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The New Science of the Enchanted Universe
- An Anthropology of Most of Humanity
- By: Marshall Sahlins
- Narrated by: BJ Harrison
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
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From the perspective of Western modernity, humanity inhabits a disenchanted cosmos. Yet the vast majority of cultures throughout human history treat spirits as very real persons, members of a cosmic society who interact with humans and control their fate. In most cultures, even today, people are but a small part of an enchanted universe misconstrued by the transcendent categories of "religion" and the "supernatural." The New Science of the Enchanted Universe shows how anthropologists and other social scientists must rethink these cultures of immanence and study them by their own lights.
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The New Science of the Enchanted Universe
- An Anthropology of Most of Humanity
- Narrated by: BJ Harrison
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 25-04-23
- Language: English
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The World Before Us
- How Science Is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins
- By: Tom Higham
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance110
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Fifty thousand years ago, we were not the only species of human in the world. There were at least four others, including the Neanderthals, Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonesis and the Denisovans. At the forefront of the latter's ground-breaking discovery was Oxford Professor Tom Higham. In The World Before Us, he explains the scientific and technological advancements.
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Wonderful
- By McKenna on 18-05-23
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The World Before Us
- How Science Is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 25-03-21
- Language: English
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Upon A White Horse
- A Financial Times Best Book of 2025 and Radio 4 Book of the Week
- By: Peter Ross
- Narrated by: Peter Ross
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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*A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK, FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOKS OF 2025, SCOTSMAN BOOKS OF 2025, COUNTRY LIFE BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2025* 'Packed with anecdote and colour, it's a surprisingly touching portrait of the countries' - Financial Times, Best Books of 2025 'An insightful and engaging reflection on...
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Enjoyable journey through time and place
- By Lindrick on 15-01-26
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Upon A White Horse
- A Financial Times Best Book of 2025 and Radio 4 Book of the Week
- Narrated by: Peter Ross
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 11-09-25
- Language: English
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On the Trail of Genghis Khan
- An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads
- By: Tim Cope
- Narrated by: Dugald Bruce Bruce Lockhart
- Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance3
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Bloomsbury presents On the Trail of Genghis Khan by Tim Cope, read by Dugald Bruce-Lockhart. The relationship between man and horse on the Eurasian steppe gave rise to a succession of rich nomadic cultures. Among them were the Mongols of the thirteenth century – a small tribe, which, under the...
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On the Trail of Genghis Khan
- An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads
- Narrated by: Dugald Bruce Bruce Lockhart
- Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 31-03-21
- Language: English
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If Only They Didn't Speak English
- Notes From Trump's America
- By: Jon Sopel
- Narrated by: Jon Sopel
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,004
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Performance902
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As the BBC's North America Editor, Jon Sopel has had a pretty busy time of it lately. In the 18 months it's taken for a reality star to go from laughingstock to leader of the free world, Jon has travelled the length and breadth of the United States, experiencing it from a perspective that most of us could only dream of: he has flown aboard Air Force One, interviewed President Obama and has even been described as 'a beauty' by none other than Donald Trump.
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Really good
- By lilac on 28-09-17
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If Only They Didn't Speak English
- Notes From Trump's America
- Narrated by: Jon Sopel
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 07-09-17
- Language: English
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To the Limit
- The Meaning of Endurance from Mexico to the Himalayas
- By: Michael Crawley
- Narrated by: Raj Ghatak
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Bloomsbury presents To the Limit by Michael Crawley, read by Raj Ghatak 'A fascinating and multilayered exploration of what it means to endure' Alex Hutchinson, author of Endure The author of Out of Thin Air, winner of the Margaret Mead Award 2022, journeys through different cultures to find out...
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Excellent popular anthropology text
- By Elizabete Smildzina on 17-09-24
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To the Limit
- The Meaning of Endurance from Mexico to the Himalayas
- Narrated by: Raj Ghatak
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 12-09-24
- Language: English
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Mothers and Others
- The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding
- By: Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
- Narrated by: Helen Stern
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance14
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Somewhere in Africa, more than a million years ago, a line of apes began to rear their young differently than their Great Ape ancestors. From this new form of care came new ways of engaging and understanding each other. How such singular human capacities evolved, and how they have kept us alive for thousands of generations, is the mystery revealed in this bold and wide-ranging new vision of human emotional evolution. Mothers and Others finds the key in the primatologically unique length of human childhood.
