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The QI History of Sport
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Anna Ptaszynski
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James Harkin
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Previously published as EVERYTHING TO PLAY FOR: THE QI BOOK OF SPORTS
SHORTLISTED FOR THE CHARLES TYRWHITT SPORTS BOOK AWARDS
'Top Bins! A personal best, a lap record and a hole in one for when rain has stopped play.' ALAN DAVIES
'The trivia book of the season . . . magnificent.' SPECTATOR
Hop, skip and jump into this wonderfully curious grand tour of the world of sports, brought to you by QI Elves James Harkin and Anna Ptaszynski.
From sport's weirdest rules to its most unlikely heroes, via comically large cricket bats, pole-vaulting priests, creative football chants and exploding billiard balls, each chapter of A Load of Old Balls is brimming with surprising facts and intriguing stories.
Even if you've never asked yourself what David Attenborough has to do with yellow tennis balls, why Victorian doctors feared the outbreak of 'bicycle face' or what led ancient Egyptian athletes to have their spleens removed, this book will give you the astonishing answers - and plenty more besides.
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For more from the team behind QI's hit TV show, check out the QI FACTS series of books, @qikipedia, their weekly podcast at nosuchthingasafish.com or visit qi.com
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Football for a Buck
- The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL
- De: Jeff Pearlman
- Narrado por: Joel Richards
- Duración: 14 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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The United States Football League was the last football league to not merely challenge the mighty NFL but also to cause it to collectively shudder. It spanned three seasons, featured as many as 18 teams, secured multiple television deals, drew millions of fans, and launched the careers of legends - but then it died beneath the weight of a particularly egotistical and bombastic owner, a New York businessman named Donald Trump. Jeff Pearlman draws on more than 400 interviews to unearth all the salty, untold stories of one of the craziest sports entities to have ever captivated America.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Ahhh the USFL
- De Film Lover en 10-11-18
De: Jeff Pearlman
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The United States of Absurdity
- Untold Stories from American History
- De: Dave Anthony, Gareth Reynolds, Patton Oswalt - foreword
- Narrado por: Dave Anthony, Gareth Reynolds
- Duración: 2 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 661
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 585
The creators of the podcast The Dollop present profiles of the weird, outrageous, NSFW, and downright absurd tales from American history that you weren't taught in school. The United States of Absurdity presents short, informative, and hilarious stories of the most outlandish (but true) people, events, and more from United States history.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fun With Useless Facts
- De Keith en 05-21-17
De: Dave Anthony, y otros
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Dark Tide
- The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
- De: Stephen Puleo
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 9 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 380
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 331
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 331
Around noon on January 15, 1919, a group of firefighters were playing cards in Boston's North End when they heard a tremendous crash. It was like, "a roaring surf," one of them said later. Like, "a runaway two-horse team smashing through a fence," said another. A third firefighter jumped up from his chair to look out a window - "Oh my God!" he shouted to the other men, "Run!" A 50-foot-tall steel tank filled with 2.3 million gallons of molasses had just collapsed on Boston's waterfront, disgorging its contents as a 15-foot-high wave of molasses that at its outset traveled at 35 miles an hour.
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3 out of 5 stars
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INTERESTING STORY - ABOUT 2x TOO LONG
- De The Louligan en 09-07-14
De: Stephen Puleo
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The Prisoner in His Palace
- Saddam Hussein and the Twelve Americans Who Guarded Him
- De: Will Bardenwerper
- Narrado por: Danny Campbell
- Duración: 7 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 204
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This is the bizarre tale of 12 young American soldiers who are deployed to Iraq in the summer of 2006. Rather than fight the enemy in combat, the men are unexpectedly assigned to guard the country's notorious leader - Saddam Hussein - in the months leading to his execution. Living alongside and caring for their "high-value detainee" in a former palace dubbed The Rock and regularly transporting him to his raucous trial, many of the men begin questioning some of their most basic assumptions.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Saddam As An Avuncular Old Man? Hmmm...
