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  • Off the Edge of the Map: Marco Polo, Captain Cook, and 9 Other Travelers and Explorers That Pushed the Boundaries of the Known World | Michael Rank
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    Off the Edge of the Map: Marco Polo, Captain Cook, and 9 Other Travelers and Explorers That Pushed the Boundaries of the Known World
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    Off the Edge of the Map: Marco Polo, Captain Cook, and 9 Other Travelers and Explorers That Pushed the Boundaries of the Known World

    • UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 48 mins)
    • By Michael Rank
    • Narrated By Kevin Pierce
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    An exciting new audiobook on the greatest explorers in history and how their discoveries shaped the modern world. Whether it is Rabban Bar Sauma, the 13th-century Chinese monk commissioned by the Mongols to travel West form a military alliance against the Islam; Marco Polo, who opened a window to the East for Europe; or Captain James Cook, whose maritime voyages of discovery created the global economy of the 21st century, each of these explorers had an indelible impact on the modern world. This audiobook will look at the 11 greatest explorers in history.

  • The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology | Simon Winchester
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    The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
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    The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology

    • UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 59 mins)
    • By Simon Winchester
    • Narrated By Simon Winchester
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    In 1793, William Smith, the orphan son of a village blacksmith, made a startling discovery that was to turn the science of geology on its head. While surveying the route for a canal near Bath, he noticed that the fossils found in one layer of the rocks he was excavating were very different from those found in another. And out of that realization came an epiphany: that by following these fossils one could trace layers of rocks as they dipped, rose and fell, clear across England and clear across the world.

    reggie p says: "Geology made interesting"
  • Half Moon: Henry Hudson and the Voyage That Redrew the Map of the New World | Douglas Hunter
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    Half Moon: Henry Hudson and the Voyage That Redrew the Map of the New World
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    Half Moon: Henry Hudson and the Voyage That Redrew the Map of the New World

    • UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 39 mins)
    • By Douglas Hunter
    • Narrated By Kurt Elftmann
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    The year 2009 marks the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s discovery of the majestic river that bears his name. Just in time for this milestone, Douglas Hunter, sailor, scholar, and storyteller, has written the first book-length history of the 1609 adventure that put New York on the map. Hudson was commissioned by the mighty Dutch East India Company to find a northeastern passage over Russia to the lucrative ports of China. But the inscrutable Hudson, defying his orders, turned his ship around and instead headed west....

  • When Madeline Was Young | Jane Hamilton
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    When Madeline Was Young
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    When Madeline Was Young

    • UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 49 mins)
    • By Jane Hamilton
    • Narrated By Richard Poe
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    Jane Hamilton, award-winning author of The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World, is back in top form with a richly textured novel about a tragic accident and its effects on two generations of a family. When Aaron Maciver's beautiful young wife, Madeline, suffers brain damage in a bike accident, she is left with the intellectual powers of a six-year-old.

    J. says: "Interesting"
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