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Bloomsbury presents Pravda Ha Ha by Rory MacLean, read by Rory MacLean.
"A gem of a book, informative, companionable, sometimes funny, and wholly original. MacLean must surely be the outstanding, and most indefatigable, traveller writer of our time." (John le Carré)
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Reseñas de la Crítica
"This is a tremendous thing that MacLean is creating; a new kind of history, in several dimensions and innumerable moods, that adds up to – across the span of his books – a great and continuing work of literature." (Jan Morris)
"No one writes quite like Rory MacLean." (Robert Macfarlane)
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Balkan Ghosts
- A Journey Through History
- De: Robert D. Kaplan
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 12 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 260
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 221
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 222
From the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare in Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the 20th century, the place where terrorism and genocide first became tools of policy. Chosen as one of the Best Books of the Year by the New York Times, and greeted with critical acclaim as "the most insightful and timely work on the Balkans to date" (The Boston Globe), Kaplan's prescient, enthralling, and often chilling political travelogue is already a modern classic.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Anti religious/anti catholic hit piece
- De Daniel Calvert en 05-04-21
De: Robert D. Kaplan
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Sovietistan
- Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
- De: Erika Fatland
- Narrado por: Jill Rolls
- Duración: 14 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 52
Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan became free of the Soviet Union in 1991. But though they are new to modern statehood, this is a region rich in ancient history, culture, and landscapes unlike anywhere else in the world. Traveling alone, Erika Fatland is a true adventurer in every sense. In Sovietistan, she takes the listener on a compassionate and insightful journey to explore how their Soviet heritage has influenced these countries, with governments experimenting with both democracy and dictatorships.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding book
- De George MP en 04-24-22
De: Erika Fatland
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Street Without a Name
- Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria
- De: Kapka Kassabova
- Narrado por: Emily Gray
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 51
Kassabova was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, and grew up under the drab, muddy, gray mantle of one of communism’s most mindlessly authoritarian regimes. Escaping with her family as soon as possible after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, she lived in Britain, New Zealand, and Argentina, and several other places. But when Bulgaria was formally inducted to the European Union she decided it was time to return to the home she had spent most of her life trying to escape. What she found was a country languishing under the strain of transition. This two-part memoir of Kapka’s childhood and return explains life on the other side of the Iron Curtain.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Good start, but ended up not liking the author
- De Giselle en 11-02-21
De: Kapka Kassabova
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Why the Dutch Are Different
- A Journey into the Hidden Heart of the Netherlands
- De: Ben Coates
- Narrado por: Ciaran Saward
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 52
A personal portrait of a fascinating people, a sideways history, and an entertaining travelogue, Why the Dutch Are Different is the story of an Englishman who went Dutch. And loved it.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Good Start, Then He Goes Dark
- De amazonnance en 12-17-21
De: Ben Coates
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Light and Shadow
- Memoirs of a Spy's Son
- De: Mark Colvin
- Narrado por: Mark Colvin
- Duración: 13 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 25
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 25
Mark Colvin is a broadcasting legend. He is the voice of ABC Radio’s leading current affairs program PM; he was a founding broadcaster for the groundbreaking youth station Double J; he initiated The World Today program; and he’s one of the most popular and influential journalists in the twittersphere. Mark has been covering local and global events for more than four decades. He has reported on wars, royal weddings and everything in between. In the midst of all this he discovered that his father was an MI6 spy.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Probably of most interest to Australian readers
- De Robyn en 04-12-17
De: Mark Colvin
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Erdogan Rising
- The Battle for the Soul of Turkey
- De: Hannah Lucinda Smith
- Narrado por: Hannah Lucinda Smith
- Duración: 14 h y 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 50
Everyone has heard of Erdogan: Turkey’s bullish, mercurial president is the original postmodern populist. Around the world, other strongmen are now following the path that he has blazed. For the first time, Erdogan Rising tells the inside story of how a democracy on the fringe of Europe has succumbed to dictatorship. Hannah Lucinda Smith, Turkey correspondent with The Times of London, has witnessed all that has befallen Turkey and the wider region since the onset of the Arab Spring.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Overall fascinating profile of Erdogan’s Turkey
- De Saul M en 09-18-20
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Places and Names
- On War, Revolution, and Returning
- De: Elliot Ackerman
- Narrado por: Elliot Ackerman, Mark Deakins
- Duración: 6 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 89
Toward the beginning of Places and Names, Elliot Ackerman sits in a refugee camp in Turkey, across the table from a man named Abu Hassar, who fought for al-Qaeda in Iraq, and whose connections to the Islamic State are murky. At first, Ackerman pretends to be a journalist, but after establishing a rapport with Abu Hassar, he takes a risk by revealing to him that in fact he was a Marine special operation officer. Ackerman then draws the shape of the Euphrates River on a large piece of paper, and his one-time adversary quickly joins him in the game of filling in the map.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A crazy ride through the Mideast.
