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Apollo
- By: Charles Murray, Catherine Bly Cox
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
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Apollo is the behind-the-scenes story of an epic achievement. Based on exhaustive research that included many exclusive interviews, Apollo tells how America went from a standing start to a landing on the moon at a speed that now seems impossible. It describes the unprecedented engineering challenges that had to be overcome to create the mammoth Saturn V and the facilities to launch it. It takes you into the tragedy of the fire on Apollo 1, the first descent to the lunar surface, and the rescue of Apollo 13.
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Inspiring and fun
- By David on 31-08-19
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Children of Ash and Elm
- A History of the Vikings
- By: Neil Price
- Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
- Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
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The Viking Age - from 750 to 1050 saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the wider world. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they ranged from eastern North America to the Asian steppe. But for centuries, the Vikings have been seen through the eyes of others, distorted to suit the tastes of medieval clerics and Elizabethan playwrights, Victorian imperialists, Nazis, and more. None of these appropriations capture the real Vikings, or the richness and sophistication of their culture.
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As a Child of Ash and Elm
- By Stuart Bailey on 02-10-20
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Children of Ash and Elm
- A History of the Vikings
- Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
- Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 25-08-20
- Language: English
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Fallen
- George Mallory: The Man, the Myth and the 1924 Everest Tragedy
- By: Mick Conefrey
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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On June 4,1924 George Mallory donned an oxygen set and set off for the summit of Everest with his young partner Andrew Irvine. Next day they were glimpsed through clouds heading upwards, but after that they were never seen again. Whether they died on the way up or on the way down no one knows. In the years following his disappearance, Mallory was elevated into an all-British hero. Dubbed by his friends the 'Galahad' of Everest, he was lionized in the press as the greatest mountaineer of his generation who had died while taking on the ultimate challenge
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Fallen
- George Mallory: The Man, the Myth and the 1924 Everest Tragedy
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 10-05-24
- Language: English
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Endurance
- Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
- By: Alfred Lansing
- Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
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You'll be awe-inspired by the heroic efforts of the crew of the Endurance, a ship that battled its way for six weeks through thousands of miles of pack ice while ironically only a day's sail from its destination.
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As soon as I'd finished it I started it again
- By Paul on 17-01-07
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Endurance
- Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
- Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 23-05-00
- Language: English
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The Worst Journey in the World
- By: Apsley Cherry-Garrard
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 20 hrs and 6 mins
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This gripping story of courage and achievement is the account of Robert Falcon Scott's last fateful expedition to the Antarctic, as told by surviving expedition member Apsley Cherry-Garrard. Cherry-Garrard, whom Scott lauded as a tough, efficient member of the team, tells of the journey from England to South Africa and southward to the ice floes. From there began the unforgettable polar journey across a forbidding and inhospitable region.
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Takes your breath away
- By Bettym on 17-06-13
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The Worst Journey in the World
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 20 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 29-04-04
- Language: English
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The Lost City of Z
- A Legendary British Explorer's Deadly Quest to Uncover the Secrets of the Amazon
- By: David Grann
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
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Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett was among the last of a legendary breed of British explorers. For years he explored the Amazon and came to believe that its jungle concealed a large, complex civilization, like El Dorado. Obsessed with its discovery, he christened it the City of Z. In 1925, Fawcett headed into the wilderness with his son Jack, vowing to make history. They vanished without a trace. For the next eighty years, hordes of explorers plunged into the jungle, trying to find evidence of Fawcett's party or Z. Some died from disease and starvation; others simply disappeared.
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A bit disappointing
- By CherryMc on 10-06-23
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The Lost City of Z
- A Legendary British Explorer's Deadly Quest to Uncover the Secrets of the Amazon
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 12-05-23
- Language: English
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Wild Life
- The Outlaws, Gamblers, and Cowboys Who Made the West Wild
- By: Bruce Wilson Jr.
- Narrated by: Brian T. Schultz
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
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The Old West was wilder than the movies. Picture cowboys, saloons, railroads, and outlaws. You might think you know the Wild West, but Hollywood’s Westerns didn’t tell you the whole story. Reality was even wilder than fiction. Walk through the swinging doors of Old West saloons, ride along on daring escapes, and dive into the showdowns between sheriffs and outlaws. This book will make you look at the Wild West in a new light. Discover what really made the West wild in Wild Life.
