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Narrado por:
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Trevor Nichols
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Katinka Wolf
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De:
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Nicolas Soames
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Here are the stories of nine people whose energy, imagination, courage, and determination changed the world. From Christopher Columbus who set off into unknown seas in a small ship in the 15th century, to a young girl, Anne Frank, caught in the turmoil of the 20th, who wrote a remarkable diary while in hiding in Amsterdam during the Second World War. Their personalities and their achievements make them heroes and heroines for our time also.
This program features short biographies of Christopher Columbus, Elizabeth I, William Shakespeare, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Lord Nelson, Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Abraham Lincoln, and Anne Frank.
Download the accompanying reference guide.(P)1999 NAXOS AudioBooks Ltd.;©1999 NAXOS AudioBooks Ltd.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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Abraham Lincoln
- The Prairie Years and The War Years
- De: Carl Sandburg
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 44 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,696
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Originally published in six volumes, which sold more than one million copies, Carl Sandburg’s Abraham Lincoln was praised as the most noteworthy historical biography of Sandburg’s generation. He later distilled this monumental work into one volume that critics and readers alike consider his greatest work of nonfiction, as well as the most distinguished, authoritative biography of Lincoln ever published.
Growing up in an Illinois prairie town, Sandburg listened to stories of old-timers who had known Lincoln. By the time this single-volume edition was competed, he had spent a lifetime studying, researching, and writing about our 16th president.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A moving tale of a very human man
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The Civil War: A Narrative, Volume I, Fort Sumter to Perryville
- De: Shelby Foote
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 42 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,257
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The Civil War: A Narrative, Volume 1 begins one of the most remarkable works of history ever fashioned. All the great battles are here, of course, from Bull Run through Shiloh, the Seven Days Battles, and Antietam, but so are the smaller ones: Ball's Bluff, Fort Donelson, Pea Ridge, Island Ten, New Orleans, and Monitor versus Merrimac.
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5 out of 5 stars
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OUTSTANDING! I'M PROUD TO BE A BLACK AMERICAN!!
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De: Shelby Foote
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The Dawn Watch
- Joseph Conrad in a Global World
- De: Maya Jasanoff
- Narrado por: Laurel Lekfow
- Duración: 10 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 113
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 96
Migration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism and nationalism, and a communications revolution: These forces shaped Joseph Conrad's destiny at the dawn of the 20th century. In this brilliant new interpretation of one of the great voices in modern literature, Maya Jasanoff reveals Conrad as a prophet of globalization. As an immigrant from Poland to England, and in travels from Malaya to Congo to the Caribbean, Conrad navigated an interconnected world and captured it in a literary oeuvre of extraordinary depth.
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4 out of 5 stars
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History is like therapy for the present
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Little House in the Big Woods
- Little House, Book 1
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- Narrado por: Cherry Jones
- Duración: 3 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 4,329
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Told from four-year-old Laura's point of view, this story begins in 1871 in a little log cabin on the edge of the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Laura lives in the little house with her pa, her ma, her sisters Mary and Carrie, and their trusty dog, Jack. Pioneer life is sometimes hard for the family, since they must grow or catch all their own food as they get ready for the cold winter. But it is also exciting as Laura and her family celebrate Christmas with homemade toys and treats, do the spring planting, bring in the harvest, and make their first trip into town.
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GRANDMA WAS JIGGING
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The Door in the Wall
- De: Marguerite De Angeli
- Narrado por: Roger Rees
- Duración: 2 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,283
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Set in the 14th century, the classic story of one boy's personal heroism when he loses the use of his legs.
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Character and history
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
- De: Scott O'Dell
- Narrado por: Tantoo Cardinal
- Duración: 3 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,494
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,907
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,904
Island of the Blue Dolphins is the remarkable story of a strange and beautiful Indian girl who lives a serene and courageous life as the solitary survivor on an island off the California coast. Left behind when the rest of her tribe fled, she waits, year after year, for a ship to come for her. She fights for her very survival, building a shelter, hunting for food, and making weapons to stave off her enemies, the wild dogs who took her brother.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Rich in cultural details and extremely well read.
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De: Scott O'Dell
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Abraham Lincoln
- The Prairie Years and The War Years
- De: Carl Sandburg
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 44 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,696
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,522
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,522
Originally published in six volumes, which sold more than one million copies, Carl Sandburg’s Abraham Lincoln was praised as the most noteworthy historical biography of Sandburg’s generation. He later distilled this monumental work into one volume that critics and readers alike consider his greatest work of nonfiction, as well as the most distinguished, authoritative biography of Lincoln ever published.
