Africa Memoir
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When a Crocodile Eats the Sun
- A Memoir of Africa
- By: Peter Godwin
- Narrated by: Peter Godwin
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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After his father's heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from Manhattan, where he now lives. On these frequent visits to check on his elderly parents, he bore witness to Zimbabwe's dramatic spiral downward into the jaws of violent chaos, presided over by an increasingly enraged dictator. And yet long after their comfortable lifestyle had been shattered and millions were fleeing, his parents refuse to leave, steadfast in their allegiance to the failed state that has been their adopted home for 50 years.
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A Captivating Listen
- By Madeline on 20-02-2022
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When a Crocodile Eats the Sun
- A Memoir of Africa
- Narrated by: Peter Godwin
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 18-05-2020
- Language: English
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When a Crocodile Eats the Sun is a stirring memoir of the disintegration of a family set against the collapse of a country. But it is also a vivid portrait of the profound strength of the human spirit and the enduring power of love....
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Green Hills of Africa
- By: Ernest Hemingway
- Narrated by: Josh Lucas
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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His second major venture into nonfiction (after Death in the Afternoon, 1932), Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife, Pauline, journeyed in December of 1933. Hemingway's well-known interest in - and fascination with - big-game hunting is magnificently captured in this evocative account of his trip.
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Josh Lucas missed the mark
- By H. Lucy on 21-05-2016
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Green Hills of Africa
- Narrated by: Josh Lucas
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 17-11-2006
- Language: English
- His second major venture into nonfiction (after Death in the Afternoon, 1932), Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal....
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I Am a Girl from Africa
- By: Elizabeth Nyamayaro
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Nyamayaro
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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When severe draught hit her village in Zimbabwe, Elizabeth, then eight, had no idea that this moment of utter devastation would come to define her life purpose. Unable to move from hunger, she encountered a United Nations aid worker who gave her a bowl of warm porridge and saved her life. This transformative moment inspired Elizabeth to become a humanitarian, and she vowed to dedicate her life to giving back to her community, her continent and the world.
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Inspiring
- By Lidia on 29-03-2023
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I Am a Girl from Africa
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Nyamayaro
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 20-04-2021
- Language: English
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A powerful memoir about a girl from Africa whose near-death experience sparked a dream that changed the world....
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Love, Africa
- A Memoir of Romance, War, and Survival
- By: Jeffrey Gettleman
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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A seasoned war correspondent, Jeffrey Gettleman has covered every major conflict over the past 20 years, from Afghanistan to Iraq to the Congo. For the past decade, he has served as the East Africa bureau chief for the New York Times, fulfilling his teenage dream of living in Africa. Love, Africa is the story of how he got there - and of his difficult, winding path toward becoming a good reporter and a better man.
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Loved Love, Africa
- By Anonymous User on 29-10-2020
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Love, Africa
- A Memoir of Romance, War, and Survival
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 16-05-2017
- Language: English
- A seasoned war correspondent, Jeffrey Gettleman has covered every major conflict over the past 20 years, from Afghanistan to Iraq to the Congo....
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So Many Africas
- Six Years in a Zambian Village
- By: Jill Kandel
- Narrated by: Jill Kandel
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Kandel's memoir is a powerful picture of a young American woman's struggle to reconcile her new marriage with the realities of living in East Africa.
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So Many Africas
- Six Years in a Zambian Village
- Narrated by: Jill Kandel
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 04-09-2023
- Language: English
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Kandel's memoir is a powerful picture of a young American woman's struggle to reconcile her new marriage with the realities of living in East Africa....
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A Handful of Hard Men
- The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia
- By: Hannes Wessels
- Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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It is difficult to find another soldier's story to equal Captain Darrell Watt's in terms of time spent on the field of battle and challenges faced. Even by the lofty standards of the SAS and Special Forces, one has to look far to find anyone who can match his record of resilience and valor in the face of such daunting odds and with resources so paltry. In the fight, he showed himself to be a military maestro. After 12 years in the cauldron of war, his cause slipped from beneath him, and Rhodesia gave way to Zimbabwe.
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Excellent story, average performance
- By Tyler on 14-01-2018
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A Handful of Hard Men
- The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia
- Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 08-08-2017
- Language: English
- It is difficult to find another soldier's story to equal Captain Darrell Watt's in terms of time spent on the field of battle and challenges faced....
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Out of Africa
- By: Isak Dinesen
- Narrated by: Julie Harris
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
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Danish countess Karen Blixon, known as Isak Dineson, ran a coffee plantation in Kenya in the years when Africa remained a romantic and formidable continent to most Europeans. Out of Africa is her account of her life there, with stories of her respectful relationships with the Masai, Kikuyu, and Somali natives who work on her land; the European friends who visit her; and the imposing permanence of the wild, high land itself. Stage and television actress Julie Harris delivers a reading that is emotionally charged and reflective, recreating Dinesen's lively appreciation for the land she loved so much.
