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Hillbilly-Elegie
- Die Geschichte meiner Familie und einer Gesellschaft in der Krise
- By: J. D. Vance
- Narrated by: Dominic Kolb
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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J. D. Vance erzählt die Geschichte seiner Familie - eine Geschichte vom gescheiterten Aufstieg und von der Resignation einer ganzen Bevölkerungsschicht...
By: J. D. Vance
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Icons of England
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: David Rintoul, Barnaby Edwards, Ben Eagle, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
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This celebration of the English countryside does not only focus on the rolling green landscapes and magnificent monuments that set England apart from the rest of the world....
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Perhaps if you’d grown up in UK it’d be ok.
- By Chris Pedder on 13-10-2020
By: Bill Bryson
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Quarterly Essay 77: Cry Me a River
- The Tragedy of the Murray-Darling Basin
- By: Margaret Simons
- Narrated by: Margaret Simons
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
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In Cry Me a River, acclaimed journalist Margaret Simons takes a trip through the Basin, all the way from Queensland to South Australia. She shows that its plight is environmental but also economic, and enmeshed in ideology and identity....
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Listen a few times if you want to fully grasp this
- By Mundayk on 02-12-2020
By: Margaret Simons
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The Politics of Resentment
- Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker
- By: Katherine J. Cramer
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
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Since the election of Scott Walker, Wisconsin has been seen as ground zero for debates about the appropriate role of government in the wake of the Great Recession....
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Back Roads
- By: Heather Ewart, Karen Michelmore
- Narrated by: Heather Ewart
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
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A road trip around Australia, discovering towns and communities outside the mainstream - and the colourful inhabitants whose grit and humour will uplift and inspire you....
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Always great
- By linda m. on 28-01-2024
By: Heather Ewart, and others
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Madison Park
- A Place of Hope
- By: Eric L. Motley, Walter Isaacson - foreword
- Narrated by: Brandon Maloney
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
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Welcome to Madison Park, a small community in Alabama founded by freed slaves in 1880. And meet Eric Motley, a native son who came of age in this remarkable place....
By: Eric L. Motley, and others
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Hillbilly-Elegie
- Die Geschichte meiner Familie und einer Gesellschaft in der Krise
- By: J. D. Vance
- Narrated by: Dominic Kolb
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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J. D. Vance erzählt die Geschichte seiner Familie - eine Geschichte vom gescheiterten Aufstieg und von der Resignation einer ganzen Bevölkerungsschicht...
By: J. D. Vance
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Icons of England
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: David Rintoul, Barnaby Edwards, Ben Eagle, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
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This celebration of the English countryside does not only focus on the rolling green landscapes and magnificent monuments that set England apart from the rest of the world....
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Perhaps if you’d grown up in UK it’d be ok.
- By Chris Pedder on 13-10-2020
By: Bill Bryson
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Quarterly Essay 77: Cry Me a River
- The Tragedy of the Murray-Darling Basin
- By: Margaret Simons
- Narrated by: Margaret Simons
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
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In Cry Me a River, acclaimed journalist Margaret Simons takes a trip through the Basin, all the way from Queensland to South Australia. She shows that its plight is environmental but also economic, and enmeshed in ideology and identity....
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Listen a few times if you want to fully grasp this
- By Mundayk on 02-12-2020
By: Margaret Simons
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The Politics of Resentment
- Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker
- By: Katherine J. Cramer
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
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Since the election of Scott Walker, Wisconsin has been seen as ground zero for debates about the appropriate role of government in the wake of the Great Recession....
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Back Roads
- By: Heather Ewart, Karen Michelmore
- Narrated by: Heather Ewart
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
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A road trip around Australia, discovering towns and communities outside the mainstream - and the colourful inhabitants whose grit and humour will uplift and inspire you....
