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On a Barbarous Coast is an alternative retelling of Captain James Cook's story co-written by Craig Cormick and Harold Ludwick in the tradition of imagined histories. We were becoming the wild things we most feared but could not see it at the time.
On a night of raging winds and rain, Captain Cook's Endeavour lies splintered on a coral reef off the coast of Far North Australia. A small disparate band of survivors, fracturing already, huddle on the shore of this strange land - their pitiful salvage offers scant protection from the dangers of the unknown creatures and natives that live here.
Watching these mysterious white beings, the Guugu Yimidhirr people cannot decide if they are ancestor spirits to be welcomed - or hostile spirits to be speared. One headstrong young boy, Garrgiil, determines to do more than watch and to be the one to find out what exactly they are.
Fierce, intriguing and thoughtful, On a Barbarous Coast is the story of a past and future that might have been.
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Robinson Crusoe is one of the most enduring adventures of the past four centuries and one of the most well-known works in the English language. Or is it? Recently discovered amidst the papers of the 20th-century writer and historian H. P. Lovecraft is what claims to be the true story of Robinson Crusoe. Taken from the castaway's own journals and memoirs, and fact-checked by Lovecraft himself, it is free from many of Defoe's edits and alterations. From Lovecraft's work a much smoother, simpler tale emerges - but also a far more disturbing one.
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2 out of 5 stars
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95% verbatim Robinson Crusoe
- De La suede en 07-20-18
De: Peter Clines
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West of Eden
- De: Harry Harrison
- Narrado por: Christian Rummel
- Duración: 16 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 165
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Sixty-five million years ago, a disastrous cataclysm eliminated three quarters of all life on Earth. Overnight, the age of dinosaurs ended. The age of mammals had begun. But what if history had happened differently? What if the reptiles had survived to evolve into intelligent life? In West of Eden, best-selling author Harry Harrison has created a rich, dramatic saga of a world where the descendants of the dinosaurs struggled with a clan of humans in a battle for survival.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narration is flat and monotonous.
- De Sande en 06-28-17
De: Harry Harrison
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Mutiny on the Bounty
- De: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrado por: Michael Carman
- Duración: 22 h y 32 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 910
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The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before. Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plants from Tahiti and take them to the West Indies, the Bounty's crew found themselves in a tropical paradise. Five months later, they did not want to leave.
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5 out of 5 stars
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You don't know the whole story.
- De Justin Sluyter en 05-01-19
De: Peter FitzSimons
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The Sea Wolf
- De: Jack London
- Narrado por: Frank Muller
- Duración: 9 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 797
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Wealthy ne'er-do-well Humphrey Van Weyden is a castaway who is put to work on the schooner Ghost, run by brutal Wolf Larsen. Toughened by life at sea, Humphrey develops the strength to protect another castaway, Maud Brewster, and stand up to the increasingly deranged Larsen. Experience the crashing, relentless power of the sea through this compelling story, made hauntingly immediate by author London's vivid prose.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great entertainment
- De Ross en 05-31-03
De: Jack London
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Pirate of the Prophecy
- Empress of the Endless Sea, Book 1
- De: Jack Campbell
- Narrado por: Caitlin Davies
- Duración: 12 h y 7 m
- Grabación Original
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On the world of Dematr, the Emperor and his legions rule over the lands on the eastern side of the Sea of Bakre, and the Great Guilds rule over the Emperor and his subjects. The Mechanics Guild, whose members claim they came from the stars, controls technology far beyond that of the swords and sailing ships of the common people, while the Mage Guild wields strange powers. Jules, an orphan, has fought her way up to become an officer in training with the Emperor’s fleet. But her life is shattered when a Mage prophesizes that her bloodline will one day overthrow the Great Guilds.
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1 out of 5 stars
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I had to stop listening
- De Budgiegrower en 03-31-20
De: Jack Campbell
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A Door into Time
- An Alex Hawk Time Travel Adventure, Book 1
- De: Shawn Inmon
- Narrado por: Johnathan McClain
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
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The wall just didn’t look right. Alex has been trying to cope. Life after his deployment had been rough. His ex-wife thought he needed to stop disappointing their daughter. She was right. He would try harder. With six hours before his little girl’s fourth birthday party, he saw the anomaly. One wall was too short. Plenty of time to tear out a panel and look behind it. He found a brick wall. His house wasn’t made of brick. Behind that was another just like the first. He still had time. When the second wall came down, Alex stood and stared at the shining doorway.
