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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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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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Mr Midshipman Hornblower
- De: C. S. Forester
- Narrado por: Christian Rodska
- Duración: 8 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,837
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,645
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,629
Shaking off this label, a shy and lonely 17-year-old, Horatio Hornblower, embarks on a memorable career in Nelson's navy on HMS Justinian. In action, adventure, and battle he is forged into one of the most formidable junior officers in the service.
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5 out of 5 stars
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First rate historical fiction
- De Jason en 04-30-17
De: C. S. Forester
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The Shadow-Line
- De: Joseph Conrad
- Narrado por: Fred Williams
- Duración: 4 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 121
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 100
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 100
Written at the start of the Great War, when his son Borys was at the Western Front, The Shadow-Line is Conrad's supreme effort to open man's eyes to the meaning of war through the stimulus of art. In many ways an autobiographical narrative, this masterpiece of his final period relates the story of a young and inexperienced sea captain whose first command finds him with a ship becalmed in tropical seas and a crew smitten with fever.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Reflexion on Maturity
- De Darwin8u en 01-05-17
De: Joseph Conrad
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A High Wind in Jamaica
- De: Richard Hughes
- Narrado por: Michael Maloney
- Duración: 6 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 188
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 163
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 163
Set in the 19th century against a backdrop of island life and the vast surrounding seas, A High Wind in Jamaica is the gripping story of the Bas-Thornton children, whose parents send them back to England following a hurricane in the postcolonial Caribbean they call home. Having set sail, the children quickly fall into the hands of pirates. As their voyage continues, things take an awful turn
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5 out of 5 stars
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Prose that reads like a Child's Fever Dream
- De Darwin8u en 01-02-17
De: Richard Hughes
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The Secret Sharer
- De: Joseph Conrad
- Narrado por: Wendy Ellison Mullen
- Duración: 1 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 54
A young sea captain discovers a stowaway - and allows him to stay, eventually seeing in him a reflection of himself. Or perhaps that's all there ever was. Wendy Mullen's contralto voice captures the music of the sea; you'll be mesmerized by the telling and the tale. Conrad is at his best, and Mullen's reading captivates.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Conrad's literary rigging is tight.
- De Darwin8u en 04-06-13
De: Joseph Conrad
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The Mutiny of the Elsinore
- De: Jack London
- Narrado por: John Bolen
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 61
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 53
Life has lost its savor for Mr. Pathurst. New York, fame, women, the arts, have all become tedious. Searching for excitement, he books passage on a cargo vessel sailing from Baltimore to Seattle on a route that travels around the treacherous Cape Horn.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Just can't listen
- De Michael en 06-25-05
De: Jack London
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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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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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Sacred Hunger
- De: Barry Unsworth
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 22 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 202
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 178
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 176
In this Booker Prize-winning work, Barry Unsworth follows the failing fortunes of William Kemp, a merchant pinning his last chance to a slave ship; his son, who needs a fortune because he is in love with an upper-class woman; and his nephew, who sails on the ship as its doctor because he has lost all he has loved. The voyage meets its demise when disease spreads among the slaves and the captain's drastic response provokes a mutiny.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wise, Perceptive, Heart-breaking
- De S. Coldsmith en 04-16-16
De: Barry Unsworth
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The Captain of the Pole Star
- De: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrado por: B. J. Harrison
- Duración: 1 h y 6 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 334
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 284
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 281
Word goes among the crew of the Pole Star that the captain is haunted by demons. And after the days turn into weeks in the frigid Arctic Ocean, stories begin to circulate of ghosts and midnight hauntings.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Conan Doyle wrote more than Mr. Holmes.
- De Kristi R. en 11-14-11
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'Slaves of Sleep' and 'The Masters of Sleep'
- De: L. Ron Hubbard
- Narrado por: Rene Auberjonois
- Duración: 5 h y 29 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 28
Young, wealthy, and good-looking, Jan Palmer leads the kind of life most of us would die for. He has it all - except for one thing: happiness. Trapped under the weight of his responsibilities to his family, his business, and his life, he wishes only to escape to another world. But you have to be careful what you wish for. Waking out of a deep sleep, Jan finally finds escape - into a living nightmare.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible. Spellbinding. Hubbard is a genius!
- De Freddie Ulan en 07-22-18
De: L. Ron Hubbard
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Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates
- De: Howard Pyle, Merle Johnson
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 163
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 111
Merle Johnson has here gathered together in one volume all of the nineteenth-century author-artist's classic pirate stories that had been scattered through many magazines and books. Well researched and with richly drawn characters, Pyle's work will appeal to students of history and adventure lovers alike.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating and wonderfully read
- De Fletch en 09-08-06
De: Howard Pyle, y otros
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Badge of Glory
- De: Douglas Reeman
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 10 h y 51 m
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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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Absolution by Murder
- A Sister Fidelma Mystery
- De: Peter Tremayne
- Narrado por: Caroline Lennon
- Duración: 9 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 613
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 523
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 523
In AD 664 King Oswy of Northumbria has convened a synod at Whitby to hear debate between the Roman and Celtic Christian Churches and decide which shall be granted primacy in his kingdom. At stake is much more than a few disputed points of ritual; Oswy's decision could affect the survival of either Church in the Saxon kingdoms. When the Abbess Etain, a leading speaker for the Celtic Church, is found murdered, suspicion falls upon the Roman faction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interesting new (for me) series & great narrator!
- De Yvette en 02-27-15
De: Peter Tremayne