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Wild Life
- The Outlaws, Gamblers, and Cowboys Who Made the West Wild
- Narrated by: Brian T. Schultz
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 29-05-24
- Language: English
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A First Rate Tragedy
- By: Diana Preston
- Narrated by: Philip Franks
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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On November 12, 1912, a rescue team trekking across Antarctica's Great Ice Barrier finally found what they sought - the snow-covered tent of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott. Inside, they made a grim discovery: Scott's frozen body lay between the bodies of two fellow explorers. They had died just eleven miles from the depot of supplies which might have saved them.
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Interesting and Sad.
- By Lee on 30-05-24
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A First Rate Tragedy
- Narrated by: Philip Franks
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 12-03-12
- Language: English
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The Great Polar Fraud
- Cook, Peary, and Byrd - How Three American Heroes Duped the World into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole
- By: Anthony Galvin
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
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The Great Polar Fraud explores the history of the three men who claimed the pole, their claims, and the subsequent doubts of those claims, effectively rewriting the history of polar exploration and putting Amundsen center stage as the rightful conqueror of both poles.
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Wow
- By Damian Rees on 28-02-22
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The Great Polar Fraud
- Cook, Peary, and Byrd - How Three American Heroes Duped the World into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 18-11-14
- Language: English
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The Mapmaker's Wife
- A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon
- By: Robert Whitaker
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
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In the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to measure the precise shape of the earth. Like Lewis and Clark's exploration of the American West, their incredible mission revealed the mysteries of a little-known continent to a world hungry for discovery. Scaling 16,000-foot mountains in the Peruvian Andes, and braving jaguars, pumas, insects, and vampire bats in the jungle, the scientists barely completed their mission.
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Mind-boggling Adventure.
- By Pamela on 11-08-19
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The Mapmaker's Wife
- A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 30-07-19
- Language: English
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Scott and Amundsen
- Their Race to the South Pole
- By: Roland Huntford
- Narrated by: Tim Piggott-Smith
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
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This is a brilliant dual biography charting British Robert Scott's and Norwegian Roald Amundsen's race to the South Pole during 1911-12. Huntuford's is the accepted, definitive account of the race and a reassessment of the two men. Thoroughly researched, revealing the adventures and misfortunes that befell them both, he describes the driving ambitions of the era, and the complex, often deeply flawed individuals who were charged with carrying them out.
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Debunking a myth
- By Steven on 16-01-17
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Scott and Amundsen
- Their Race to the South Pole
- Narrated by: Tim Piggott-Smith
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 03-12-07
- Language: English
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The Normans
- From Raiders to Kings
- By: Lars Brownworth
- Narrated by: James C. Lewis
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
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In The Normans, Lars Brownworth follows their story, from the first shock of a Viking raid on an Irish monastery to the exile of the last Norman Prince of Antioch. In the process, he brings to vivid life the Norman tapestry's rich cast of characters: figures like Rollo the Walker, William Iron-Arm, Tancred the Monkey King, and Robert Guiscard. The Normans presents a fascinating glimpse of a time when a group of restless adventurers had the world at their fingertips.
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Highly enjoyable
- By maz cardwell on 05-08-21
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The Normans
- From Raiders to Kings
- Narrated by: James C. Lewis
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 28-10-14
- Language: English
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South
- The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917
- By: Sir Ernest Shackleton
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
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As war clouds darkened over Europe in 1914, a party led by Sir Ernest Shackleton set out to make the first crossing of the entire Antarctic continent via the Pole. But their initial optimism was short-lived as ice floes closed around their ship, gradually crushing it and marooning twenty-eight men on the polar ice. Alone in the world's most unforgiving environment, Shackleton and his team began a brutal quest for survival.
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Truly Magnificent
- By J NEILL on 12-09-13
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South
- The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 23-03-11
- Language: English
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Infinite Powers
- How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
- By: Steven Strogatz
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
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Infinite Powers recounts how calculus tantalized and thrilled its inventors, starting with its first glimmers in ancient Greece and bringing us right up to the discovery of gravitational waves. Strogatz reveals how this form of math rose to the challenges of each age: how to determine the area of a circle with only sand and a stick; how to explain why Mars goes "backwards" sometimes; how to turn the tide in the fight against AIDS.
