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Australia's Lost Histories
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Mark McKenna
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In March 1797, five British sailors and 12 Bengali seamen struggled ashore after their longboat broke apart in a storm. Their fellow-survivors from the wreck of the Sydney Cove were stranded more than 500 kilometres southeast in Bass Strait. To rescue their mates and to save themselves the 19 men must walk 700 kilometres north to Sydney.
That remarkable walk is a story of endurance but also of unexpected Aboriginal help.
From the Edge: Australia's Lost Histories recounts four such extraordinary and largely forgotten stories: the walk of shipwreck survivors; the founding of a 'new Singapore' in western Arnhem Land in the 1840s; Australia's largest industrial development project nestled amongst outstanding Indigenous rock art in the Pilbara; and the ever-changing story of James Cook's time in Cooktown in 1770.
This new telling of the central drama of Australian history; the encounter between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians, may hold the key to understanding this land and its people.
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- De Phil en 07-16-19
De: Andrew Lawler
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A Land So Strange
- The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
- De: Andres Resendez
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 7 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,505
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,142
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,144
In 1528, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong: Delayed by a hurricane, knocked off course by a colossal error of navigation, and ultimately doomed by a disastrous decision to separate the men from their ships, the mission quickly became a desperate journey of survival. Of the 300 men who had embarked on the journey, only four survived - three Spaniards and an African slave.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A worthwhile listen
- De Blake en 07-10-13
De: Andres Resendez
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Old Man River
- The Mississippi River in North American History
- De: Paul Schneider
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 13 h y 37 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 42
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 36
In Old Man River, Paul Schneider tells the story of the river at the center of America's rich history - the Mississippi. Some fifteen thousand years ago, the majestic river provided Paleolithic humans with the routes by which early man began to explore the continent's interior. Since then, the river has been the site of historical significance, from the arrival of Spanish and French explorers in the 16th century to the Civil War. George Washington fought his first battle near the river, and Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman both came to President Lincoln's attention after their spectacular victories on the lower Mississippi.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing, inspiring and informative
- De Rodney Curlee en 04-27-23
De: Paul Schneider
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Columbus
- The Four Voyages
- De: Laurence Bergreen
- Narrado por: Tim Jerome
- Duración: 18 h y 11 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 221
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 178
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 183
From the author of the Magellan biography, Over the Edge of the World, a mesmerizing new account of the great explorer. Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a trading route to China, and his unexpected landfall in the Americas, is a watershed event in world history.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Very Petty and frankly flat out dishonest
- De Jm en 02-16-21
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Away Off Shore
- Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602-1890
- De: Nathaniel Philbrick
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 101
In his first book of history, Away Off Shore, New York Times best-selling author Nathaniel Philbrick reveals the people and the stories behind what was once the whaling capital of the world. Beyond its charm, quaint local traditions, and whaling yarns, Philbrick explores the origins of Nantucket in this comprehensive history. From the English settlers who thought they were purchasing a "Native American ghost town" but actually found a fully realized society, the story of Nantucket is a truly unique chapter of American history.
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3 out of 5 stars
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There once were some (wo)men in Nantucket...
- De Darwin8u en 02-03-19
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Island of the Blue Foxes
- Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition
- De: Stephen R. Bown
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 236
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 197
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 196
The story of the world's largest, longest, and best-financed scientific expedition of all time, triumphantly successful, gruesomely tragic, and never before fully told. The immense 18th-century scientific journey, variously known as the Second Kamchatka Expedition or the Great Northern Expedition, from St. Petersburg across Siberia to the coast of North America, involved over 3,000 people and cost Peter the Great over one-sixth of his empire's annual revenue.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Vivid History of Russia's First Contact In Alaska
- De Neil Ring en 09-01-18
De: Stephen R. Bown
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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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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 517
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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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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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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 188
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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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The Man Who Ate His Boots
- The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage
- De: Anthony Brandt
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 15 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 286
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 242
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 242
The enthralling and often harrowing history of the adventurers who searched for the Northwest Passage, the holy grail of 19th-century British exploration. After the triumphant end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the British took it upon themselves to complete something they had been trying to do since the 16th century: Find the fabled Northwest Passage, a shortcut to the Orient via a sea route over Northern Canada. For the next 35 years the British Admiralty sent out expedition after expedition to probe the ice-bound waters of the Canadian Arctic in search of a route.
