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The Viking Age
- A History from Beginning to End
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
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From the late eighth century to somewhere around the middle of the 11th century, the history of Europe was dominated by the people who have become known as the Vikings. The Vikings were among the first global explorers who established territory that stretched from North America in the west to Constantinople in the east, and from the frigid wastes of the Arctic in the north to the warm shores of the Mediterranean Sea in the south.
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The Viking Age
- A History from Beginning to End
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Series: Ancient Civilizations
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Release date: 02-08-23
- Language: English
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The Day the World Discovered the Sun
- An Extraordinary Story of Scientific Adventure and the Race to Track the Transit of Venus
- By: Mark Anderson
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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On June 3, 1769, the planet Venus briefly passed across the face of the sun in a cosmic alignment that occurs twice per century. Anticipation of the rare celestial event sparked a worldwide competition among aspiring global superpowers, each sending their own scientific expeditions to far-flung destinations to time the planet’s trek.
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The Day the World Discovered the Sun
- An Extraordinary Story of Scientific Adventure and the Race to Track the Transit of Venus
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 31-08-12
- Language: English
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A Gentleman from Japan
- The Untold Story of an Incredible Journey from Asia to Queen Elizabeth’s Court
- By: Thomas Lockley
- Narrated by: Gary Furlong
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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An incredible sea story that turns the Age of Exploration on its head, following the first Japanese man to set foot on North America and England. On November 12, 1588, five young Asian men—led by a twenty-one-year-old called Christopher—traveled up the River Thames to meet Queen Elizabeth I...
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A Gentleman from Japan
- The Untold Story of an Incredible Journey from Asia to Queen Elizabeth’s Court
- Narrated by: Gary Furlong
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 21-05-24
- Language: English
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Mrs Gargantua
- Reports from Cuba
- By: J.S. Tennant
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Winner of the 2020 Michael Jacobs Prize; shortlisted for the Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer's Award 'A treasure chest full of rare and exquisitely rendered stories' JON LEE ANDERSON 'An absolutely thrilling, erudite journey through the Cuban landscape' CHLOE ARIDJIS A brilliantly...
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Mrs Gargantua
- Reports from Cuba
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 16-07-26
- Language: English
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The Canary Keeper
- By: Clare Carson
- Narrated by: Sarah Cullum
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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In the grey mist of the early morning a body is dumped on the shore of the Thames by a boatman in a metal canoe. The city is soon alive with talk of the savage Esquimaux stalking Victorian London and an eyewitness who claims the killer had an accomplice: a tall woman dressed in widow's weeds, with the telltale look of the degenerate Irish.
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The Canary Keeper
- Narrated by: Sarah Cullum
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 01-08-19
- Language: English
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Into the Amazon
- The Life of Cândido Rondon, Trailblazing Explorer, Scientist, Statesman, and Conservationist
- By: Larry Rohter
- Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
- Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
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Cândido Rondon is by any measure the greatest tropical explorer in history. Between 1890 and 1930, he navigated scores of previously unmapped rivers, traversed untrodden mountain ranges, and hacked his way through jungles so inhospitable that even native peoples had avoided them—and led Theodore Roosevelt and his son, Kermit, on their celebrated "River of Doubt" journey in 1913-14. Originally published in Brazil, Into the Amazon is the first comprehensive biography of the Indigenous Brazilian explorer, scientist, stateseman, and conservationist.
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Into the Amazon
- The Life of Cândido Rondon, Trailblazing Explorer, Scientist, Statesman, and Conservationist
- Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
- Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 30-05-23
- Language: English
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Discovering Mars
- A History of Observation and Exploration of the Red Planet
- By: William Sheehan, Jim Bell
- Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
- Length: 23 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Historian William Sheehan and astronomer and planetary scientist Jim Bell combine their talents to tell a unique story of what we've learned by studying Mars through evolving technologies. What the eye sees as a mysterious red dot wandering through the sky becomes a blurry mirage of apparent seas, continents, and canals as viewed through Earth-based telescopes.
