My Journey to Lhasa
The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City
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Experience Alexandra David-Neel's captivating and inspirational journey to become the first Western woman to reach the Tibetan holy city of Lhasa and be received by the Dalai Lama. Enduring backbreaking travel, threatening militaries, disease, and countless other dangers, David-Neel's journey is an epic demonstration of perseverance and courage.
©1927 Alexandra David-Neel (P)2023 Licensing Management, Inc.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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This riveting history is a firsthand account of the long and arduous search for one of the greatest explorers of the 19th century. Journalist and adventurer Henry M. Stanley was known for his search for the legendary David Livingstone, and their eventual meeting led to the popular quotation "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" A real-life adventure story, How I Found Livingstone in Central Africa tells of the incredible hardships - disease, hostile natives, tribal warfare, impenetrable jungles, and other obstacles - faced by a daring explorer. This must-have account also includes a wealth of information on various African peoples.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Remarkable courage and pluck!
- De Jim en 05-25-18
De: Henry M. Stanley
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Walden
- Life in the Woods
- De: Henry David Thoreau
- Narrado por: Alec Sand
- Duración: 10 h y 5 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,646
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,385
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Thoreau's classic account of the solitary life, describing his attempts to simplify his life and sort out his priorities by living alone in a cabin beside Walden Pond for nearly two years, is one of the most influential books ever written. The bible of the environmental movement, Walden vividly portrays Thoreau's reverence for nature, and his understanding of the idea that nature is made up of crucially interrelated parts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book and narration
- De Kindle Customer en 06-14-11
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Wessex Tales
- De: Thomas Hardy
- Narrado por: Neville Jason
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
Wessex Tales, a collection of short stories including "The Three Strangers", "The Withered Arm", and "The Distracted Preacher", deals with a number of timeless themes seen so often in Hardy’s work: marriage, class, revenge, and disappointed love. Many of the tales have a supernatural tinge, and all are set around Hardy’s much loved homeland.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Sampler
- De Tad Davis en 06-08-14
De: Thomas Hardy
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Marie
- De: H. Rider Haggard
- Narrado por: Shelly Frasier
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
Allan Quatermain, hero of King Solomon's mines, tells a moving tale of his first wife, the Dutch-born Marie Marais, and the adventures that were linked to her beautiful, tragic history. This moving story depicts the tumultuous political era of the 1830s, involving the Boers, French colonists and the Zulu tribe in the Cape colony of South Africa. Hate and suspicion run high between the home government and the Dutch subjects.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Confusing narration!
- De Browsing en 02-22-14
De: H. Rider Haggard
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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
- De: Isabella L. Bird
- Narrado por: Flo Gibson
- Duración: 6 h y 56 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 63
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 56
These are the valiant and lyrically descriptive letters, written in 1873, by Isabella Bird, a courageous and spirited Englishwoman, telling her sister of her adventures on horseback over 800 miles of American wilderness.
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2 out of 5 stars
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The Solution to the Indian Problem
- De Samar en 09-26-16
De: Isabella L. Bird
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- De: Thomas Hardy
- Narrado por: David McCallion
- Duración: 13 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
Far from the Madding Crowd, which first appeared in Cornhill Magazine in monthly installments back in the late 19th century, features the love life of the young Bathsheba Everdene who is as poor as she is beautiful. Fortunately, Bathsheba's uncle leaves her his farm, which she goes to manage in the small town of Weatherbury. Before she leaves, however, she has an interesting encounter with a young farmer, Gabriel Oak, for whom she does a tremendous favor ,and he becomes indebted to her....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved this delightful listening experience !!!
- De Robin Wardle en 07-15-16
De: Thomas Hardy
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A Woman in Arabia
- The Writings of the Queen of the Desert
- De: Gertrude Bell, Georgina Howell - introduction, Georgina Howell - editor
- Narrado por: Sian Thomas, Adjoa Andoh
- Duración: 9 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 65
Gertrude Bell was leaning in 100 years before Sheryl Sandberg. One of the great woman adventurers of the 20th century, she turned her back on Victorian society to study at Oxford and travel the world and became the chief architect of British policy in the Middle East after World War I. Mountaineer, archaeologist, Arabist, writer, poet, linguist, and spy, she dedicated her life to championing the Arab cause and was instrumental in drawing the borders that define today's Middle East.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Raw historiography of a spectacular heroine
- De Josef en 01-07-16
De: Gertrude Bell, y otros
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The Innocents Abroad
- Or, The New Pilgrim’s Progress
- De: Mark Twain
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 18 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,489
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,323
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,322
In June 1867, Mark Twain set out for Europe and the Holy Land on the paddle steamer Quaker City. His enduring, no-nonsense guide for the first-time traveler also served as an antidote to the insufferably romantic travel books of the period.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Twain's Hidden Gem
- De Cynthia Franks en 05-08-12
De: Mark Twain
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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
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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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Japanese Ghost Stories
- Penguin Classics
- De: Lafcadio Hearn
- Narrado por: Eleanor Matsuura
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 64
In this collection of classic ghost stories from Japan, beautiful princesses turn out to be frogs, paintings come alive, deadly spectral brides haunt the living and a samurai delivers the baby of a Shinto goddess with mystical help. Here are all the phantoms and ghouls of Japanese folklore: 'rokuro-kubi', whose heads separate from their bodies at night; 'jikininki', or flesh-eating goblins; and terrifying faceless 'mujina' who haunt lonely neighbourhoods.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Japanese pronunciation a problem
- De CT en 01-20-21
De: Lafcadio Hearn
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Across Many Mountains
- A Tibetan Family's Epic Journey from Oppression to Freedom
- De: Yangzom Brauen
- Narrado por: Yangzom Brauen
- Duración: 9 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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A powerful, emotional memoir and an extraordinary portrait of three generations of Tibetan women whose lives are forever changed when Chairman Mao’s Red Army crushes Tibetan independence, sending a young mother and her six-year-old daughter on a treacherous journey across the snowy Himalayas toward freedom.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent all around!
