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Children of Ash and Elm
- A History of the Vikings
- By: Neil Price
- Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
- Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
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The Viking Age - from 750 to 1050 saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the wider world. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they ranged from eastern North America to the Asian steppe. But for centuries, the Vikings have been seen through the eyes of others, distorted to suit the tastes of medieval clerics and Elizabethan playwrights, Victorian imperialists, Nazis, and more. None of these appropriations capture the real Vikings, or the richness and sophistication of their culture.
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As a Child of Ash and Elm
- By Stuart Bailey on 02-10-20
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Children of Ash and Elm
- A History of the Vikings
- Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
- Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 25-08-20
- Language: English
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Apollo
- By: Charles Murray, Catherine Bly Cox
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
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Apollo is the behind-the-scenes story of an epic achievement. Based on exhaustive research that included many exclusive interviews, Apollo tells how America went from a standing start to a landing on the moon at a speed that now seems impossible. It describes the unprecedented engineering challenges that had to be overcome to create the mammoth Saturn V and the facilities to launch it. It takes you into the tragedy of the fire on Apollo 1, the first descent to the lunar surface, and the rescue of Apollo 13.
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Inspiring and fun
- By David on 31-08-19
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Endurance
- Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
- By: Alfred Lansing
- Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
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You'll be awe-inspired by the heroic efforts of the crew of the Endurance, a ship that battled its way for six weeks through thousands of miles of pack ice while ironically only a day's sail from its destination.
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As soon as I'd finished it I started it again
- By Paul on 17-01-07
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Endurance
- Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
- Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 23-05-00
- Language: English
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Curious Chronicles
- A Journey through Uncommon Knowledge and Strange Facts
- By: K. Connors
- Narrated by: Anthony Ziello
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
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Dive into a captivating journey through the most bizarre and astonishing aspects of our world with "Curious Chronicles: A Journey Through Uncommon Knowledge and Strange Facts." This book isn't just another item for your collection; it's a gateway to stories so outlandish and incredible, you'll have to remind yourself they're all true.
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Curious Chronicles
- A Journey through Uncommon Knowledge and Strange Facts
- Narrated by: Anthony Ziello
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
- Release date: 01-08-24
- Language: English
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Wonders in the Deep
- Extraordinary Shipwreck Discoveries from Spanish Gold to Shackleton's Bible
- By: Mensun Bound, Mark Frary
- Narrated by: Michael Fenner
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
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In Wonders in the Deep Mensun Bound, the renowned archaeologist who was the Director of Exploration on the team that discovered Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance, argues that the history of the world is as much about maritime exploration and trade as it is about what happens on land. Using the many treasures Bound has discovered at the bottom of the sea and working with journalist Mark Frary, he sets out to write a maritime history of the world from 3000 BC to the present.
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Wonders in the Deep
- Extraordinary Shipwreck Discoveries from Spanish Gold to Shackleton's Bible
- Narrated by: Michael Fenner
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 26-09-24
- Language: English
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The Worst Journey in the World
- By: Apsley Cherry-Garrard
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 20 hrs and 6 mins
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This gripping story of courage and achievement is the account of Robert Falcon Scott's last fateful expedition to the Antarctic, as told by surviving expedition member Apsley Cherry-Garrard. Cherry-Garrard, whom Scott lauded as a tough, efficient member of the team, tells of the journey from England to South Africa and southward to the ice floes. From there began the unforgettable polar journey across a forbidding and inhospitable region.
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Takes your breath away
- By Bettym on 17-06-13
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The Worst Journey in the World
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 20 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 29-04-04
- Language: English
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Moon Shot
- The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings
- By: Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton, Jay Barbree, and others
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
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On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, and the space race was born. Desperate to beat the Russians into space, NASA put together a crew of the nation's most daring test pilots: the seven men who were to lead America to the moon. The first into space was Alan Shepard; the last was Deke Slayton, whose irregular heartbeat kept him grounded until 1975. They spent the 1960s at the forefront of NASA's effort to conquer space, and Moon Shot is their inside account of what many call the 20th century's greatest feat - landing humans on another world.
