
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The Vikings in North America
- The History and Legacy of the Norse Settlements in Greenland and Vinland
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Norman Gilligan
- Length: 1 hr and 57 mins
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The ubiquitous picture of the Vikings as horn-helmeted, brutish, hairy giants that mercilessly marauded among the settlements of Northern Europe is based on a smattering of facts combined with an abundance of prejudicial historical writing by those who were on the receiving end of Viking depredations. At the same time, much of the popular picture of the Vikings is a result of the romantic imagination of novelists and artists. However, the Vikings' reputation for ferocious seaborne attacks along the coasts of Northern Europe is no exaggeration.
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The Vikings in North America
- The History and Legacy of the Norse Settlements in Greenland and Vinland
- Narrated by: Norman Gilligan
- Length: 1 hr and 57 mins
- Release date: 10-07-15
- Language: English
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Leading on the Edge
- Extraordinary Stories and Leadership Insights from the World's Most Extreme Workplace
- By: Rachael Robertson
- Narrated by: Lucy Paterson
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
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In Leading on the Edge, successful business speaker and consultant Rachael Robertson shares the lessons she learned as leader of a year-long expedition to the wilds of Antarctica.
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Great story, brilliantly narrated
- By Cecile on 19-12-23
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Leading on the Edge
- Extraordinary Stories and Leadership Insights from the World's Most Extreme Workplace
- Narrated by: Lucy Paterson
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 23-08-21
- Language: English
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Escalante's Dream
- On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest
- By: David Roberts
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
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In July 1776 a pair of Franciscan friars, Francisco Atanasio Dominguez and Silvestre Velez de Escalante, were charged by the governor of New Mexico with discovering a route across the unknown Southwest to the new Spanish colony in California. They had other goals as well, some of them secret: converting the indigenous natives along the way to the true faith, discovering a semi-mythical paradise known as Teguayo, hunting for sources of gold and silver, and paving the way for Spanish settlements from Santa Fe to Monterey. In strict terms, the expedition failed.
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Escalante's Dream
- On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 27-08-19
- Language: English
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The Nixon-Gleason Alien Encounter
- By: Paul Blake Smith
- Narrated by: Tom Beyer
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
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Under the cover of night, on February 19, 1973, another U.S. president witnessed extraterrestrials. President Richard Nixon made a secret trip to a top security U.S. Air Force base, as his former boss, President Dwight Eisenhower, did in 1954. Nixon was said to have taken his golfing buddy, comedian Jackie Gleason. According to Gleason's then wife, Beverly McKittrick Gleason, Jackie was deeply shaken later that night when he returned home and confessed to their clandestine trip.
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The Nixon-Gleason Alien Encounter
- Narrated by: Tom Beyer
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 14-11-23
- Language: English
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Vitamin C
- A 500-Year Scientific Biography from Scurvy to Pseudoscience
- By: Stephen M. Sagar MD
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
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Vitamin C begins with scurvy, which afflicted Europe for four hundred years and killed millions. The reasons that a disease whose cure was known from the outset persisted over that time are at once baffling and familiar, and these trials eventually lead to invention of the science of epidemiology. Author Stephen M. Sagar MD then chronicles the discovery of vitamins at the beginning of the twentieth century, a story that encapsulates the rise of a scientific approach to nutrition but with surprising twists and turns.
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Vitamin C
- A 500-Year Scientific Biography from Scurvy to Pseudoscience
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 30-08-22
- Language: English
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Full Fathom 5000
- The Expedition of the HMS Challenger and the Strange Animals It Found in the Deep Sea
- By: Graham Bell
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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Until the early 1870s, very little was known about the creatures lurking in the depths of our oceans. The first systematic investigation into life in our oceans was made during the circumnavigation of the HMS Challenger. Scientists credit this voyage as the beginning of modern oceanography. In this book, Graham Bell takes listeners through the voyage station by station, following the progress of the expedition and introducing some of the new and strange animals that were hauled up from the depths of the ocean and seen by human eyes for the first time.
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Full Fathom 5000
- The Expedition of the HMS Challenger and the Strange Animals It Found in the Deep Sea
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 26-07-22
- Language: English
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Thirty Days in Quito
- Two Gringos and a Three-Legged Cat Move to Ecuador
- By: K. Kris Loomis
- Narrated by: Jodi Gaylord
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
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Ever wonder what it would be like to pick up one day and move abroad? In the summer of 2013, Kris Loomis and her husband sold all their worldly possessions and, along with their three-legged cat, Triplet, did just that. They left their comfy life behind and moved to Ecuador! Follow along as they battle 'mañana' time, stinky buses, and the dreaded 'Frankenstein' shower. Will they adjust to South American culture? Will Triplet learn to meow in Spanish?
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"30 days at 9,000 feet.."
- By Norma Miles on 14-05-22
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Thirty Days in Quito
- Two Gringos and a Three-Legged Cat Move to Ecuador
- Narrated by: Jodi Gaylord
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 05-06-17
- Language: English
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Alta California
- From San Diego to San Francisco, a Journey on Foot to Rediscover the Golden State
- By: Nick Neely
- Narrated by: Tristan Wright
- Length: 17 hrs and 36 mins
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Nick Neely chronicles his 650-mile trek on foot from San Diego to San Francisco, following the route of the first overland Spanish expedition into what was soon called Alta California. Led by Gaspar de Portolá in 1769, the expedition sketched a route that would become, in part, the famous El Camino Real. It laid the foundation for the Golden State we know today, a place that remains as mythical and captivating as any in the world.
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Alta California
- From San Diego to San Francisco, a Journey on Foot to Rediscover the Golden State
- Narrated by: Tristan Wright
- Length: 17 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 14-04-20
- Language: English
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