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East African Odyssey
- Love and Adventure in the Africa of the 1960s
- Narrado por: Kate Johnson
- Duración: 6 h y 3 m
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After his father's heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from Manhattan, where he now lives. On these frequent visits to check on his elderly parents, he bore witness to Zimbabwe's dramatic spiral downward into the jaws of violent chaos, presided over by an increasingly enraged dictator. And yet long after their comfortable lifestyle had been shattered and millions were fleeing, his parents refuse to leave, steadfast in their allegiance to the failed state that has been their adopted home for 50 years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Worth the listen.
- De SEE en 09-06-21
De: Peter Godwin
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Mao's Last Dancer
- Young Readers' Edition
- De: Li Cunxin
- Narrado por: Paul English
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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One day, not so very many years ago, a small peasant boy was chosen to study ballet at the Beijing Dance Academy. His mother urged him to take this chance of a lifetime. But Li was only eleven years old and he was scared and lonely, pushed away from all that he had ever known and loved. He hated the strict training routines and the strange place he had been brought to. All he wanted to do was go home - to his mother, father, and six brothers, to his own small village. But soon Li realised that his mother was right. He had the chance to do something special with his life - and he never turned back.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Happiness rising from the injustise
- De Natasha en 10-29-13
De: Li Cunxin
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At Home in the World
- Reflections on Belonging While Wandering the Globe
- De: Tsh Oxenreider
- Narrado por: Tsh Oxenreider
- Duración: 7 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 436
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As Tsh Oxenreider, author of Notes from a Blue Bike, chronicles her family's adventure around the world. Seeing, smelling, and tasting the widely varying cultures along the way, she discovers what it truly means to be at home.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Having traveled the world as a kid myself.....
- De kmk en 07-31-17
De: Tsh Oxenreider
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The Girl Who Smiled Beads
- A Story of War and What Comes After
- De: Clemantine Wamariya, Elizabeth Weil
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 9 h
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Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbors began to disappear, and when she heard the loud, ugly sounds her brother said were thunder. In 1994, she and her fifteen-year-old sister, Claire, fled the Rwandan massacre and spent the next six years migrating through seven African countries, searching for safety—perpetually hungry, imprisoned and abused, enduring and escaping refugee camps, finding unexpected kindness, witnessing inhuman cruelty. They did not know whether their parents were dead or alive.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator detracts from story
- De Laura en 01-16-19
De: Clemantine Wamariya, y otros
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The Great Spring
- Writing, Zen, and This ZigZag Life
- De: Natalie Goldberg
- Narrado por: Natalie Goldberg
- Duración: 7 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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What does it take to have a long writing life? Drawing on her years of writing, teaching, and practicing Zen, Natalie Goldberg shares the experiences that have opened her to new ways of being alive - experiences that point the way forward in our lives and our writing. The "great spring" of this book title refers to the great rush of energy that arrives when you think no life will ever come again - the early yellow flowering forsythia, for example.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An enjoyable insight
- De Leigh A en 05-22-23
De: Natalie Goldberg
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Beyond the Black Stump
- De: Nevil Shute
- Narrado por: Davina Porter
- Duración: 9 h y 22 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 148
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 127
When Stanton Laird, American geologist, goes prospecting for the Topeka Exploration Company in the savage Australian outback, he finds something a good deal more precious than oil.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Davina Porter is a wonderful narrator
- De Brian PDX en 07-26-14
De: Nevil Shute
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Three Cups of Tea
- One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations
- De: Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 13 h y 28 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,735
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 908
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In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of an impoverished Pakistani village, Mortenson promised to return one day and build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of our time: Greg Mortenson's one-man mission to counteract extremism by building schools, especially for girls, throughout the breeding ground of the Taliban.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A Fraud
- De Sara en 02-23-16
De: Greg Mortenson, y otros
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Golden Bones
- An Extraordinary Journey from Hell in Cambodia to a New Life in America
- De: Sichan Siv
- Narrado por: David Thorn
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 44
In Cambodia in the 1960s, Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge declared war on their own people, enslaving and slaughtering anybody who disagreed with them. Sichan Siv knew he would soon be a target - ending up, perhaps, as one of the millions of anonymous human skeletons buried in his nation's Killing Fields - so he heeded his mother's pleas and ran. Captured and forced to perform slave labor, Siv feared that he'd be worked to death or killed. But he never abandoned hope or his improbable dream of freedom - a dream that liberated him.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Misleading Publisher’s Summary
- De Chris en 05-01-18
De: Sichan Siv
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Guests of the Sheik
- An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village
- De: Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 11 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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A delightful, well-written, and vastly informative ethnographic study, this is an account of Elizabeth Warnock Fernea's two-year stay in a tiny rural village in Iraq, where she assumed the dress and sheltered life of a harem woman. This volume gives a unique insight into a part of the Midddle Eastern life seldom seen by the West.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unforgettable
- De Avalon en 01-05-18
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The Visiting Privilege
- New and Collected Stories
- De: Joy Williams
- Narrado por: Richard Powers, Emily Woo Zeller, Elisabeth Rodgers, y otros
- Duración: 20 h y 30 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 47
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 40
Joy Williams has been celebrated as a master of the short story for four decades, her renown passing from one generation to the next even in the shifting landscape of contemporary writing. And at long last the incredible scope of her singular achievement is put on display: 33 stories drawn from three much-lauded collections and another 13 appearing here for the first time in book form.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I sure tried.
