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Written by H.G. Wells, the great visionary author, this legendary novel is both timeless and thought provoking. Listeners will thrill to this chilling masterpiece as man boldly takes evolution into his own hands for the first time. Dr. Moreau, a scientist expelled from his homeland for his cruel experiments, continues his transplantations on a small South Pacific island, creating hideous creatures with manlike intelligence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Oldie but a Goodie
- De David Thomas en 01-19-15
De: H. G. Wells
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Doyle: The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard
- De: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrado por: Rupert Degas
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 37
With a horse between his thighs and a weapon in his grip, the dashing Brigadier Etienne Gerard, Colonel of the Hussars of Conflans, gallops through the Napoleonic campaigns on secret missions for his beloved Emperor and his country. He encounters danger and hair-breadth escapes but never loses his bravado, his eye for a pretty girl, his boastfulness or his enormous vanity.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Conan Doyle writing style of 1890 - 1910 ish
- De Paul McMahon en 04-02-14
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The Tarzan Duology of Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Tarzan of the Apes and The Return of Tarzan: A Pulp-Lit Annotated Edition
- De: Finn J.D. John, Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Narrado por: Finn J.D. John
- Duración: 16 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 79
In the wild, unexplored coastal jungles of West Africa lives a wild human boy named Tarzan, the adopted son of a tribe of fierce almost-human anthropoid apes - but in reality, the unknown heir of a wealthy and titled English noble family. Then one day, a small party of American treasure-seekers is marooned on Tarzan's beach, including a lovely Baltimore belle named Jane Porter.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Pulp Classic
- De Ronn McCarrick en 01-25-16
De: Finn J.D. John, y otros
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The Deerslayer
- De: James Fenimore Cooper
- Narrado por: Raymond Todd
- Duración: 20 h y 15 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 461
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 348
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 350
The Deerslayer is the first of the Leatherstocking Tales of James Fenimore Cooper. Here we meet Natty Bumppo as a young man living in upstate New York in the early 1740s. The action begins as Bumppo, called "Deerslayer", and his friend Hurry Harry approach Lake Glimmerglass, or Oswego, where the trapper Thomas Hutter lives with his daughters, the beautiful Judith and the feeble-minded Hetty. Hutter's floating log fort is attacked by Iroquois Indians, and the two frontiersmen join in the fight.
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3 out of 5 stars
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things were slower them
- De Bill en 05-08-05
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
- De: Ambrose Bierce
- Narrado por: John Michaels
- Duración: 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 42
"Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is to be received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him." This line was written by Ambrose Bierce in his short story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. Death by execution has historically been ritualized, perhaps to absolve those accomplishing the execution from guilt or blame.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interesting and Clever
- De ben scotti en 01-17-20
De: Ambrose Bierce
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On the Border with Crook
- De: John Gregory Bourke
- Narrado por: Traber Burns
- Duración: 20 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 72
John Gregory Bourke served General George Crook for 15 years and was his right-hand man. This work is an account of his time with the legendary US Army officer in the post-Civil War West. On the Border with Crook is a written recollection of Crook’s campaigns during the American Indian Wars. Bourke makes the American frontier come alive with his description. He also included descriptions not only of Crook and his fellow cavalrymen, but also of legendary Native American leaders. Bourke argues that Crook etched his name into the annals of American history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic Review of the Late Indian Wars
- De Ian K O'Malley en 08-07-20
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Marie
- De: H. Rider Haggard
- Narrado por: Shelly Frasier
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
Allan Quatermain, hero of King Solomon's mines, tells a moving tale of his first wife, the Dutch-born Marie Marais, and the adventures that were linked to her beautiful, tragic history. This moving story depicts the tumultuous political era of the 1830s, involving the Boers, French colonists and the Zulu tribe in the Cape colony of South Africa. Hate and suspicion run high between the home government and the Dutch subjects.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Confusing narration!
- De Browsing en 02-22-14
De: H. Rider Haggard
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The Oregon Trail
- Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life
- De: Francis Parkman
- Narrado por: Robert Morris
- Duración: 12 h y 42 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 177
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 155
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 154
This is the classic account of Francis Parkman’s rugged trip over the eastern part of the Oregon Trail with his cousin Quincy Adams Shaw in the spring and summer of 1846. They left St. Louis by steamboat and traveled on horseback, in company with guides and occasionally other travelers. They encountered storms and buffalo hunts, meeting Indians, soldiers, sportsmen, and emigrants.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Only halfway along the Oregon Trail
- De mrieke en 04-10-18
De: Francis Parkman
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The Oregon Trail
- De: Francis Parkman
- Narrado por: Frank Muller
- Duración: 6 h y 6 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,903
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,736
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,718
Francis Parkman's journal - written more than 150 years ago, in 1846 - provides an eye-witness account of one of the grandest adventures in American history. At age 23, the Harvard-educated Bostonian traveled the Rocky Mountains, living among the Dakota Sioux. In his journal, he captured the color, spirit, and perspective of his era, as well as the exuberant confidence that was the mark of his time. Frank Muller's dramatic reading brings this captivating record to life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Among the finest works of American literature
- De Brian P. Sullivan en 06-06-20
De: Francis Parkman
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Roughing It
- De: Mark Twain
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 15 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,208
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,081
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,073
In 1861, young Mark Twain found himself adrift as a tenderfoot in the Wild West. Roughing It is a hilarious record of his travels over a six-year period that comes to life with his inimitable mixture of reporting, social satire, and rollicking tall tales. Twain reflects on his scuffling years mining silver in Nevada, working at a Virginia City newspaper, being downandout in San Francisco, reporting for a newspaper from Hawaii, and more.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The wild humorist of the West
- De Tad Davis en 01-02-12
De: Mark Twain
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The Man-Eaters of Tsavo
- De: John Patterson
- Narrado por: Marco Mintaka
- Duración: 7 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 68
The true story of John Patterson in Tsalvo written by Patterson. In the book, lions are terrorizing the workers of the railroad near the turn of the century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great old fashioned story.
