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The Weather Experiment
- By: Peter Moore
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
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In 1865 a broken Admiral Robert FitzRoy locked himself in his dressing room and cut his throat. His grand meteorological project had failed. Yet only a decade later, FitzRoy’s storm-warning system and ‘forecasts’ would return, the model for what we use today. In an age when a storm at sea was evidence of God’s great wrath, 19th-century meteorologists had to fight against convention and religious dogma.
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Fascinating
- By Sue156 on 16-03-16
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The Weather Experiment
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 07-05-15
- Language: English
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Papyrus
- The Invention of Books in the Ancient World
- By: Irene Vallejo, Charlotte Whittle - translator
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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A "masterly" (Economist), prize-winning, internationally bestselling history of books in the ancient world "Exquisite. . . . Beautifully translated into English by Charlotte Whittle, who is able to convey both Vallejo’s passionate narrative presence and her synthesising intelligence.” —The...
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Papyrus
- The Invention of Books in the Ancient World
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 18-10-22
- Language: English
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In the Heart of the Sea
- The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (National Book Award Winner)
- By: Nathaniel Philbrick
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
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From the author of Valiant Ambition, the riveting and critically acclaimed bestseller and major motion picture starring Chris Hemsworth, directed by Ron Howard Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Ben Whishaw, and Brendan Gleeson star in the film based on this National Book Award–winning account...
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In the Heart of the Sea
- The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (National Book Award Winner)
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 13-06-05
- Language: English
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The White Darkness
- By: David Grann
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
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By the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a powerful true story of adventure and obsession in the Antarctic Henry Worsley was a devoted husband and father and a decorated British special forces officer who believed in honor and sacrifice. He was also a man...
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The White Darkness
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 30-10-18
- Language: English
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A Voyage Long and Strange
- By: Tony Horwitz
- Narrated by: Tony Horwitz
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 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
- Narrated by: Tony Horwitz
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 29-08-08
- Language: English
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Chasing the Moon
- The People, the Politics, and the Promise That Launched America into the Space Age
- By: Robert Stone, Alan Andres
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
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JFK issued the historic moon landing challenge. These are the stories of the visionaries who helped America complete his vision with the first lunar landing fifty years ago...
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Chasing the Moon
- The People, the Politics, and the Promise That Launched America into the Space Age
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 04-06-19
- Language: English
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The Log from the Sea of Cortez
- By: John Steinbeck, Richard Astro - introduction
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. In 1940 Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his great friend the marine biologist, Ed Ricketts, to collect marine invertebrates from the beaches of the Gulf of California. The expedition was described by the two men in SEA OF CORTEZ, published in 1941. The...
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The eulogy at the end is a work of marvel
- By Maria on 26-12-23
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The Log from the Sea of Cortez
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 26-11-20
- Language: English
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The Worst Journey in the World
- By: Apsley Cherry-Garrard
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 20 hrs and 6 mins
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This gripping story of courage and achievement is the account of Robert Falcon Scott's last fateful expedition to the Antarctic, as told by surviving expedition member Apsley Cherry-Garrard. Cherry-Garrard, whom Scott lauded as a tough, efficient member of the team, tells of the journey from England to South Africa and southward to the ice floes. From there began the unforgettable polar journey across a forbidding and inhospitable region.
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Takes your breath away
- By Bettym on 17-06-13
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The Worst Journey in the World
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 20 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 29-04-04
- Language: English
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Batavia
- By: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Richard Aspel
- Length: 17 hrs
- Unabridged
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The story begins in 1629, when the pride of the Dutch East India Company, the Batavia, is on its maiden voyage en route from Amsterdam to the Dutch East Indies, laden down with the greatest treasure to leave Holland. The magnificent ship is already boiling over with a mutinous plot that is just about to break into the open when, just off the coast of Western Australia, it strikes an unseen reef in the middle of the night.
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Pronunciation is below poor
- By Daan Lagas on 17-07-20
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Batavia
- Narrated by: Richard Aspel
- Length: 17 hrs
- Release date: 13-12-12
- Language: English
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The Garden of Mars
- Madagascar, an Island Story
- By: John Gimlette
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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An improbable world beckons. We think we know Madagascar, but it's too big, too eccentric and too impenetrable to be truly understood. If it was stretched out across Europe, the islands would reach from London to Algiers, and yet its road network is barely bigger than tiny Jamaica's. There is no evidence of any human life until about 10,000 years ago, and, when eventually people settled, it was migrants from Borneo - 3,700 miles away - who came out on top.
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The Garden of Mars
- Madagascar, an Island Story
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 07-01-21
- Language: English
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The Sea Wolves
- A History of the Vikings
- By: Lars Brownworth
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance54
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In AD 793 Norse warriors struck the English isle of Lindisfarne and laid waste to it. Wave after wave of Norse "sea wolves" followed in search of plunder, land, or a glorious death in battle. Much of the British Isles fell before their swords, and the continental capitals of Paris and Aachen were sacked in turn. Turning east, they swept down the uncharted rivers of central Europe, captured Kiev, and clashed with mighty Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
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More history they didn't teach you at school
- By Turquelblue on 24-02-16
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The Sea Wolves
- A History of the Vikings
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 23-06-15
- Language: English
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Race for the South Pole
- The Expedition Diaries of Scott and Amundsen
- By: Roland Huntford
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1910 Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen set sail for Antarctica, each from his own starting point, and the epic race for the South Pole was on. For the first time, Scott's unedited diaries run alongside those of both Amundsen and Olav Bjaaland, never before translated into English. Cutting through the welter of controversy to the events at the heart of the story, Huntford weaves the narrative from the protagonists' accounts of their own fate.