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Incomplete audiobook
- By Erich Graf on 25-10-21
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Infinite Powers
- How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 20-08-19
- Language: English
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The Plant-Hunter's Atlas
- A World Tour of Botanical Adventures, Chance Discoveries and Strange Specimens
- By: Ambra Edwards, Kew Royal Botanic Gardens
- Narrated by: Ambra Edwards
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
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The Plant Hunter's Atlas is a volume telling some of the most extraordinary tales of horticultural discovery and exploring the characters behind the stories. Taking in the world's inhabited continents and spanning the centuries, the stories range from tales of derring-do in the age of discovery to modern-day botanists working at the cutting-edge of science. The text explores how plant hunters have been inspired by everything from scientific curiosity to economic greed, and their own ingrained sense of adventure.
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Great book but struggling with narration
- By Rosa on 10-05-23
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The Plant-Hunter's Atlas
- A World Tour of Botanical Adventures, Chance Discoveries and Strange Specimens
- Narrated by: Ambra Edwards
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 01-06-21
- Language: English
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Finding Endurance
- Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End
- By: Darrel Bristow-Bovey
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
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Acclaimed South African writer Darrel Bristow-Bovey has a deeply personal relationship with the story of Endurance and in this lyrical, loving journey into past and present, into humanity and the natural world, above and below the Antarctic ice, he revisits the famous story from a contemporary perspective, wondering why it seems to mean more today than ever before, and exploring our changing relationship with ourselves and the ice, and with our shared story of survival.
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Story for mankind
- By Gillian on 19-04-24
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Finding Endurance
- Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 06-04-23
- Language: English
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España
- A Brief History of Spain
- By: Giles Tremlett
- Narrated by: Luis Soto
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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Spain's position on Europe's southwestern corner has exposed it to cultural, political and actual winds blowing from all quadrants. Africa lies a mere nine miles to the south. The Mediterranean connects it to the civilisational currents of Phoenicians, Romans, Carthaginians and Byzantines as well as the Arabic lands of the Near East. Hordes from the Russian steppes were amongst the first to arrive. They would be followed by Visigoths, Arabs, Napoleonic armies and many more invaders and immigrants.
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Infuriating
- By Nigel King on 02-06-22
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Ancient Bones
- Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human
- By: Madelaine Böhme
- Narrated by: Aimée Ayotte
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
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Africa has long been considered the cradle of life - where life and humans evolved - but somewhere west of Munich, Germany, paleoclimatologist and paleontologist Madelaine Böhme and her team make a discovery that is beyond anything they ever imagined: the 12-million-year-old bones of an ancient ape - Danuvius guggenmos - which makes headlines around the world and defies prevailing theories of human history and where human life began.
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Fascinating and Accessible Update
- By veyza on 14-08-23
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Ancient Bones
- Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human
- Narrated by: Aimée Ayotte
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 16-07-21
- Language: English
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The Earl and the Pharaoh
- From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun
- By: Countess of Carnarvon
- Narrated by: Countess of Carnarvon
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
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In November 1922, a new door to the ancient past was opened. The discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun would be the most astonishing of the young century. Howard Carter was the lead archaeologist, but the years of excavations were funded and engineered by the 5th Earl of Carnarvon, George Herbert, whose country house Highclere Castle is today known as the set of Downton Abbey. In dramatic detail, calling on Highclere Castle’s archives to throw new light on the lustrous settings and striking characters, this book reveals the true story behind the thrilling discoveries made in Egypt.
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Remarkable
- By Reginald pelle on 18-11-23
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The Earl and the Pharaoh
- From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun
- Narrated by: Countess of Carnarvon
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 27-10-22
- Language: English
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Beyond the Trees
- A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic
- By: Adam Shoalts
- Narrated by: Adam Shoalts
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
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What does it mean to explore and confront the unknown? Beyond the Trees recounts Adam Shoalts's epic, never-before-attempted solo crossing of Canada's mainland Arctic in a single season. It's also a multilayered story that weaves the narrative of Shoalts's journey into accounts of other adventurers, explorers, First Nations, fur traders, dreamers, eccentrics, and bush pilots to create an unforgettable tale of adventure and exploration.
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Fascinating and inspiring
- By C. S. Ward on 10-01-24
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Beyond the Trees
- A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic
- Narrated by: Adam Shoalts
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 08-10-19
- Language: English
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