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The Ship Beneath the Ice

The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance

de Mensun Bound ...

By the subject of the National Geographic documentary Endurance, streaming soon on Disney+"As thrilling as any tale from the heroic age of exploration. . . Bound’s account is a triumph. The storytelling is piano-wire taut, the writing saturated with polar moodiness." ― Sunday TimesThe inside story of how the Endurance, Ernest Shackleton's legendary lost ship, was found in the most hostile sea on ... Leer más

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By the subject of the National Geographic documentary Endurance, streaming soon on Disney+"As thrilling as any tale from the heroic age of exploration. . . Bound’s account is a triumph. The storytelling is piano-wire taut, the writing saturated with polar moodiness." ― Sunday TimesThe inside story of how the Endurance, Ernest Shackleton's legendary lost ship, was found in the most hostile sea on
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The Ship Beneath the Ice

The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance

de Mensun Bound ...

Narrado por Mensun Bound, Charles Armstrong ...

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11 hora 56 minutos

""As thrilling as any tale from the heroic age of exploration. ... Bound’s account is a triumph. The storytelling is piano-wire taut, the writing saturated with polar moodiness."" ― Sunday TimesThe extraordinary story of how the Endurance, Ernest Shackleton's legendary lost ship, was found in the most hostile sea on Earth, told by the expedition's Director of Exploration.On November 21, 1914, ... Leer más

$28.99 USD

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""As thrilling as any tale from the heroic age of exploration. ... Bound’s account is a triumph. The storytelling is piano-wire taut, the writing saturated with polar moodiness."" ― Sunday TimesThe extraordinary story of how the Endurance, Ernest Shackleton's legendary lost ship, was found in the most hostile sea on Earth, told by the expedition's Director of Exploration.On November 21, 1914,
... Leer más

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All the Knowledge in the World

The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia

de Simon Garfield ...

Narrado por Tim Bentinck ...

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11 hora 53 minutos

From the “deliriously clever” (Boston Globe) Simon Garfield, New York Times bestselling author of Just My Type, comesthe wild and fascinating story of the encyclopedia, from Ancient Greece to the present day.New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice""A brilliant book about knowledge itself.” —Deirdre Mask, author of The Address Book**“Garfield’s witty history captures th... ... Leer más

$28.99 USD

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From the “deliriously clever” (Boston Globe) Simon Garfield, New York Times bestselling author of Just My Type, comesthe wild and fascinating story of the encyclopedia, from Ancient Greece to the present day.New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice""A brilliant book about knowledge itself.” —Deirdre Mask, author of The Address Book**“Garfield’s witty history captures th...
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Humane

How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War

de Samuel Moyn ...

Narrado por Stephen R. Thorne ...

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15 hora 7 minutos

A prominent historian exposes the dark side of making war more humane.In the years since 9/11, we have entered an age of endless war. With little debate or discussion, the United States carries out military operations around the globe. It hardly matters who’s president or whether liberals or conservatives operate the levers of power. The United States exercises dominion everywhere.In *Humane:*How ... Leer más

$22.99 USD

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A prominent historian exposes the dark side of making war more humane.In the years since 9/11, we have entered an age of endless war. With little debate or discussion, the United States carries out military operations around the globe. It hardly matters who’s president or whether liberals or conservatives operate the levers of power. The United States exercises dominion everywhere.In *Humane:*How
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Across the Airless Wilds

The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings

de Earl Swift ...

Narrado por Adam Verner ...

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10 hora 7 minutos

“Earl Swift lays out this great unsung saga with verve and magisterial sweep."" —Hampton SidesIn this ""brilliantly observed"" (Newsweek) rediscovery of the final Apollo moon landings, the acclaimed author of *Chesapeake Requiem*reveals that these extraordinary yet overshadowed missions—distinguished by the use of the revolutionary lunar roving vehicle—deserve to be celebrated as the pinnacle of ... Leer más

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“Earl Swift lays out this great unsung saga with verve and magisterial sweep."" —Hampton SidesIn this ""brilliantly observed"" (Newsweek) rediscovery of the final Apollo moon landings, the acclaimed author of *Chesapeake Requiem*reveals that these extraordinary yet overshadowed missions—distinguished by the use of the revolutionary lunar roving vehicle—deserve to be celebrated as the pinnacle of
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At War With The Wind

The Epic Struggle With Japan's World War II Suicide Bombers

de David Sears ...

Narrado por David Stifel ...

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18 hora 44 minutos

In the last days of World War II, a new and baffling weapon terrorized the United States Navy in the Pacific. To the sailors who learned to fear them, the body-crashing warriors of Japan were known as "suiciders"; among the Japanese, they were named for a divine wind that once saved the home islands from invasion: kamikaze.Told from the perspective of the men who endured this horrifying tactic, At ... Leer más

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In the last days of World War II, a new and baffling weapon terrorized the United States Navy in the Pacific. To the sailors who learned to fear them, the body-crashing warriors of Japan were known as "suiciders"; among the Japanese, they were named for a divine wind that once saved the home islands from invasion: kamikaze.Told from the perspective of the men who endured this horrifying tactic, At
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Revolutionary Brothers

Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, and the Friendship that Helped Forge Two Nations

de Tom Chaffin ...

