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An Element of Chance
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Soon, the British officer in charge of the station calls upon each man to help as best he can. All the while, Harry's kidnapped crew fights for survival on a ship driven to the point of mutiny.
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7,157
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,592
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,562
This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, Royal Navy, and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against the thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Details of life aboard a man-of-war in Nelson's navy are faultlessly rendered: the conversational idiom of the officers in the ward room and the men on the lower deck, the food, the floggings, the mysteries of the wind and the rigging, and the road of broadsides as the great ships close in battle.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Choice of Narrators
- De Frank R. Adams en 04-23-10
De: Patrick O'Brian
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Midshipman Bolitho
- De: Alexander Kent
- Narrado por: Michael Jayston
- Duración: 7 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 303
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 257
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 258
October 1772, Portsmouth. Sixteen-year-old Richard Bolitho waits to join the Gorgon, ordered to sail to the west coast of Africa and to destroy those who challenge the King's Navy. For Bolitho, and for many of the crew, it is a severe and testing initiation into the game of seamanship.
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3 out of 5 stars
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This is *not* the book advertised.
- De Robert Bolin en 08-26-16
De: Alexander Kent
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Mutiny on the Bounty
- De: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrado por: Michael Carman
- Duración: 22 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 789
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 684
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 680
The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before. Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plants from Tahiti and take them to the West Indies, the Bounty's crew found themselves in a tropical paradise. Five months later, they did not want to leave.
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5 out of 5 stars
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You don't know the whole story.
- De Justin Sluyter en 05-01-19
De: Peter FitzSimons
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Badge of Glory
- De: Douglas Reeman
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 10 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
It was an age of empire, an age of contrast, and an age of dramatic change - and one which would determine the destinies of nations as well as of men. Captain Philip Blackwood of the Royal Marines rejoins his ship, HMS Audacious, in August of 1850, anxious to get back into action. "Per Mare - Per Terram" is the marines' motto. In the torturous heat of Africa, where they are sent to stamp out the remaining strongholds of slavery, and later, in the bitter war of the Crimea, Philip Blackwood and his men learn to obey it without question.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good story
- De Thomas Crawford en 05-29-23
De: Douglas Reeman
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The House of the Four Winds
- One Dozen Daughters, Book 1
- De: Mercedes Lackey, James Mallory
- Narrado por: Emily Sutton-Smith
- Duración: 10 h
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 356
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 317
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 318
The rulers of tiny, impoverished Swansgaard have twelve daughters and one son. While the prince’s future is assured, his twelve sisters must find their own fortunes. Disguising herself as Clarence, Princess Clarice intends to sail to the New World. When the crew rebels, Clarice/Clarence, an expert with rapier and dagger, sides with the handsome navigator, Dominick, and kills the cruel captain. Dominick leads the now - outlawed crew in search of treasure in the secret pirate haven known as The House of the Four Winds.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Solid story, but this one is popcorn
- De Phillip en 09-19-14
De: Mercedes Lackey, y otros
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The King's Coat
- De: Dewey Lambdin
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 13 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 718
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 613
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 606
It is 1780, and 17-year-old Alan Lewrie is a brash, rebellious young libertine. So much so that his callous father believes a bit of naval discipline will turn the boy around. Fresh aboard the tall-masted Ariadne, Midshipman Lewrie heads for the war-torn Americas, finding - rather unexpectedly - that he is a born sailor, equally at home with the randy pleasures of the port and the raging battles on the high seas. But in a hail of cannonballs comes a bawdy surprise.
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5 out of 5 stars
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"Sex, Swords, Sailing Ships"
- De Andrew en 05-16-10
De: Dewey Lambdin
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Sea of Poppies
- Ibis Trilogy, Book 1
- De: Amitav Ghosh
- Narrado por: Phil Gigante
- Duración: 18 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 750
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 514
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 515
At the heart of this vibrant saga is an immense ship, the Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, its purpose to fight China's vicious 19th-century Opium Wars. As for the crew, they are a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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ignorance may be bliss
- De Evelyn M Kloepper en 07-27-09
De: Amitav Ghosh
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Treasure Island
- De: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 6 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 18
Millions of people have thrilled to the adventure of young Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver since the publication of Treasure Island in 1883. It has been dramatized countless times since its appearance. Treasure maps marked with an X, schooners, the Black Spot, tropical islands, and peglegged sailors with parrots on their shoulders: All these stereotypes of the buccaneer tale were the invention of R. L. Stevenson. But make no mistake about it...this novel is a masterpiece of plot development, character study, and sheer writing skill.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- De Liatris en 12-30-14
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Burning Bright
- Extraordinaries Series, Book 1
- De: Melissa McShane
- Narrado por: Cat Gould
- Duración: 12 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 220
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 197
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 194
Elinor is an Extraordinary and the only one in England capable of wielding fire in over 100 years. As an Extraordinary she is respected and feared, but to her father she represents power and prestige for himself. Mr. Pembroke, having spent his life studying magic, is determined to control Elinor and her talent by forcing her to marry whom he chooses, a marriage that will produce even more powerful offspring.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing story and narration!
