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Headwaters
- The Adventures, Obsession and Evolution of a Fly Fisherman (Patagonia)
- Narrado por: Dylan Tomine
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Jim Harrison, Pam Houston, Ted Leeson, Nick Lyons, Thomas McGuane, and more, share stories of fly fishing and life on the river. This marvelous collection features stories from some of America’s finest and most respected writers about one of the world’s most solitary and satisfying sports: fly fishing. For the first time, the stories of thirty-one acclaimed writers including Kim Barnes, Walter Bennett, Russell Chatham, Guy de la Valdne, Robert DeMott, Chris Dombrowski, Ron Ellis, Jim Fergus, Kate Fox, Charles Gaines, Bruce Guernsey, Jim Harrison, Pam Houston, Michael Keaton, Greg Keeler, Sydney Lea, Ted Leeson, Nick Lyons, Craig Mathews, Thomas McGuane, Joseph Monninger, Howard Frank Mosher, Jake Mosher, Craig Nova, Margot Page, Datus Proper, Le Anne Schreiber, Paul Schullery, W. D. Wetherell, and Robert Wrigley come together in one collection. Fly fishers and non-fly fishers alike will recognize in these poignant tales the universal aspects of the appreciation of nature, the necessity of conservation, and the joy and knowledge that come from time spent on fresh and salt water. This is a delightful, handsome volume that captures the allure and spirit of fly fishing and those that love it.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Flowery nonsense
- De 964a5 en 05-10-13
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Still Life with Brook Trout
- De: John Gierach
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 6 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 76
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 65
John Gierach demonstrates once again that fishing, when done right, is as much a philosophical pursuit as a sport. Gierach travels to Wyoming and Maine and points in between, searching out new fly-fishing adventures and savoring familiar waters with old friends. Along the way he meditates on the importance of good guides, the challenge of salmon fishing, and the zen of fishing alone. On a more serious note, he ponders the damaging effects of disasters both natural and man-made.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A problem with casting
- De GrayKnight en 01-18-19
De: John Gierach
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Bright Rivers
- Celebrations of Rivers and Fly-fishing
- De: Nick Lyons
- Narrado por: Dennis Holland
- Duración: 5 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 57
Bright Rivers chronicles the angling passions and frustrations of one of fly-fishing's greatest men of letters. A city dweller trapped in the complexities of modern life, Nick Lyons has always found solace in his pilgrimages to great rivers. It is there that he fishes for trout, and in Bright Rivers, Lyons recounts the sometimes moving, sometimes hilarious experiences of his expeditions to the Delaware, Beaverkill, Madison, Big Hole, and Yellowstone rivers, sharing reminiscences of trout taken, released, and sometimes lost.
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5 out of 5 stars
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First Nick Lyons Book and Quite Satisfied
- De Brian Kurtz en 04-21-22
De: Nick Lyons
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Should the Tent Be Burning Like That?
- A Professional Amateur's Guide to the Outdoors
- De: Bill Heavey
- Narrado por: Jeff Harding
- Duración: 9 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 348
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 294
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 293
For more than 20 years, Heavey has staked a claim as one of America's best sportsmen writers. In feature stories and his Field & Stream column A Sportsman's Life, he has taken audiences across the country and beyond to experience his triumphs and failures as a suburban dad who happens to love hunting and fishing. This new collection gathers together a wide range of his best work - tales that are odes to the notion that enthusiasm is more important than skill and testaments to the enduring power of the natural world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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one of the best storytellers of all time!
