Bestsellers
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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
- The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
- By: Jonathan Blitzer
- Narrated by: Jonathan Blitzer, André Santana
- Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Everyone who makes the journey faces an impossible choice. Hundreds of thousands of people who arrive every year at the US-Mexico border travel far from their homes....
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How America Created its Own Border Problem
- By Amazon Customer on 04-19-24
By: Jonathan Blitzer
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The Path Between the Seas
- The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
- By: David McCullough
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 31 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Here is the story of the men and women who fought against all odds to fulfill the 400-year-old dream of constructing an aquatic passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans....
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No Stone Unturned
- By Tim on 06-25-13
By: David McCullough
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The Lost City of the Monkey God
- A True Story
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrated by: Bill Mumy
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City....
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Still Lost...
- By Mel on 01-12-17
By: Douglas Preston
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Che Guevara
- A Revolutionary Life
- By: Jon Lee Anderson
- Narrated by: Armando Durán
- Length: 36 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Anderson traces Che's life from his comfortable Argentine upbringing to the battlefields of the Cuban revolution, from the halls of power in Castro's government to his failed campaign....
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Encompassing and Fair Look at an Historical Man
- By Matt on 08-10-11
By: Jon Lee Anderson
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The Undocumented Americans
- By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
- Narrated by: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
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One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her fellow undocumented Americans in this deeply personal and groundbreaking portrait of a nation....
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Raw, heartbreaking - we can do better by others
- By RapaciousReader on 04-11-20
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Jungle of Stone
- The True Story of Two Men, Their Extraordinary Journey, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya
- By: William Carlsen
- Narrated by: Paul Michael Garcia
- Length: 16 hrs and 35 mins
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In 1839 rumors of extraordinary yet baffling stone ruins buried within the unmapped jungles of Central America reached two of the world's most intrepid travelers....
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Unsung Explorers at the Heart of History
- By thomas on 01-10-17
By: William Carlsen
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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
- The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
- By: Jonathan Blitzer
- Narrated by: Jonathan Blitzer, André Santana
- Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Everyone who makes the journey faces an impossible choice. Hundreds of thousands of people who arrive every year at the US-Mexico border travel far from their homes....
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How America Created its Own Border Problem
- By Amazon Customer on 04-19-24
By: Jonathan Blitzer
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The Path Between the Seas
- The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
- By: David McCullough
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 31 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Here is the story of the men and women who fought against all odds to fulfill the 400-year-old dream of constructing an aquatic passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans....
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No Stone Unturned
- By Tim on 06-25-13
By: David McCullough
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The Lost City of the Monkey God
- A True Story
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrated by: Bill Mumy
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City....
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Still Lost...
- By Mel on 01-12-17
By: Douglas Preston
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Che Guevara
- A Revolutionary Life
- By: Jon Lee Anderson
- Narrated by: Armando Durán
- Length: 36 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Anderson traces Che's life from his comfortable Argentine upbringing to the battlefields of the Cuban revolution, from the halls of power in Castro's government to his failed campaign....
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Encompassing and Fair Look at an Historical Man
- By Matt on 08-10-11
By: Jon Lee Anderson
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The Undocumented Americans
- By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
- Narrated by: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
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One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her fellow undocumented Americans in this deeply personal and groundbreaking portrait of a nation....
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Raw, heartbreaking - we can do better by others
- By RapaciousReader on 04-11-20
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Jungle of Stone
- The True Story of Two Men, Their Extraordinary Journey, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya
- By: William Carlsen
- Narrated by: Paul Michael Garcia
- Length: 16 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1839 rumors of extraordinary yet baffling stone ruins buried within the unmapped jungles of Central America reached two of the world's most intrepid travelers....
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Unsung Explorers at the Heart of History
- By thomas on 01-10-17
By: William Carlsen
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Central America's Forgotten History
- Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
- By: Aviva Chomsky
- Narrated by: Aida Reluzco
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
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At the center of the current immigration debate are migrants from Central America fleeing poverty, corruption, and violence in search of refuge in the United States....
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Outline of a rigged game
- By Buretto on 02-07-22
By: Aviva Chomsky
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Enrique's Journey
- By: Sonia Nazario
- Narrated by: Catherine Byers
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
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In this true story, journalist Sonia Nazario recounts the unforgettable odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves unimaginable hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States....