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Fascinating Explaination Of Shared & Differing Traits
- By Edward on 12-08-22
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Mothers and Others
- The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding
- Narrated by: Helen Stern
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 21-11-13
- Language: English
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Ritual
- How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living
- By: Dimitris Xygalatas
- Narrated by: Neil Gardner
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance17
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Ritual is perhaps the oldest, and certainly the most enigmatic, thread in human culture. Seemingly pointless ceremonies pervade every known society: from handshakes to hexes, hazings to parades, birthdays to graduations. And yet, though rituals exist in every culture and can persist nearly unchanged for centuries, their logic has remained a mystery until now. Today, a fearless new generation of anthropologists is venturing into this shadowy realm.
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Very enlightening
- By S on 23-05-26
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Ritual
- How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living
- Narrated by: Neil Gardner
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 09-06-22
- Language: English
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Putin and the Return of History
- How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War
- By: Martin Sixsmith, Daniel Sixsmith
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall38
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Performance32
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Bloomsbury presents Putin and the Return of History by Martin Sixsmith, read by Jonathan Keeble. An original history of Russia's thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin's politics and rekindled the Cold War. Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has reshaped...
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The more I read the more I wanted!
- By Scott Sibbald on 14-04-24
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Putin and the Return of History
- How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 18-01-24
- Language: English
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Superior
- The Return of Race Science
- By: Angela Saini
- Narrated by: Angela Saini
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall270
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Performance229
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Financial Times Book of the Year Telegraph Top 50 Books of the Year Guardian Book of the Year New Statesman Book of the Year ‘Roundly debunks racism’s core lie – that inequality is to do with genetics, rather than political power’ Reni Eddo-Lodge For millennia, dominant societies have...
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This is a great book
- By Bennett Gaverne on 30-05-19
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Superior
- The Return of Race Science
- Narrated by: Angela Saini
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 30-05-19
- Language: English
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Unbound
- How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink
- By: Richard L. Currier
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall90
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Performance79
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Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago in the form of prehistoric tools and weapons. Over time, eight key technologies gradually freed us from the limitations of our animal origins.
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I almost didn't listen to this
- By hellojoanie on 10-01-22
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Unbound
- How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 23-11-15
- Language: English
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The Mask of Masculinity
- How Men Can Embrace Vulnerability, Create Strong Relationships, and Live Their Fullest Lives
- By: Lewis Howes
- Narrated by: Lewis Howes
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall198
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Performance172
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Lewis Howes grew up as an athlete. He was a two-sport All-American and went on to play football professionally. Howes then transferred his competitive nature from sports to business, building his podcast, The School of Greatness, into a global phenomenon. But his whole identity was built on misguided beliefs about what "masculinity" was: dangerous, false ideas learned from teammates and coaches in locker rooms and stereotypes in the media. Like so many men, Howes grew up to be angry, frustrated, and always chasing something that was never enough.
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Insightfull
- By BigSpender on 15-12-18
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The Mask of Masculinity
- How Men Can Embrace Vulnerability, Create Strong Relationships, and Live Their Fullest Lives
- Narrated by: Lewis Howes
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 31-10-17
- Language: English
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Kindred
- By: Rebecca Wragg Sykes
- Narrated by: Rebecca Wragg Sykes
- Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall366
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Performance332
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In Kindred, Neanderthal expert Becky Wragg Sykes shoves aside the cliché of the shivering ragged figure in an icy wasteland and reveals the Neanderthal you don’t know, who lived across vast and diverse tracts of Eurasia and survived through hundreds of thousands of years of massive climate change. Using a thematic rather than chronological approach, this book will shed new light on where they lived, what they ate and the increasingly complex Neanderthal culture that is being discovered.
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Was this recorded inside a biscuit tin?
