Showing results for "Desert" in Biographies & Memoirs
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Medicine and Miracles in the High Desert
- My Life Among the Navajo People
- By: Erica M. Elliott
- Narrated by: Erica Elliott
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
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After her first week teaching at a boarding school on the Navajo Reservation near Canyon de Chelly, young Erica Elliott almost leaves in despair, unable to communicate with the children or understand cultural cues. But once she starts learning the Navajo language, the people begin to trust her, taking her into their homes and ceremonies. As she is drawn deeper into Navajo life, Erica has a series of profound experiences with the people, animals, and spirits of Canyon de Chelly. Fulfilling a Navajo grandmother’s prophecy, she returns years later as a medical doctor.
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- By Anonymous on 03-01-25
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Medicine and Miracles in the High Desert
- My Life Among the Navajo People
- Narrated by: Erica Elliott
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 06-01-20
- Language: English
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Desert Island Discs
- 70 Years of Castaways
- By: Sean Magee
- Narrated by: Juliette Stevenson, Alex Jennings
- Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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For 70 years now Desert Island Discs has managed that rare feat - to be both enduring and relevant. By casting away the biggest names of the day in science, business, politics, showbiz, sport, and the arts, it presents a cross-sectional snapshot of the times in which we live. As the decades have passed, the programme has kept pace; never frozen in time yet always, somehow, comfortingly the same.
BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs celebrates its 70 birthday in 2012.
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Desert Island Discs
- By georgina on 21-06-13
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Desert Island Discs
- 70 Years of Castaways
- Narrated by: Juliette Stevenson, Alex Jennings
- Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 08-11-12
- Language: English
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Desert Sniper
- How One Ordinary Brit Went to War Against ISIS
- By: Ed Nash
- Narrated by: Finlay Robertson
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall293
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Performance255
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What makes an ordinary but highly educated Englishman, with no previous military training, decide to travel and fight in one of the most brutal conflicts on the planet? Desert Sniper is an extraordinary, true account of one man's journey from well-meaning volunteer to battle-scarred combat...
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What a man, what a story of war and close shaves.
- By george applegate jnr on 17-06-19
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Desert Sniper
- How One Ordinary Brit Went to War Against ISIS
- Narrated by: Finlay Robertson
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 06-09-18
- Language: English
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Desert Island Dishes
- By: Desert Island Dishes
- Original Recording
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What would you choose as your last meal? Chef Margie Nomura talks to a special guest about the seven dishes that have shaped their lives. In this podcast you will find conversations with interesting people from the world of food and beyond uncovering the seminal dishes and experiences that have shaped who they are today. We will find out about their favourite childhood dishes, the dishes they eat the most often, and the dishes that mean the most to them. And of course we will also discover what their last dish would be before being cast off to the desert island.
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The Perfect Food Podcast
- By Nicholas J. Kafka on 10-07-25
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Desert Solitaire
- A Season in the Wilderness
- By: Edward Abbey
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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When Desert Solitaire was first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude and sensitive. Thought-provoking and mystical. Angry and loving. Both Abbey and this book are all of these and more. Here, the legendary author of The Monkey Wrench Gang, Abbey's Road and many other critically acclaimed books vividly captures the essence of his life during three seasons as a park ranger in southeastern Utah.
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I know it's a classic essay but....
- By Video Guy on 15-10-20
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Desert Solitaire
- A Season in the Wilderness
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 21-12-11
- Language: English
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'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?'
- A Confrontation in the Desert
- By: Spike Milligan
- Narrated by: Spike Milligan
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall426
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Performance373
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Penguin Presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Rommel? 'Gunner Who?' written and read by Spike Milligan. 'Keep talking, Milligan. I think I can get you out on Mental Grounds.''That's how I got in, sir.''Didn't we all.' The second volume of Spike Milligan's legendary...
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Spike at his best
- By Gary on 19-03-16
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'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?'
- A Confrontation in the Desert
- Narrated by: Spike Milligan
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 04-02-16
- Language: English
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Desert Fox
- The Storied Military Career of Erwin Rommel
- By: Samuel W. Mitcham Jr.
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance78
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This is the strange and fascinating life of Erwin Rommel, from his days as a youth in Imperial Germany - when he had a child out of wedlock with an early girlfriend - through his lauded military exploits during World War I to his death by suicide during World War II, after he attempted a failed coup against Hitler. Rommel was a man of contradictions: a soldier who wrote a best-selling book about World War I, a commander who went from commanding Hitler's bodyguard to trying to kill him, and a serious military mind who was known for participating in practical jokes.