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Discovering Mars
- A History of Observation and Exploration of the Red Planet
- Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
- Length: 23 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 21-06-22
- Language: English
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The Sea of Galilee Boat
- Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Series
- By: Shelley Wachsmann
- Narrated by: Charles Henderson Norman
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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On a cold, cloudy day in early February 1985, Shelley Wachsmann, then resident nautical archaeologist for the Israel Department of Antiquities and Museums, drove to Kibbutz Ginosar, an agricultural settlement near the shores of the Sea of Galilee. Two brothers, avid amateur archaeologists, had found a boat buried in the lake, its outlines revealed by receding lake waters. The boat was "possibly ancient," according to the handwritten note placed on Wachsmann's desk a day or two before.
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The Sea of Galilee Boat
- Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Series
- Narrated by: Charles Henderson Norman
- Series: Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 12-02-19
- Language: English
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La compañía británica de las indias orientales [The British East India Company]
- Una guía fascinante de la compañía inglesa que fue creada para la explotación del comercio con asia oriental, sudoriental y la india [A Fascinating Guide to the English Company that Was Created to Exploit Trade with East Asia, South East Asia and India]
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Leandro Chico
- Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Durante años, el tema de la Compañía Británica de las Indias Orientales ha fascinado a historiadores, así como a economistas, antropólogos, sociólogos y otros tipos de estudiosos. Algunos consideran que la Compañía es un ejemplo perfecto de un imperio que drena los recursos de las personas desfavorecidas y destruye sus culturas enteras en un abrir y cerrar de ojos.
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La compañía británica de las indias orientales [The British East India Company]
- Una guía fascinante de la compañía inglesa que fue creada para la explotación del comercio con asia oriental, sudoriental y la india [A Fascinating Guide to the English Company that Was Created to Exploit Trade with East Asia, South East Asia and India]
- Narrated by: Leandro Chico
- Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 29-04-21
- Language: Spanish
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Historia oculta de la conquista de América [Hidden History of the Conquest of America]
- By: Gabriel Sánchez Sorondo
- Narrated by: Juan Magraner
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Historia oculta de la conquista de América pretende rescatar aquellos hechos que tuvieron relevancia para el desarrollo de la conquista de América y para la posterior configuración tanto de las fronteras sudamericanas como de la propia identidad hispanoamericana. Son hechos olvidados por la distancia temporal entre aquellos hombres y nosotros, o también ninguneados por aquellos que pretendieron acrecentar su fama u ocultar sus delitos, no obstante algunos de ellos, como la incidencia de las enfermedades en colonos e indígenas....
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Historia oculta de la conquista de América [Hidden History of the Conquest of America]
- Narrated by: Juan Magraner
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 23-01-18
- Language: Spanish
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Headstrap
- Legends and Lore from the Climbing Sherpas of Darjeeling
- By: Deepa Balsavar, Nandini Purandare
- Narrated by: Jeed Saddy
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Over the course of a decade, authors Nandini Purandare and Deepa Balsavar conducted a series of interviews with Sherpas from Darjeeling, as well as their family members, descendants, friends, and contemporary climbers. Headstrap weaves a vivid tapestry of this particular Sherpa community, giving them the recognition in mountaineering literature that they deserve.
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Headstrap
- Legends and Lore from the Climbing Sherpas of Darjeeling
- Narrated by: Jeed Saddy
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 01-04-24
- Language: English
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Into Africa
- The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone
- By: Martin Dugard
- Narrated by: Simon Jones
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Abridged
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With the utterance of a single line—“Doctor Livingstone, I presume?”—a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed into one of the most famous encounters in exploration history. But the true story behind Dr. David Livingstone and journalist Henry Morton Stanley is one that has...
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Into Africa
- The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone
- Narrated by: Simon Jones
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 02-08-19
- Language: English
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Race to Hawaii
- By: Jason Ryan
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
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Almost a century ago, the first flights to Hawaii required a nerve-racking and uncertain 26-hour journey to isolated and elusive islands located in the middle of the world's largest ocean. Pilots prayed they would encounter land after flying a full day and night across 2,400 miles of the open Pacific. Race to Hawaii chronicles the thrilling first flights to Hawaii in the 1920s, during the Golden Age of Aviation.
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A splendid and gripping book!
- By Antoine Vanner on 14-12-22
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Race to Hawaii
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 01-08-18
- Language: English
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White Mountain
- By: Robert Twigger
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
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'Robert Twigger is not so much a travel writer as a thrill-seeking philosopher' Esquire The Himalayas beckon and we go ... Some to make real journeys and others to make imaginary ones. These mountains, home to Buddhists, Bonpos, Jains, Muslims, Hindus, shamans and animists, to name only a few...
