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In this acclaimed exploration of the culture of others, Rebecca Solnit travels through Ireland, the land of her long-forgotten maternal ancestors. A Book of Migrations portrays in microcosm a history made of great human tides of invasion, colonization, emigration, nomadism, and tourism. Enriched by cross-cultural comparisons with the history of the American West, A Book of Migrations carves a new route through Ireland’s history, literature, and landscape.
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Ten years after the walk across Central Asia and Afghanistan that he memorialized in The Places in Between, Rory Stewart set out on a new journey, traversing a thousand miles between England and Scotland. Stewart was raised along the border of the two countries, the frontier taking on poignant significance in his understanding of what it means to be both Scottish and English, of his relationship with his father, who's lived on this land his whole life, and of his ties to the rich history and culture of the region.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Uneven and unexpected, still worth it.
- De Nassir en 04-29-17
De: Rory Stewart
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Black Dragon River
- A Journey Down the Amur River at the Borderlands of Empires
- De: Dominic Ziegler
- Narrado por: Steve West
- Duración: 14 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Black Dragon River is a personal journey down one of Asia's great rivers. The world's ninth largest river, the Amur serves as a large part of the border between Russia and China. As a crossroads for the great empires of Asia, this area offers journalist Dominic Ziegler a lens with which to examine the societies at Europe's only borderland with East Asia.
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5 out of 5 stars
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INFORMATIVE
- De JK en 10-14-22
De: Dominic Ziegler
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A Voyage Long and Strange
- Rediscovering the New World
- De: Tony Horwitz
- Narrado por: John H. Mayer
- Duración: 17 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 252
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 186
On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz makes an unsettling discovery. A history buff since early childhood, expensively educated at university - a history major, no less! - he's reached middle age with a third-grader's grasp of early America. In fact, he's mislaid more than a century of American history, the period separating Columbus' landing in 1492 from the arrival of English colonists at Jamestown in 16-oh-something. Did nothing happen in between?
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1 out of 5 stars
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Just Not For Me
- De Sara en 10-25-15
De: Tony Horwitz
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Iberia
- De: James A. Michener
- Narrado por: Larry McKeever
- Duración: 37 h y 41 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 271
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 232
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 234
Spain is an immemorial land like no other, one that James A. Michener, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and celebrated citizen of the world, came to love as his own. Iberia is Michener’s enduring nonfiction tribute to his cherished second home. In the fresh and vivid prose that is his trademark, he not only reveals the celebrated history of bullfighters and warrior kings, painters and processions, cathedrals and olive orchards, he also shares the intimate, often hidden country he came to know, where the congeniality of living souls is thrust against the dark weight of history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Michener's Masterpiece
- De ahusmc en 09-14-17
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The Fracture Zone
- A Return to the Balkans
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 133
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 113
Award-winning journalist and author Simon Winchester takes readers on a personal tour of the Balkans. Combining history and interviews with the people who live there, Winchester offers a fascinating glimpse into the complex issues at work in this chaotic region. Unrest in the Balkans has gone on for centuries. A seasoned reporter, Winchester visited the region twenty years ago. When Kosovo reached crisis level in 1997, Winchester thought a return visit to the beleaguered area would help to make sense out of the awful violence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved this-Great combo:Story and History Explained
- De Jeremy en 07-10-14
De: Simon Winchester
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Known and Strange Things
- Essays
- De: Teju Cole
- Narrado por: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Duración: 12 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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With this collection of more than 50 pieces on politics, photography, travel, history, and literature, Teju Cole solidifies his place as one of today's most powerful and original voices. Minute after minute, deploying prose dense with beauty and ideas, he finds fresh and potent ways to interpret art, people, and historical moments, taking in subjects from Virginia Woolf, Shakespeare, and W. G. Sebald to Instagram, Barack Obama, and Boko Haram.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Book that Teaches and Shares
- De Carolyn J. en 10-08-17
De: Teju Cole
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The Trigger
- Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
- De: Tim Butcher
- Narrado por: Gerard Doyle
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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The Trigger tells the story of a young man who changed the world forever. It focuses on the drama of the incident itself by following Princip's journey. By retracing his steps from the feudal frontier village of his birth, through the mountains of the northern Balkans to the great plain city of Belgrade, and ultimately to Sarajevo, Tim Butcher illuminates our understanding of Princip and makes discoveries about him that have eluded historians for 100 years.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good, but not what I was looking for
- De Kendra en 07-08-14
De: Tim Butcher
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Life and Death in the Andes
- On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries
- De: Kim MacQuarrie
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 16 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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The Andes Mountains are the world's longest mountain chain, linking most of the countries in South America. Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and author Kim MacQuarrie takes us on a historical journey through this unique region, bringing fresh insight and contemporary connections to such fabled characters as Charles Darwin, Pablo Escobar, Che Guevara, and many others.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another Great by Kim MacQuarrie
- De Than en 03-25-24
De: Kim MacQuarrie
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The Hour of Land
- A Personal Topography of America's National Parks
- De: Terry Tempest Williams
- Narrado por: Terry Williams
- Duración: 11 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 299
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For years, America's national parks have provided public breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why close to 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now, to honor the centennial of the National Park Service, Terry Tempest Williams, the author of the beloved memoir When Women Were Birds, returns with The Hour of Land, a literary celebration of our national parks, what they mean to us, and what we mean to them.
