Custodians of Wonder
Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive
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Eliot Stein
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Eliot Stein has traveled the globe in search of remarkable people who are preserving some of our most extraordinary cultural rites. In Custodians of Wonder, Stein introduces listeners to a man saving the secret ingredient in Japan's 700-year-old original soy sauce recipe. In Italy, he learns how to make the world's rarest pasta from one of the only women alive who knows how to make it. And in India, he discovers a family rumored to make a mysterious metal mirror believed to reveal your truest self. From shadowing Scandinavia's last night watchman to meeting a 27th-generation West African griot to tracking down Cuba's last official cigar factory "readers" more than a century after they spearheaded the fight for Cuban independence, Stein uncovers an almost lost world.
Climbing through Peru's southern highlands, he encounters the last Inca bridge master who rebuilds a grass-woven bridge every year. He befriends a British beekeeper who maintains a touching custom of "telling the bees" important news. And he crunches through a German forest to find the official mailman of the only tree in the world with its own address—to which people from across the world have written in hopes of finding love. These are just some of the last custodians preserving age-old rites on the brink of disappearance against all odds. Let Eliot Stein introduce you to all of them.
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Contrary to the familiar story, medication did not improve during the Scientific Revolution. Yet somehow, between 1650 and 1740, the domestic female and the physician switched places in the cultural consciousness: she became the ineffective, potentially dangerous quack, he the knowledgeable, trustworthy expert.
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Becoming Little Shell
- A Landless Indian’s Journey Home
- De: Chris La Tray
- Narrado por: Chris La Tray
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 4
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Growing up in Montana, Chris La Tray always identified as Indian. Despite the fact that his father fiercely denied any connection, he found Indigenous people alluring, often recalling his grandmother's consistent mention of their Chippewa heritage. When La Tray attended his grandfather's funeral as a young man, he finally found himself surrounded by relatives who obviously were Indigenous. "Who were they?" he wondered, and "Why was I never allowed to know them?"
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful story about self discovery and familial history
- De Michelle en 02-18-25
De: Chris La Tray
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Windfall
- Viola MacMillan and Her Notorious Mining Scandal
- De: Tim Falconer
- Narrado por: Daniela Acitelli
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
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Viola MacMillan had it all: success, money, and respect. Influence, even. But in 1964, after three decades in the mining industry, one of the most fascinating women in Canadian business history was the central character in one of the country's most famous stock scandals. MacMillan, who started out as a prospector in the '30s, had developed lucrative mines and put together big deals. But she still wanted "a major discovery." Early in July 1964, shares in Windfall Oil and Mines, a company she and her husband controlled, traded for around 56 cents. Then one day, the stock took off.
De: Tim Falconer
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All the Lovers in the Night
- De: Mieko Kawakami
- Narrado por: Mirai
- Duración: 7 h y 44 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 108
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 82
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Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copyeditor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city where it is not easy to form new relationships, she has little regular contact with anyone other than her editor, Hijiri, a woman of the same age but with a very different disposition. When Fuyoku stops one day on a Tokyo street and notices her reflection in a storefront window, what she sees is a drab, awkward, and spiritless woman who has lacked the strength to change her life and decides to do something about it.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyable listen
- De Rose en 05-16-22
De: Mieko Kawakami
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Ingrained
- The Making of a Craftsman
- De: Callum Robinson
- Narrado por: Callum Robinson
- Duración: 8 h y 9 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 32
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The eldest son of a master woodworker, Callum Robinson spent his childhood surrounded by wood and trees, absorbing craft lessons in his father’s workshop. In time he became his father’s apprentice, helping to create exquisite bespoke objects. But eventually the need to find his own path led him to establish his own workshop and chase ever bigger and more commercial projects, until the devastating loss of one major job threatened to bring it all crashing down.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully Crafted Writing
- De Andrea en 12-26-24
De: Callum Robinson
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The End of Reality
- How Four Billionaires Are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto
- De: Jonathan Taplin
- Narrado por: Jason Culp
- Duración: 10 h y 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 54
At a time when the crises of income inequality, climate, and democracy are compounding to create epic wealth disparity and the prospect of a second American civil war, four billionaires are hyping schemes that are designed to divert our attention away from issues that really matter. Each scheme—the metaverse, cryptocurrency, space travel, and transhumanism—is an existential threat in moral, political, and economic terms. In The End of Reality¸ Jonathan Taplin provides perceptive insight into the personal backgrounds and cultural power of these billionaires.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A sobering look at the modem political landscape
- De Funsize Raddy en 02-16-25
De: Jonathan Taplin
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Pseudoscience
- An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them
- De: Lydia Kang MD, Nate Pedersen
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 9 h y 51 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 8
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From the easily disproved to the wildly speculative, to straight-up hucksterism, Pseudoscience is a romp through much more than bad science—it’s a light-hearted look into why we insist on believing in things such as Big Foot, astrology, and the existence of aliens. Did you know, for example, that you can tell a person’s future by touching their butt? Rumpology. It’s a thing, but not really. Or that Stanley Kubrick made a fake moon landing film for the US government? Except he didn’t. Or that spontaneous human combustion is real? It ain’t, but it can be explained scientifically.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Same old stories…waste of time to read.
