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    • Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun
    • By: Jonathan Clements
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 316 ratings
    • This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion....

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    • Search and Rescue in the White Mountains
    • By: Sandy Stott
    • Narrated by: Kyle Tait
    • Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • Sandy Stott, the "Accidents" editor at the journal of the Appalachian Mountain Club, delivers both a history and a celebration of the search and rescue workers who save countless lives in the White Mountains....

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    • Travels with an African Soldier
    • By: Alexandra Fuller
    • Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 05-20-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 235 ratings
    • When Alexandra ("Bo") Fuller was home in Zambia a few years ago, visiting her parents for Christmas, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known for being a "tough bugger"....

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    • The Story of the First Trip Afoot Through the Grand Canyon
    • By: Colin Fletcher
    • Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
    • Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • In 1963 Colin Fletcher became the first man to walk the length of Grand canyon, below the Rim. It began with a dream, when he and a friend detoured from a cross-country trip to take a hurried look at the great natural wonder....

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    • A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
    • By: Michael Booth
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 174 ratings
    • There is an ancient Chinese proverb that states, "Two tigers cannot share the same mountain." However, in East Asia, there are three tigers on that mountain: China, Japan, and Korea, and they have a long history of turmoil and tension with each other....

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    • A Child, an Elder, and the Light from an Ancient Sky
    • By: Kent Nerburn
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 347 ratings
    • A haunting dream that will not relent pulls author Kent Nerburn back into the hidden world of Native America, where dreams have meaning, animals are teachers, and the "old ones" still have powers beyond our understanding....

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    • Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
    • By: Michael Booth
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 04-22-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 668 ratings
    • In The Almost Nearly Perfect People, Michael Booth explains who the Scandinavians are, how they differ and why, and what their quirks and foibles are....

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    • Life on the Rue Des Martyrs
    • By: Elaine Sciolino
    • Narrated by: Elaine Sciolino
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 11-24-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 524 ratings
    • While many cities suffer from the leveling effects of globalization, the rue des Martyrs maintains its distinct allure....

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    • Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
    • By: Daniel L. Everett
    • Narrated by: Daniel Everett
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 405 ratings
    • Daniel Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the Pirahã in 1977 - with his wife and three young children - intending to convert them....

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    • Dispatches from a Precarious State
    • By: Declan Walsh
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times's most distinguished international correspondents. His 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....

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    • Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture (Roads & Kingdoms Presents, Book 1)
    • By: Matt Goulding
    • Narrated by: Will Damron
    • Series: Roads & Kingdoms Presents, Book 1
    • Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • An innovative new take on the travel guide, Rice, Noodle, Fish decodes Japan's extraordinary food culture through a mix of in-depth narrative and insider advice....

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    • Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
    • By: Robert D. Kaplan
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 142 ratings
    • Kaplan explores the history and culture of the only country in the West where the leading intellectuals have been right-wing rather than left-wing....

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    • The Impossible Country
    • By: Daniel Tudor
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 137 ratings
    • South Korea's amazing rise from the ashes: the inside story of an economic, political, and cultural phenomenon....

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    • An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade. New Preface and Epilogue with Updates on Economic Issues and Main Characters 2nd Edition
    • By: Pietra Rivoli
    • Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • Using a simple, everyday T-shirt as a lens through which to explore the business, economic, moral, and political complexities of globalization in a historical context, Travels encapsulates a number of complex issues into a single identifiable object that will strike a chord ....

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    • Sitting at the Enemies' Table - Our Journey Through the Middle East
    • By: Ted Dekker, Carl Medearis
    • Narrated by: George K. Wilson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 227 ratings
    • Is it really possible to love one's enemies? That's the question that sparked a fascinating and, at times, terrifying journey into the heart of the Middle East....

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    • By: Rick Steves
    • Narrated by: Rick Steves
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 400 ratings
    • Change the world one trip at a time. In this illuminating collection of stories and lessons from the road, acclaimed travel writer Rick Steves shares a powerful message that resonates....

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    • Travels with My Elders
    • By: Ben Aitken
    • Narrated by: Ben Aitken
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • When Ben Aitken learnt that his gran had enjoyed a four-night holiday including four three-course dinners, four cooked breakfasts, four games of bingo, a pair of excursions, 16 pints of lager and luxury return coach travel, all for a hundred pounds, he thought, that's the life....

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    • By: Clint Hill, Lisa McCubbin Hill
    • Narrated by: Clint Hill
    • Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 209 ratings
    • From the authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller Mrs. Kennedy and Me comes another New York Times bestseller, which reveals never-before-told stories of Secret Service Agent Clint Hill’s travels with Jacqueline Kennedy through Europe, Asia, and South America.

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    • A History
    • By: James Gleick
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 09-27-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 509 ratings
    • From James Gleick, a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself....

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