- De Kent Prochazka en 12-05-19
De: Elliot Ackerman
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North Korea Undercover
- Inside the World's Most Secret State
- De: John Sweeney
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
- Duración: 10 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 640
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 576
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 576
North Korea is like no other tyranny on Earth. Its citizens are told their home is the greatest nation in the world, and Big Brother is always watching. It is Orwell's 1984 made reality. Huge factories with no staff or electricity, hospitals with no patients, uniformed child soldiers, and the world-famous and eerily empty DMZ - the Demilitarized Zone, where North Korea ends and South Korea begins - are all framed by a relentless flow of regime propaganda from omnipresent loudspeakers. Free speech is an illusion: one word out of line, and the gulag awaits.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Highly listenable, humorous and enlightening
- De Kevin Stokes en 09-09-15
De: John Sweeney
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The Fracture Zone
- A Return to the Balkans
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 129
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 109
Award-winning journalist and author Simon Winchester takes readers on a personal tour of the Balkans. Combining history and interviews with the people who live there, Winchester offers a fascinating glimpse into the complex issues at work in this chaotic region. Unrest in the Balkans has gone on for centuries. A seasoned reporter, Winchester visited the region twenty years ago. When Kosovo reached crisis level in 1997, Winchester thought a return visit to the beleaguered area would help to make sense out of the awful violence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved this-Great combo:Story and History Explained
- De Jeremy en 07-10-14
De: Simon Winchester
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In Putin's Footsteps
- Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones
- De: Nina Khrushcheva, Jeffrey Tayler
- Narrado por: Kathleen Gati
- Duración: 10 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 28
With exclusive insider status as Nikita Khrushchev’s great grand-daughter, and an ex-pat living and reporting on Russia and the Soviet Union since 1993, Nina Khrushcheva and Jeffrey Tayler offer a poignant exploration of the largest country on Earth through their recreation of Vladimir Putin’s fabled New Year’s Eve speech planned across all 11 time zones.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not much meat on the bone
- De A. M. en 03-11-19
De: Nina Khrushcheva, y otros
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Fast Times in Palestine
- A Love Affair with a Homeless Homeland
- De: Pamela J. Olson
- Narrado por: Julia Farhat
- Duración: 10 h y 43 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
Pamela Olson, a small town girl from eastern Oklahoma, had what she always wanted: a physics degree from Stanford University. But instead of feeling excited for what came next, she felt consumed by dread and confusion. This irresistible memoir chronicles her journey from aimless ex-bartender to Ramallah-based journalist and foreign press coordinator for a Palestinian presidential candidate.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Palestine from the Inside—and Out
- De Susie en 11-04-13
De: Pamela J. Olson
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The Good Assassin
- How a Mossad Agent and a Band of Survivors Hunted Down the Butcher of Latvia
- De: Stephan Talty
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 236
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 205
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 205
The untold story of an Israeli spy’s epic journey to bring the notorious Butcher of Latvia to justice - a case that altered the fates of all ex-Nazis.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful: A complete history wrapped in a story
- De Aaron en 04-22-20
De: Stephan Talty
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Tunnel 29
- The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall
- De: Helena Merriman
- Narrado por: Helena Merriman
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 713
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 611
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 608
In the summer of 1962, a young student named Joachim Rudolph dug a tunnel under the Berlin Wall. Waiting on the other side in East Berlin were dozens of men, women, and children - all willing to risk everything to escape.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gripping
- De Matthew en 09-09-21