- De Kelly en 05-20-25
De: Lydia Kang MD, y otros
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Jane Austen's Bookshelf
- A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend
- De: Rebecca Romney
- Narrado por: Rebecca Romney
- Duración: 11 h y 46 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 36
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Long before she was a rare book dealer, Rebecca Romney was a devoted reader of Jane Austen. She loved that Austen’s books took the lives of women seriously, explored relationships with wit and confidence, and always, allowed for the possibility of a happy ending. She read and reread them, often wishing Austen wrote just one more. But Austen wasn’t a lone genius. She wrote at a time of great experimentation for women writers—and clues about those women, and the exceptional books they wrote, are sprinkled like breadcrumbs throughout Austen’s work.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating!
- De pjb en 05-31-25
De: Rebecca Romney
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On the Hippie Trail
- Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer
- De: Rick Steves
- Narrado por: Rick Steves
- Duración: 4 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 163
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 149
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 149
In the 1970s, the ultimate trip for any backpacker was the storied “Hippie Trail” from Istanbul to Kathmandu. A 23-year old Rick Steves made the trek, and like a travel writer in training, he documented everything along the way: jumping off a moving train, making friends in Tehran, getting lost in Lahore, getting high for the first time in Herat, battling leeches in Pokhara, and much more. The experience ignited his love of travel and forever broadened his perspective on the world.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Nice but a bit tame
- De Carl en 02-16-25
De: Rick Steves
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Empire of Normality
- Neurodiversity and Capitalism
- De: Robert Chapman
- Narrado por: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Duración: 7 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7
Neurodiversity is on the rise. Awareness and diagnoses have exploded in recent years, but we are still missing a wider understanding of how we got here and why. Beyond simplistic narratives of normativity and difference, this groundbreaking book exposes the very myth of the 'normal' brain as a product of intensified capitalism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Book
- De K. Penrose en 04-14-25
De: Robert Chapman
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When We Were Real
- De: Daryl Gregory
- Narrado por: Ari Fliakos
- Duración: 12 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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JP and Dulin have been the best of friends for decades. When JP finds out his cancer has aggressively returned, Dulin decides it’s the perfect time for one last adventure: a week-long bus tour of North America’s Impossibles, the physics-defying glitches and geographic miracles that started cropping up seven years earlier—right after the Announcement that revealed our world to be merely a digital simulacrum. The outing, courtesy of Canterbury Trails Tours, promises the trip of a (not completely real) lifetime in a (not completely deluxe) coach.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Unreal Trek
- De Anonymous User en 05-15-25
De: Daryl Gregory
What stood out the most to me were things I didn't realize and take for granted.
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Awonderful uplifting book!
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The book itself is excellent, but I couldn't make it through the first chapter of the narrator. The narrator reads as though he is reading a particular distasteful essay. The pronunciation and flow is unnatural and stilted. The way you might read a legal document you didn't fully understand, or participate in a diction exercise.
I've honestly never dropped an audiobook before JUST because of the narrator. This is the first.
It's a shame. Stein's engaging stories deserve better. I'll pickup the ebook and finish it that way.
Fascinating Book. Awful Narration.
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