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Missing Chapter 8 and Epilogue!
- By Bobby Reed on 07-01-14
By: Sonia Nazario
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What You Have Heard Is True
- A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
- By: Carolyn Forché
- Narrated by: Carolyn Forché
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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What You Have Heard is True is a devastating, lyrical, and visionary memoir about a young woman’s brave choice to engage with horror in order to help others....
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Beautiful story
- By Norhilda on 05-09-19
By: Carolyn Forché
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Against All Hope
- The Prison Memoirs of Armando Valladares
- By: Armando Valladares
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 17 hrs and 32 mins
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This is a history of the Cuban Revolution as viewed from its dungeons. Armando Valladares describes his 22 years of torment and triumph in Castro's prison....
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The Face of Communism
- By stereotypo on 01-02-18
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El país bajo mi piel [The Country Under My Skin]
- By: Gioconda Belli
- Narrated by: Magda Giner
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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He aquí el fascinante testimonio de una mujer fuera de lo común: nicaragüense, revolucionaria, poeta, madre de cuatro hijos y esposa de tres maridos....
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maravillosa
- By Norma Ruvalcaba on 10-13-23
By: Gioconda Belli
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Conquistador Voices
- The Spanish Conquest of the Americas as Recounted Largely by the Participants, Volume I
- By: Kevin H. Siepel
- Narrated by: Kevin H Siepel
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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The Spanish Conquest: What really happened? If you like to use your drive time for education by audiobook, consider this audiobook for widening and deepening your view of an event you studied briefly in school - the Spanish conquest of the Americas....
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The Misleading Title is the Most Forgivable Part..
- By Tyler Sanders on 12-19-22
By: Kevin H. Siepel
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Mesoamerican Mythology
- A Captivating Guide to Maya Mythology, Aztec Mythology, Inca Mythology, and Central American Myths
- By: Matt Clayton
- Narrated by: Randy Whitlow
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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If you're looking for a captivating collection of Inca myths, then pay attention. This audiobook includes four captivating manuscripts....
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Horrible pronouncing of names
- By Time2C on 09-27-21
By: Matt Clayton
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The Sandinistas
- The Controversial History and Legacy of the Socialist Party’s Revolution, Civil War, and Politics in Nicaragua
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Daniel Houle
- Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins
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Whichever belief system was in play for the major industrial nations of Central and South America, a constant bombardment of foreign influence pushed the people of states such as Nicaragua, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, and others toward overthrow....
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Surprisingly Informative and Comprehensive
- By Theo Horesh on 11-20-21
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The Art of Political Murder
- Who Killed the Bishop?
- By: Francisco Goldman
- Narrated by: Ken Kilban
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Bishop Juan Gerardi, Guatemala's leading human rights activist, was bludgeoned to death in his garage on a Sunday night in 1998, two days after the presentation....
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Shockingly real.
- By Albert on 07-16-15
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Salvador
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
- Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
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The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war....
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Didion writes like an orthopedic surgeon cuts
- By Darwin8u on 01-29-14
By: Joan Didion
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Broken Government
- How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches
- By: John W. Dean
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
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In his eighth book, Dean takes the broadest and deepest view yet of the dysfunctional chaos and institutional damage that the Republican Party and its core conservatives have inflicted....
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Attention Policy Wonks - This is the book for you
- By Neal on 09-19-09
By: John W. Dean
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The History of Costa Rica
- A Fascinating Guide to This Beautiful Country in Central America
- By: Alex Hutchens
- Narrated by: Jeff Bower
- Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Bursting with key insights and eye-opening facts about the rich history and amazing culture of Costa Rica, this profound book provides modern readers with a deep dive into a beautiful Latin American nation with an incredible story to tell....
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Summary
- By Spence on 06-04-23
By: Alex Hutchens
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The Path Between the Seas
- The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
- By: David McCullough
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
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Winner of the National Book Award for history, The Path Between the Seas tells the story of the men and women...
