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Atlas of Cursed Places
- A Travel Guide to Dangerous and Frightful Destinations
- Narrado por: James Langton
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Pick up the acclaimed Atlas of Cursed Places, and visit the world's most nerve-wracking locations. With pithy historical profiles, this is a clever gift for the intrepid traveler or armchair adventurer who wants to explore destinations both remarkable and daunting. Visit: a coal town where the ground is constantly on fire; a Zambian national park where more than eight million bats darken the skies; the infamous suicide location of Aokigahara Forest near Mount Fuji; the lesser-known Nevada triangle, in which dozens of aircraft have inexplicably disappeared.
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Atlantic is a biography of a tremendous space that has been central to the ambitions of explorers, scientists, and warriors, and continues profoundly to affect our character, attitudes, and dreams. Spanning the ocean's story, from its geological origins to the age of exploration, from World War II battles to today's struggles with pollution and overfishing, Winchester's narrative is epic, intimate, and awe inspiring.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Starts Better Than it Finishes
- De Ray en 12-18-10
De: Simon Winchester
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The Vikings
- A New History
- De: Neil Oliver
- Narrado por: James A. Gillies
- Duración: 11 h y 59 m
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Drawing on the latest discoveries that have only recently come to light, Scottish archaeologist Neil Oliver goes on the trail of the real Vikings. Where did they emerge from? How did they really live? And just what drove them to embark on such extraordinary voyages of discovery over 1,000 years ago? The Vikings: A New History explores many of those questions for the first time in an epic story of one of the world's great empires of conquest.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Intriguing for a broad audience.
- De Grant en 08-07-18
De: Neil Oliver
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Don't Know Much About Geography: Revised and Updated Edition
- Everything You Need to Know About the World But Never Learned, Revised and Updated
- De: Kenneth C. Davis
- Narrado por: Kenneth C. Davis, Joe Ochman, Mark Bramhall, y otros
- Duración: 12 h y 46 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 83
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Kenneth C. Davis, author of Don't Know Much About® History, Don't Know Much About the Civil War and Don't Know Much About the Bible, turns his inimitable wit and wide-ranging knowledge to the subject of geography, and proves once and for all that there is a lot more to it than labeling countries on a map. From often amusing perceptions people have had through the ages about the world and the universe to the changing map of today, Davis shows how geography is really a great crossroad of many fields: biology, meteorology, astronomy, history, economics, and even politics.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Errors
- De The History Teacher en 08-29-15
De: Kenneth C. Davis
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How Iceland Changed the World
- The Big History of a Small Island
- De: Egill Bjarnason
- Narrado por: Einar Gunn
- Duración: 8 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 277
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The history of Iceland began 1,200 years ago, when a frustrated Viking captain and his useless navigator ran aground in the middle of the North Atlantic. Suddenly, the island was no longer just a layover for the Arctic tern. Instead, it became a nation whose diplomats and musicians, sailors and soldiers, volcanoes and flowers, quietly altered the globe forever. How Iceland Changed the World takes readers on a tour of history, showing them how Iceland played a pivotal role in events as diverse as the French Revolution, the Moon Landing, and the foundation of Israel.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant
- De Ian D. Jones en 06-01-21
De: Egill Bjarnason
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Tambora
- The Eruption That Changed the World
- De: Gillen D'Arcy Wood
- Narrado por: Tom Pile
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 87
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 82
When Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, it unleashed the most destructive wave of extreme weather the world has witnessed in thousands of years. The volcano's massive sulfate dust cloud enveloped the Earth, cooling temperatures and disrupting major weather systems for more than three years. Amid devastating storms, drought, and floods, communities worldwide endured famine, disease, and civil unrest on a catastrophic scale.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An unexpected pleasure
- De Anonymous User en 09-04-16
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Sea People
- The Puzzle of Polynesia
- De: Christina Thompson
- Narrado por: Susan Lyons
- Duración: 11 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 955
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 822
A thrilling, intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Long Lost History
- De Than en 04-19-19
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A Furious Sky
- The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes
- De: Eric Jay Dolin
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 10 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 65
With A Furious Sky, Eric Jay Dolin has created a vivid, sprawling account of our encounters with hurricanes, from the nameless storms that threatened Columbus's New World voyages to the destruction wrought in Puerto Rico by Hurricane Maria. Weaving a story of shipwrecks and devastated cities, of heroism and folly, Dolin introduces a rich cast of unlikely heroes and puts us in the middle of the most devastating storms of the past, none worse than the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, which killed at least 6,000 people, the highest toll of any natural disaster in American history.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good start but went political at the end.