- De A.C. CALLOWAY en 01-28-24
De: Joy Williams
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Home Sweet Anywhere
- How We Sold Our House, Created a New Life, and Saw the World
- De: Lynne Martin
- Narrado por: Lynne Martin
- Duración: 10 h y 10 m
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Reunited in love after 35 years and suffering from a serious case of pre-retirement wanderlust, Lynne and Tim Martin made a life-altering decision: They sold their house and possessions and hit the road to live internationally full-time. Now tethered to nothing but their suitcases, each other, and their next exotic location, they've never looked back. From sky-high pyramids in Mexico to monkeys in Marrakech, this delightful, inspiring memoir is a romantic tale of derring-do for grown-ups and a road map for anyone who dreams of turning the idea of life abroad into a reality.
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2 out of 5 stars
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She makes it sound SO unappealing!
- De Barbara en 05-18-14
De: Lynne Martin
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Indonesia, Etc.
- Exploring the Improbable Nation
- De: Elizabeth Pisani
- Narrado por: Jan Cramer
- Duración: 13 h y 3 m
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Bewitched by Indonesia for twenty-five years, Elizabeth Pisani recently traveled 26,000 miles around the archipelago in search of the links that bind this impossibly disparate nation. Fearless and funny, Pisani shares her deck space with pigs and cows, bunks down in a sulfurous volcano, and takes tea with a corpse. Along the way, she observes Big Men with child brides, debates corruption and cannibalism, and ponders "sticky" traditions that cannot be erased.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Bill Bryson channels Margaret Mead
- De John S. en 09-01-14
De: Elizabeth Pisani
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Pearl in a Cage
- Woody Creek, Book 1
- De: Joy Dettman
- Narrado por: Deidre Rubenstein
- Duración: 20 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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On a balmy midsummer's evening in 1923, a young woman - foreign, dishevelled and heavily pregnant - is found unconscious just off the railway tracks in the tiny logging community of Woody Creek. The town midwife, Gertrude Foote, is roused from her bed when the woman is brought to her door. Try as she might, Gertrude is unable to save her, but the baby lives.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Pearl in a Cage
- De Verita en 06-16-17
De: Joy Dettman
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A Handful of Dust
- De: Evelyn Waugh
- Narrado por: Andrew Sachs
- Duración: 6 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 275
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 242
Evelyn Waugh's 1934 novel is a bitingly funny vision of aristocratic decadence in England between the wars. It tells the story of Tony Last, who, to the irritation of his wife, is inordinately obsessed with his Victorian Gothic country house and life. When Lady Brenda Last embarks on an affair with the worthless John Beaver out of boredom with her husband, she sets in motion a sequence of tragicomic disasters that reveal Waugh at his most scathing.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Slow Start then Subtle
- De Michael en 05-16-15
De: Evelyn Waugh
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The Flight of Gemma Hardy
- A Novel
- De: Margot Livesey
- Narrado por: Davina Porter
- Duración: 14 h y 52 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 315
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 284
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 280
Fate has not been kind to Gemma Hardy. Orphaned then neglected, young Gemma seemed destined for a life of hardship and loneliness. Yet her bright spirit burns strong. Fiercely intelligent, singularly determined, Gemma overcomes each challenge and setback, growing stronger and more certain of her path. Now an independent young woman, she accepts a position as an au pair on the remote and beautiful Orkney Islands. But Gemma’s biggest trial is about to begin....
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4 out of 5 stars
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f you loved Jane Eyre, you will like this novel.
- De Cecilia en 02-09-12
De: Margot Livesey
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre East African Odyssey
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A Most Pleasant Story...
As one who listens to audiobooks and podcasts when using the treadmill, I generally don't pay that much attention to what I am hearing. However, East African Odyssey drew me in from the start, so much so that I actually found myself looking forward to my next treadmill session so I could continue listening to this delightful story of love and adventure. What a remarkable period of time this woman spent exploring East Africa in the early 60s. I did detect a few mispronounced words by the narrator such as "papris" for papyrus and "wild beast" for wildebeest, but the overall narration was a nicely paced and enjoyable representation of Ms. Hines written work. I found myself actually envious of this woman's daring personality and in awe of her acumen. She is quite intriguing. I did find myself feeling a bit sorry for Surgit (I hope I have the spelling correct), who probably had modest romantic designs on Ms. Hines, and Rico who most definitely was in love with her, but couldn't handle his jealousy. But, hey, that's life! I probably would have liked to know a bit more about Ray, but new listeners can explore that aspect of the audiobook themselves. All in all, East African Oddysey: Love and Adventure in the Africa of the 1960s was a most enjoyable experience.
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- 07-11-17
Good Story
Good Story. I plane on listen to this book a few more times.. I like how She explains there way of life & living...
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- emmex10
- 12-06-22
Entertaining, suspenseful.
Nice story telling. Didn’t know the history of Kenya being ruled formerly by the British. Nice to have heard about the transformation of power.
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