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The Path Between The Seas
- By Thomas M. Kokinda on 07-19-08
By: David McCullough
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Conquistador Voices: The Spanish Conquest of the Americas as Recounted Largely by the Participants, Volume II
- By: Kevin H Siepel
- Narrated by: Kevin H Siepel
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
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Conquistador Voices, which relies more heavily than most works of this kind on first-person accounts, neither glamorizes nor condemns the conquistadors....
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A tale better than fiction
- By Peter C. Saxman on 07-25-23
By: Kevin H Siepel
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State of War
- MS-13 and El Salvador's World of Violence
- By: William Wheeler
- Narrated by: William Wheeler
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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The real story behind El Salvador's MS-13 gang and how they have perpetuated three generations of conflict and led to scores of migrants seeking a new life in the United States....
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Great insight!
- By jose flores on 05-19-23
By: William Wheeler
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The Darkest Jungle
- The True Story of the Darien Expedition and America's Ill-fated Race to Connect the Seas
- By: Todd Balf
- Narrated by: Ray Childs
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
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The Darkest Jungle tells the harrowing story of America's first ship canal exploration across a narrow piece of land in Central America called the Darien....
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The Darkest Jungle
- By Kimra on 04-24-11
By: Todd Balf
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Zapotec Civilization: A History from Beginning to End
- Mesoamerican History, Book 2
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Mike Nelson
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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The Zapotecs formed one of the most important of the pre-Columbian civilizations. For 1,000 years, their main city of Monte Albán was one of the largest and most sophisticated in Mesoamerica....
By: Hourly History
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Our Man in Panama
- The Shrewd Rise and Brutal Fall of Manuel Noriega
- By: John Dinges
- Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
- Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
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Written by a prize-winning NPR veteran who spent years covering Latin America, this blend of biography, history, and political reporting details the events that lead to the American invasion of Panama.
By: John Dinges
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The Maya Book of Creation: The Sacred Text of the Maya
- A New Translation of the Popol Vuh
- By: Joaquin De la Sierra
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Schmidt
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
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The Popol Vuh is undoubtedly the most important Maya text that survived the systematic destruction of the Maya codices at the hands of the Spanish. This is the definitive edition of the Popol Vuh, a new translation that makes the text accessible and enjoyable to listen to....
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A fascinating, accessible Mayan epic
- By Bruce on 04-13-24
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Mitología Azteca [Aztec Mythology]
- Una guía concisa de dioses, rituales y creencias de los aztecas [A Concise Guide to the Gods, Rituals, and Beliefs of the Aztecs]
- By: Juan Perez
- Narrated by: Alejandro Morales
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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La mitología de la civilización azteca, que gobernó el centro de México en los años 1400 y principios de 1500, representaba una unión de grandeza y pavor. El mundo fue creado y destruido en el mito, y los dioses magníficos lucharon entre sí todos los dias....
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Very easy to follow along
- By Amazon Customer on 05-25-24
By: Juan Perez
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The Cuban Missile Crisis: A History From Beginning to End
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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The Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union lasted for more than 40 years. In general, this was a war of spies and subterfuge, of covert action and espionage. There was always a danger, however, that an error of judgment could suddenly cause the Cold War to turn red-hot....
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Excellent Book
- By Demarcus brooks on 04-17-20
By: Hourly History
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Ghosts of Panama
- A Strongman Out of Control, A Murdered Marine, and the Special Agents Caught in the Middle of an Invasion
- By: Mark Harmon, Leon Carroll
- Length: 7 hrs
- Unabridged
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Naval intelligence agents working the most dangerous beat in the world–the narco-state of Panama in the late 1980s–struggle to penetrate Noriega’s organization and protect their families on the eve of invasion.
By: Mark Harmon, and others
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Las caras ocultas de Hernán Cortés
- By: Planeta México
- Narrated by: Jaime Collepardo
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Más que odiado, Cortés ha sido un personaje desconocido hasta ahora. A 500 años del mítico encuentro entre el conquistador español y Moctezuma II, gran tlatoani de Tenochtitlán, es momento de contar la verdad....
By: Planeta México
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Panama Fever
- By: Matthew Parker
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman, William Dufris
- Length: 17 hrs and 43 mins
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The building of the Panama Canal was one of the greatest engineering feats in human history....
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Good book, marginal narrator
- By CmH - HB, CA on 06-02-08
By: Matthew Parker