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Situated hundreds of miles from any other settlement, deep within the inhospitable desert of Northern Kenya, Dadaab is a city like no other. Its buildings are made from mud, sticks, or plastic; its entire economy is gray; and its citizens survive on rations and luck. Over the course of four years, Ben Rawlence became a firsthand witness to a strange and desperate limbo-land, getting to know many of those who have come there seeking sanctuary.
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Compelling but dry
- De Megan en 09-16-16
De: Ben Rawlence
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The Airmen and the Headhunters
- The Unlikeliest Rescue of World War II
- De: Judith M. Heimann
- Narrado por: Susan Ericksen
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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November 1944: Army airmen set out in a B-24 bomber on what should have been an easy mission off the Borneo coast. Instead they found themselves unexpectedly facing a Japanese fleet: and were shot down. When they cut themselves loose from their parachutes, they were scattered across the island's mountainous interior. Then a group of loincloth-wearing natives silently materialized out of the jungle. Would these Dayak tribesmen turn the starving airmen over to the hostile Japanese occupiers?
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Spellbinding
- De She en 01-03-08
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They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky
- The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan
- De: Benson Deng, Alephonsion Deng, Benjamin Ajak, y otros
- Narrado por: David Henry, David Zinn, Augustino Mayai, y otros
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Benjamin, Alepho, and Benson were raised among the Dinka tribe of Sudan. Their world was an insulated, close-knit community of grass-roofed cottages, cattle herders, and tribal councils. The lions and pythons that prowled beyond the village fences were the greatest threat they knew. All that changed the night the government-armed Murahiliin began attacking their villages.
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Important History
- De Planetary Defense Commander en 02-16-12
De: Benson Deng, y otros
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The Old Way
- A Story of the First People
- De: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
- Duración: 11 h y 23 m
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One of our most influential anthropologists reevaluates her long and illustrious career by returning to her roots and the roots of life as we know it. When Elizabeth Marshall Thomas first arrived in Africa to live among the Kalahari bushmen, she was 19, and these last surviving hunter-gatherers were living as humans had for 15,000 centuries. After a lifetime of interest in the bushmen, Thomas has come to see that their lifestyle reveals great, hidden truths about human evolution.
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Interesting first hand experience
- De Victor en 05-25-07
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When Heaven and Earth Changed Places
- A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace
- De: Le Ly Hayslip, Jay Wurts
- Narrado por: Nancy Kwan
- Duración: 3 h y 3 m
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This haunting memoir tells the brutal story of the Vietnam War from the perspective of an innocent victim whose childhood was dominated by violence, devastation, and conflicts between the teachings of her culture and the realities of war. The youngest in a close-knit Buddhist family, Le Ly Hayslip was 12 years old when U.S. helicopters landed in her village. She was raped and "ruined" for marriage by Viet Cong soldiers, imprisoned and tortured by the South Vietnamese, and sentenced to death by the Viet Cong. Ultimately fleeing to the U.S. with her children, she finally found peace, and in 1986, she was reunited with her family in Vietnam. The story of her homecoming, interwoven with her memories of the war years, paints a vivid picture of a noble, optimistic woman and her native country.
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Difficult to listen to
- De heatherhg en 07-01-07
De: Le Ly Hayslip, y otros
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Remember Us
- My Journey from the Shtetl Through the Holocaust
- De: Vic Shayne, Martin Small
- Narrado por: Peter Altschuler
- Duración: 10 h y 30 m
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Remember Us is a look back at the lost world of the shtetl: a wise Zayde offering prophetic and profound words to his grandson, the rich experience of Shabbos, and the treasure of a loving family. All this is torn apart with the arrival of the Holocaust, beginning a crucible fraught with twists and turns so unpredictable and surprising that they defy any attempt to find reason within them. Through the eyes of 91-year-old Holocaust survivor Martin Small, we learn that these priceless memories that are too painful to remember are also too painful to forget.
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A Tragic and Rich Life, With Lessons For All
- De still reading en 03-17-16
De: Vic Shayne, y otros
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I Am a Bacha Posh
- My Life as a Woman Living as a Man in Afghanistan
- De: Ukmina Manoori, Stephanie Lebrun, Peter E. Chianchiano - translator
- Narrado por: Ariana Delawari
- Duración: 4 h y 6 m
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"You will be a son, my daughter." With these stunning words Ukmina learned that she was to spend her childhood as a boy. In Afghanistan there is a widespread practice of girls dressing as boys to play the role of a son. These children are called bacha posh: literally "girls dressed as boys." This practice offers families the freedom to allow their child to shop and work - and in some cases, it saves them from the disgrace of not having a male heir. But in adolescence, religion restores the natural law.