- De Adam en 12-16-17
De: Bill Heavey
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Wild Men, Wild Alaska
- Finding What Lies Beyond the Limits
- De: Rocky McElveen
- Narrado por: Stephen Bel Davies
- Duración: 6 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 257
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 229
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 227
In Wild Men, Wild Alaska professional hunting and fishing guide and outfitter Rocky McElveen tells the stories of his own adventures as well as those of some of his well-known clients. The book takes listeners directly into the Alaskan bush, and shares the intense challenges of a majestic wilderness that pushes a man to his limits.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Too Much Religion
- De Chris D. en 06-05-18
De: Rocky McElveen
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Ghost Wave
- The Discovery of Cortes Bank and the Biggest Wave on Earth
- De: Chris Dixon
- Narrado por: Chris Dixon
- Duración: 11 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 88
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 88
Rising from the depths of the North Pacific lies a fabled island, now submerged just 15 feet below the surface of the ocean. Rumors and warnings about Cortes Bank abound, but among big wave surfers, this legendary rock is famous for one simple (and massive) reason: this is the home of the biggest rideable wave on the face of the earth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Surfing Classic of Monster Waves
- De Susie en 01-03-13
De: Chris Dixon
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If You Didn't Bring Jerky, What Did I Just Eat?
- Misadventures in Hunting, Fishing, and the Wilds of Suburbia
- De: Bill Heavey
- Narrado por: Ian Patrick Williams
- Duración: 6 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 411
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 358
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 357
Whether he is accidentally cooking his brain with hand warmers or yanking his lure away from a trophy fish just before it takes the bait, Bill Heavey can do no right. For almost a decade, he has chronicled his incompetence on the back page of Field & Stream, where his hilarious dispatches about life as a hapless outdoorsman who lives in suburbia have earned him legions of fans.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book
- De Jon Hiltz en 07-21-18
De: Bill Heavey
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Time Bandit
- Two Brothers, the Bering Sea, and One of the World's Deadliest Jobs
- De: Andy Hillstrand, Johnathan Hillstrand, Malcolm MacPherson
- Narrado por: William Dufris
- Duración: 7 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 124
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 64
The Time Bandit is the fishing vessel that Andy and Johnathan Hillstrand use to hook the "deadliest catch", Alaskan king crabs and opilio crabs, in the Bering Sea, a dangerous body of water that can steal years from a fisherman's life. In pursuit of their daily catch, the brothers brave ice floes and heaving 60-foot waves, gusting winds of 80 miles per hour, unwieldy and unpredictable half-ton steel crab traps, and an injury rate of almost 100-percent.
There are fewer than 400 fishermen of this kind in the U.S., and early death is a common fate. But the Hillstrand brothers are drawn to the drama and adventure of life on the high seas - this is their world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Much Better Then I Had Expected
- De Andrew H. Hochheimer en 09-04-08
De: Andy Hillstrand, y otros
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The Habit of Rivers
- Reflections on Trout Streams and Fly Fishing
- De: Ted Leeson, John Gierach - foreword
- Narrado por: Allan Robertson
- Duración: 8 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 197
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 168
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 168
Originally published in 1994, this book was a fly-fishing phenomenon in the way Howell Raines' Fly Fishing Through the Mid-Life Crisis was. Taking his fishing hobby to near metaphysical levels, Ted Leeson tells about his passions: rivers, trout, and fly fishing. With wry humor and rare insight, he explores questions that engage most fishermen: What is it about rivers that draws us so irresistibly, and why does fly fishing seem such an aptly suited response?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Greatest Book I've Ever Listened To.
