Tourism History

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    • By: Apsley Cherry-Garrard
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 20 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 29-04-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 301 ratings
    • 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....

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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: 22-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 151 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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    • A New History of the World
    • By: Peter Frankopan
    • Narrated by: Mike Grady
    • Length: 25 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 28-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 180 ratings
    • For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west—in the New World of the Americas. Today, it is the east which calls out to those in search of adventure and riches....

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    • The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917
    • By: Sir Ernest Shackleton
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 23-03-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • As war clouds darkened over Europe in 1914, a party led by Sir Ernest Shackleton set out to make the first crossing of the entire Antarctic continent via the Pole....

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    • A Round the World Bicycle Adventure
    • By: Barbara Savage
    • Narrated by: Nan McNamara
    • Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 12-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • This is the story of Barbara and Larry Savage's sometimes dangerous, often zany, but ultimately rewarding 23,000-mile global bicycle odyssey, which took them through 25 countries in two years. Miles from Nowhere is an adventure not to be missed....

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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: 14-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 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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    • True Tales of Hunting, Trapping, Fighting, and Survival
    • By: Stephen Brennan
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 28-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Experience the true “great outdoors” through the stories of the men who lived it.....

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    • Reflections on Then and Now
    • By: Peter Mayle
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 26-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • A celebration of 25 years of Provençal living - of lessons learned and changes observed - with his final book, Peter Mayle has crafted a lasting love letter to his adopted home, marked by his signature warmth, wit, and humor....

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    • Inside India's Incredible Capital
    • By: Dave Prager
    • Narrated by: Sanjiv Jhaveri
    • Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Delhi exists in a kind of quantum state: In Delhi, all things are true at once. When the Big Apple no longer felt big enough, Dave and Jenny moved to a city of 16 million people and, seemingly, twice that many horns honking at once....

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    • A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor
    • By: David L. Mearns
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 26-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • The Shipwreck Hunter chronicles David L. Mearns' most intriguing finds. It describes the extraordinary techniques used, the detailed research, and the courage required to find a wreck thousands of feet beneath the sea, plus the moving human stories that lie behind these tragedies....

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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: 09-02-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 23 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: 25-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • South Korea's amazing rise from the ashes: the inside story of an economic, political, and cultural phenomenon....

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    • By: Bill Bryson
    • Narrated by: William Roberts
    • Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 16-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,418 ratings
    • In Made in America, Bryson de-mythologizes his native land....

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    • By: Neil Oliver
    • Narrated by: Neil Oliver
    • Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 16-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 152 ratings
    • From much loved historian Neil Oliver comes a whole new insight on our past, told through 100 remarkable, unforgettable stories....

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    • By: Michael Palin
    • Narrated by: Michael Palin
    • Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 15-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • In March 2022, Michael Palin travelled the length of the River Tigris through Iraq to get a sense of what life is like in a region of the world that once formed the cradle of civilisation, but that in recent times has witnessed turmoil and appalling bloodshed....

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    • By: Christopher Winn
    • Narrated by: Timothy Bentinck
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 443 ratings
    • Best-selling author Christopher Winn takes us on a captivating journey around London to discover the unknown tales of our capital's history....

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    • Travels Through the Paintbox
    • By: Victoria Finlay
    • Narrated by: Victoria Finlay
    • Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • On a journey that takes her from Afghanistan, to the Australian outback, to ancient caves in China, and the saffron harvest in Spain, Victoria Finlay gives an extraordinary and compelling account of the history of colour....

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    • A Cultural and Literary Guide to Paris of the 1920s
    • By: Arlen J. Hansen
    • Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
    • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 24-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Paris has long been a storied center of art and culture, and of romance, but in the 1920s its magnetism was especially irresistible....

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    • An Accidental War Correspondent in Yemen
    • By: Laura Kasinof
    • Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
    • Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 28-10-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Laura Kasinof studied Arabic in college and moved to Yemen a few years later - after a friend at a late-night party in Washington, DC, recommended the country as a good place to work....

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