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Following the Equator
- A Journey Around the World
- Narrado por: Franklin Benjamin
- Duración: 20 h y 55 m
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For centuries, the city of Alexandria Beneath the Mountains was a meeting point of East and West. Then it vanished. In 1833, it was discovered in Afghanistan by the unlikeliest person imaginable: Charles Masson, deserter, pilgrim, doctor, archaeologist, spy, one of the most respected scholars in Asia, and the greatest of nineteenth-century travelers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exquisite! A Transporting Tale
- De Meg en 05-02-22
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Exploration Fawcett
- Journey to the Lost City of Z
- De: Lt. Col. P. H. Fawcett
- Narrado por: Robin Sachs
- Duración: 15 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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This is the true story of the real Colonel Fawcett, whose life was the inspiration for the best-selling book The Lost City of Z and an upcoming movie starring Brad Pitt. A thrilling account, it tells of Colonel Fawcett and his mysterious disappearance in the Amazon jungle, which is now considered one of the greatest mysteries of the 20th century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Rather academic, but fascinating.
- De Belinda C. en 04-03-17
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A Woman in Arabia
- The Writings of the Queen of the Desert
- De: Gertrude Bell, Georgina Howell - introduction, Georgina Howell - editor
- Narrado por: Sian Thomas, Adjoa Andoh
- Duración: 9 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 66
Gertrude Bell was leaning in 100 years before Sheryl Sandberg. One of the great woman adventurers of the 20th century, she turned her back on Victorian society to study at Oxford and travel the world and became the chief architect of British policy in the Middle East after World War I. Mountaineer, archaeologist, Arabist, writer, poet, linguist, and spy, she dedicated her life to championing the Arab cause and was instrumental in drawing the borders that define today's Middle East.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Raw historiography of a spectacular heroine
- De Josef en 01-07-16
De: Gertrude Bell, y otros
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Hannay: His 5 Adventures
- De: John Buchan
- Narrado por: Graham Scott
- Duración: 49 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 12
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 12
In The Thirty-Nine Steps, Hannay struggles to thwart an assassination plot designed to hasten war between Britain and Germany. Later he is plucked from the trenches first, in Greenmantle, to frustrate a plot to ferment an uprising in the Islamic world; and then, in Mr. Standfast, to undertake a vital secret mission against a German spy ring operating among pacifist elements in England. After the war, his adventures continue in The Three Hostages; and then in The Island of Sheep, when an old oath to protect the son of a friend from his days in Africa draws him into new danger.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Values of a bygone era
- De Barbara en 03-16-24
De: John Buchan
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Helena
- De: Evelyn Waugh
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 5 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 95
Helena is the intelligent, horse-mad daughter of a British chieftan who is suddenly betrothed to the warrior who becomes the Roman emperor Constantius. She spends her life seeking truth in the religions, mythologies, and philosophies of the declining ancient world. This she eventually finds in Christianity-and literally in the Cross of Christ.The Empress Helena, mother of Constantine the Great, made the historic pilgrimage to Palestine and built churches at Bethlehem and Olivet.
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5 out of 5 stars
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And There Alone is Hope
- De John en 04-19-19
De: Evelyn Waugh
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Plain Tales from the Hills
- De: Rudyard Kipling
- Narrado por: Martin Jarvis
- Duración: 4 h y 59 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 40
An intimate, evocative, often funny, and always vital portrait of India at the peak of the British Raj. Written at the age of 22, they immediately show Kipling's natural and prodigious talent. Timeless, they can be listened to forever.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Gentle irony
- De Simon Bowler en 01-25-06
De: Rudyard Kipling
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Dombey and Son
- De: Charles Dickens
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 36 h y 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 66
In this carefully crafted novel, Dickens reveals the complexity of London society in the enterprising 1840s as he takes the listener into the business firm and home of one of its most representative patriarchs, Paul Dombey.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect pair
- De Philip en 03-25-08
De: Charles Dickens
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Essays of E. B. White
- De: E. B. White
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 12 h y 18 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 228
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 204
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 202
Legendary author and essayist E. B. White writes, "The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest." Covering a large number of subjects, this classic collection features 31 of White's most memorable essays.