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well written
- By Leonids tsouris on 14-02-2023
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Out of Africa
- Narrated by: Julie Harris
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 16-12-1999
- Language: English
- Danish countess Karen Blixon, known as Isak Dineson, ran a coffee plantation in Kenya in the...
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We Dared to Win
- The SAS in Rhodesia
- By: Hannes Wessels, Andre Scheepers - with
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Andre Scheepers grew up on a farm in Rhodesia, learning about the bush from his African childhood friends, before joining the army. A quiet, introspective thinker, Andre started out as a trooper in the SAS before being commissioned into the Rhodesian Light Infantry Commandos, where he was engaged in fireforce combat operations. He then rejoined the SAS. Andre writes vividly about his experiences, his emotions, and his state of mind during the war, and reflects candidly on what he learned and how war has shaped his life since.
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Oh no, not again
- By harry on 21-11-2020
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We Dared to Win
- The SAS in Rhodesia
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 17-03-2020
- Language: English
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In addition to Andre Scheepers' personal story, this book reveals more about some of the other men who were distinguished operators in SAS operations during the Rhodesian War....
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Bush War Operator
- Memoirs of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, Selous Scouts and Beyond
- By: A.J. Balaam
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Anyone living in Rhodesia during the 1960s and 1970s would have had a father, husband, brother, or son called up in the defense of the war-torn, landlocked little country. A few of these brave men would have been members of the elite and secretive unit that struck terror into the hearts of the ZANLA and ZIPRA guerrillas infiltrating the country at that time - the Selous Scouts.
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Moan from start to end but enjoyable nonetheless
- By Fly-GT on 26-02-2023
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Bush War Operator
- Memoirs of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, Selous Scouts and Beyond
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 21-04-2020
- Language: English
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Anyone living in Rhodesia during the 1960s and 1970s would have had a father, husband, brother, or son called up in the defense of the war-torn, landlocked little country. This is the story of Andrew Balaam, a member of the Rhodesian Light Infantry and the Selous Scouts for 12 years....
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Good Morning, Mr. Mandela
- A Memoir
- By: Zelda la Grange
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh, Zelda la Grange
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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A white Afrikaner, Zelda la Grange grew up in segregated South Africa, supporting the regime and the rules of apartheid. Her conservative family referred to the imprisoned Nelson Mandela as "a terrorist". Yet just a few years after his release and the end of apartheid, she would be traveling the world by Mr. Mandela’s side, having grown to respect and cherish the man she would come to call "Khulu", or "Grandfather".
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Fantastic story
- By Deb on 16-06-2018
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Good Morning, Mr. Mandela
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh, Zelda la Grange
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 30-06-2014
- Language: English
- This book tells the extraordinary story of how a young woman’s life, beliefs, prejudices - everything she once believed - were utterly transformed by the man she had been taught was the enemy....
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
- An African Childhood
- By: Alexandra Fuller
- Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Alexandra Fuller tells the idiosyncratic story of her life growing up white in rural Rhodesia as it was becoming Zimbabwe. The daughter of hardworking, yet strikingly unconventional English-bred immigrants, Alexandra arrives in Africa at the tender age of two. She moves through life with a hardy resilience, even as a bloody war approaches. Narrator Lisette Lecat reads this remarkable memoir of a family clinging to a harsh landscape and the dying tenets of colonialism.
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rich language, perfect narration
- By Anonymous User on 17-04-2024
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
- An African Childhood
- Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 25-12-2003
- Language: English
- Alexandra Fuller tells the idiosyncratic story of her life growing up white in rural Rhodesia as it was becoming Zimbabwe....
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Land of a Thousand Hills
- My Life in Rwanda
- By: Rosamond Halsey Carr, Ann Halsey Howard - contributor
- Narrated by: C. M. Hébert
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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When Rosamond Halsey Carr first arrived in Africa, she didn't realize that she would spend the rest of her life there. As a young fashion illustrator living in New York City in the 1940s, she seemed the least likely candidate for such a life of adventure. But marriage to a hunter-explorer took her to what was then the Belgian Congo, and divorce left her determined to stay on in neighboring Rwanda as the manager of a flower plantation.
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A special and memorable book
- By Margaret Collette on 05-12-2023
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Land of a Thousand Hills
- My Life in Rwanda
- Narrated by: C. M. Hébert
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 24-10-2017
- Language: English
- This is the epic story of a woman alone in an exotic land, struggling to survive untold hardships only to emerge with an extraordinary love for her adopted country and its people....
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Kaffir Boy
- The True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
- By: Mark Mathabane
- Narrated by: Mark Mathabane
- Length: 18 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa’s most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were his rites of passage. Like every other child born in the hopelessness of apartheid, he learned to measure his life in days, not years. Yet Mark Mathabane, armed only with the courage of his family and a hard-won education, raised himself up from the squalor and humiliation to win a scholarship to an American university.