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5 out of 5 stars
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They don't get any better than this
- De Christopher en 08-15-14
De: Anthony Brandt
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Explorers of the Nile
- The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure
- De: Tim Jeal
- Narrado por: Clive Chafer
- Duración: 14 h y 58 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
From award-winning author Tim Jeal comes a vivid examination of the six larger-than-life men and one extraordinary woman who set out to find the source of the White Nile in the 19th century.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Story Flawed
- De The Mays-Dickens Family en 05-12-12
De: Tim Jeal
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Mayflower
- A Story of Courage, Community, and War
- De: Nathaniel Philbrick
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,916
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,104
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,096
From the perilous ocean crossing to the shared bounty of the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrim settlement of New England has become enshrined as our most sacred national myth. Yet, as best-selling author Nathaniel Philbrick reveals in his spellbinding new book, the true story of the Pilgrims is much more than the well-known tale of piety and sacrifice; it is a 55-year epic that is at once tragic, heroic, exhilarating, and profound.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating book about a little-understood time
- De John M en 02-04-07
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A Commonwealth of Thieves
- The Improbable Birth of Australia
- De: Thomas Keneally
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 12 h y 26 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 120
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 80
It was 1786 when Arthur Phillip, an ambitious captain in the Royal Navy, was assigned the formidable task of organizing an expedition to Australia in order to establish a penal colony. With the authority of a renowned historian and the narrative grace of a brilliant novelist, Thomas Keneally offers an insider's perspective into the dramatic saga of the birth of a vibrant society in an unfamiliar land.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Interesting tidbits, but slow overall
- De Dan en 08-23-07
De: Thomas Keneally
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Farther Than Any Man
- The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook
- De: Martin Dugard
- Narrado por: Jack Chekijian
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 395
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 343
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 342
In the annals of seafaring and exploration, there is one name that immediately evokes visions of the open ocean, billowing sails, visiting strange, exotic lands previously uncharted, and civilizations never before encountered - Captain James Cook. Full of realistic action, lush descriptions of places and events, and fascinating historical characters such as King George III and the soon-to-be-notorious Master William Bligh, Dugard's gripping account of the life and death of Captain James Cook is a thrilling story of a discoverer hell-bent on going farther than any man.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Sloppy History
- De Kyle P. Dalton en 04-06-18
De: Martin Dugard
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Into Africa
- The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone
- De: Martin Dugard
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 11 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,333
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,756
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,748
"Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" So goes the signature introduction of New York Herald star journalist Henry Morton Stanley to renowned explorer Dr. David Livingstone, who had been missing for six years in the wilds of Africa. Into Africa ushers us into the meeting of these remarkable men. In 1866, when Livingstone journeyed into the heart of the African continent in search of the Nile's source, the land was rough, unknown to Europeans, and inhabited by man-eating tribes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Riveting
- De Gene en 04-01-04
De: Martin Dugard
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Jungle of Stone
- The True Story of Two Men, Their Extraordinary Journey, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya
- De: William Carlsen
- Narrado por: Paul Michael Garcia
- Duración: 16 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 624
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 557
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 560
In 1839 rumors of extraordinary yet baffling stone ruins buried within the unmapped jungles of Central America reached two of the world's most intrepid travelers. Seized by the reports, American diplomat John Lloyd Stephens and British artist Frederick Catherwood sailed together out of New York Harbor on an expedition into the forbidding rainforests of present-day Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico. What they found would rewrite the West's understanding of human history.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Unsung Explorers at the Heart of History
- De thomas en 01-10-17
De: William Carlsen
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The Suppressed History of America
- The Murder of Meriwether Lewis and the Mysterious Discoveries of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
- De: Paul Schrag, Xaviant Haze
- Narrado por: Allan Robertson
- Duración: 5 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 83
Meriwether Lewis discovered far more than the history books tell - ancient civilizations, strange monuments, "nearly white, blue-eyed" Indians, and evidence that the American continent was visited long before the first European settlers arrived. And he was murdered to keep it all secret. Examining the shadows and cracks between America's official version of history, Xaviant Haze and Paul Schrag propose that the America of old taught in schools is not the America that was discovered by Lewis and Clark and other early explorers.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Don't Bother
- De Georgia Deardoff en 03-31-17
De: Paul Schrag, y otros
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Exploration Fawcett
- Journey to the Lost City of Z
- De: Lt. Col. P. H. Fawcett
- Narrado por: Robin Sachs
- Duración: 15 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 82
This is the true story of the real Colonel Fawcett, whose life was the inspiration for the best-selling book The Lost City of Z and an upcoming movie starring Brad Pitt. A thrilling account, it tells of Colonel Fawcett and his mysterious disappearance in the Amazon jungle, which is now considered one of the greatest mysteries of the 20th century.
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2 out of 5 stars
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boring
- De Ramanda Brockett en 08-07-18
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The First Frontier
- The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America
- De: Scott Weidensaul
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 16 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 385
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 339
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 339
Frontier: the word carries the inevitable scent of the West. But before Custer or Lewis and Clark, before the first Conestoga wagons rumbled across the Plains, it was the East that marked the frontier - the boundary between complex Native cultures and the first colonizing Europeans.Here is the older, wilder, darker history of a time when the land between the Atlantic and the Appalachians was contested ground - when radically different societies adopted and adapted the ways of the other, while struggling for control of what all considered to be their land.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Too PC
- De Eric en 07-24-13
De: Scott Weidensaul
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre From the Edge
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
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Historia5 out of 5 stars
- Lucky
- 07-18-18
Great, but...
Loved this book but disappointed they didn't include a pdf of the maps and images.
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