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In the Heart of the Sea
- The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (National Book Award Winner)
- By: Nathaniel Philbrick
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
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From the author of Valiant Ambition, the riveting and critically acclaimed bestseller and major motion picture starring Chris Hemsworth, directed by Ron Howard Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Ben Whishaw, and Brendan Gleeson star in the film based on this National Book Award–winning account...
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In the Heart of the Sea
- The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (National Book Award Winner)
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 13-06-05
- Language: English
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The Cruelest Miles
- The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic
- By: Gay Salisbury, Laney Salisbury
- Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
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The year is 1925. It is sixty degrees below zero. The wind sweeps tons of snow over the deep-frozen Alaskan landscape. The nearest railhead is seven hundred miles away. Airplanes cannot fly. The way to Nome is blocked by a treacherous frozen sound, an icebound port, and mountains to the west...
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The Cruelest Miles
- The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic
- Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 25-11-03
- Language: English
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The White Darkness
- By: David Grann
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
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By the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a powerful true story of adventure and obsession in the Antarctic Henry Worsley was a devoted husband and father and a decorated British special forces officer who believed in honor and sacrifice. He was also a man...
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The White Darkness
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 30-10-18
- Language: English
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A Voyage Long and Strange
- By: Tony Horwitz
- Narrated by: Tony Horwitz
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
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On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz makes an unsettling discovery. A history buff since early childhood, expensively educated at university—a history major, no less!—he’s reached middle age with a third-grader’s grasp of early America. In fact, he’s mislaid more than a...
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A Voyage Long and Strange
- Narrated by: Tony Horwitz
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 29-08-08
- Language: English
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Chasing the Moon
- The People, the Politics, and the Promise That Launched America into the Space Age
- By: Robert Stone, Alan Andres
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
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JFK issued the historic moon landing challenge. These are the stories of the visionaries who helped America complete his vision with the first lunar landing fifty years ago. A Companion Book to the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Film on PBS Going in depth to explore their stories beyond the PBS series...
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Chasing the Moon
- The People, the Politics, and the Promise That Launched America into the Space Age
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 04-06-19
- Language: English
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On Savage Shores
- How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
- By: Caroline Dodds Pennock
- Narrated by: Caroline Dodds Pennock
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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AN ECONOMIST AND SMITHSONIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Age of Discovery by telling the story of the Indigenous Americans who journeyed across the Atlantic to Europe after 1492 "On Savage Shores...
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On Savage Shores
- How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
- Narrated by: Caroline Dodds Pennock
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 24-01-23
- Language: English
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Marco Polo
- From Venice to Xanadu
- By: Laurence Bergreen
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins
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As the most celebrated European to explore Asia, Marco Polo was the original global traveler and the earliest bridge between East and West. A universal icon of adventure and discovery, he has inspired six centuries of popular fascination and spurious mythology. Now, from acclaimed author...
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Marco Polo
- From Venice to Xanadu
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 23-10-07
- Language: English
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A Voyage Long and Strange
- Rediscovering the New World
- By: Tony Horwitz
- Narrated by: John H. Mayer
- Length: 17 hrs and 16 mins
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On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz makes an unsettling discovery. A history buff since early childhood, expensively educated at university—a history major, no less!—he’s reached middle age with a third-grader’s grasp of early America. In fact, he’s mislaid more than a...
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A Voyage Long and Strange
- Rediscovering the New World
- Narrated by: John H. Mayer
- Length: 17 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 02-07-08
- Language: English
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Madhouse at the End of the Earth
- The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
- By: Julian Sancton
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The “exquisitely researched and deeply engrossing” (The New York Times) true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry—with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter “The energy of...
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Madhouse at the End of the Earth
- The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 04-05-21
- Language: English
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Náufragos, Traficantes e Degredados - As Primeiras Expedições ao Brasil
- Brasilis - Vol. 2
- By: Eduardo Bueno
- Narrated by: Mauro Ramos
- Length: 7 hrs
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Explore as décadas mais intrigantes e pouco documentadas da história do Brasil, de 1500 a 1531, com Náufragos, Traficantes e Degredados , o segundo volume da aclamada coleção Brasilis. Narrado pela voz marcante de Mauro Ramos, o livro transporta os ouvintes por um período repleto de drama, ação e aventura, onde os primeiros passos da colonização foram moldados por figuras à margem da lei: náufragos que sobreviveram a mares traiçoeiros, traficantes envolvidos em negócios escuros e degredados enviados para cumprir penas no Novo Mundo.
