Showing results for "Obsession" in History
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The Lincoln Obsession
- The Author of Manhunt Chases Down His Own Lincoln Obsession
- By: James L. Swanson
- Narrated by: James L. Swanson
- Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
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With an entirely fresh take on presidential history, James Swanson, author of the New York Times best-selling, Edgar Award-winning Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer, shares the story of his lifelong obsession with the murder of America’s most revered president and the frantic hunt for his assassin. The renowned Lincoln scholar treats listeners to an audible “walking tour” of the people, places, events, and artifacts that tell the story of those horrible days in April 1865.
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The Lincoln Obsession
- The Author of Manhunt Chases Down His Own Lincoln Obsession
- Narrated by: James L. Swanson
- Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 15-04-21
- Language: English
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1923
- The Mystery of Lot 212 and a Tour de France Obsession
- By: Ned Boulting
- Narrated by: Ned Boulting
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Bloomsbury presents 1923 written and read by Ned Boulting. WINNER OF THE SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2024 CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEAR A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023: SPORT NOMINATED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 'An absorbing mix of historical sleuthing and travel writing' The Telegraph...
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Captivating
- By katie weston on 13-07-23
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1923
- The Mystery of Lot 212 and a Tour de France Obsession
- Narrated by: Ned Boulting
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 22-06-23
- Language: English
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Map Addict
- The Bestselling Tale of an Obsession
- By: Mike Parker
- Narrated by: Mike Parker
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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'My name is Mike and I am a map addict. There, it's said…' Maps not only show the world, they help it turn. On an average day, we will consult some form of map approximately a dozen times, often without even noticing: checking the A-Z, the road atlas or the Sat Nav, scanning the tube or bus...
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Sounds a bit nerdy - but its brilliant!
- By Anonymous on 19-05-26
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Map Addict
- The Bestselling Tale of an Obsession
- Narrated by: Mike Parker
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 08-06-23
- Language: English
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Dianaworld
- An Obsession
- By: Edward White
- Narrated by: Josette Simon
- Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. A brilliant, kaleidoscopic new cultural history of Diana, her many lives and the world she created ‘This book is about layers of mythology and the people connected to them. It is less a biography of Diana, more the story of a cultural obsession told via an...
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A Very Different Diana Book
- By Miss L on 25-05-25
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Dianaworld
- An Obsession
- Narrated by: Josette Simon
- Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 08-05-25
- Language: English
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The Accidental Detectorist
- Uncovering an Underground Obsession
- By: Nigel Richardson
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
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When a travel writer is stuck on home soil in the middle of a pandemic he meets Kris Rodgers, one of Britain's eminent metal detectorists. Dipping a toe in the hobby, Nigel quickly finds himself swept up in the world beneath the surface. Above the ground are a cast of fascinating and passionate...
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A familiar and pleasant book
- By Michael Stanworth on 06-09-22
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The Accidental Detectorist
- Uncovering an Underground Obsession
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 01-09-22
- Language: English
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The Devil and Sherlock Holmes
- Tales of Murder, Madness and Obsession
- By: David Grann
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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By the author of the international Number One bestsellers KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE WAGER ‘Chilling . . . Poignant . . . Haunting and gripping . . . gets into worlds that are otherwise invisible to us’ Daily Mail A Polish detective tries to determine whether an author planted clues...
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Excellent and unusual crime stories
- By sarah on 16-05-25
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The Devil and Sherlock Holmes
- Tales of Murder, Madness and Obsession
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 15-02-24
- Language: English
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Pirate Hunters
- Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
- By: Robert Kurson
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNE A thrilling adventure of danger and deep-sea diving, historic mystery and suspense, by the author of Shadow Divers Finding and identifying a pirate ship is the hardest thing to do under the sea. But...
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Page Turning True Adventure
- By Jennifer on 02-06-26
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Pirate Hunters
- Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 16-06-15
- Language: English
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Four Princes
- Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe
- By: John Julius Norwich
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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'Never before had the world seen four such giants co-existing. Sometimes friends, more often enemies, always rivals, these four men together held Europe in the hollow of their hands.' The colourful story of the four very different men who created our modern world: Henry VIII, Francis I of France...
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Shallow but entertaining
- By Amna on 07-03-24
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Four Princes
- Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 12-04-18
- Language: English
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Exam Nation
- Why Our Obsession with Grades Fails Everyone – and a Better Way to Think About School
- By: Sammy Wright
- Narrated by: Sammy Wright
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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Drawing on his twenty years as a teacher, hundreds of interviews and his experience on the UK Government's Social Mobility Commission, Sammy Wright shows that schools are - and should be - so much more than this. Filled with funny, tender encounters and an unflinching focus on the profound challenges of daily life for both teachers and pupils, his book argues that we need urgently to think of school differently: as something more like a home than a factory, a community hub rather than a boot-camp or testing ground.
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Excellent and insightful
- By Anonymous on 13-01-25
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Exam Nation
- Why Our Obsession with Grades Fails Everyone – and a Better Way to Think About School
- Narrated by: Sammy Wright
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 15-08-24
- Language: English
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The North Pole
- The History of an Obsession
- By: Erling Kagge, Kari Dickson - translator
- Narrated by: Atli Gunnarsson
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. Throughout recorded human time, few places on Earth have inspired as much fascination as the North Pole. This is an otherworldly place where the sun rises and stays aloft for six whole months before setting, plunging the expanse of ice and water into darkness for half...