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The Artic debacle.
- By D Mackey on 26-02-26
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Race for the South Pole
- The Expedition Diaries of Scott and Amundsen
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 30-10-25
- Language: English
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Against the Ice
- The Classic Arctic Survival Story
- By: Ejnar Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau - introduction, Maurice Michael - translator
- Narrated by: Tristan Wright
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
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Now a major Netflix film co-written by and starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones) The harrowing, amazing, and often amusing personal account of two mismatched Arctic explorers who banded together to keep themselves sane on an historic expedition gone horribly wrong Ejnar Mikkelsen was...
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Author and narrator paint a good picture of the bleakness of Arctic Greenland
- By Chris on 06-06-24
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Against the Ice
- The Classic Arctic Survival Story
- Narrated by: Tristan Wright
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 11-01-22
- Language: English
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Meet the Georgians
- Epic Tales from Britain’s Wildest Century
- By: Robert Peal
- Narrated by: Nicola Coughlan, Adjoa Andoh, Ash Hunter
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
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‘The way Robert Peal describes Georgian England, you’d be mad not to want to live there yourself’ GUARDIAN Anne Bonny and Mary Read, pirate queens of the Caribbean Tipu Sultan, the Indian ruler who kept the British at bay Olaudah Equiano, the former slave whose story shocked the world Mary...
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Interesting but glib
- By Liz on 10-08-21
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Meet the Georgians
- Epic Tales from Britain’s Wildest Century
- Narrated by: Nicola Coughlan, Adjoa Andoh, Ash Hunter
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 08-07-21
- Language: English
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The First Fleet
- By: Rob Mundle
- Narrated by: Paul English
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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The role of the sailor through history should never be underestimated. Over centuries battles were won and new lands discovered and settled by their skills and nerve. Rob Mundle is back on the ocean to tell one of the great stories of an expedition under sail: the extraordinary eight-month, 17-000-nautical mile voyage of the First Fleet. With customary sweep and swell, Mundle puts you alongside 48-year-old Captain Arthur Phillip on the quarterdeck of the Royal Navy escort, HMS Sirius, as he commands his small armada of 11 ships, carrying over 1420 men, women and children, to the other side of the world.
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Loved it!
- By Gadgetfanatic on 05-04-19
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The First Fleet
- Narrated by: Paul English
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 13-09-18
- Language: English
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Scott's Last Expedition
- The Journals
- By: Robert Falcon Scott
- Narrated by: William Sutherland
- Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Here is the story of the infamous 1910 race to the South Pole, as told by its fearless yet desperate leader, Robert Falcon Scott. The New York Times called Scott's Last Expedition "A splendid record of heroism not soon to be forgotten."
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To judge the book is to judge the man
- By Rose on 19-12-17
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Scott's Last Expedition
- The Journals
- Narrated by: William Sutherland
- Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 16-01-01
- Language: English
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Historical Mysteries
- Ancient Secrets and Historical Mysteries from Vanished Civilizations to Lost Treasures: An Intriguing Collection of Stories, History, Trivia, and Facts
- By: Oscar Johnson
- Narrated by: Anthony Proctor
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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History is not a neat line of facts and dates. It is a landscape of strange gaps, unanswered questions, and voices silenced long before we were born. From crumbling ruins to cryptic symbols carved into desert stone, the past keeps reaching out. In Historical Mysteries, author Oscar Johnson guides you through the half lit corridors of time where archaeology brushes against the unknown. This audiobook is a journey for anyone who loves puzzles, ancient secrets, and the thrill of discovery.
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Historical Mysteries
- Ancient Secrets and Historical Mysteries from Vanished Civilizations to Lost Treasures: An Intriguing Collection of Stories, History, Trivia, and Facts
- Narrated by: Anthony Proctor
- Series: Historical Mysteries, Book 1
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 07-04-26
- Language: English
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River of the Gods
- Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
- By: Candice Millard
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The harrowing story of one of the great feats of exploration of all time and its complicated legacy—from the New York Times bestselling author of The River of Doubt and Destiny of the Republic A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE WASHINGTON POST GOODREADS "A lean...
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River of the Gods
- Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 17-05-22
- Language: English
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The Lost Men
- The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party
- By: Kelly Tyler-Lewis
- Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
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In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed south aboard the Endurance to be the first to cross Antarctica. Shackleton's endeavor is legend, but few know the astonishing story of the Ross Sea party, the support crew he dispatched to the opposite side of the continent to build a vital lifeline of food...
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The Lost Men
- The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party
- Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 20-04-06
- Language: English
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The Cruelest Miles
- The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic
- By: Gay Salisbury, Laney Salisbury
- Narrated by: Margot Dionne
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
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The year is 1925. It is sixty degrees below zero. The wind sweeps tons of snow over the deep-frozen Alaskan landscape. The nearest railhead is seven hundred miles away. Airplanes cannot fly. The way to Nome is blocked by a treacherous frozen sound, an icebound port, and mountains to the west...
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The Cruelest Miles
- The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic
- Narrated by: Margot Dionne
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 27-06-03
- Language: English
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