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A Feathered River Across the Sky
- The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction
- By: Joel Greenberg
- Narrated by: Andy Caploe
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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In the early 19th century passenger pigeons accounted for 25 to 40 percent of North America’s birds, traveling in flocks so massive as to block out the sun for hours. Although adults weighed only twelve ounces, they nested and roosted in the millions, destroying large oaks as if hit by hurricanes. Their favorite foods were the seeds and nuts of beech, chestnuts, and other forest trees, but they also raided farmers’ buckwheat, wheat, corn, and rye crops.
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A Feathered River Across the Sky
- The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction
- Narrated by: Andy Caploe
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 07-01-2014
- Language: English
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Disordered World
- Setting a New Course for the Twenty-First Century
- By: Amin Maalouf, George Willer - translator
- Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Born into the Christian minority in Lebanon and since settled in France, Amin Maalouf claims a unique position in global conversation. His first book, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, was a critical and commercial success and remains in print after 20 years. In Disordered World, Maalouf combines his command of history with a critical perspective on contemporary culture, East and West - joining them with a fierce moral clarity and a propulsive style.
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Disordered World
- Setting a New Course for the Twenty-First Century
- Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 04-03-2013
- Language: English
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Isabella of Castile
- Europe's First Great Queen
- By: Giles Tremlett
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 19 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1474, a 23-year-old woman ascended the throne of Castile, the largest and strongest kingdom in Spain. Ahead of her lay the considerable challenge not only of being a young female ruler in an overwhelmingly male-dominated world but also of reforming a major European kingdom that was riddled with crime, corruption, and violent political factionism. Her pivotal reign was long and transformative, uniting Spain and setting the stage for its golden era of global dominance.
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Great book very badly read
- By Amazon Customer on 14-05-2025
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Isabella of Castile
- Europe's First Great Queen
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 19 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 09-02-2017
- Language: English
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Beyond the Blue Horizon
- How the Earliest Mariners Unlocked the Secrets of the Oceans
- By: Brian Fagan
- Narrated by: George K. Wilson
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In Beyond the Blue Horizon, best-selling science historian Brian Fagan tackles his richest topic yet: the enduring mystery of the oceans, the planet’s most forbidding terrain. This is not a tale of Columbus or Hudson, but of much earlier mariners. From the moment when ancient Polynesians first dared to sail beyond the horizon, Fagan vividly explains how our mastery of the oceans has changed history, even before history was written.
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Beyond the Blue Horizon
- How the Earliest Mariners Unlocked the Secrets of the Oceans
- Narrated by: George K. Wilson
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 22-03-2013
- Language: English
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Volcker
- The Triumph of Persistence
- By: William L. Silber
- Narrated by: Ross Douglas
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Over the course of nearly half a century, five American presidents - three Democrats and two Republicans - have relied on the financial acumen, and the integrity, of Paul A. Volcker. During his tenure as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, when he battled the Great Inflation of the 1970s, Volcker did nothing less than restore the reputation of an American financial system on the verge of collapse.
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Volcker
- The Triumph of Persistence
- Narrated by: Ross Douglas
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 27-02-2013
- Language: English
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Indigo
- In Search of the Color That Seduced the World
- By: Catherine E. McKinley
- Narrated by: Tracey Farrar
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Brimming with rich, electrifying tales of the precious dye and its ancient heritage, Indigo is also the story of a personal quest: Catherine McKinley is the descendant of a clan of Scots who wore indigo tartan; Jewish "rag traders"; a Massachusetts textile factory owner; and African slaves - her ancestors were traded along the same Saharan routes as indigo, where a length of blue cotton could purchase human life.
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Interesting travelogue
- By Margaret M Mitchell on 03-07-2025
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Indigo
- In Search of the Color That Seduced the World
- Narrated by: Tracey Farrar
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 26-02-2013
- Language: English
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Built on Bones
- 15,000 Years of Urban Life and Death
- By: Brenna Hassett
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Imagine you are a hunter-gatherer some 12,000 years ago. You've got a choice - carry on foraging or plant a few seeds and move to one of those new-fangled settlements down the valley. What you won't know is that urban life is short and riddled with dozens of new diseases; your children will be shorter and sicklier than you are; they'll be plagued with gum disease and stand a decent chance of violent death at the point of a spear. Why would anyone choose this? But choose they did.
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Built on Bones
- 15,000 Years of Urban Life and Death
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 23-02-2017
- Language: English
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Tommy's War
- The Western Front in Soldiers' Words
- By: Richard van Emden
- Narrated by: Richard Dadd
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Conventional histories of the Great War have tended to focus on the terrible attritional battles of Ypres, of Arras and of the Somme. What they do not tell us is what life was like for the ordinary soldier, what mattered to him, and how he survived, both physically and mentally. Now for the first time, one of Britain's leading military historians, Richard van Emden tells the story of the Great War exclusively through the words and images of soldiers on the ground.
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Tommy's War
- The Western Front in Soldiers' Words
- Narrated by: Richard Dadd
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 25-07-2014
- Language: English
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White Rage
- The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
- By: Carol Anderson
- Narrated by: Pamela Gibson
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
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As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014 and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as 'Black rage', historian Carol Anderson wrote a remarkable op-ed in the Washington Post showing that this was, instead, 'white rage at work. With so much attention on the flames,' she wrote, 'everyone had ignored the kindling.'
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White Rage
- The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
- Narrated by: Pamela Gibson
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 26-07-2016
- Language: English
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Tom and Jack
- The Intertwined Lives of Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock
- By: Henry Adams
- Narrated by: Wayne Thompson
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
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The drip paintings of Jackson Pollock, trailblazing Abstract Expressionist, appear to be the polar opposite of Thomas Hart Benton's highly figurative Americana. Yet the two men had a close and highly charged relationship dating from Pollock's days as a student under Benton. Pollock's first and only formal training came from Benton, and the older man soon became a surrogate father to Pollock.