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2 out of 5 stars
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maybe 8 year old boys would like this
- De Jojo11 en 09-15-20
De: Shawn Inmon
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Sacajawea
- The Story of Bird Woman and the Lewis and Clark Expedition
- De: Joseph Bruchac
- Narrado por: Nicolle Littrell, Michael Rafkin
- Duración: 6 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 259
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Before the expedition of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, the United States stopped at the Mississippi River. However, their journey opened up the wilderness borders to the Pacific Ocean. The key to the success of this 18 month journey was a young Indian girl - Sacajawea. Without her, the corps of discovery would have been doomed from the start.
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4 out of 5 stars
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jaycee
- De JANE en 02-25-10
De: Joseph Bruchac
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Farther Than Any Man
- The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook
- De: Martin Dugard
- Narrado por: Jack Chekijian
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 390
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 338
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In the annals of seafaring and exploration, there is one name that immediately evokes visions of the open ocean, billowing sails, visiting strange, exotic lands previously uncharted, and civilizations never before encountered - Captain James Cook. Full of realistic action, lush descriptions of places and events, and fascinating historical characters such as King George III and the soon-to-be-notorious Master William Bligh, Dugard's gripping account of the life and death of Captain James Cook is a thrilling story of a discoverer hell-bent on going farther than any man.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Sloppy History
- De Kyle P. Dalton en 04-06-18
De: Martin Dugard
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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 268
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 211
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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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Welcome to Night Vale
- A Novel
- De: Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor
- Narrado por: Cecil Baldwin, Dylan Marron, Retta, y otros
- Duración: 12 h y 2 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6,347
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Located in a nameless desert somewhere in the great American Southwest, Night Vale is a small town where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are all commonplace parts of everyday life. It is here that the lives of two women, with two mysteries, will converge.
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4 out of 5 stars
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This is so good, but
- De Christopher en 04-30-16
De: Joseph Fink, y otros
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Jules Verne Collection
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Around the World in 80 Days and The Mysterious Island
- De: Jules Verne
- Narrado por: Jim D. Johnston
- Duración: 43 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 204
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From the pen of one of the literary world’s finest explorers of the imagination, these classic tales of fantastical habitats and intrepid adventurers delve deep into every mysterious corner of planet Earth. Whether you’ve adventured with Verne before or are only just setting off on your maiden voyage, this collection encompasses the most extraordinary adventures the father of science fiction has to offer.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Classics, But Hours of Scientific Exposition.
- De Sarah en 05-02-21
De: Jules Verne
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Treasure Island
- De: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Narrado por: Jasper Britton
- Duración: 6 h y 13 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 630
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Treasure Island must be the most enthralling adventure book ever written. As we listen to the voice of Jim Hawkins telling his extraordinary tale, and later that of his companion, Dr. Livesey, we are plunged into a world of pirates, buried treasure, mutiny, and deceit.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Rousing tale
- De Jason en 03-11-08
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Sacred Hunger
- De: Barry Unsworth
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 22 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 205
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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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In the Heart of the Sea
- The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
- De: Nathaniel Philbrick
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,793
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The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the sinking of the Titanic was in the twentieth. In 1819 the Essex left Nantucket for the South Pacific with 20 crew members aboard. In the middle of the South Pacific the ship was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale. The crew drifted for more than 90 days in three tiny whaleboats, succumbing to weather, hunger, and disease and ultimately turning to drastic measures in the fight for survival.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Audio must have been fixed
- De Amazon Customer en 02-11-18
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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 18
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 15
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 15
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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Ada Blackjack
- A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
- De: Jennifer Niven
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 14 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 115
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In September 1921, four young men and Ada Blackjack, a diminutive 25-year-old Eskimo woman, ventured deep into the Arctic in a secret attempt to colonize desolate Wrangel Island for Great Britain. Two years later, Ada Blackjack emerged as the sole survivor of this ambitious polar expedition. This young, unskilled woman - who had headed to the Arctic in search of money and a husband - conquered the seemingly unconquerable north and survived all alone after her male companions had perished.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great true story
- De Michael L Benken en 03-22-22
De: Jennifer Niven