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The Black Ridge
- Amongst the Cuillin of Skye
- By: Simon Ingram
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 24 hrs and 32 mins
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The iconic ridge of the Black Cuillin on the Isle of Skye is the UK’s most challenging mountain range. Over 11 kilometres long and above 3,000 feet in places, the ridge contains 11 Munros and 16 other summits. In The Black Ridge, Simon Ingram offers a powerful distillation of the atmosphere, history and experience of the ridge: Britain’s ultimate mountain range.
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Honest, accurate and passionate.
- By Luke on 25-09-21
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The Black Ridge
- Amongst the Cuillin of Skye
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 24 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 19-08-21
- Language: English
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An Unsung Hero
- Tom Crean - Antarctic Survivor
- By: Michael Smith
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
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Tom Crean was the farmer’s son from Kerry who sailed on three major expeditions to the unknown Antarctic over a century ago. He served with both Captain Robert Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton, spent longer on the ice than either and outlived them both. But Tom Crean returned to Ireland and never spoke about his exploits, taking his incredible story to the grave - until the publication of An Unsung Hero, which unearthed his story and saw him rightfully placed amongst the annals of the great explorers.
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what a life, what a story!
- By Moshe Cohen on 04-01-22
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An Unsung Hero
- Tom Crean - Antarctic Survivor
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 08-08-21
- Language: English
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An Empire of Ice
- Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science
- By: Edward J. Larson
- Narrated by: John Allen Nelson
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
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Published to coincide with the centenary of the first expeditions to reach the South Pole, An Empire of Ice presents a fascinating new take on Antarctic exploration. Retold with added information, it's the first book to place the famed voyages of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, his British rivals Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton, and others in a larger scientific, social, and geopolitical context.
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A laughable take on the british defeat in the race for the pole
- By aksel samuelsberg on 19-04-24
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An Empire of Ice
- Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science
- Narrated by: John Allen Nelson
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 22-06-11
- Language: English
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In the Heart of the Sea
- By: Nathaniel Philbrick
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
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The epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the 19th century - now a major motion picture starring Chris Hemsworth. The sinking of the whaleship Essex by an enraged spermwhale in the Pacific in November 1820 set in motion one of the most dramatic sea stories of all time: the 20 sailors who survived the wreck took to three small boats (one of which was again attacked by a whale), and only eight of them survived their subsequent 90-day ordeal, after resorting to cannibalising their mates.
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Hope was all that stood between them and death
- By Wras on 14-12-15
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In the Heart of the Sea
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 11-11-15
- Language: English
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Why We Love Pirates
- The Hunt for Captain Kidd and How He Changed Piracy Forever
- By: Rebecca Simon PhD
- Narrated by: Kate Mulligan
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
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During his life and even after his death, Captain William Kidd’s name was known around England and the American colonies. He was infamous for the very crime for which he was hanged, piracy. This book by Rebecca Simon dives into the details of the two-year manhunt for Captain Kidd and the events that ensued afterward. Captain Kidd was hanged in 1701, and from that sprung a massive hunt for all pirates led by the British during a period known as the Golden Age of Piracy. Ironically, public executions only led to pirates’ growth in popularity and interest.
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Don't waste your time.
- By Kindle Customer on 16-10-22
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Why We Love Pirates
- The Hunt for Captain Kidd and How He Changed Piracy Forever
- Narrated by: Kate Mulligan
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 17-11-20
- Language: English
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The Sea Wolves
- A History of the Vikings
- By: Lars Brownworth
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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In AD 793 Norse warriors struck the English isle of Lindisfarne and laid waste to it. Wave after wave of Norse "sea wolves" followed in search of plunder, land, or a glorious death in battle. Much of the British Isles fell before their swords, and the continental capitals of Paris and Aachen were sacked in turn. Turning east, they swept down the uncharted rivers of central Europe, captured Kiev, and clashed with mighty Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
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More history they didn't teach you at school
- By Turquelblue on 24-02-16
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The Sea Wolves
- A History of the Vikings
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 23-06-15
- Language: English
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Born to Be Hanged
- The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
- By: Keith Thomson
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
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The year is 1680, in the heart of the Golden Age of Piracy, and more than 300 daring, hardened pirates—a potent mix of low-life scallywags and a rare breed of gentlemen buccaneers—gather on a remote Caribbean island. The plan: to wreak havoc on the Pacific coastline, raiding cities, mines, and merchant ships. The booty: the bright gleam of Spanish gold and the chance to become a legend. So begins one of the greatest piratical adventures of the era—a story not given its full due until now.