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2 out of 5 stars
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It could have been good.
- De udzuzu en 04-14-18
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Conquistadors
- De: Michael Wood
- Narrado por: John Telfer
- Duración: 10 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 604
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 511
Following in the footsteps of the greatest Spanish adventurers, Michael Wood retraces the path of the conquistadors from Amazonia to Lake Titicaca, and from the deserts of North Mexico to the heights of Machu Picchu. As he travels the same routes as Hernán Cortés, Francisco, and Gonzalo Pizarro, Wood describes the dramatic events that accompanied the epic sixteenth-century Spanish conquest of the Aztec and Inca empires.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Horrific anti-European bias
- De Anonymous User en 08-30-20
De: Michael Wood
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The Adventures of Henry Thoreau
- A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond
- De: Michael Sims
- Narrado por: David Rapkin
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 37
Henry David Thoreau has long been an intellectual icon and folk hero. In this strikingly original profile, Michael Sims reveals how the bookish, quirky young man evolved into the patron saint of environmentalism and nonviolent activism. Working from 19th-century letters and diaries, Sims charts Henry’s course from his time at Harvard through the years he spent living in a cabin beside Walden Pond. Sims uncovers a previously hidden Thoreau - the rowdy boy reminiscent of Tom Sawyer, the sarcastic college iconoclast, the devoted son who kept imitating his beloved older brother’s choices in life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Pleasant surprise
- De Norman Wendth en 10-21-14
De: Michael Sims
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Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms
- Journeys into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East
- De: Gerard Russell
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 11 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 88
In Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms, former diplomat Gerard Russell ventures to the distant, nearly impassable regions where these mysterious religions still cling to survival. He lives alongside the Mandaeans and Ezidis of Iraq, the Zoroastrians of Iran, the Copts of Egypt, and others. He learns their histories, participates in their rituals, and comes to understand the threats to their communities.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Increase your understanding of the Middle East
- De Shaun en 03-17-15
De: Gerard Russell
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The Art of Travel
- De: Alain de Botton
- Narrado por: Nicholas Bell
- Duración: 5 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 179
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 156
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 156
Aside from love, few actvities seem to promise us as much happiness as going traveling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs, and landscapes. But although we are inundated with advice on where to travel, few people seem to talk about why we should go and how we can become more fulfilled by doing so.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Dull, suggestions for better alternatives
- De J. Natael en 08-07-13
De: Alain de Botton
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Desert Notebooks
- A Road Map for the End of Time
- De: Ben Ehrenreich
- Narrado por: David Bendena
- Duración: 11 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
Layering climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and personal experiences, Desert Notebooks offers a vital and necessary chronicle of our past and our present - perfect for fans of Robert Macfarlane and Elizabeth Rush - that’s unflinching, urgent, and yet timeless and profound.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not about the desert, Not about Joshua Tree
- De Steve King en 07-12-20
De: Ben Ehrenreich
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Lasso the Wind
- Away to the New West
- De: Timothy Egan
- Narrado por: John McLain
- Duración: 11 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 70
Egan leads us on an unconventional, freewheeling tour: from America's oldest continuously inhabited community, the Ancoma Pueblo in New Mexico, to the high kitsch of Lake Havasu City, Arizona, where London Bridge has been painstakingly rebuilt stone by stone; from the fragile beauty of Idaho's Bitterroot Range to the gross excess of Las Vegas, a city built as though in defiance of its arid environment.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator mispronounces everything
- De Catherine en 01-27-22
De: Timothy Egan
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Travels in Siberia
- De: Ian Frazier
- Narrado por: Ian Frazier
- Duración: 20 h y 26 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 424
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 310
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 309
Ian Frazier trains his eye for unforgettable detail on Siberia, that vast expanse of Asiatic Russia. He explores many aspects of this storied, often grim region. He writes about the geography, the resources, the native peoples, the history, the 40-below midwinter afternoons, the bugs. The book brims with Mongols, half-crazed Orthodox archpriests, fur seekers, ambassadors of the czar bound for Peking, tea caravans, German scientists, American prospectors, intrepid English nurses, and prisoners and exiles of every kind....
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5 out of 5 stars
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I Loved This Book
- De Sara en 01-05-14
De: Ian Frazier
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre A Book of Migrations
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I love Rebecca Solnit's writing
What did you love best about A Book of Migrations?
The narrator was ill chosen. She mispronounced words, which is such a shame when
one is reading such great, intelligent writer's words. Rebecca Solnit is an exceptional
writer, and this narrator simply was not up to the task of bringing her words to audio.
Such a shame, because it is an excellent book. I bought a copy and read it.
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