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Amazing....until the final three chapters
- By Wayne O'Brien on 19-10-20
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Moon Shot
- The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 07-05-19
- Language: English
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Eden Undone
- A True Story of Sex, Murder and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II
- By: Abbott Kahler
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
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Using never-before-published archives, Abbott Kahler weaves a chilling, stranger-than-fiction tale worthy of Agatha Christie. Set against the backdrop of the Great Depression and the march to World War II, with a mystery as alluring and curious as the Galápagos itself, Eden Undone explores the universal and timeless desire to seek utopia–and lays bare the human fallibility that, inevitably, renders such a quest doomed.
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Eden Undone
- A True Story of Sex, Murder and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 26-09-24
- Language: English
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Explorers
- A New History
- By: Matthew Lockwood
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 5 hrs
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Adventurers from every corner of the globe search for the unknown and try to understand it, remaking the world and themselves in the process. Exploration is for everyone who sets off into the unknown. It is the inheritance of all.
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Explorers
- A New History
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 5 hrs
- Release date: 29-10-24
- Language: English
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An Unsung Hero
- Tom Crean – Antarctic Survivor
- By: Michael Smith
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
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Tom Crean was the farmer’s son from Kerry who sailed on three major expeditions to the unknown Antarctic over a century ago. He served with both Captain Robert Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton, spent longer on the ice than either and outlived them both. But Tom Crean returned to Ireland and never spoke about his exploits, taking his incredible story to the grave - until the publication of An Unsung Hero, which unearthed his story and saw him rightfully placed amongst the annals of the great explorers.
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what a life, what a story!
- By Moshe Cohen on 04-01-22
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An Unsung Hero
- Tom Crean – Antarctic Survivor
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 08-08-21
- Language: English
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The Sea Wolves
- A History of the Vikings
- By: Lars Brownworth
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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In AD 793 Norse warriors struck the English isle of Lindisfarne and laid waste to it. Wave after wave of Norse "sea wolves" followed in search of plunder, land, or a glorious death in battle. Much of the British Isles fell before their swords, and the continental capitals of Paris and Aachen were sacked in turn. Turning east, they swept down the uncharted rivers of central Europe, captured Kiev, and clashed with mighty Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
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More history they didn't teach you at school
- By Turquelblue on 24-02-16
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The Sea Wolves
- A History of the Vikings
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 23-06-15
- Language: English
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The Mapmaker's Wife
- A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon
- By: Robert Whitaker
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
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In the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to measure the precise shape of the earth. Like Lewis and Clark's exploration of the American West, their incredible mission revealed the mysteries of a little-known continent to a world hungry for discovery. Scaling 16,000-foot mountains in the Peruvian Andes, and braving jaguars, pumas, insects, and vampire bats in the jungle, the scientists barely completed their mission.
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Mind-boggling Adventure.
- By Pamela on 11-08-19
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The Mapmaker's Wife
- A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 30-07-19
- Language: English
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The Great Polar Fraud
- Cook, Peary, and Byrd - How Three American Heroes Duped the World into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole
- By: Anthony Galvin
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
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The Great Polar Fraud explores the history of the three men who claimed the pole, their claims, and the subsequent doubts of those claims, effectively rewriting the history of polar exploration and putting Amundsen center stage as the rightful conqueror of both poles.
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Wow
- By Damian Rees on 28-02-22
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The Great Polar Fraud
- Cook, Peary, and Byrd - How Three American Heroes Duped the World into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 18-11-14
- Language: English
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Sherpa
- Stories of Life and Death from the Forgotten Guardians of Everest
- By: Ankit Babu Adhikari, Pradeep Bashyal
- Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
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Amid all the foreign adventurers that throng to Nepal to scale the world's highest peaks, there exists a small tribe of mountain people at the foothills of Himalayas. Sherpa tells their story. It's the story of endeavour and survival at the roof of the world. The story dives into their culture and tells of their existence at the edge of life and death. It traces their story pre- and post-mountaineering revolution, their evolution as climbing crusaders with never previously published stories from the most notable and incredible Sherpas of the last 50 years.