- De Gillian en 06-08-17
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Parenting Hell
- De: Rob Beckett, Josh Widdicombe
- Narrado por: Rob Beckett, Josh Widdicombe
- Duración: 8 h y 24 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1
Join Josh and Rob as they share the challenges and madness of their parenting journeys with lashings of empathy and extra helpings of laughs. Filled with all the things they never tell you at antenatal classes, Parenting Hell is a beguiling mixture of humour, rumination, and conversation for prospective parents, new parents, old parents and never-to-be parents alike.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So funny!
- De Maddie en 05-02-23
De: Rob Beckett, y otros
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Showtime
- Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s
- De: Jeff Pearlman
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 18 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,050
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 928
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 925
Best-selling sportswriter Jeff Pearlman draws from almost 300 interviews to take the first full measure of the Lakers’ epic Showtime era. A dazzling account of one of America’s greatest sports sagas, Showtime is packed with indelible characters, vicious rivalries, and jaw-dropping, behind-the-scenes stories of the players’ decadent Hollywood lifestyles. From the Showtime era’s remarkable rise to its tragic end - marked by Magic Johnson’s 1991 announcement that he had contracted HIV - Showtime is a gripping narrative of sports, celebrity, and 1980s-style excess.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Offended at the style used to voice black characters.
- De NP en 01-15-22
De: Jeff Pearlman
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The Panama Papers
- How the World's Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money
- De: Frederik Obermaier, Bastian Obermayer
- Narrado por: Simon Shepherd
- Duración: 12 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 755
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 680
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 680
Late one evening investigative journalist Bastian Obermayer receives an anonymous message offering him access to secret data. Through encrypted channels he then receives documents showing a mysterious bank transfer for $500 million in gold. This is just the beginning. Obermayer and fellow Süddeutsche Zeitung journalist Frederik Obermaier find themselves immersed in a secret world where complex networks of shell companies help to hide people who don't want to be found.
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5 out of 5 stars
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highly recommended for the ears of the 99% and 1%
- De Craig S Smith en 12-06-18
De: Frederik Obermaier, y otros
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The Presidents Club
- Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity
- De: Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy
- Narrado por: Bob Walter
- Duración: 22 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,452
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,255
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,260
The Presidents Club was born at Eisenhower’s inauguration when Harry Truman and Herbert Hoover first conceived the idea. Over the years that followed - and to this day - the presidents relied on, misunderstood, sabotaged, and formed alliances with one another that changed history. The world’s most exclusive fraternity is a complicated place: its members are bound forever because they sat in the Oval Office and know its secrets, yet they are immortal rivals for history’s favor.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Engaging subject, but fact-checking needed
- De loix en 04-25-12
De: Nancy Gibbs, y otros
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Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse
- De: David Mitchell
- Narrado por: David Mitchell
- Duración: 9 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 752
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 658
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 647
Why is every film or tv programme a sequel or a remake? Why are people so f***ing hung up about swearing? Why do the asterisks in that sentence make it okay? Why do so many people want to stop other people doing things, and how can they be stopped from stopping them? These and many other questions trouble David Mitchell. Join him on a tour of the absurdities of modern life - from Ryanair to Richard III, Downton Abbey to phone etiquette, UKIP to hot dogs made of cats.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Good Book: Wrong Milieu
- De scott en 09-04-19
De: David Mitchell
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The Age of Wonder
- How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
- De: Richard Holmes
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
- Duración: 21 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 365
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 315
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 314
When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise. Inspired by the scientific ferment sweeping through Britain, the botanist had sailed with Captain Cook in search of new worlds. Other voyages of discovery—astronomical, chemical, poetical, philosophical—swiftly follow in Richard Holmes's thrilling evocation of the second scientific revolution.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Misleading title
- De Diane en 08-04-11
De: Richard Holmes
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A Kim Jong-Il Production
- The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power
- De: Paul Fischer
- Narrado por: Stephen Park
- Duración: 12 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 433
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 365
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 369
Before becoming the world's most notorious dictator, Kim Jong-Il ran North Korea's Ministry for Propaganda and its film studios. Conceiving every movie made, he acted as producer and screenwriter. Despite this control, he was underwhelmed by the available talent and took drastic steps, ordering the kidnapping of Choi Eun-Hee (Madam Choi) - South Korea's most famous actress - and her ex-husband Shin Sang-Ok, the country's most famous filmmaker.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely terrifying
- De Anonymous en 02-19-15
De: Paul Fischer
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Dishonesty Is the Second-Best Policy
- De: David Mitchell
- Narrado por: David Mitchell
- Duración: 8 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 742
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 614
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 608
David Mitchell’s 2014 best seller Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse must really have made people think - because everything’s got worse. We’ve gone from UKIP surge to Brexit shambles, from horsemeat in lasagne to Donald Trump in the White House, from Woolworths going under to all the other shops going under. It’s probably socially irresponsible even to try to cheer up.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Meant for UK listeners
- De Maggie May en 11-19-19
De: David Mitchell
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DisneyWar
- De: James B. Stewart
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 25 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,206
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,062
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,054
DisneyWar is an enthralling tale of one of America's most powerful media and entertainment companies, the people who control it, and those trying to overthrow them. It tells a story that - in its sudden twists, vivid, larger-than-life characters, and thrilling climax - might itself have been the subject of a Disney classic - except that it's all true.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Really interesting story... No ending.