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Tom and Jack
- The Intertwined Lives of Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock
- Narrated by: Wayne Thompson
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 09-03-2013
- Language: English
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Deception
- The Untold Story of East-West Espionage Today
- By: Edward Lucas
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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From the capture of Sidney Reilly, the "Ace of Spies", by Lenin's Bolsheviks in 1925, to the deportation from the USA of Anna Chapman, the "Redhead under the Bed", in 2010, Kremlin and Western spymasters have battled for supremacy for nearly a century. In Deception Edward Lucas uncovers the real story of Chapman and her colleagues in Britain and America, unveiling their clandestine missions and the spy-hunt that led to their downfall. It reveals unknown triumphs and disasters of Western intelligence in the Cold War,
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Deception
- The Untold Story of East-West Espionage Today
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 09-03-2013
- Language: English
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High Noon
- The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic
- By: Glenn Frankel
- Narrated by: Allan Robertson
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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It's one of the most revered movies of Hollywood's golden era. Starring screen legend Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly in her first significant film role, High Noon was shot on a lean budget over just 32 days but achieved instant box-office and critical success. It won four Academy Awards in 1953, including a best actor win for Cooper. And it became a cultural touchstone, often cited by politicians as a favourite film, celebrating moral fortitude.
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High Noon
- The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic
- Narrated by: Allan Robertson
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 21-02-2017
- Language: English
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Final Voyage
- The World's Worst Maritime Disasters
- By: Jonathan Eyers
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
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Everyone knows the story of the Titanic, but in terms of loss of life that catastrophe doesn't even figure as one of the 50 worst maritime disasters of the last three hundred years. The causes of disaster are legion: besides icebergs and enemy torpedoes, ships have been sunk by fire, explosions, flooding, capsizing, storms, collisions and human error.
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Final Voyage
- The World's Worst Maritime Disasters
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 02-01-2014
- Language: English
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Churchill and the Bomb in War and Cold War
- By: Kevin Ruane
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 21 hrs and 14 mins
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Covering the development of the atomic bomb during the Second World War, the origins and early course of the Cold War and the advent of the hydrogen bomb in the early 1950s, Churchill and the Bomb in War and Cold War explores a still neglected aspect of Winston Churchill's career: his relationship with and thinking on nuclear weapons.
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Churchill and the Bomb in War and Cold War
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 21 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 08-09-2016
- Language: English
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The Work I Did
- A Memoir of the Secretary to Goebbels
- By: Brunhilde Pomsel, Thore D. Hansen
- Narrated by: Elka de Wit
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
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Brunhilde Pomsel described herself as an 'apolitical girl' and a 'figure on the margins', but, employed as a stenographer during the Second World War, she worked closely with one of the worst criminals in world history: Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. She was one of the oldest surviving eyewitnesses to the internal workings of the Nazi power apparatus until her death in 2017.
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The Work I Did
- A Memoir of the Secretary to Goebbels
- Narrated by: Elka de Wit
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 08-02-2018
- Language: English
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Havana
- A Subtropical Delirium
- By: Mark Kurlansky
- Narrated by: Fleet Cooper
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
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Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider's view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city he has come to know over more than 30 years. Part cultural history, part travelogue, with recipes throughout, Havana celebrates the city's singular music, literature, baseball and food; its five centuries of outstanding neglected architecture; and its extraordinary blend of cultures.
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Havana
- A Subtropical Delirium
- Narrated by: Fleet Cooper
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 07-03-2017
- Language: English
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The Man Who Invented Fiction
- How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World
- By: William Egginton
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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In the early 17th century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a novel. It was the story of a poor nobleman, his brain addled from studying too many novels of chivalry, who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off on hilarious adventures. That story, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than any other book beside the Bible, making its author, Miguel de Cervantes, the single most-read author in human history.
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The Man Who Invented Fiction
- How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 12-07-2016
- Language: English
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A Slant of Light
- By: Jeffrey Lent
- Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
- Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
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At the close of the Civil War, weary veteran Malcolm Hopeton returns to his home in Western New York State to find his wife and hired man missing and his farm in disrepair. A double murder ensues, the repercussions of which ripple through a community with spiritual roots in the Second Great Awakening. Hopeton has gone from the horrors of war to those far worse, and arrayed around him are a host of other people struggling to make sense of his crime.
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A Slant of Light
- Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
- Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 07-04-2015
- Language: English
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The Little Wonder
- The Remarkable History of Wisden
- By: Robert Winder
- Narrated by: Cameron Stewart
- Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins
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In The Little Wonder, Robert Winder traces the central role the game has played in national life for so long. The book's 150th anniversary in 2013 is the ideal time to tell the extraordinary story of Wisden's - and cricket's - journey from Victorian times to the modern world. New every year, it feels as though it has been with us for ever.
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The Little Wonder
- The Remarkable History of Wisden
- Narrated by: Cameron Stewart
- Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 22-10-2014
- Language: English
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All Things Must Fight to Live
- Stories of War and Deliverance in Congo
- By: Bryan Mealer
- Narrated by: Karl Miller
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
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In All Things Must Fight to Live, Bryan Mealer takes listeners on a harrowing 2000 mile journey through Congo, where gun-toting militia still rape and kill with impunity. Amidst burnt-out battlefields where armies still wrestle for control, into the dark corners of the forests, and along the high savanna, where thousands have been slaughtered and quickly forgotten, Mealer searches for signs that Africa's most troubled state will soon rise from ruin.
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All Things Must Fight to Live
- Stories of War and Deliverance in Congo
- Narrated by: Karl Miller
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 27-02-2013
- Language: English
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