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Splendid!
- By Simon M. on 10-01-24
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Born to Be Hanged
- The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 10-05-22
- Language: English
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Columbus
- The Four Voyages
- By: Laurence Bergreen
- Narrated by: Tim Jerome
- Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
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From the author of the Magellan biography, Over the Edge of the World, a mesmerizing new account of the great explorer. Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a trading route to China, and his unexpected landfall in the Americas, is a watershed event in world history.
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Columbus
- The Four Voyages
- Narrated by: Tim Jerome
- Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 20-09-11
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Portugal
- Indispensable for Travellers
- By: Jeremy Black
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
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This is a comprehensive history of Portugal that covers the whole span, from the Stone Age to today. An introduction provides an understanding of geographical and climatic issues, before an examination of Portugal's prehistory and classical Portugal, from the Stone Age to the end of the the Roman era. Portugal's history from AD 420 to the 13th century takes in the Suevi, Visigoths and Moors. Then, a look at medieval Portugal, covers the development of Christian Portugal culminating with the expulsion of the Moors, with a focus on key sites.
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Great insights but wish more on 20th century
- By A Prince Tavira on 23-02-21
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A Brief History of Portugal
- Indispensable for Travellers
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Series: Indispensable for Travellers
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 02-04-20
- Language: English
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The Lewis and Clark Journals
- An American Epic of Discovery
- By: Lewis, Clark
- Narrated by: Patrick Cullen
- Length: 18 hrs and 55 mins
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In their own words, recorded in the famous journals of Lewis and Clark, the members of the Corps of Discovery tell their story with an immediacy and power missing from secondhand accounts. All of their triumphs and terrors are here: the thrill of seeing the vast herds of bison, the fear the captains felt when Sacagawea fell ill, the ordeal of crossing the Continental Divide, the misery of cold and hunger, and the kidnapping and rescue of Lewis' dog, Seaman.
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An epic journey westward
- By Colin on 02-04-24
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The Lewis and Clark Journals
- An American Epic of Discovery
- Narrated by: Patrick Cullen
- Length: 18 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 30-11-06
- Language: English
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One Man's Climb
- A Journey of Trauma, Tragedy and Triumph on K2
- By: Adrian Hayes
- Narrated by: Adrian Hayes
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
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A deeply moving story of the beauty and brutality of life, and death, on the world's most unpredictable and perilous mountain. Sitting just lower than Everest at 8,611 meters above sea level on the China-Pakistan border, the Savage Mountain claims the lives of even the most experienced climbers. Alongside severe altitude, the weather is notoriously volatile and the climb relentlessly steep. A staggering one in four attempts result in death on the mountain.
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Not a bad story but hated author/narrator
- By RonanFromEire on 15-06-20
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One Man's Climb
- A Journey of Trauma, Tragedy and Triumph on K2
- Narrated by: Adrian Hayes
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 06-06-20
- Language: English
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In Patagonia
- By: Bruce Chatwin
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
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Brought to you by Penguin. Beautifully written and full of wonderful descriptions and intriguing tales, In Patagonia is an account of Bruce Chatwin's travels to a remote country in search of a strange beast and his encounters with the people whose fascinating stories delay him on the road.
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Travel Writing?
- By Jonathan Charles Cracknell on 01-11-19
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In Patagonia
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 24-10-19
- Language: English
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When Montezuma Met Cortes
- The True Story of the Meeting That Changed History
- By: Matthew Restall
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
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On November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan. This introduction - the prelude to the Spanish seizure of Mexico City and to European colonization of the mainland of the Americas - has long been the symbol of Cortés' bold and brilliant military genius. Montezuma, on the other hand, is remembered as a coward who gave away a vast empire and touched off a wave of colonial invasions across the hemisphere.