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Always great
- By linda m. on 28-01-2024
By: Heather Ewart, and others
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Madison Park
- A Place of Hope
- By: Eric L. Motley, Walter Isaacson - foreword
- Narrated by: Brandon Maloney
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
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Welcome to Madison Park, a small community in Alabama founded by freed slaves in 1880. And meet Eric Motley, a native son who came of age in this remarkable place....
By: Eric L. Motley, and others
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Janesville
- An American Story
- By: Amy Goldstein
- Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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This is the story of what happens to an industrial town in the American heartland when its factory stills - but it's not the familiar tale....
By: Amy Goldstein
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Cider with Rosie
- By: Laurie Lee
- Narrated by: Laurie Lee
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
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Cider with Rosie is a wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village....
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it's taken 50 years to get to this book
- By Rob Martin on 16-02-2022
By: Laurie Lee
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Beast
- Werewolves, Serial Killers, and Man-Eaters: The Mystery of the Monsters of the Gévaudan
- By: Gustavo Sánchez Romero, S. R. Schwalb
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
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Using modern biology and history to investigate a series of grisly deaths in the countryside of 18th-century France....
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Interesting Recounting
- By Kel on 08-02-2023
By: Gustavo Sánchez Romero, and others
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Fragile Neighborhoods
- Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time
- By: Seth D. Kaplan
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
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Fragile states expert Seth D. Kaplan offers a bold new vision for addressing social decline in America, one zip code at a time....
By: Seth D. Kaplan
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Farming for the Long Haul
- Resilience and the Lost Art of Agricultural Inventiveness
- By: Michael Foley
- Narrated by: Madison Niederhauser
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
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Farming for the Long Haul is about building a viable small-farm economy that can withstand the economic, political, and climatic shock waves that the 21st century portends....
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Don’t waste your time
- By Anonymous User on 14-03-2020
By: Michael Foley
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White Rural Rage
- The Threat to American Democracy
- By: Tom Schaller, Paul Waldman
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
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A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens—who are also the least likely to defend its core principles....
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Had to stop listening at Covid. This book is a left wing bible.
- By Anonymous User on 15-03-2024
By: Tom Schaller, and others
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American Fire
- Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
- By: Monica Hesse
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
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Incorporating this drama into the long-overlooked history of arson in the United States, American Fire re-creates the anguished nights that this quiet county spent lit up in flames....
By: Monica Hesse
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Wastelands
- The True Story of Farm Country on Trial
- By: Corban Addison, John Grisham - foreword
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 16 hrs and 16 mins
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The once idyllic coastal plain of North Carolina is home to a close-knit, rural community that for more than a generation has battled the polluting practices of large-scale farming taking place in its own backyard....
By: Corban Addison, and others
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Billionaire Wilderness
- The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West
- By: Justin Farrell
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
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Billionaire Wilderness takes you inside the exclusive world of the ultra-wealthy, showing how today's richest people are using the natural environment to solve the existential dilemmas they face....
By: Justin Farrell
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The Alchemy of Meth
- A Decomposition
- By: Jason Pine
- Narrated by: Jason Pine
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
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Meth alchemists all over the United States tap the occulted potencies of industrial chemical and big pharma products to try to cure the ills of precarious living: underemployment, insecurity, and the feeling of idleness....
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A grotesque subject beautifully captured
- By Eva van der Vyver on 28-04-2022
By: Jason Pine
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Methland
- The Death and Life of an American Small Town
- By: Nick Reding
- Narrated by: Mark Boyett
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
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The dramatic story of the methamphetamine epidemic as it sweeps the American heartland a timely, moving, very human account of one community s attempt to battle its way to a brighter future....
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One word Awesome
- By Amazon Customer on 27-05-2021
By: Nick Reding
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Our Wild Farming Life: Adventures on a Scottish Highland Croft
- By: Lynn Cassells, Sandra Baer
- Narrated by: Lynn Cassells
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
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As seen on the BBC’s This Farming Life. The inspirational story of Lynbreck Croft - a regenerative Scottish farm rooted in local food, community, and the dreams of two women. Lynn and Sandra left their friends, family, and jobs in England to travel north to Scotland....