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Sherpa
- Stories of Life and Death from the Forgotten Guardians of Everest
- Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 28-07-22
- Language: English
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The Lost City of Z
- A Legendary British Explorer's Deadly Quest to Uncover the Secrets of the Amazon
- By: David Grann
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
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Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett was among the last of a legendary breed of British explorers. For years he explored the Amazon and came to believe that its jungle concealed a large, complex civilization, like El Dorado. Obsessed with its discovery, he christened it the City of Z. In 1925, Fawcett headed into the wilderness with his son Jack, vowing to make history. They vanished without a trace. For the next eighty years, hordes of explorers plunged into the jungle, trying to find evidence of Fawcett's party or Z. Some died from disease and starvation; others simply disappeared.
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A bit disappointing
- By CherryMc on 10-06-23
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The Lost City of Z
- A Legendary British Explorer's Deadly Quest to Uncover the Secrets of the Amazon
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 12-05-23
- Language: English
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Captain James Cook
- By: Rob Mundle
- Narrated by: Paul English
- Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
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Captain James Cook is one of the greatest maritime explorers of all time. Over three remarkable voyages of discovery into the Pacific in the latter part of the 18th century, Cook unravelled the oldest mystery surrounding the existence of Terra Australis Incognita - the Great South Land. He became the first explorer to circumnavigate New Zealand and establish that it was two main islands; discover the Hawaiian Islands for the British Empire; and left an enduring legacy.
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Fantastic
- By DNix on 19-09-18
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Captain James Cook
- Narrated by: Paul English
- Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 13-09-18
- Language: English
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A World Lit Only by Fire
- The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance Portrait of an Age
- By: William Manchester
- Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
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From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages. In handsomely crafted prose and with the grace and authority of his extraordinary gift for narrative history, William Manchester leads us from a civilization tottering on the brink of collapse to the grandeur of its rebirth, the Renaissance.
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Gets better
- By markw on 02-04-07
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A World Lit Only by Fire
- The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance Portrait of an Age
- Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 16-03-07
- Language: English
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River Kings
- A New History of Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads
- By: Cat Jarman
- Narrated by: Cat Jarman
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
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Dr Cat Jarman is a bioarchaeologist, specialising in forensic techniques to research the paths of Vikings who came to rest in British soil. By examining teeth that are now more than 1,000 years old, she can determine childhood diet and thereby where a person was likely born. With radiocarbon dating, she can ascertain a death date down to the range of a few years. And her research offers new visions of the likely roles of women and children in Viking culture.
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Well researched book written in an engaging style
- By Karen on 20-08-21
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River Kings
- A New History of Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads
- Narrated by: Cat Jarman
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 18-02-21
- Language: English
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The Adventures of the Mountain Men
- True Tales of Hunting, Trapping, Fighting, and Survival
- By: Stephen Brennan
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
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The “mountain men” were the hunters and trappers who fiercely strode the Rocky Mountains in the early to mid-1800s. They braved the elements in search of the skins of beavers and other wild animals, to sell or barter for goods. The lifestyle of the mountain men could be harsh, existing as they did among animals, and spending most of their days and nights living and camping out in the great unexplored wilds of the Rockies.
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A MUST FOR ALL ADVENTURE LOVERS!!
- By Jenna in Spain on 08-07-13
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The Adventures of the Mountain Men
- True Tales of Hunting, Trapping, Fighting, and Survival
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 28-02-13
- Language: English
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth
- The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
- By: Margalit Fox
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
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In the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative. When famed archaeologist Arthur Evans unearthed the ruins of a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization that flowered on Crete 1,000 years before Greece's Classical Age, he discovered a cache of ancient tablets, Europe's earliest written records.
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Hidden History Revealed.
- By Xeviphract on 15-05-24
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth
- The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 23-09-13
- Language: English
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