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Náufragos, Traficantes e Degredados - As Primeiras Expedições ao Brasil
- Brasilis - Vol. 2
- Narrated by: Mauro Ramos
- Series: Brasilis, Book 2
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 27-01-25
- Language: Portuguese
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Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party
- How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World
- By: Edward Dolnick
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
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From the bestselling author of The Clockwork Universe and The Writing of the Gods, an “utterly delightful…hugely entertaining” (Air Mail) book about the eccentric Victorians who discovered dinosaur bones, leading to a whole new understanding of human history. In the early 1800s the natural...
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Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party
- How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 06-08-24
- Language: English
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Battle of Ink and Ice
- A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media
- By: Darrell Hartman
- Narrated by: Mack Sanderson
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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New York Times Book Review’s "100 Notable Books of 2023" "Absolutely gripping… a perfectly splendid read—I highly, highly recommend it” -- Douglas Preston, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Lost City of the Monkey God A sixty-year saga of frostbite and fake news that follows...
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Battle of Ink and Ice
- A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media
- Narrated by: Mack Sanderson
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 06-06-23
- Language: English
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Icebound
- Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
- By: Andrea Pitzer
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
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In the bestselling tradition of Hampton Sides’s In the Kingdom of Ice, a “gripping adventure tale” (The Boston Globe) recounting Dutch polar explorer William Barents’ three harrowing Arctic expeditions—the last of which resulted in a relentlessly challenging year-long fight for...
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Icebound
- Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 12-01-21
- Language: English
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The Moth and the Mountain
- A True Story of Love, War, and Everest
- By: Ed Caesar
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
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“An outstanding book.” —The Wall Street Journal * “Gripping at every turn.” —Outside * “A hell of a ride.” —The Times (London) An extraordinary true story about one man’s attempt to salve the wounds of war and save his own soul through an audacious adventure. In the 1930s, as...
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The Moth and the Mountain
- A True Story of Love, War, and Everest
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 17-11-20
- Language: English
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Beyond the Known
- How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars
- By: Andrew Rader
- Narrated by: Andrew Rader
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
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From brilliant young polymath Andrew Rader—an MIT-credentialed scientist, popular podcast host, and SpaceX mission manager—an “engaging” (Tim Marshall, New York Times bestselling author) chronicle showcasing our human desire to continually explore new and uncharted territory, from...
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Beyond the Known
- How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars
- Narrated by: Andrew Rader
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 12-11-19
- Language: English
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Conquistadores
- A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest
- By: Fernando Cervantes
- Narrated by: Luis Soto
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
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A sweeping, authoritative history of 16th-century Spain and its legendary conquistadors, whose ambitious and morally contradictory campaigns propelled a small European kingdom to become one of the formidable empires in the world “The depth of research in this book is astonishing, but even more...
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Conquistadores
- A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest
- Narrated by: Luis Soto
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 14-09-21
- Language: English
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Gods of the Upper Air
- How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
- By: Charles King
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winner Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award From an award-winning historian comes a dazzling history of the birth of cultural anthropology and the adventurous scientists who pioneered it—a sweeping chronicle of discovery...
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Gods of the Upper Air
- How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 06-08-19
- Language: English
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The Promise of the Grand Canyon
- John Wesley Powell's Perilous Journey and His Vision for the American West
- By: John F. Ross
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
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“A convincing case for Powell’s legacy as a pioneering conservationist.”--The Wall Street Journal "A bold study of an eco-visionary at a watershed moment in US history."--Nature A timely, thrilling account of the explorer who dared to lead the first successful expedition down the Colorado...
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The Promise of the Grand Canyon
- John Wesley Powell's Perilous Journey and His Vision for the American West
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 03-07-18
- Language: English
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The Man Who Ate His Boots
- The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage
- By: Anthony Brandt
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
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The enthralling and often harrowing history of the adventurers who searched for the Northwest Passage, the holy grail of nineteenth-century British exploration. After the triumphant end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the British took it upon themselves to complete something they had been trying...
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The Man Who Ate His Boots
- The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 02-03-10
- Language: English
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Empire of Blue Water
- Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign
- By: Stephan Talty
- Narrated by: John H. Mayer
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
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He challenged the greatest empire on earth with a ragtag bunch of renegades—and brought it to its knees. Empire of Blue Water is the real story of the pirates of the Caribbean. Henry Morgan, a twenty-year-old Welshman, crossed the Atlantic in 1655, hell-bent on making his fortune. Over the...
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Empire of Blue Water
- Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign
- Narrated by: John H. Mayer
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 24-04-07
- Language: English
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