By: Lynn Cassells, and others
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The Chief Shepherdess
- Lessons in Life, Love and Farming
- By: Zoe Colville
- Narrated by: Zoe Colville
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
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Zoë Colville spent years in a fancy hair salon with a long list of clients, living on cigarettes, croissants, and a shoestring. It was everything she'd ever wanted....
By: Zoe Colville
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I Can Hear the Cuckoo
- Life in the Wilds of Wales
- By: Kiran Sidhu
- Narrated by: Aysha Kala
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
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I Can Hear the Cuckoo is a tender, philosophical memoir about the beauty of a microscopic life, the value of solitariness, and respecting the rhythm and timing of the earth....
By: Kiran Sidhu
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Running Out
- In Search of Water on the High Plains
- By: Lucas Bessire
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
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This audiobook narrated by John Chancer recounts an intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America's heartland....
By: Lucas Bessire
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The Lies of the Land
- Seeing Rural America for What It Is―and Isn’t
- By: Steven Conn
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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A "piercing, unsentimental" (New Yorker) history that boldly challenges the idea of a rural American crisis.
By: Steven Conn
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The Quiet Zone
- Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence
- By: Stephen Kurczy
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
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In this riveting account of an area of Appalachia known as the Quiet Zone where cell phones and Wi-Fi are banned, journalist Stephen Kurczy explores the pervasive role of technology in our lives and the innate human need for quiet....
By: Stephen Kurczy
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Rural Rides
- By: William Cobbett
- Narrated by: Peter Wickham
- Length: 22 hrs and 22 mins
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Between 1821 and 1826, the prolific writer and journalist William Cobbett travelled the countryside of the South of England on foot and horseback. Rural Rides is a fascinating account of his journeys, and depicts a way of life in transition....
By: William Cobbett
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Return to Akenfield
- Portrait of an English Village in the 21st Century
- By: Craig Taylor
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
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Thirty-five years after the publication of Ronald Blythe's classic portrait of an English village, Akenfield, Craig Taylor returned to the Suffolk village....
By: Craig Taylor
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Hitching for Hope
- A Journey into the Heart and Soul of Ireland
- By: Ruairí McKiernan
- Narrated by: Gary Furlong
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
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A journey through Ireland by thumb - ears open to the stories, dreams, and struggles of the people encountered along the way....
By: Ruairí McKiernan
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Canary in the Coal Mine
- A Forgotten Rural Community, a Hidden Epidemic, and a Lone Doctor Battling for the Life, Health, and Soul of the People
- By: Dr. William Cooke, Laura Ungar - contributor
- Narrated by: Tim H. Dixon
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
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Canary in the Coal Mine is a gripping account of one doctor’s courageous fight to save a small town from a silent epidemic that threatened the community’s future - and exposed a national health crisis....
By: Dr. William Cooke, and others
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Common Threads
- Weaving Community Through Collaborative Eco-Art
- By: Sharon Kallis
- Narrated by: Jenny Lee Craig
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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Disposing of unwanted natural materials can be expensive and time-consuming, or it can present a tremendous opportunity for creating collaborative eco-art....
By: Sharon Kallis
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Small Farm Republic
- Why Conservatives Must Embrace Local Agriculture, Reject Climate Alarmism, and Lead an Environmental Revival
- By: John Klar
- Narrated by: John Klar
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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From farmer, lawyer, and political activist John Klar comes a bold, solutions-based plan for Conservatives that gets beyond the fatuous pipe dreams and social-justice platitudes of the dominant, Liberal “Green” agenda—offering a healthy way forward for everyone....
By: John Klar
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Garbage Land
- On the Secret Trail of Trash
- By: Elizabeth Royte
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Royte, Jennifer Aquino
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
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In a country that consumes and then casts off more and more, what actually happens to the things we throw away? In Garbage Land, acclaimed science writer Elizabeth Royte leads us on the wild adventure that begins once our trash hits the bottom of the can....
By: Elizabeth Royte