- De thebreeze en 03-24-21
De: Eric Jay Dolin
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Strange Tales of Scotland
- Jack's Strange Tales
- De: Jack Strange
- Narrado por: George Ellington
- Duración: 5 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 74
Strange Tales of Scotland all deal with a particular aspect of Scottish mysteries. You'll learn of the ghost that appeared at the wedding of King Alexander II, and of monsters such as the Shellycoat and Water-horse that were thought to inhabit Scotland’s lochs...Finally, we have a look at the legend of the phantom armies of Scotland; soldiers who refuse to fade away even centuries after their wars have been fought, and their causes faded in history. Welcome to the Strange Tales of Scotland.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Will listen again & again
- De Kathryn Lamb en 09-01-20
De: Jack Strange
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Conquering the Pacific
- An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery
- De: Andrés Reséndez
- Narrado por: Phil Morris
- Duración: 6 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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It began with a secret mission, no expenses spared. Spain, plotting to break Portugal’s monopoly trade with the fabled Orient, set sail from a hidden Mexican port to cross the Pacific - and then, critically, to attempt the never-before-accomplished return, the vuelta. Four ships set out from Navidad, each one carrying a dream team of navigators. The smallest ship, guided by seaman Lope Martín, a mulatto who had risen through the ranks to become one of the most qualified pilots of the era, soon pulled far ahead and became mysteriously lost from the fleet.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must Read, Excellent
- De Amazon Customer en 10-07-22
De: Andrés Reséndez
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The Nile: Travelling Downriver Through Egypt's Past and Present
- The Vintage Departures Series
- De: Toby Wilkinson
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 12 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
The Nile, like all of Egypt, is both timeless and ever-changing. In this audio, renowned Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson takes us on a journey downriver that is both history and travelogue. We begin at the First Nile Cataract, close to the modern city of Aswan. From there, Wilkinson guides us through the illustrious nation birthed by this great river.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Riverboat Cruise from the luxury of your phone
- De Amazon Customer en 02-20-20
De: Toby Wilkinson
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Conquistadors
- De: Michael Wood
- Narrado por: John Telfer
- Duración: 10 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 591
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 505
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 499
Following in the footsteps of the greatest Spanish adventurers, Michael Wood retraces the path of the conquistadors from Amazonia to Lake Titicaca, and from the deserts of North Mexico to the heights of Machu Picchu. As he travels the same routes as Hernán Cortés, Francisco, and Gonzalo Pizarro, Wood describes the dramatic events that accompanied the epic sixteenth-century Spanish conquest of the Aztec and Inca empires.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Horrific anti-European bias
- De Anonymous User en 08-30-20
De: Michael Wood
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The Discovery of France
- A Historical Geography
- De: Graham Robb
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 14 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
A narrative of exploration - full of strange landscapes and even stranger inhabitants - that explains the enduring fascination of France. While Gustave Eiffel was changing the skyline of Paris, large parts of France were still terra incognita. Even in the age of railways and newspapers, France was a land of ancient tribal divisions, prehistoric communication networks, and pre-Christian beliefs. French itself was a minority language.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great history of the cultural formation of France
- De Scotty en 07-31-21
De: Graham Robb
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A Stranger Among Saints
- Stephen Hopkins, the Man Who Survived Jamestown and Saved Plymouth
- De: Jonathan Mack
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 9 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 35
Sometime between 1610 and 1611, William Shakespeare wrote The Tempest. The idea for the play came from the real-life shipwreck in 1609 of the Sea Venture, which was caught in a hurricane and grounded on the coast of Bermuda during a voyage to resupply England's troubled colony at Jamestown, in present-day Virginia. A lesser known passenger was Stephen Hopkins. During the 10 months the Sea Venture passengers were marooned on Bermuda, Hopkins was charged with trying to incite a mutiny and condemned to die, only to have his sentence commuted moments before it was to be carried out.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This book makes history come alive
- De KQ en 02-23-21
De: Jonathan Mack
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The Smoky God or A Voyage to the Inner World
- Esoteric Classics: Occult Fiction
- De: Willis George Emerson
- Narrado por: Shea Taylor
- Duración: 2 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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The Smoky God is a classic tale from the genre of hollow Earth or subterranean literature. A once-favorite tale of Amazing Stories publisher Ray Palmer, The Smoky God is the (purportedly true) tale of two Norwegian fishermen Jens and Olaf Jansen, who sailed their fishing vessel into the inner Earth in the year 1829. While in the center of the Earth, they find an entire society and meet a race and of advanced giants.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great story
- De Rodney C Kilgore en 07-25-21
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The Gulf
- The Making of an American Sea
- De: Jack E. Davis
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 20 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 418
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 362
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 363
When painter Winslow Homer first sailed into the Gulf of Mexico, he was struck by its "special kind of providence." Indeed, the Gulf presented itself as America's sea - bound by geography, culture, and tradition to the national experience - and yet, there has never been a comprehensive history of the Gulf until now. And so, in this rich and original work that explores the Gulf through our human connection with the sea, environmental historian Jack E. Davis finally places this exceptional region into the American mythos in a sweeping history that extends from the Pleistocene age to the 21st century.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Decolonize gulf history
- De Jesse Carr en 05-02-18
De: Jack E. Davis
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The Lost Empire of Atlantis
- History's Greatest Mystery Revealed
- De: Gavin Menzies
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
- Duración: 11 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 185
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 161
New York Times bestselling historian Gavin Menzies presents newly uncovered evidence revealing, conclusively, that “the lost city of Atlantis” was not only real but also at the heart of a highly advanced global empire that reached the shores of America before being violently wiped from the earth. For three millennia, the legend of Atlantis has gripped the imaginations of explorers, philosophers, occultists, treasure hunters, historians, and archaeologists. Until now, it has remained shrouded in myth. Yet, like ancient Troy, is it possible that this fabled city actually existed?
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1 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely abominable!
- De Magdalene en 03-05-18
De: Gavin Menzies
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Island on Fire
- The Extraordinary Story of a Forgotten Volcano That Changed the World
- De: Alexandra Witze, Jeff Kanipe
- Narrado por: John Lescault
- Duración: 6 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 246
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 210
Laki is Iceland's largest volcano - and its most fearsome. Its eruption in 1783 is one of history's great untold natural disasters. Spewing out sun-blocking ash and then a poisonous fog for eight long months, the effects of the eruption lingered across the world for years. It caused the deaths of people as far away as the Nile and created catastrophic conditions throughout Europe.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting and Pertinent Topic!
- De Catherine Puma en 01-23-22
De: Alexandra Witze, y otros
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Atlas of Cursed Places
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Total4 out of 5 stars
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- Soupy
- 06-09-18
Stupid and fun!
This book reads like an episode of Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack, which is awesome, eye-rolling, and full of tiny jump scares. It’s a pretty brief listen, and totally worth it if you’re into some stupid fun (in a good way).
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