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When Montezuma Met Cortes
- The True Story of the Meeting That Changed History
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 30-01-18
- Language: English
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The Oregon Trail
- A New American Journey
- By: Rinker Buck
- Narrated by: Rinker Buck
- Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
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In the best-selling tradition of Bill Bryson and Tony Horwitz, Rinker Buck's The Oregon Trail is a major work of participatory history: an epic account of traveling the entire 2,000-mile length of the Oregon Trail the old-fashioned way, in a covered wagon with a team of mules - which hasn't been done in a century - that also tells the rich history of the trail, the people who made the migration, and its significance to the country.
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Brilliant
- By P D R on 03-02-23
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The Oregon Trail
- A New American Journey
- Narrated by: Rinker Buck
- Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 30-06-15
- Language: English
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The First Fleet
- By: Rob Mundle
- Narrated by: Paul English
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
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The role of the sailor through history should never be underestimated. Over centuries battles were won and new lands discovered and settled by their skills and nerve. Rob Mundle is back on the ocean to tell one of the great stories of an expedition under sail: the extraordinary eight-month, 17-000-nautical mile voyage of the First Fleet. With customary sweep and swell, Mundle puts you alongside 48-year-old Captain Arthur Phillip on the quarterdeck of the Royal Navy escort, HMS Sirius, as he commands his small armada of 11 ships, carrying over 1420 men, women and children, to the other side of the world.
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Loved it!
- By Gadgetfanatic on 05-04-19
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The First Fleet
- Narrated by: Paul English
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 13-09-18
- Language: English
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Rocket Men
- The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
- By: Robert Kurson
- Narrated by: Ray Porter, Robert Kurson
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
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By August 1968, the American space program was in danger of failing in its two most important objectives: to land a man on the moon by President Kennedy's end-of-decade deadline and to triumph over the Soviets in space. With its back against the wall, NASA made an almost unimaginable leap: It would scrap its usual methodical approach and risk everything on a sudden launch, sending the first men in history to the moon - in just four months.
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Best Apollo book I've listened to
- By Angus Fitton on 09-08-18
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Rocket Men
- The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
- Narrated by: Ray Porter, Robert Kurson
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 03-04-18
- Language: English
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1493
- Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
- By: Charles C. Mann
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
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More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals. When Christopher Columbus set foot in the Americas, he ended that separation at a stroke. Driven by the economic goal of establishing trade with China, he accidentally set off an ecological convulsion as European vessels carried thousands of species to new homes across the oceans.
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A startling new view of world history
- By Andrew on 23-02-15
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1493
- Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 09-08-11
- Language: English
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The Garden of Mars
- Madagascar, an Island Story
- By: John Gimlette
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
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An improbable world beckons. We think we know Madagascar, but it's too big, too eccentric and too impenetrable to be truly understood. If it was stretched out across Europe, the islands would reach from London to Algiers, and yet its road network is barely bigger than tiny Jamaica's. There is no evidence of any human life until about 10,000 years ago, and, when eventually people settled, it was migrants from Borneo - 3,700 miles away - who came out on top.
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The Garden of Mars
- Madagascar, an Island Story
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 07-01-21
- Language: English
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A Cold Spell
- A Human History of Ice
- By: Max Leonard
- Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
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During the Ice Age, early humans saw themselves constantly reflected in these planes of ice - and became more reflective themselves, beginning to create works of art, innovate through technology and develop language. In A Cold Spell: A Human History of Ice, Max Leonard takes us from the beginning of our story to the modern day, tracing the ways ice has influenced our development, our economies, our social customs and our lives - and what it means for us that it is rapidly disappearing from our planet.
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A Cold Spell
- A Human History of Ice
- Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 09-11-23
- Language: English
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Undaunted Courage
- By: Stephen E. Ambrose
- Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
- Length: 21 hrs and 40 mins
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Listen to the colorful and courageous story of Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the opening of the American West.
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A wonderful account of an epic adventure
- By Amazon Customer on 24-05-22
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Undaunted Courage
- Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
- Length: 21 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 12-06-01
- Language: English
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