- De rotinaj en 12-18-17
De: James B. Stewart
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A Beginner’s Guide to Breaking and Entering
- De: Andrew Hunter Murray
- Narrado por: Phil Dunster
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 37
My name is Al. I live in wealthy people's second homes while their real owners are away. I don’t rob them, I don’t damage anything… I’m more an unofficial house-sitter than an actual criminal. Life is good. Or it was - until last night, when my friends and I broke into the wrong place, on the wrong day, and someone wound up dead. And now…now we’re in a great deal of trouble.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Entertaining & surprising plot twists
- De Anonymous User en 02-10-25
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Red Notice
- A True Story of High Finance, Murder and One Man's Fight for Justice
- De: Bill Browder
- Narrado por: Adam Grupper
- Duración: 14 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 15,350
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 13,866
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 13,853
Red Notice is a searing expose of the wholesale whitewash by Russian authorities of Magnitsky's imprisonment and murder, slicing deep into the shadowy heart of the Kremlin to uncover its sordid truths.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is an absolute "YES" as your next read/listen
- De William en 02-07-15
De: Bill Browder
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Future Tense
- De: Richard Ayoade, Warwick Davis
- Narrado por: Richard Ayoade, Warwick Davis
- Duración: 3 h y 43 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 21
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 21
Technology promises to save humanity. How's that working out? In this comedy-science podcast, comedy legends Richard Ayoade (determinedly pessimistic) and Warwick Davis (inexplicably cheerful) venture beneath Audible HQ to the Future Tense lab, fully equipped to interrogate the future we're all being told to look forward to.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Engaging, intriguing
- De Amazon Customer en 06-13-25
De: Richard Ayoade, y otros
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Unruly
- The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
- De: David Mitchell
- Narrado por: David Mitchell
- Duración: 11 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 932
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 832
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 831
In Unruly, David Mitchell explores how early England’s monarchs, while acting as feared rulers firmly guiding their subjects’ destinies, were in reality a bunch of lucky bastards who were mostly as silly and weird in real life as they appear today in their portraits.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hugely Entertaining (If You Like English History)
- De Jean Ogg en 10-09-23
De: David Mitchell
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Blood and Thunder
- An Epic of the American West
- De: Hampton Sides
- Narrado por: Don Leslie
- Duración: 20 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,229
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,636
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,624
In the summer of 1846, the Army of the West marched through Santa Fe, en route to invade and occupy the Western territories claimed by Mexico. Fueled by the new ideology of “Manifest Destiny,” this land grab would lead to a decades-long battle between the United States and the Navajos, the fiercely resistant rulers of a huge swath of mountainous desert wilderness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Publisher's summary does not do it justice
- De Eric en 02-07-11
De: Hampton Sides
I hate sport, but I loved this book!
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You can trust the QI elves.
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A great listen but why was the title changed ?
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Fun to listen to
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