Narrado por Rick Adamson ...

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17 hora 22 minutos

“...a gripping narrative that offers a revelatory perspective on the combined origins of two nations...compelling drama and instructive history.” -- Wall Street JournalIn a narrative both panoramic and intimate, Tom Chaffin captures the four-decade friendship of Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette.Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette shared a singularly extraordinary friendship, ... Leer más

$32.99 USD

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“...a gripping narrative that offers a revelatory perspective on the combined origins of two nations...compelling drama and instructive history.” -- Wall Street JournalIn a narrative both panoramic and intimate, Tom Chaffin captures the four-decade friendship of Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette.Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette shared a singularly extraordinary friendship,
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Black Snow

Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb

de James M. Scott ...

Narrado por L.J. Ganser ...

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12 hora 59 minutos

Seven minutes past midnight on March 10, 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies over Tokyo. Their payloads of incendiaries ignited a firestorm that reached up to 2,800 degrees, liquefying asphalt and vaporizing thousands; sixteen square miles of the city were flattened and more than 100,000 men, women, and children were killed.Black Snow is the story of this devastating operation ... Leer más

$25.99 USD

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Seven minutes past midnight on March 10, 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies over Tokyo. Their payloads of incendiaries ignited a firestorm that reached up to 2,800 degrees, liquefying asphalt and vaporizing thousands; sixteen square miles of the city were flattened and more than 100,000 men, women, and children were killed.Black Snow is the story of this devastating operation
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Civil War by Other Means

America's Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy

de Jeremi Suri ...

Narrado por Adam Barr ...

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10 hora 11 minutos

In 1865, the Confederacy was comprehensively defeated, its economy shattered, its leaders in exile or in jail. Yet in the years that followed, Lincoln's vision of a genuinely united country never took root. Apart from a few brief months, when the presence of the Union army in the South proved liberating for newly freed Black Americans, the military victory was squandered. Old white supremacist ... Leer más

$19.99 USD

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In 1865, the Confederacy was comprehensively defeated, its economy shattered, its leaders in exile or in jail. Yet in the years that followed, Lincoln's vision of a genuinely united country never took root. Apart from a few brief months, when the presence of the Union army in the South proved liberating for newly freed Black Americans, the military victory was squandered. Old white supremacist
... Leer más

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Unshackling America

How the War of 1812 Truly Ended the American Revolution

de Willard Sterne Randall ...

Narrado por AI Voice ...

Completo

18 hora 44 minutos

**This program is read by an AI-based synthesized voice.Unshackling America challenges the persistent fallacy that Americans fought two separate wars of independence. Willard Sterne Randall documents an unremitting fifty-year-long struggle for economic independence from Britain overlapping two armed conflicts linked by an unacknowledged global struggle. Throughout this perilous period, the ... Leer más

$32.99 USD

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**This program is read by an AI-based synthesized voice.Unshackling America challenges the persistent fallacy that Americans fought two separate wars of independence. Willard Sterne Randall documents an unremitting fifty-year-long struggle for economic independence from Britain overlapping two armed conflicts linked by an unacknowledged global struggle. Throughout this perilous period, the
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The Lost Men

The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party

de Kelly Tyler-Lewis ...

Narrado por Graeme Malcolm ...

Abreviado

6 hora 17 minutos

In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed south aboard the Endurance to be the first to cross Antarctica. Shackleton's endeavor is legend, but few know the astonishing story of the Ross Sea party, the support crew he dispatched to the opposite side of the continent to build a vital lifeline of food and fuel depots.When the Ross Sea ship, the Aurora, broke free of her moorings and disappeared in a gale ... Leer más

$19.99 USD

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In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed south aboard the Endurance to be the first to cross Antarctica. Shackleton's endeavor is legend, but few know the astonishing story of the Ross Sea party, the support crew he dispatched to the opposite side of the continent to build a vital lifeline of food and fuel depots.When the Ross Sea ship, the Aurora, broke free of her moorings and disappeared in a gale
... Leer más

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Long Live Latin

The Pleasures of a Useless Language

de Nicola Gardini ...

Narrado por Todd Portnowitz ...

Completo

8 hora 18 minutos

**"It's a genuine pleasure to hear spoken Latin--lots of it, and by many of the great classical authors, including Cicero, Ovid, and Virgil--and to follow the story of Gardini's lifelong infatuation with a language that is nowhere and everywhere in our modern lives... This is an audiobook to appreciate on many levels, most of all, to hear the sound of Latin again, so familiar and so essential to ... Leer más

$24.99 USD

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**"It's a genuine pleasure to hear spoken Latin--lots of it, and by many of the great classical authors, including Cicero, Ovid, and Virgil--and to follow the story of Gardini's lifelong infatuation with a language that is nowhere and everywhere in our modern lives... This is an audiobook to appreciate on many levels, most of all, to hear the sound of Latin again, so familiar and so essential to
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