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Down South
- In Search of the Great Southern Land
- Narrado por: Kevin Keys
- Duración: 12 h y 10 m
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Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and celebrate that green and pleasant land. The result was Notes from a Small Island, a true classic and one of the bestselling travel books ever written. Now he has traveled about Britain again, by bus and train and rental car and on foot, to see what has changed—and what hasn’t.
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3 out of 5 stars
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No Bryson?? Alas, another disappointed fan
- De Rick en 01-25-16
De: Bill Bryson
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On the Plain of Snakes
- De: Paul Theroux
- Narrado por: Joseph Balderrama
- Duración: 19 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 146
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 126
Nogales is a border town caught between Mexico and the United States of America. A 40-foot steel fence runs through its centre, separating the prosperous US side from the impoverished Mexican side. It is a fascinating site of tension, now more than ever, as the town fills with hopeful border crossers and the deportees who have been caught and brought back. And it is here that Paul Theroux will begin his journey into the culturally rich but troubled heart of modern Mexico.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A pedantic, poorly narrated, 20 hour lecture
- De Birdshot en 11-16-19
De: Paul Theroux
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Land
- How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
- Duración: 13 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 383
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 323
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 322
Land - whether meadow or mountainside, desert or peat bog, parkland or pasture, suburb or city - is central to our existence. It quite literally underlies and underpins everything. Employing the keen intellect, insatiable curiosity, and narrative verve that are the foundations of his previous bestselling works, Simon Winchester examines what we human beings are doing - and have done - with the billions of acres that together make up the solid surface of our planet.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Audiobook Version is the Best!
- De semarla en 01-31-21
De: Simon Winchester
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Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All
- A New Zealand Story
- De: Christina Thompson
- Narrado por: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 62
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 50
Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All is the story of the cultural collision between Westerners and the Maoris of New Zealand, told partly as a history of the complex and bloody period of contact between Europeans and the Maoris in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and partly as the story of Christina Thompson's marriage to a Maori man.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a beautiful story
- De Pumpkin99 en 12-24-22
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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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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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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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Travels with George
- In Search of Washington and His Legacy
- De: Nathaniel Philbrick
- Narrado por: Nathaniel Philbrick
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 277
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 252
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 251
Does George Washington still matter? Best-selling author Nathaniel Philbrick argues for Washington’s unique contribution to the forging of America by retracing his journey as a new president through all 13 former colonies, which were now an unsure nation. Travels with George marks a new first-person voice for Philbrick, weaving history and personal reflection into a single narrative.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fun listen but too much about slavery
- De Paul W. Brazis en 09-19-21
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Train
- Riding the Rails That Created the Modern World - from the Trans-Siberian to the Southwest Chief
- De: Tom Zoellner
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 12 h y 13 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 103
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 92
Tom Zoellner loves trains with a ferocious passion. In his new audiobook he chronicles the innovation and sociological impact of the railway technology that changed the world, and could very well change it again. From the frigid Trans-Siberian Railroad to the antiquated Indian Railways to the futuristic maglev trains, Zoellner offers a stirring story of man's relationship with trains. Zoellner examines both the mechanics of the rails and their engines and how they helped societies evolve. Not only do trains transport people and goods in an efficient manner, but they also reduce pollution and dependency upon oil.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The world history of trains up to the present
- De matthew en 03-06-14
De: Tom Zoellner
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Lasso the Wind
- Away to the New West
- De: Timothy Egan
- Narrado por: John McLain
- Duración: 11 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 66
Egan leads us on an unconventional, freewheeling tour: from America's oldest continuously inhabited community, the Ancoma Pueblo in New Mexico, to the high kitsch of Lake Havasu City, Arizona, where London Bridge has been painstakingly rebuilt stone by stone; from the fragile beauty of Idaho's Bitterroot Range to the gross excess of Las Vegas, a city built as though in defiance of its arid environment.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator mispronounces everything
- De Catherine en 01-27-22
De: Timothy Egan
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In Putin's Footsteps
- Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones
- De: Nina Khrushcheva, Jeffrey Tayler
- Narrado por: Kathleen Gati
- Duración: 10 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 28
With exclusive insider status as Nikita Khrushchev’s great grand-daughter, and an ex-pat living and reporting on Russia and the Soviet Union since 1993, Nina Khrushcheva and Jeffrey Tayler offer a poignant exploration of the largest country on Earth through their recreation of Vladimir Putin’s fabled New Year’s Eve speech planned across all 11 time zones.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not much meat on the bone
- De A. M. en 03-11-19
De: Nina Khrushcheva, y otros
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Over My Dead Body
- Unearthing the Hidden History of American Cemeteries
- De: Greg Melville
- Narrado por: Will Tulin
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
The summer before his senior year in college, Greg Melville worked at the cemetery in his hometown, and thanks to hour upon hour of pushing a mower over the grassy acres, he came to realize what a rich story the place told of his town and its history. Thus was born Melville’s lifelong curiosity with how, where, and why we bury and commemorate our dead. Melville’s Over My Dead Body is a lively (pun intended) and wide-ranging history of cemeteries, places that have mirrored the passing eras in history but have also shaped it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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excellent read!