- By hhj on 31-05-21
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Kindred
- Narrated by: Rebecca Wragg Sykes
- Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 25-08-20
- Language: English
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All the Living and the Dead
- A Personal Investigation into the Death Trade
- By: Hayley Campbell
- Narrated by: Hayley Campbell
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall87
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Performance79
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Bloomsbury presents All the Living and the Dead written and read by Hayley Campbell. A gentle book and, like death itself, sometimes an unexpectedly kind one' Neil Gaiman 'This is an absorbing and important book, seeking out stories so many shy away from and telling them with such respect...
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A Thorough Dig
- By elaine4queen on 04-04-22
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All the Living and the Dead
- A Personal Investigation into the Death Trade
- Narrated by: Hayley Campbell
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 31-03-22
- Language: English
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The Golden Bough
- A Study in Magic and Religion
- By: Sir James George Frazer
- Narrated by: Andrew Cullum
- Length: 44 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The Golden Bough, the monumental study of religious rites and practices in ‘primitive’ societies, was one of the earliest influential texts in anthropology. Its author, Sir James Frazer, surveyed the wide range of cultural habits, taboos and beliefs in communities across the world concluding that there was an observable pattern in the way magic developed into religion, though formal expression emerged in different ways.
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Beautifully read
- By Stephy Byng on 05-03-26
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The Golden Bough
- A Study in Magic and Religion
- Narrated by: Andrew Cullum
- Length: 44 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 08-01-20
- Language: English
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Decolonising My Body
- A radical exploration of rituals and beauty
- By: Afua Hirsch
- Narrated by: Afua Hirsch
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall36
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Brought to you by Penguin. How do we determine what is beautiful? Whose standards are we trying to meet when we spend our hard-earned money on our haircare, skincare and makeup; where do they come from, and how can we learn to undo them? Upon getting her first tattoo at 40 years old...
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Captivating, educational and uplifting!
- By Anonymous on 21-10-23
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Decolonising My Body
- A radical exploration of rituals and beauty
- Narrated by: Afua Hirsch
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 19-10-23
- Language: English
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Argumentos para un mundo mejor
- ¿Cómo puede ayudarnos la filosofía a luchar por la justicia social?
- By: Arianne Shahvisi
- Narrated by: María Gabriela Mendoza
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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¿Es sexista decir que «los hombres son una basura»? ¿Pueden las personas blancas ser víctimas del racismo? ¿El cambio climático es responsabilidad de cada uno de nosotros? Todos hemos lidiado con este tipo de preguntas, ya sea que estemos gritándole a un pariente al otro lado de la mesa...
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Argumentos para un mundo mejor
- ¿Cómo puede ayudarnos la filosofía a luchar por la justicia social?
- Narrated by: María Gabriela Mendoza
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 26-06-26
- Language: Spanish
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A Troublesome Inheritance
- Genes, Race, and Human History
- By: Nicholas Wade
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
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Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story Fewer ideas have been more toxic or harmful than the idea of the biological reality of race, and with it the idea that humans of different races...
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A Troublesome Inheritance
- Genes, Race, and Human History
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 06-05-14
- Language: English
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The Patterning Instinct
- A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning
- By: Jeremy Lent, Fritjof Capra - foreword
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 19 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall157
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Performance134
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This fresh perspective on crucial questions of history identifies the root metaphors that cultures have used to construct meaning in their world. It offers a glimpse into the minds of a vast range of different peoples: early hunter-gatherers and farmers, ancient Egyptians, traditional Chinese sages, the founders of Christianity, trailblazers of the Scientific Revolution, and those who constructed our modern consumer society.
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Broad and Focused
- By Nathaniel on 10-01-18
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The Patterning Instinct
- A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 19 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 19-09-17
- Language: English
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Classic Krakauer
- "Mark Foo's Last Ride," "After the Fall," and Other Essays from the Vault
- By: Jon Krakauer
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
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Spanning an extraordinary range of subjects and locations, these ten gripping essays show why Jon Krakauer is considered a standard-bearer of modern journalism. His pieces take us from a horrifying avalanche on Mount Everest to a volcano poised to obliterate a big chunk of Seattle; from a...
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Classic Krakauer
- "Mark Foo's Last Ride," "After the Fall," and Other Essays from the Vault
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 27-02-18
- Language: English
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