- De Travis en 03-17-18
De: Ted Leeson, y otros
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The Hungry Ocean
- De: Linda Greenlaw
- Narrado por: Linda Greenlaw
- Duración: 6 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 97
In his number-one best seller The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger describes Linda Greenlaw as "one of the best sea captains, period, on the East Coast." Now Greenlaw tells her own riveting story of a 30 day swordfishing voyage aboard one of the best-outfitted boats on the East Coast, complete with danger, humor, and characters so colorful they seem to have been ripped from the pages of Moby Dick. The excitement starts immediately, even before Greenlaw and her five-man crew leave the dock.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Fun Listen and Enjoyable Listen
- De S. Perry en 12-10-08
De: Linda Greenlaw
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Canoeing with the Cree
- A 2,250-mile voyage from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay
- De: Eric Sevareid
- Narrado por: John Farrell
- Duración: 3 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 186
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 157
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 157
In 1930, two novice paddlers - Eric Sevareid and Walter C. Port - launched a secondhand 18-foot canvas canoe from the Minnesota River at Fort Snelling for an ambitious summer-long journey from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay. Without benefit of radio, motor or good maps, the teenagers made their way over 2,250 miles of rivers, lakes, and difficult portages.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Seems like an abridged version
- De Angela en 12-31-09
De: Eric Sevareid
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Almost Anywhere
- Road-Trip Ruminations on Love, Nature, Recovery, and Nonsense
- De: Krista Schlyer
- Narrado por: Marisa Vitali
- Duración: 10 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 76
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 66
What do you do when your world ends? At 28 years old, Krista Schlyer sold almost everything she owned and packed the rest of it in a station wagon bound for the American wild. Her two best friends joined her - one a grumpy, grieving introvert, the other a feisty dog - and together they sought out every national park, historic site, forest, and wilderness they could get to before their money ran out or their minds gave in.
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4 out of 5 stars
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No a travelogue - its a diary
- De Jonathan en 12-29-20
De: Krista Schlyer
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The Founding Fish
- De: John McPhee
- Narrado por: John McPhee
- Duración: 14 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 81
Few fish are as beloved, or as obsessed over, as the American shad. Although shad spend most of their lives in salt water, they enter rivers by the hundreds of thousands in the spring and swim upstream heroic distances in order to spawn, then return to the ocean.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Read and released.
- De Darwin8u en 11-14-14
De: John McPhee
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Visit Sunny Chernobyl
- And Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places
- De: Andrew Blackwell
- Narrado por: Ax Norman
- Duración: 10 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 90
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 79
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 78
For most of us, traveling means visiting the most beautiful places on Earth - Paris, the Taj Mahal, the Grand Canyon. It’s rare to book a plane ticket to visit the lifeless moonscape of Canada’s oil sand strip mines, or to seek out the Chinese city of Linfen, legendary as the most polluted in the world. But in Visit Sunny Chernobyl, Andrew Blackwell embraces a different kind of travel, taking a jaunt through the most gruesomely polluted places on Earth.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Better than I predicted
- De Paul Luthi en 08-23-13
De: Andrew Blackwell
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The Lobster Chronicles
- Life on a Very Small Island
- De: Linda Greenlaw
- Narrado por: Linda Greenlaw
- Duración: 5 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
After 17 years at sea, Linda Greenlaw figured it was time to take a break from her career as a swordboat captain. She felt she needed to return to Isle au Haut - a tiny island seven miles from the Maine coast with a population of 70 year-round residents, 30 of whom were her relatives. She would pursue a simpler life; move back in with her parents and get to know them again; become a professional lobsterman; and find a guy, build a house, have kids, and settle down. But all doesn't go as planned.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Was this narration sped up?
- De Linda Vanaman en 10-12-15
De: Linda Greenlaw
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Downriver
- De: Will Hobbs
- Narrado por: Christina Moore
- Duración: 5 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 67
Fifteen-year-old Jessie is angry with her father for sending her on an outdoor survival program for troubled teens. Confused about her life back home and unsure of herself, she is drawn to the powerful personality of a teammate, the charismatic Troy. At their first opportunity to rebel, she and her six companions "borrow" their instructor's gear and attempt the dangerous Colorado River through the Grand Canyon on their own.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing book!
- De Emily DeVocht en 02-28-24
De: Will Hobbs
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In the earliest days of our nation, a handful of unsung heroes - including women, slaves, and an Iroquois chief - made crucial contributions to our republic. They pioneered the ideas that led to the Bill of Rights, the separation of powers, and the abolition of slavery. Yet their faces haven't been printed on our currency or carved into any cliffs. Instead they were marginalized, silenced, or forgotten - sometimes by an accident of history, sometimes by design.