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Good story, awful pronunciation
- De Anonymous User en 04-19-21
De: Ukmina Manoori, y otros
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The Aquariums of Pyongyang
- De: Chol-hwan Kang, Pierre Rigoulot
- Narrado por: Stephen Park
- Duración: 7 h y 22 m
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Amid escalating nuclear tensions, Kim Jong-un and North Korea's other leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party state, quashing any nascent opposition movements and sending all suspected dissidents to its brutal concentration camps for "re-education". Kang Chol-Hwan is the first survivor of one of these camps to escape and tell his story to the world, documenting the extreme conditions in these gulags and providing a personal insight into life in North Korea.
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Riveting!!
- De Iread en 11-12-20
De: Chol-hwan Kang, y otros
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Tears of the Desert
- A Memoir of Survival in Darfur
- De: Halima Bashir, Damien Lewis
- Narrado por: Rosalyn Landor
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
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Halima Bashir was born into the Zaghawa tribe, whose customs have remained unchanged for centuries, in the remote western deserts of Sudan in the region of South Darfur. Halima's father named his daughter after the traditional medicine woman of the village, and she grew up in a happy and close-knit childhood environment. Her father became a wealthy man by his tribe's standards, so he could afford to send Halima to school and university. Halima went on to study medicine, and at 24 she returned to her tribe and began practicing as their first ever qualified doctor.
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A story that takes you there
- De Justicepirate en 05-22-17
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The Translator
- De: Daoud Hari
- Narrado por: Mirron Willis
- Duración: 6 h y 10 m
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The young life of Daoud Hari—his friends call him David—has been one of bravery and mesmerizing adventure. He is a living witness to the brutal genocide under way in Darfur. The Translator is a suspenseful, harrowing, and deeply moving memoir of how one person has made a difference in the world—an on-the-ground account of one of the biggest stories of our time.
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Horrific
- De B.S.Johnston en 04-02-24
De: Daoud Hari
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The Darling
- De: Russell Banks
- Narrado por: Mary Beth Hurt
- Duración: 14 h y 16 m
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The Darling is Hannah Musgrave's story, told emotionally and convincingly years later by Hannah herself. A political radical and member of the Weather Underground, Hannah has fled America to West Africa, where she and her Liberian husband become friends and colleagues of Charles Taylor, the notorious warlord and now ex-president of Liberia. When Taylor leaves for the United States in an effort to escape embezzlement charges, he's immediately placed in prison.
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Complex and compelling
- De Ellen H. Anderson en 02-05-05
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Savage Harvest
- A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art
- De: Carl Hoffman
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 9 h y 18 m
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The mysterious disappearance of Michael Rockefeller in remote New Guinea in 1961 has kept the world, and even Michael's powerful, influential family, guessing for years. Now, Carl Hoffman uncovers startling new evidence that finally tells the full, astonishing story.
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'Safe Return Doubtful'
- De Mel en 03-30-14
De: Carl Hoffman
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Ghosts in the Forest
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- Alex Ferrara
- 02-24-22
Peek into a very different world
I listened to this book on audible plus because I needed a non-fiction book to fulfill a competition requirement. I don't normally read non-fiction, so just the culture-shock itself was enough to knock one star off for me, and should not reflect on the content for those who do.
The narrator was just so-so. She has some strange intonation quirks that feel a little unnatural but don't quite take away from being able to focus on the story.
The story itself took a little while to figure out what it was doing. The first chapter felt a little scattered (and long), but the second was much tighter and the information flowed more concisely from there on.
The content itself is very interesting. I learned of the Khmer Rouge in school and heard briefly of the cataclysmic upheavals in Southeast Asia in the news, but being immersed in one person's specific story has a very different impact from a mention in a textbook or a minute on the news. Those details, the grassroots eye as opposed to the bird's eye view, truly brings home not just the horrors that people in that part of the world experienced, but also just a very different life, a very different history, and a very different world from the pampered bubble where I live.
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- Admiralu
- 05-26-21
Hiding in the Forest
This was an interesting take of a group of ethnic minorities from Cambodia who fled the brutal Khemer Rouge to live in the jungle. They lived in the jungle for decades, escaping a war that ended over 25 years ago. Their story of survival is incredible. So was their return to civilization. I read this book using immersion reading while listening to the audio book. A great short story.
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- Bailey Rose
- 01-26-23
Another Kindle Single Lesson
Okay, well, once again a Kindle Single has opened my eyes to something that I knew very little about. What a fascinating story that touches all human emotions.
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- Anonymous User
- 11-06-20
Compelling really life story.
Besides the narrator's pacing and at times rather irritating intonation it's still a reasonable performance and telling of a truly unique and courageous, true story of incredible human bravery and determination despite incredibly perilous odds.
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