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fascinating
- By Patricia N. on 20-07-25
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Desert Fox
- The Storied Military Career of Erwin Rommel
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 12-03-19
- Language: English
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A Heart That Works
- The Sunday Times bestselling, moving true story of love and loss - as heard on R4's Desert Island Discs
- By: Rob Delaney
- Narrated by: Rob Delaney
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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WINNER OF THE BRITISH RADIO ACADAMY ARIAS AWARD FOR BEST AUDIOBOOK The comedian and star of Catastrophe's devastatingly moving memoir about his young son's death. In this devastating, beautiful and deeply moving memoir of the loss of his son, Rob Delaney explores what life really means, and why...
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Wonderful
- By e deoliveira on 18-09-23
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A Heart That Works
- The Sunday Times bestselling, moving true story of love and loss - as heard on R4's Desert Island Discs
- Narrated by: Rob Delaney
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 20-10-22
- Language: English
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The War Magician
- The Man Who Conjured Victory in the Desert
- By: David Fisher
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings
- Length: 15 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Jasper Maskelyne was a world famous magician and illusionist in the 1930s. When war broke out, he volunteered his services to the British Army and was sent to Egypt when the desert war began. Here, he used his unique skills to save the vital port of Alexandria from German bombers and to 'hide' the Suez Canal from them. He invented all sorts of camouflage methods to make trucks look like tanks and vice versa. On Malta he developed 'the world's first portable holes': fake bomb craters used to fool the Germans into thinking they had hit their targets.
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Twaddle, disguised as history.
- By AirtrooperTom on 20-04-26
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The War Magician
- The Man Who Conjured Victory in the Desert
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings
- Length: 15 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 16-04-23
- Language: English
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Eagles - Dark Desert Highway
- How America’s Dream Band Turned into a Nightmare
- By: Mick Wall
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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'This could be heaven or this could be hell...' So sings Don Henley on their biggest hit, 'Hotel California', and it is true that the Eagles story was one that blurred the ultimate Hollywood highs and subterranean LA lows beyond recognition. The band that embodied the American dream with...
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Beautifully jaundiced, amusing and cynical
- By C Walker on 09-03-26
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Eagles - Dark Desert Highway
- How America’s Dream Band Turned into a Nightmare
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 25-05-23
- Language: English
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The Desert Swimmer
- From Severe Depression on an Outback Sheep Station to Swimming the English Channel
- By: Brendan Cullen, Paul Mitchell
- Narrated by: Shane Emmett
- Length: 6 hrs
- Unabridged
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Brendan Cullen manages Kars Station, a 10,000-head sheep property 65 kilometres outside Broken Hill, New South Wales. In 2022, despite his nearest beach being more than 600 kilometres away, he swam the English Channel. Taking up swimming was part of Brendan's recovery from severe depression, an illness that had seen him cope in highly unhealthy ways–drinking, overwork, being emotionally absent–for years. But then he found the strength to walk through the doors of Broken Hill Hospital and ask for help.
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The Desert Swimmer
- From Severe Depression on an Outback Sheep Station to Swimming the English Channel
- Narrated by: Shane Emmett
- Length: 6 hrs
- Release date: 03-03-26
- Language: English
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Cries in the Desert
- The Shocking True Story of a Sadistic Torturer
- By: John Glatt
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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In the fall of 1999, a 22-year-old woman was discovered naked and bleeding on the streets of a small New Mexico town south of Albuquerque. She was chained to a padlocked metal collar. The tale she told authorities - of being beaten, raped, and tortured with electric shock - was unthinkable. Until she led them to 59-year-old David Ray Parker, his 39-year-old fiancee Cindy Hendy, and the lakeside trailer they called their "toy box." What the FBI uncovered was unprecedented in the annals of serial crime.
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The reader is dreadful
- By james smith on 20-08-23
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Cries in the Desert
- The Shocking True Story of a Sadistic Torturer
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 21-01-20
- Language: English
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X2 Patrol
- Long Range Desert Group September: November 1943
- By: Capt. John Olivey MC & BAR, Anthony Rogers - introduction
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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John Olivey, an officer in the Long Range Desert Group, saw action in the Western Desert, where he was awarded the Military Cross; he fought in the Dodecanese, for which he was decorated a second time; and saw active service on mainland Greece, and in Istria. In autumn 1943, he was deployed to the Aegean and in October tasked with leading 'Olforce' in an ill-conceived operation to take the island of Levitha. Of some fifty LRDG, he was one of only seven to avoid capture. During the battle for Leros in November, he commanded X2 Patrol at Clidi, a key hilltop position.