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Wonderful!
- By Anonymous User on 12-10-2017
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Kaffir Boy
- The True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
- Narrated by: Mark Mathabane
- Length: 18 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 06-07-2012
- Language: English
- Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa’s most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were his rites of passage....
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A Thousand Hills
- Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It
- By: Stephen Kinzer
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
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Paul Kagame grew up as a wretched refugee. He and a group of comrades, determined to force their way back home after a generation of exile, designed one of the most audacious covert operations in the history of clandestine war. Then, after taking power, they amazed the world by stabilizing and reviving their devastated country.
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A Thousand Hills
- Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 29-10-2009
- Language: English
- This book recounts the thrilling and uplifting tale of a man who defied the odds to lift himself and his country out of misery toward a more promising future....
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Sufferings in Africa
- By: James Riley
- Narrated by: Brian Emerson
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
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In this classic tale of adventure, a young American sea captain named James Riley, shipwrecked off the western coast of North Africa in 1815, was captured by a band of nomadic Arabs and sold into slavery. Thus begins an epic adventure of survival and a quest for freedom that takes him across the Sahara desert.
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Harrowing and inspirational.
- By Anonymous User on 02-04-2023
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Sufferings in Africa
- Narrated by: Brian Emerson
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 12-12-2005
- Language: English
- A classic travel-adventure narrative and a fascinating testament of white Americans enslaved abroad....
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Long Walk to Freedom
- The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
- By: Nelson Mandela
- Narrated by: Danny Glover
- Length: 6 hrs
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The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, Long Walk to Freedom brilliantly re-creates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. Emotive, compelling, and uplifting, Long Walk to Freedom is the exhilarating story of an epic life; a story of hardship, resilience, and ultimate triumph told with the clarity and eloquence of a born leader.
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Great story
- By Anonymous User on 03-09-2020
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Long Walk to Freedom
- The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
- Narrated by: Danny Glover
- Length: 6 hrs
- Release date: 09-02-2006
- Language: English
- The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time....
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A Doctor in Africa
- By: Dr Andrew Browning
- Narrated by: Jeremy Stanford
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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From Ethiopia to Sierra Leone, Tanzania to Togo, Dr Andrew Browning has been helping women affected by obstetric fistulas - a debilitating condition resulting from obstructed childbirth - for nearly two decades. Andrew began his African career in the 1990s working with the late Dr Catherine Hamlin and since then has started the Barbara May Foundation, which has built hospitals, trained staff and established programs to heal fistulas and also prevent them from occurring around Africa in the world's most disadvantaged women.
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Truly inspiring
- By Anonymous User on 23-07-2022
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A Doctor in Africa
- Narrated by: Jeremy Stanford
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 27-04-2021
- Language: English
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Including a preface by HRH The Princess Royal, Princess Anne. The Australian doctor saving the lives and dignity of thousands of women in Africa, one surgery at a time....
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The Groundings with My Brothers
- By: Walter Rodney
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
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In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale, Rodney found himself a lightning rod for working class Black Power. His deportation catalyzed 20th century Jamaica's most significant rebellion, the 1968 Rodney riots, and his scholarship trained a generation how to think politics at an international scale.
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The Groundings with My Brothers
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 02-12-2020
- Language: English
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In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean....
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Canoeing The Congo
- First Source to Sea Descent of the Congo River
- By: Phil Harwood
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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Canoeing the Congo narrates the journey of Phil Harwood, who undertook an epic five-month solo attempt to canoe the Congo River in war-torn Central Africa. It was a historic 'first descent' from the true source in the highlands of Zambia. Just short of 3,000 miles long, the Congo River is the eighth longest in the world and the deepest river in the world, with a flow rate second only to the Amazon. Along the way, Phil encountered numerous waterfalls, huge rapids, man-eating crocodiles, hippos, aggressive snakes...
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Picks up speed the further downriver you go
- By Katie on 09-12-2015
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Canoeing The Congo
- First Source to Sea Descent of the Congo River
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 02-05-2013
- Language: English
- Canoeing the Congo narrates the journey of Phil Harwood, who undertook an epic five-month solo attempt to canoe the Congo....
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Flight for Life
- An American Company's Dramatic Rescue of Nigerian Burn Victims
- By: Richard D. Stewart
- Narrated by: Elijah Alexander
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
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Flight for Life is the heart-stopping account of one of the most gripping rescue missions in African history, told by a doctor involved in saving the lives of Nigerian workers who became victims of a tragic American chemical company explosion. Dr. Stewart and his colleague moved mountains and cut red tape to fly patients to one of the premiere burn centers in the United States.
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Flight for Life
- An American Company's Dramatic Rescue of Nigerian Burn Victims
- Narrated by: Elijah Alexander
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 01-02-2013
- Language: English
- The harrowing, true-life rescue of Nigerian burn victims and the race against time and distance....
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