- De Amazon Customer en 10-13-21
De: John Patterson
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Empire of Shadows
- The Epic Story of Yellowstone
- De: George Black
- Narrado por: Jack de Golia
- Duración: 16 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 66
Empire of Shadows is the epic story of the conquest of Yellowstone, a landscape uninhabited, inaccessible, and shrouded in myth in the aftermath of the Civil War. In a radical reinterpretation of the 19th century West, George Black casts Yellowstone's creation as the culmination of three interwoven strands of history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Paints a big picture
- De Gail Thomalla en 07-13-21
De: George Black
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That Dark and Bloody River
- Chronicles of the Ohio River Valley
- De: Allan W. Eckert
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 35 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 250
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 212
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 212
They came on foot and by horseback, in wagons and on rafts, singly and by the score, restless, adventurous, enterprising, relentless, seeking a foothold on the future. European immigrants and American colonists, settlers and speculators, soldiers and missionaries, fugitives from justice and from despair-pioneers all, in the great and inexorable westward expansion defined at its heart by the majestic flow of the Ohio River. This is their story, a chronicle of monumental dimension, of resounding drama and impact set during a pivotal era in our history: the birth and growth of a nation.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating Look at a forgotten chapter of history
- De Chidwick en 07-25-19
De: Allan W. Eckert
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21 Months a Captive
- Rachel Plummer and the Fort Parker Massacre
- De: Rachel Plummer, James W. Parker
- Narrado por: Brian V. Hunt, Claire Dayton
- Duración: 3 h y 14 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 65
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 65
On May 19, 1836, Fort Parker in Texas was overwhelmed by a band of Comanche Indians. Some residents were brutally murdered, others taken prisoner. Among those captured was 11-year-old Cynthia Parker, who would remain with the Comanche for 24 years and give birth to famed Chief Quanah.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Surprisingly dull
- De Erik Johnsrud en 04-06-22
De: Rachel Plummer, y otros
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A Hero of Our Time
- De: Mikhail Lermontov
- Narrado por: Nicholas Boulton
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 90
Grigori Aleksandrovich Pechorin is an enigma: arrogant, cocky, melancholic, brave, cynic, romantic, loner, socialite, soldier, free soul, and yet, victim of the world, he eludes definition and remains a mystery to those who know him. Just who is he? And what does he hope to achieve? Evolving from first person to third person, and then into a diary, A Hero of Our Time takes on a variety of forms to interrogate Pechorin's cryptic character and his unusual philosophy, providing breathtaking descriptions of the Caucasus along the way.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Sarcastic Title
- De SmartShopper en 04-23-24
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Cowboys, Mountain Men, and Grizzly Bears
- Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of the Wild West
- De: Matthew P. Mayo
- Narrado por: James Romick
- Duración: 7 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 194
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 169
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 169
The romance of the West is built on an endless armature of shootouts and train robberies, cowboys versus Indians, white hat versus black, and everybody versus the wilderness. From John Colter's harrowing escape from the Blackfeet to Hugh Glass' six-week crawl to civilization after a grizzly attack, from Custer's final moments to John Wesley Powell's treacherous run through the rapids of the Grand Canyon, Cowboys, Mountain Men, and Grizzly Bears takes the top 50 wildest episodes in the region's history and presents them to the listener in one convenient, narrative-driven package.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Old West History
- De kutzkai en 01-19-23
De: Matthew P. Mayo
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Tarzan of the Apes
- Tarzan Series 1
- De: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Narrado por: Peter Silverleaf
- Duración: 9 h y 38 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:0 out of 5 stars 0
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Historia0 out of 5 stars 0
An adventure tale that has capture the ages! The first book in the legendary Tarzan series tells the story of John Clayton, born in the coastal jungles of Africa to a marooned couple from England, adopted as an infant by apes after they die, then raised in ignorance of his human heritage. Through sheer force of will Tarzan becomes king of the jungle and slowly learns of his origin. This is the exciting novel that began it all.