Growing up in an Illinois prairie town, Sandburg listened to stories of old-timers who had known Lincoln. By the time this single-volume edition was competed, he had spent a lifetime studying, researching, and writing about our 16th president.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A moving tale of a very human man
- De Sohachi en 06-25-16
De: Carl Sandburg
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The Civil War: A Narrative, Volume I, Fort Sumter to Perryville
- De: Shelby Foote
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 42 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,257
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,962
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,955
The Civil War: A Narrative, Volume 1 begins one of the most remarkable works of history ever fashioned. All the great battles are here, of course, from Bull Run through Shiloh, the Seven Days Battles, and Antietam, but so are the smaller ones: Ball's Bluff, Fort Donelson, Pea Ridge, Island Ten, New Orleans, and Monitor versus Merrimac.
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5 out of 5 stars
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OUTSTANDING! I'M PROUD TO BE A BLACK AMERICAN!!
- De The Louligan en 08-22-13
De: Shelby Foote
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The Dawn Watch
- Joseph Conrad in a Global World
- De: Maya Jasanoff
- Narrado por: Laurel Lekfow
- Duración: 10 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 113
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 96
Migration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism and nationalism, and a communications revolution: These forces shaped Joseph Conrad's destiny at the dawn of the 20th century. In this brilliant new interpretation of one of the great voices in modern literature, Maya Jasanoff reveals Conrad as a prophet of globalization. As an immigrant from Poland to England, and in travels from Malaya to Congo to the Caribbean, Conrad navigated an interconnected world and captured it in a literary oeuvre of extraordinary depth.
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4 out of 5 stars
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History is like therapy for the present
- De Darwin8u en 01-13-18
De: Maya Jasanoff
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Little House in the Big Woods
- Little House, Book 1
- De: Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Narrado por: Cherry Jones
- Duración: 3 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 4,329
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,497
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 3,484
Told from four-year-old Laura's point of view, this story begins in 1871 in a little log cabin on the edge of the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Laura lives in the little house with her pa, her ma, her sisters Mary and Carrie, and their trusty dog, Jack. Pioneer life is sometimes hard for the family, since they must grow or catch all their own food as they get ready for the cold winter. But it is also exciting as Laura and her family celebrate Christmas with homemade toys and treats, do the spring planting, bring in the harvest, and make their first trip into town.
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5 out of 5 stars
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GRANDMA WAS JIGGING
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 02-16-17
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The Door in the Wall
- De: Marguerite De Angeli
- Narrado por: Roger Rees
- Duración: 2 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,283
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,027
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,033
Set in the 14th century, the classic story of one boy's personal heroism when he loses the use of his legs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Character and history
- De ColinBeth en 01-16-15
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
- De: Scott O'Dell
- Narrado por: Tantoo Cardinal
- Duración: 3 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,494
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,907
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,904
Island of the Blue Dolphins is the remarkable story of a strange and beautiful Indian girl who lives a serene and courageous life as the solitary survivor on an island off the California coast. Left behind when the rest of her tribe fled, she waits, year after year, for a ship to come for her. She fights for her very survival, building a shelter, hunting for food, and making weapons to stave off her enemies, the wild dogs who took her brother.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Rich in cultural details and extremely well read.
- De TOJ en 07-23-09
De: Scott O'Dell
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John Adams: Independence Forever
- Heroes of History
- De: Janet Benge, Geoff Benge
- Narrado por: Tim Gregory
- Duración: 5 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 35
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 27
John's heart sank. A British man-of-war was plowing through the frigid waters of the Atlantic Ocean in hot pursuit of his ship. If the British caught up with the Boston, John would be hanged. He had proudly signed the Declaration of Independence and was carrying the colonies' secret papers. He couldn't be captured now! Growing up in Massachusetts, longing to be a farmer like his father, John Adams never imagined the vital role he would one day play in the transformation of the colonies into an independent American nation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Freedom!
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De: Janet Benge, y otros
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The Pioneers
- The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: John Bedford Lloyd
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 5,107
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,413
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4,386
The number one New York Times best seller by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that's "as resonant today as ever" (The Wall Street Journal) - the settling of the Northwest Territory by courageous pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would define our country.
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5 out of 5 stars
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i would prefer david reading it
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The Greater Journey
- Americans in Paris
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann
- Duración: 16 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,437
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,846
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,845
The Greater Journey is the enthralling, inspiring—and until now, untold—story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others of high aspiration who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, ambitious to excel in their work.
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5 out of 5 stars
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McCullough takes it to the next level
- De gregory m loyd en 07-12-11
De: David McCullough
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The Immortal Irishman
- The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero
- De: Timothy Egan
- Narrado por: Gerard Doyle
- Duración: 14 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,453
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,114
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,095
The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told through the improbable life of one man. A dashing young orator during the Great Famine of the 1840s, in which a million of his Irish countrymen died, Thomas Francis Meagher led a failed uprising against British rule, for which he was banished to a Tasmanian prison colony. He escaped and six months later was heralded in the streets of New York - the revolutionary hero, back from the dead, at the dawn of the great Irish immigration to America.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Yes, but....