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At the outbreak of World War II, MI6 spymaster Thomas Kendrick arrived at the Tower of London to set up a top secret operation: German prisoners' cells were to be bugged and listeners installed behind the walls to record and transcribe their private conversations. This mission proved so effective that it would go on to be set up at three further sites - and provide the Allies with crucial insight into new technology being developed by the Nazis. In this astonishing history, Helen Fry uncovers the inner workings of the bugging operation.
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inresting look into a secret world.
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On the Courthouse Lawn
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Nearly 5,000 black Americans were lynched between 1890 and 1960. Over 40 years later, Sherrilyn Ifill examines the numerous ways that this racial trauma still resounds across the United States. While the lynchings and their immediate aftermath were devastating, the little-known contemporary consequences, such as the marginalization of political and economic development for black Americans, are equally pernicious. A landmark book, On the Courthouse Lawn is a much-needed and urgent road map for communities finally confronting lynching's long shadow.
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In 1958, the US Air Force nuked the moon as a show of military force. In 1967, the CIA sent live cats to spy on the Soviet government. In 1942, the British built a torpedo-proof aircraft carrier out of an iceberg. Of course, none of these things ever actually happened. But in Nuking the Moon, intelligence historian Vince Houghton proves that abandoned plans can be just as illuminating - and every bit as entertaining - as the ones that made it.
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Manchild writes book filled with his opinion
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Underground
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A panoramic investigation of the subterranean landscape, from sacred caves and derelict subway stations to nuclear bunkers and ancient underground cities - an exploration of the history, science, architecture, and mythology of the worlds beneath our feet.
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An interesting unearthing of some awesome spaces
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 275
How does a nation recover from fascism and turn toward a free society once more? This internationally acclaimed revelatory history of the transformational decade that followed World War II illustrates how Germany raised itself out of the ashes of defeat and reckoned with the corruption of its soul and the horrors of the Holocaust - and features over 40 eye-opening black-and-white photographs and posters from the period.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Where are the photos?
- De Cassandra en 01-17-22
De: Harald Jähner, y otros
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We Refuse to Forget
- A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power
- De: Caleb Gayle
- Narrado por: Caleb Gayle
- Duración: 6 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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In We Refuse to Forget, award-winning journalist Caleb Gayle tells the extraordinary story of the Creek Nation, a Native tribe that two centuries ago both owned slaves and accepted Black people as full citizens. Thanks to the efforts of Creek leaders like Cow Tom, a Black Creek citizen who rose to become chief, the U.S. government recognized Creek citizenship in 1866 for its Black members. Yet this equality was shredded in the 1970s when tribal leaders revoked the citizenship of Black Creeks, even those who could trace their history back generations—even to Cow Tom himself.
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3 out of 5 stars
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If Creek, yet Black, why you aren't still Creek?
- De w.l. en 12-08-22
De: Caleb Gayle
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Into the Hands of the Soldiers
- Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East
- De: David D. Kirkpatrick
- Narrado por: David D. Kirkpatrick
- Duración: 13 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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Egypt has long set the paradigm for Arab autocracy. It is the keeper of the peace with Israel and the cornerstone of the American-backed regional order. So when Egyptians rose up to demand democracy in 2011, their 30 months of freedom convulsed the whole region. Now a new strongman, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, is building a dictatorship so severe some call it totalitarian. The economy sputters, an insurgency simmers, Christians suffer, and the Israeli military has been forced to intervene. But some in Washington - including President Trump - applaud Sisi as a crucial ally.
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2 out of 5 stars
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may get better, but presentation is off putting
- De Fruggs en 08-28-18
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Under the Big Black Sun
- A Personal History of L.A. Punk
- De: John Doe, Tom Desavia
- Narrado por: Exene Cervenka, Henry Rollins, full cast
- Duración: 7 h y 20 m
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Under the Big Black Sun explores the nascent Los Angeles punk rock movement and its evolution to hardcore punk as it's never been told before. Authors John Doe and Tom DeSavia have woven together an enthralling story of the legendary West Coast scene from 1977 to 1982 by enlisting the voices of people who were there. The book shares chapter-length tales from the authors along with personal essays from famous (and infamous) players in the scene.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A love song to the early punk days in LA.