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5 out of 5 stars
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E.B. White writes honestly, fearlessly and clearly
- De Bonny en 09-03-17
De: E. B. White
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Iberia
- De: James A. Michener
- Narrado por: Larry McKeever
- Duración: 37 h y 41 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 262
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 225
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 227
Spain is an immemorial land like no other, one that James A. Michener, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and celebrated citizen of the world, came to love as his own. Iberia is Michener’s enduring nonfiction tribute to his cherished second home. In the fresh and vivid prose that is his trademark, he not only reveals the celebrated history of bullfighters and warrior kings, painters and processions, cathedrals and olive orchards, he also shares the intimate, often hidden country he came to know, where the congeniality of living souls is thrust against the dark weight of history.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Outdated and no storyline.
- De john lundberg en 08-05-17
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Travels with Herodotus
- De: Ryszard Kapuscinski
- Narrado por: Nicolas Coster
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 42
From renowned journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski comes this intimate account of his years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond the Iron Curtain to India, China, Ethiopia, and other exotic locales.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The father of journalism
- De James R. Modrall en 06-22-18
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A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
- De: Julian Barnes
- Narrado por: Alex Jennings
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 265
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 207
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 209
This is one of the defining novels of English writer Julian Barnes. An entertaining melange of stories starting with a contemporary account of the launch of Noah's Ark takes us into unexpected areas of human foibles, activities, and tendencies.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not what I Expected
- De Mark en 02-20-08
De: Julian Barnes
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World’s End
- The Lanny Budd Novels, Book 1
- De: Upton Sinclair
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 26 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 75
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 75
Lanning “Lanny” Budd spends his first 13 years in Europe, living at the center of his mother’s glamourous circle of friends on the French Riviera. In 1913, he enters a prestigious Swiss boarding school and befriends Rick, an English boy, and Kurt, a German. The three schoolmates are privileged, happy, and precocious - but their world is about to come to an abrupt and violent end. When the gathering storm clouds of war finally burst, raining chaos and death over the continent, Lanny must put the innocence of youth behind him.
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3 out of 5 stars
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didn't finish
- De Bird Miller en 05-08-22
De: Upton Sinclair
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Harriett Tubman
- The Moses of Her People
- De: Sarah H. Bradford
- Narrado por: Jim Hodges
- Duración: 2 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 298
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 274
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Historian Sarah Hopkins Bradford details the life of heroic abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who was born into slavery but escaped to lead other enslaved people to freedom.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Shame on the Narration
- De erica mary en 06-17-20
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Lincoln the Unknown
- De: Dale Carnegie
- Narrado por: Clay Lomakayu
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 63
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 64
One of the best books ever written about Lincoln by Dale Carnegie. Chronicles the inner life and struggles of Abraham Lincoln, how he led a life of poverty, how he went from pauper to become president, how he emerged from obscurity and became the Republican nominee at the 1860 Chicago convention, how he loved to tell humorous stories, and that he was an avid reader of Shakespeare.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Lincoln
- De Amazon Customer en 06-11-21
De: Dale Carnegie
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Into Africa
- The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone
- De: Martin Dugard
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 11 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,283
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,715
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,707
"Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" So goes the signature introduction of New York Herald star journalist Henry Morton Stanley to renowned explorer Dr. David Livingstone, who had been missing for six years in the wilds of Africa. Into Africa ushers us into the meeting of these remarkable men. In 1866, when Livingstone journeyed into the heart of the African continent in search of the Nile's source, the land was rough, unknown to Europeans, and inhabited by man-eating tribes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Riveting
- De Gene en 04-01-04
De: Martin Dugard
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The Rush
- America's Fevered Quest for Fortune, 1848-1853
- De: Edward Dolnick
- Narrado por: Bernard Setaro Clark
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 65
In the spring of 1848, rumors began to spread that gold had been discovered in a remote spot in the Sacramento Valley. A year later, newspaper headlines declared "Gold Fever!" as hundreds of thousands of men and women borrowed money, quit their jobs, and allowed themselves - for the first time ever - to imagine a future of ease and splendor.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it. Want to hear more of Clarks work.
- De Carlos en 01-11-16
De: Edward Dolnick
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Following the Equator
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Total1 out of 5 stars
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Historia5 out of 5 stars
- Stephen La Follette
- 05-02-21
bad narration
a great book narrated by an inadequate narrator. Buy the BLACKSTONE version instead. You won't be sorry.
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