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White Mountain
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 13-10-16
- Language: English
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Forgotten
- By: Jaime Dávila
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Breton
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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What if humanity's most important invention wasn't the steam engine or the printing press, but a machine that you've never heard of, built by a man that history forgot? Eight billion people owe their lives to a man you've never heard of. In Forgotten, Jaime Dávila uncovers the astonishing true story of Cornelis Corneliszoon, a 16th-century Dutch tinkerer whose simple invention – the wind-powered sawmill – unleashed a chain reaction that built the modern world. Faster ships. Global trade. Stock markets. The Industrial Revolution.
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Forgotten
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Breton
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 24-02-26
- Language: English
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God’s Hammer
- A History of the Viking Crusades
- By: Thomas Williams
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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From the bestselling author of Viking Britain, a stunning new perspective on the medieval world. When we think of the Crusades, the image is usually squarely medieval: an era of pageantry, knights, castles and cathedrals. An age of violence, certainly, but one glossed with faith, chivalry and...
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God’s Hammer
- A History of the Viking Crusades
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 08-10-26
- Language: English
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The Suppressed History of America
- The Murder of Meriwether Lewis and the Mysterious Discoveries of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
- By: Paul Schrag, Xaviant Haze
- Narrated by: Allan Robertson
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
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Meriwether Lewis discovered far more than the history books tell - ancient civilizations, strange monuments, "nearly white, blue-eyed" Indians, and evidence that the American continent was visited long before the first European settlers arrived. And he was murdered to keep it all secret. Examining the shadows and cracks between America's official version of history, Xaviant Haze and Paul Schrag propose that the America of old taught in schools is not the America that was discovered by Lewis and Clark and other early explorers.
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The Suppressed History of America
- The Murder of Meriwether Lewis and the Mysterious Discoveries of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
- Narrated by: Allan Robertson
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 15-12-15
- Language: English
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Hernán Cortez (Portuguese Edition)
- Civilizador ou genocida? [Civilizer or Genocidal?]
- By: Marcus Vinícius de Morais
- Narrated by: Hellen Vasconcelos
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Figura indissociável da conquista da América, Hernán Cortez guarda muitas ambiguidades. Representa, ao mesmo tempo, o extermínio de um império indígena vasto e populoso e a origem do povo mestiço que constitui o México. A campanha liderada por Cortez no mundo asteca entraria para a História da cultura ocidental como um dos maiores símbolos do contato entre culturas e o consequente choque de valores de sociedades distintas. E foi a partir desse encontro que um novo mundo, aos poucos, se ergueu e outra sociedade, sincrética, nem europeia e nem indígena, começou a ser formada.
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Hernán Cortez (Portuguese Edition)
- Civilizador ou genocida? [Civilizer or Genocidal?]
- Narrated by: Hellen Vasconcelos
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 07-11-23
- Language: Portuguese
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Magellano
- Il primo viaggio intorno al mondo
- By: David Salomoni
- Narrated by: Alessandro Vanoli
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
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Nell'agosto del 1519 cinque navi partirono dal porto di Siviglia. Erano tutte parte di una spedizione patrocinata e sostenuta dall’imperatore Carlo V. Alla loro guida si trovava un ammiraglio portoghese allontanato dal suo paese con disonore e che si era messo al servizio della Corona spagnola in cerca di riscatto. L’obiettivo del viaggio era dimostrare che le Isole Molucche, allora famose perché produttrici di spezie, appartenevano alla Spagna e non al Portogallo secondo le regole del trattato di Tordesillas che aveva diviso il pianeta tra questi due imperi.
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Magellano
- Il primo viaggio intorno al mondo
- Narrated by: Alessandro Vanoli
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 01-02-23
- Language: Italian
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The Voyage of the Beagle
- By: Charles Darwin
- Narrated by: Christopher Romance
- Length: 18 hrs and 44 mins
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This work covers Darwin's part in the second survey expedition of the ship HMS Beagle. It is both a travel memoir and a scientific field journal of anthropological, biological, and geological interest. Darwin conveys his fascination with the natural world in an engaging writing style.
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The Voyage of the Beagle
- Narrated by: Christopher Romance
- Length: 18 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 30-09-19
- Language: English
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