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The North Pole
- The History of an Obsession
- Narrated by: Atli Gunnarsson
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 27-02-25
- Language: English
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Sinkable
- Obsession, the Deep Sea, and the Shipwreck of the Titanic
- By: Daniel Stone
- Narrated by: Daniel Stone
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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From the national bestselling author of The Food Explorer, a fascinating and rollicking plunge into the story of the world’s most famous shipwreck, the RMS Titanic On a frigid April night in 1912, the world’s largest—and soon most famous—ocean liner struck an iceberg and slipped beneath...
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Sinkable
- Obsession, the Deep Sea, and the Shipwreck of the Titanic
- Narrated by: Daniel Stone
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 16-08-22
- Language: English
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The Third Pole
- Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest
- By: Mark Synnott
- Narrated by: Steve Campbell
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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*One of the 57 Most Anticipated Books Of 2021—Elle Shivering, exhausted, gasping for oxygen, beyond doubt . . . A hundred-year mystery lured veteran climber Mark Synnott into an unlikely expedition up Mount Everest during the spring 2019 season that came to be known as “the Year Everest...
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The Third Pole
- Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest
- Narrated by: Steve Campbell
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 13-04-21
- Language: English
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The Book of Phobias and Manias
- A History of the World in 99 Obsessions
- By: Kate Summerscale
- Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Our fears and compulsions often feel like part of our deepest selves—yet they're bound up in the currents of the world around us. This thrilling compendium of 99 phobias and manias, rare and familiar, delves into the obsessions that shape us all. Award-winning author Kate Summerscale takes us from the Middle Ages to the present day, using rich and riveting case studies to trace the links between the private and the public, the personal and the political.
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Informative and interesting book
- By Charity Taylor on 13-01-24
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The Book of Phobias and Manias
- A History of the World in 99 Obsessions
- Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 06-10-22
- Language: English
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A Marriage at Sea
- A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
- By: Sophie Elmhirst
- Narrated by: Marisa Calin
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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THE RUNAWAY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER & ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2025 A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF 2025 ALSO NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 BY NPR, VOGUE, TIME MAGAZINE, THE NEW YORKER, AND MORE “This is nonfiction that reads like fiction – the best kind. Elmhirst’s...
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A Marriage at Sea
- A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
- Narrated by: Marisa Calin
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 08-07-25
- Language: English
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The Invention of Prehistory
- Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
- By: Stefanos Geroulanos
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
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Books about the origins of humanity dominate bestseller lists, while national newspapers present breathless accounts of new archaeological findings and speculate about what those findings tell us about our earliest ancestors. We are obsessed with prehistory—and, in this respect, our current era is no different from any other in the last three hundred years. In this coruscating work, acclaimed historian Stefanos Geroulanos demonstrates how claims about the earliest humans not only shaped Western intellectual culture, but gave rise to our modern world.
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The Invention of Prehistory
- Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 02-04-24
- Language: English
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Mint Condition
- How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession
- By: Dave Jamieson
- Narrated by: Kevin Young
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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When award-winning journalist Dave Jamieson's parents sold his childhood home a few years ago, he rediscovered a prized boyhood possession: his baseball card collection. Now was the time to cash in on the investments of his youth. But all the card shops had closed, and cards were selling for next to nothing online. What had happened?
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Mint Condition
- How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession
- Narrated by: Kevin Young
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 06-07-15
- Language: English
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The Lost City of Z
- A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
- By: David Grann
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the...
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The Lost City of Z
- A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 24-02-09
- Language: English
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Tremors in the Blood
- Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector
- By: Amit Katwala
- Narrated by: Matt Reeves
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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Nominated for the CWA Dagger Award 2023 ‘A wonderful book’ - Guardian Truth, murder and the birth of the lie detector Henry Wilkens burst through the doors of the emergency room covered in his wife’s blood. But was he a grieving husband, or a ruthless killer who’d conspired with bandits...
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Thriller based on real life events - Must listen
- By Alka Shah on 26-02-24
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Tremors in the Blood
- Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector
- Narrated by: Matt Reeves
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 14-04-22
- Language: English
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The Secret Token
- Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke
- By: Andrew Lawler
- Narrated by: David H. Lawrence XVII
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
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*National Bestseller* A sweeping account of America's oldest unsolved mystery, the people racing to unearth its answer, and the sobering truths--about race, gender, and immigration--exposed by the Lost Colony of Roanoke In 1587, 115 men, women, and children arrived at Roanoke Island on the coast...
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The Secret Token
- Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke
- Narrated by: David H. Lawrence XVII
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 05-06-18
- Language: English
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Finders Keepers
- A Tale of Archaeological Plunder and Obsession
- By: Craig Childs
- Narrated by: Craig Childs
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
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To whom does the past belong? Is the archeologist who discovers a lost tomb a sort of hero -- or a villain? If someone steals a relic from a museum and returns it to the ruin it came from, is she a thief? Written in his trademark lyrical style, Craig Childs's riveting new book is a ghost story...
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Love all Craig’s books
- By Happy Shopper on 21-05-26
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Finders Keepers
- A Tale of Archaeological Plunder and Obsession
- Narrated by: Craig Childs
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 23-10-18
- Language: English
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