De: Helena Merriman
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My Father's Paradise
- A Son's Search For His Family's Past
- De: Ariel Sabar
- Narrado por: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Duración: 12 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly 3,000 years, lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Mostly illiterate, they were self-made mystics and gifted storytellers and humble peddlers who dwelt in harmony with their Muslim and Christian neighbors in the mountains of northern Iraq. To these descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel, Yona Sabar was born.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story well told
- De B. Cohen en 11-23-23
De: Ariel Sabar
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On All Fronts
- The Education of a Journalist
- De: Clarissa Ward
- Narrado por: Clarissa Ward
- Duración: 9 h y 38 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 433
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 377
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 373
Clarissa Ward is a world-renowned conflict reporter. In this strange age of crisis where there really is no front line, she has moved from one hot zone to the next. With multiple assignments in Syria, Egypt, and Afghanistan, Ward, who speaks seven languages, has been based in Baghdad, Beirut, Beijing, and Moscow. She has seen and documented the violent remaking of the world at close range. With her deep empathy, Ward finds a way to tell the hardest stories. On All Fronts is the riveting account of Ward’s singular career and of journalism in this age of extremism.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Insights gained!
- De J. Harry en 11-10-20
De: Clarissa Ward
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Midnight in Mexico
- A Reporter's Journey through a Country's Descent into Darkness
- De: Alfredo Corchado
- Narrado por: Timothy Andres Pabon
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 421
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 373
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 369
Noted Mexican American journalist Alfredo Corchado refuses to shrink from reporting on government corruption, murders in Juarez, or the ruthless drug cartels of Mexico. One night, Corchado received a tip that he could be the next target of the Zetas, a violent paramilitary group - and that he had 24 hours to find out if the threat was true. Midnight in Mexico is the story of one man's quest to report the truth of his country - as he races to save his own life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating & suspenseful historical non-fiction!
- De Ruth Barrie en 06-30-19
De: Alfredo Corchado
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The Nine Lives of Pakistan
- Dispatches from a Precarious State
- De: Declan Walsh
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
- Duración: 11 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 81
Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times's most distinguished international correspondents. His electrifying portrait of Pakistan over a tumultuous decade captures the sweep of this strange, wondrous, and benighted country through the dramatic lives of nine fascinating individuals. On assignment as the country careened between crises, Walsh traveled from the raucous port of Karachi to the salons of Lahore, and from Baluchistan to the mountains of Waziristan. He met a diverse cast of extraordinary Pakistanis....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Fascinating Look at a Troubled Country
- De Dipam en 07-11-21
De: Declan Walsh
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Pravda Ha Ha
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
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Historia5 out of 5 stars
- Sil A.
- 07-05-21
Compelling History in Style and Fun!
Written with style and humor, this book is fun to listen to and a fine lesson in history and contemporary issues. The author weaves interesting and pertinent stories and well researched history into his narrative in such a fluid way that the reader does not even realize how deep this is going until they’re there. All, while we travel with the author through Eastern Europe and beyond. One of the best travelogues I have ever listened to. And he’s a great narrator as well.
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Total3 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución2 out of 5 stars
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Historia3 out of 5 stars
- Kim Hamacher
- 12-05-23
Narration style was distracting
Interesting anecdotes but rather narrowly focused. Seems biased to me but I did finish it.
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