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X2 Patrol
- Long Range Desert Group September: November 1943
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 15-08-25
- Language: English
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A Woman in Arabia
- The Writings of the Queen of the Desert
- By: Gertrude Bell, Georgina Howell - editor, Georgina Howell - introduction
- Narrated by: Sian Thomas, Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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A portrait in her own words of the female Lawrence of Arabia, the subject of the PBS documentary Letters from Baghdad, voiced by Tilda Swinton, and the major motion picture Queen of the Desert, starring Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Damian Lewis, and Robert Pattinson and directed by Werner Herzog...
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Beautiful book and listen
- By Firas on 12-11-20
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A Woman in Arabia
- The Writings of the Queen of the Desert
- Narrated by: Sian Thomas, Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 27-10-15
- Language: English
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Lawrence of Arabia on War
- The Campaign in the Desert 1916–18
- By: Robert Johnson
- Narrated by: Robert Johnson
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Bloomsbury presents Lawrence of Arabia on War by Rob Johnson, read by Robert Johnson. WINNER OF THE BRITISH ARMY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 'A riveting account of T. E. Lawrence’s battles on and off the battlefield… Using scrupulous research and succinct prose, Johnson provides a gold mine of...
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The Arab Revolt reviewed
- By the60sthrowback on 23-12-22
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Lawrence of Arabia on War
- The Campaign in the Desert 1916–18
- Narrated by: Robert Johnson
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 30-04-20
- Language: English
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Whale Hunt in the Desert
- Secrets of a Vegas Superhost
- By: Deke Castleman
- Narrated by: Ed Walters
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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Whale Hunt in the Desert divulges the unbridled lengths to which casinos go to bag the world's biggest gamblers - the whales. This definitive exposé reveals the shrouded world of ultra-high rollers and the Faustian pacts they forge with their hosts, the casino representatives whose job it is to part them from their fortunes. Private jets, penthouses, personal chefs, show-up money, rebates on losses, and the most beautiful women on Earth - nothing is too excessive.
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Entertaining enough
- By Mr on 25-01-24
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Whale Hunt in the Desert
- Secrets of a Vegas Superhost
- Narrated by: Ed Walters
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 28-06-18
- Language: English
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The Desert and the Sea
- 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast
- By: Michael Scott Moore
- Narrated by: Corey Snow
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Michael Scott Moore, a journalist and the author of Sweetness and Blood, incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in this profound and revelatory memoir of his three-year captivity by Somali pirates—a riveting, thoughtful, and emotionally resonant exploration of...
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Good
- By Mr Woc on 06-12-18
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The Desert and the Sea
- 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast
- Narrated by: Corey Snow
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 24-07-18
- Language: English
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Conquering the Desert of Death
- Across the Taklamakan
- By: Charles Blackmore
- Narrated by: Mark Kitto
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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The ferocious Taklamakan desert in Central Asia, one of the largest sandy deserts in the world and the harshest on earth, is known by the Chinese as the desert of death or the place of no return. Its unknown depths are said to be haunted by demons and spirits, and legend has it that ancient cities filled with treasure lie lost and buried beneath its dunes. The only certainty is that no human being in history had ever crossed it from end to end.
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Crossing the Taklamakan
- By Luke on 30-01-21
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Conquering the Desert of Death
- Across the Taklamakan
- Narrated by: Mark Kitto
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 11-08-20
- Language: English
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Soar
- As heard on Desert Island Discs
- By: Simon Woolley
- Narrated by: Jonathan Andrew Hume
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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'Simon Woolley revolutionised British politics' - Guardian Can an outsider ever become a member of the establishment? Simon Woolley is a member of the House of Lords, the first Black man to head an Oxbridge college, and a policy changemaker who has the ear of prime ministers and the future King...
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What an inspiration!
- By Amazon Customer on 09-04-23
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Soar
- As heard on Desert Island Discs
- Narrated by: Jonathan Andrew Hume
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 14-04-22
- Language: English
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Malcolm in the Desert
- Wisdom from the Spiritual Transformation of Malcolm X
- By: Ilyasah Shabazz
- Narrated by: Ilyasah Shabazz
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Powerful self-transformation practices inspired by Malcolm X’s final years, written by his daughter Ilyasah Shabazz. "A classic in the making." —Spike Lee, When Malcolm X left the Nation of Islam and set out on a pilgrimage to Mecca in 1964, he did more than cross geographic borders–he...
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Malcolm in the Desert
- Wisdom from the Spiritual Transformation of Malcolm X
- Narrated by: Ilyasah Shabazz
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 19-05-26
- Language: English
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