- De Lynn en 09-06-12
De: Yangzom Brauen
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Monkey
- De: Wu Ch’êng-ên, Arthur Waley - translator
- Narrado por: Kenneth Williams
- Duración: 13 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 311
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 277
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 276
Considered one of China's great classical novels, Wu Ch'êng-ên's Journey to the West was translated by Arthur Waley in abridged form as Monkey in 1942 and has delighted English readers ever since. It is a riveting adventure story about a priest's quest to obtain holy Buddhist scriptures for the Tang emperor; joining him on this rollicking journey: Sandy, Pigsy, and the mischievous monkey king, Sun Wukong, whose flying cloud and magic cudgel are never far from his infamous deeds.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great translation, but reader struggles distractingly with names
- De utsusemi en 01-24-16
De: Wu Ch’êng-ên, y otros
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Three Men in a Boat (AmazonClassics Edition)
- De: Jerome K. Jerome
- Narrado por: Simon Mattacks
- Duración: 6 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 34
In 1889, satirist Jerome K. Jerome fully intended to write a serious travel guide when he and his two best friends embarked on a boating trip up the river Thames to Oxford. But his musings on landmarks and local history were soon hijacked by his own digressive, waggish voice. And so, what began as a peaceful and edifying two-week exploration soon floated upriver into farce - aided, quite naturally, by a portly ration of cheese, some very bad weather, and a dog named Montmorency.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hilarious and lovable!!
- De Erika C. en 03-23-21
De: Jerome K. Jerome
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Ordeal by Hunger
- De: George R. Stewart
- Narrado por: Jeff Riggenbach
- Duración: 12 h y 9 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 163
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 96
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The tragedy of the Donner party constitutes one of the most amazing stories of the American West. In 1846, 87 people, men, women, and children, set out for California, persuaded to attempt a new overland route. After struggling across the desert, losing many oxen, and nearly dying of thirst, they reached the very summit of the Sierras, only to be trapped by blinding snow and bitter storms. Many perished; some survived by resorting to cannibalism; all were subjected to unbearable suffering.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Life Changing
- De Gyropilot en 06-03-08
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Growth of the Soil
- De: Knut Hamsun, Sverre Lyngstad - translator, Brad Leithauser - introduction
- Narrado por: BJ Harrison
- Duración: 15 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
Growth of the Soil, Hamsun's Nobel Prize winning novel, is a classic of Scandinavian literature. The farmer Isak scarcely acknowledges the values of modern living. Illiterate but capable of carrying out the business of running a farm, he has physical strength and works with his hands. Although initially amazed by Isak's prowess - his wife Inger, who came into contact with modern society when imprisoned for killing her infant due to its birth defect, return to the home much less impressed by the country life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Top of my all time favorites list
- De Pete en 05-17-21
De: Knut Hamsun, y otros
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The Innocents Abroad
- De: Mark Twain
- Narrado por: David McCallion
- Duración: 18 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 46
In June 1867, Mark Twain set sail for Europe and the Holy Land. Twain recorded this adventurous trip and later turned it into The Innocents Abroad. This book became so popular overseas that it would propel him into an international star. The Innocents Abroad is Twain’s account of his thoughts of the Old World, including Paris, Venice, Pompeii, Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem, as well as many other noteworthy cities. His disbelief and wonder are told with humor that endeared Twain to American audiences.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Big Mistake
- De Megg en 12-18-18
De: Mark Twain
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre My Journey to Lhasa
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- Jessica
- 01-29-25
Captivating!
This was a wonderful narrative of the adventure of a lifetime. The first woman to traverse the wilds of Tibet whilst it was closed to foreigners. Beautifully narrated with animation and precision. A lovely journey that helps you feel as if you’re experiencing the highs and lows right next to the writer.
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- GemSpirit
- 05-07-24
Disappointing!
The paperback version of this book has been one of my all time favorite reads! I really expected to enjoy this audible version, but the narrator’s tonal effects and pace override the content.
After two hours of trying to listen, I’m unable to finish this version of the book due to the mismatch of narration to the content.
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