- De KJ en 03-05-23
De: Greg Melville
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Why the Dutch Are Different
- A Journey into the Hidden Heart of the Netherlands
- De: Ben Coates
- Narrado por: Ciaran Saward
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 52
A personal portrait of a fascinating people, a sideways history, and an entertaining travelogue, Why the Dutch Are Different is the story of an Englishman who went Dutch. And loved it.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Good Start, Then He Goes Dark
- De amazonnance en 12-17-21
De: Ben Coates
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City of the Century
- The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America
- De: Donald L. Miller
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 24 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 88
Here, witness Chicago's growth from a desolate fur-trading post in the 1830s to one of the world's most explosively alive cities by 1900. Donald Miller's powerful narrative embraces it all: Chicago's wild beginnings, its reckless growth, its natural calamities (especially the Great Fire of 1871), its raucous politics, its empire-building businessmen, its world-transforming architecture, its rich mix of cultures, its community of young writers and journalists, and its staggering engineering projects.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A STORY THAT TRIES TOO HARD....AND FAILS
- De The Louligan en 02-01-15
De: Donald L. Miller
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A Crack in the Edge of the World
- America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
- Duración: 12 h y 29 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 584
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 328
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 324
San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative informative look at the tumultuous subterranean world that produces earthquakes, the planet's most sudden and destructive force. In the early morning hours of April 18, 1906, San Francisco and a string of towns to its north-northwest and the south-southeast were overcome by an enormous shaking that was compounded by the violent shocks of an earthquake, registering 8.25 on the Richter scale.
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2 out of 5 stars
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7 Hours and 45 minutes . . .
- De Tim en 12-09-05
De: Simon Winchester
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The Amur River
- Between Russia and China
- De: Colin Thubron
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 10 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 75
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 74
The Amur River is almost unknown. Yet it is the 10th longest river in the world, rising in the Mongolian mountains and flowing through Siberia to the Pacific. For 1,100 miles, it forms the tense border between Russia and China. Simmering with the memory of land-grabs and unequal treaties, this is the most densely fortified frontier on Earth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bleak
- De Amazon Customer en 11-03-21
De: Colin Thubron
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The Seine
- The River That Made Paris
- De: Elaine Sciolino
- Narrado por: Elaine Sciolino
- Duración: 12 h y 20 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 100
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 79
Elaine Sciolino came to Paris as a young foreign correspondent and was seduced by a river. In The Seine, she tells the story of that river from its source on a remote plateau of Burgundy to the wide estuary where its waters meet the sea, and the cities, tributaries, islands, ports, and bridges in between.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointed
- De Nom de Guerre en 08-06-21
De: Elaine Sciolino
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King and Queen of Malibu
- The True Story of the Battle for Paradise
- De: David K. Randall
- Narrado por: Eric Summerer
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 93
Over a half century, Malibu went from an untamed ranch in the middle of nowhere to a paradise seeded with movie stars. Behind its transformation is the love story of Frederick and May Rindge. He was a Harvard-trained confidant of presidents; she grew up on a hardscrabble Midwestern farm; yet their unlikely bond would shape history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Listen!
- De Anonymous User en 09-25-23
De: David K. Randall
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The Good Rain
- Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest
- De: Timothy Egan
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 12 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 173
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 153
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 153
A fantastic book! Timothy Egan describes his journeys in the Pacific Northwest through visits to salmon fisheries, redwood forests and the manicured English gardens of Vancouver. Here is a blend of history, anthropology and politics.
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5 out of 5 stars
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White man bad, capitalism bad
- De Forget about it en 04-15-21
De: Timothy Egan