- De Brenda en 07-09-16
De: John Doe, y otros
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Fatherland
- A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets
- De: Burkhard Bilger
- Narrado por: Burkhard Bilger
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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What do we owe the past? How to make peace with a dark family history? Burkhard Bilger hardly knew his grandfather growing up. His parents immigrated to Oklahoma from Germany after World War II, and though his mother was an historian, she rarely talked about her father or what he did during the war. Then one day a packet of letters arrived from Germany, yellowing with age, and a secret history began to unfold.
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4 out of 5 stars
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a window into a little-explored aspect of WWII
- De Marjorie en 09-23-23
De: Burkhard Bilger
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Indelible City
- Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong
- De: Louisa Lim
- Narrado por: Louisa Lim
- Duración: 10 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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The story of Hong Kong has long been dominated by competing myths: to Britain, a “barren rock” with no appreciable history; to China, a part of Chinese soil from time immemorial, at last returned to the ancestral fold. For decades, Hong Kong’s history was simply not taught, especially to Hong Kongers, obscuring its origins as a place of refuge and rebellion.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Visceral History
- De Amazon Customer en 11-21-23
De: Louisa Lim
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The Quiet Americans
- Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War - a Tragedy in Three Acts
- De: Scott Anderson
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean, Scott Anderson
- Duración: 22 h y 1 m
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At the end of World War II, the United States was considered the victor over tyranny and a champion of freedom. But it was clear—to some—that the Soviet Union was already seeking to expand and foment revolution around the world, and the American government’s strategy in response relied on the secret efforts of a newly formed CIA. Chronicling their fascinating lives, Scott Anderson follows the exploits of four spies. Despite their ambitions, time and again their efforts went awry, thwarted by ham-fisted politicking and ideological rigidity at the highest levels of the government.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Tragedy for One
- De Amazon Customer en 09-23-20
De: Scott Anderson
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Papyrus
- The Invention of Books in the Ancient World
- De: Irene Vallejo, Charlotte Whittle - translator
- Narrado por: Sophie Roberts
- Duración: 17 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Long before books were mass-produced, scrolls hand-copied on reeds pulled from the Nile were the treasures of the ancient world. Papyrus is the story of the book’s journey from oral tradition to scrolls to codices, and how that transition laid the very foundation of Western culture. Irene Vallejo evokes the great mosaic of literature in the ancient world, all the while illuminating how ancient ideas about education, censorship, authority, and identity still resonate today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great read
- De Hunter Pechin en 12-15-22
De: Irene Vallejo, y otros
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Headwaters
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- Bachina
- 11-06-23
I’m not a fisher person, but
this book is amazing - an extraordinary lens for seeing the beauty of the natural world and a powerful message about what must be done to preserve it. I don’t think I’ll take up fishing, but definitely will join the fight for conservation. Thank you, Dylan, for the inspiration and education!
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- Steve Killian
- 10-22-22
Wonderful stringer fishing adventures
A must read for those of us who love the fishing, the outdoors, and who want to make a difference in our natural world by making it little better for our kid and grandkids! Thank you for the book!
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- Josetsu
- 04-04-24
Held my interest
I’m not a fly fisherman nor do I plan to be, but I appreciated the quality writing and well placed humor. The book also educated me on conservation problems of which I was not aware.
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- Kate
- 02-05-23
Great perspective, encouragement for action
This was helpful in finding my way through my own conservation journey. Loved to way it was organized.
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- Jimmy
- 02-25-23
Moving
This book truly brings the world of fishing and conservation together. A must read for any angler or conservationist
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