- De sweetliks en 07-06-17
De: Melissa McShane
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The Bright and Breaking Sea
- Kit Brightling Series, Book 1
- De: Chloe Neill
- Narrado por: Danielle Cohen
- Duración: 10 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 51
Kit Brightling, rescued as a foundling and raised in a home for talented girls, has worked hard to rise through the ranks of the Isles' Crown Command and become one of the few female captains in Queen Charlotte's fleet. Her ship is small, but she's fast - in part because of Kit's magical affinity to the sea. But the waters become perilous when the queen sends Kit on a special mission with a partner she never asked for. Rian Grant, Viscount Queenscliffe, may be a veteran of the Continental war, but Kit doesn't know him or his motives....
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4 out of 5 stars
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It's really good, but not quite great
- De Mariya Joldzic en 11-29-20
De: Chloe Neill
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Batavia
- De: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrado por: Richard Aspel
- Duración: 17 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 516
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 453
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 452
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. While Commandeur Francisco Pelsaert decides to take the longboat across 2,000 miles of open sea for help, his second-in-command Jeronimus Cornelisz takes over....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Disaster, Mutiny, Murder, Survival
- De Todd en 02-07-13
De: Peter FitzSimons
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A Beautiful Blue Death
- Charles Lenox Mysteries Series #1
- De: Charles Finch
- Narrado por: James Langton
- Duración: 8 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,253
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,109
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,108
Charles Lenox, Victorian gentleman and armchair explorer, likes nothing more than to relax in his private study with a cup of tea, a roaring fire and a good book. But when his lifelong friend Lady Jane asks for his help, Lenox cannot resist the chance to unravel a mystery. Prudence Smith, one of Jane's former servants, is dead of an apparent suicide. But Lenox suspects something far more sinister: murder, by a rare and deadly poison.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I like cozy
- De Sheryl en 05-21-12
De: Charles Finch
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Flint & Silver
- A Prequel to Treasure Island
- De: John Drake
- Narrado por: Tim Gregory
- Duración: 11 h y 49 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 114
A swashbuckling triumph of storytelling, Flint and Silver provides a thrilling ride back to the rich and wondrous world of Long John Silver and his fiendish nemesis Joseph Flint in this prequel to the beloved classic Treasure Island.
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4 out of 5 stars
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where are the other two books in the series??
- De Scott Pruitt en 05-31-18
De: John Drake
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The Lion of St. Mark
- De: G.A. Henty
- Narrado por: Ralph Cosham
- Duración: 10 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 179
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 130
Of The Lion of St. Mark, G.A. Henty wrote: "I have laid my story in the time not of the triumphs of Venice but of her hardest struggle for existence, when she defended herself successfully against the coalition of Hungary, Padua, and Genoa, for never at any time were the virtues of Venice, her steadfastness, her patriotism, and her willingness to make all sacrifice for her independence more brilliantly shown.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Great Listen
- De Jef en 04-04-05
De: G.A. Henty
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Into the Storm
- Destroyermen, Book 1
- De: Taylor Anderson
- Narrado por: William Dufris
- Duración: 16 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,291
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,303
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,301
Pressed into service when World War II breaks out in the Pacific, the USS Walker---a Great-War vintage "four-stacker" destroyer---finds itself in full retreat from pursuit by Japanese battleships. Its captain, Lieutenant Commander Matthew Patrick Reddy, knows that he and his crew are in dire straits. In desperation, he heads Walker into a squall, hoping it will give them cover---and emerges somewhere else.
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3 out of 5 stars
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It just never grabbed me.
- De Lore en 05-01-12
De: Taylor Anderson