- De Dale and Carol en 04-01-16
De: Timothy Egan
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Mayflower
- A Story of Courage, Community, and War
- De: Nathaniel Philbrick
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,927
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,115
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,107
From the perilous ocean crossing to the shared bounty of the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrim settlement of New England has become enshrined as our most sacred national myth. Yet, as best-selling author Nathaniel Philbrick reveals in his spellbinding new book, the true story of the Pilgrims is much more than the well-known tale of piety and sacrifice; it is a 55-year epic that is at once tragic, heroic, exhilarating, and profound.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating book about a little-understood time
- De John M en 02-04-07
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King Leopold's Ghost
- A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
- De: Adam Hochschild
- Narrado por: Geoffrey Howard
- Duración: 12 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,995
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,655
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,656
In the late 1890s, Edmund Dene Morel, a young British shipping company agent, noticed something strange about the cargoes of his company's ships as they arrived from and departed for the Congo. Incoming ships were crammed with valuable ivory and rubber. Outbound ships carried little more than soldiers and firearms. Correctly concluding that only slave labor could account for these cargoes, Morel almost singlehandedly made this slave-labor regime the premier human rights story in the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating
- De Edith en 01-20-11
De: Adam Hochschild
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River of the Gods
- Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
- De: Candice Millard
- Narrado por: Paul Michael
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,553
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,357
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,352
For millennia the location of the Nile River’s headwaters was shrouded in mystery. In the 19th century, there was a frenzy of interest in ancient Egypt. At the same time, European powers sent off waves of explorations intended to map the unknown corners of the globe—and extend their colonial empires.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Good book by Millard, narrator ruined it
- De Tally D Lykins en 05-25-22
De: Candice Millard
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The Black Count
- Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
- De: Tom Reiss
- Narrado por: Paul Michael
- Duración: 13 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,126
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,909
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,910
General Alex Dumas is a man almost unknown today, yet his story is strikingly familiar—because his son, the novelist Alexandre Dumas, used his larger-than-life feats as inspiration for such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The story behind the greatest novelist of all time
- De Melinda en 01-13-13
De: Tom Reiss
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The Double Life of Pocahontas
- De: Jean Fritz
- Narrado por: Melissa Hughes
- Duración: 2 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 94
Native American princess or British celebrity? Pocahontas played a pivotal role in the New World, but the powerful pull between her tribe and the new settlement on Virginia's shores took its toll.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Who is Pocahontas?
- De KBC en 10-25-20
De: Jean Fritz
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Caribbean
- A Novel
- De: James A. Michener
- Narrado por: Alexander Adams
- Duración: 32 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 633
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 561
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 560
Caribbean packs 700 dramatic years into a tale teeming with revolution and romance, authentic characters and thunderous destinies. Through absorbing, magnificent prose, Michener captures the essence of the islands in all of their awe-inspiring scope and wonder.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The last paragraph!
- De Tim Wilson en 01-21-17
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Wolf: The Lives of Jack London
- De: James L. Haley
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 12 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 253
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 213
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 214
Jack London was born a working-class, fatherless San Franciscan in 1876. In his youth, he was a boundlessly energetic adventurer on the bustling west coast—by and by playing the role of hobo, sailor, and oyster pirate. From his vantage point at the margins of Gilded Age America, he witnessed such iniquity and abuses that he became a life long socialist and advocate for reform. Award-winning western historian James L. Haley paints a vivid portrait of London—adventurer, social reformer, and the most well-known American writer of his generation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Book
- De Edward Dale Jacknitsky en 07-19-10
De: James L. Haley
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Jack London
- An American Life
- De: Earle Labor
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 16 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 47
Jack London was born a working class, fatherless Californian in 1876. In his youth, he was a boundlessly energetic adventurer on the bustling West Coast - an oyster pirate, a hobo, a sailor, and a prospector by turns. He spent his brief life rapidly accumulating the experiences that would inform his acclaimed best-selling books The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea-Wolf.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Glad I chose this
- De SherH en 04-14-19
De: Earle Labor
Reseñas editoriales
The stories of nine men and women whose lives changed the course of history are told in this beautifully written and produced program for young people. Trevor Nichols reads the stories of Columbus, Shakespeare, Lord Nelson, Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln. Katinka Wolf, herself a fluent Dutch speaker and Anne Frank expert, tells the story of Anne Frank, as well as those of Elizabeth I, Mozart and Florence Nightingale. The script includes Briticisms that might be alien to American listeners, and the Mozart segment contains language that some parents may find objectionable, but the quality and the educational value of this production outweigh any negatives.
Good subject, but way too much personal opinion
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