
San Francisco Is Burning
The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires
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Dennis Smith
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This watershed event in American history has never before been told with the richness of historical detail and insight that our foremost historian of fire, Dennis Smith, brings to it in San Francisco Is Burning. Smith cinematically recounts this terrible tragedy through the stories of the people who lived through those terrible days, from a valiant naval officer who helped save the city's piers and wharves to Eugene Schmitz, the crooked mayor, to the "debonair scoundrel" Abe Ruef, the most erudite city boss in American history. Throughout, Smith reveals many unknown details about the event, from the city's great vulnerability to fire, due to its corrupt and hasty building practices, to the widespread racism the quake unleashed and the atrocities committed by national guardsmen. Told with verve and a seasoned firefighter's knowledge, San Francisco Is Burning is the gripping and definitive account of one of the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
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- Narrado por: Michael Lewis
- Duración: 2 h y 13 m
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All over America, families are investing blood, sweat, tears, and retirement savings in their children’s sports careers, all with the ultimate goal of…what exactly? A college scholarship? A professional contract? Simply the taste of victory? Through the lens of the highly competitive world of girls’ softball, Lewis reveals the youth sports industrial complex that has arisen to aggressively monetize after-school pastimes.
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Great Listen
- De Brian Bray en 10-15-20
De: Michael Lewis
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The Unlikely Thru-Hiker
- An Appalachian Trail Journey
- De: Derick Lugo
- Narrado por: Derick Lugo
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
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Derick Lugo had never been hiking. He certainly couldn't imagine going more than a day without manicuring his goatee. But with a job cut short and no immediate plans, this fixture of the New York comedy scene began to think about what he might do with months of free time. He had heard of the Appalachian Trail, but he had never seriously considered attempting to hike all 2,184.2 miles of it. Suddenly he found himself asking, Could he do it?
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On My Feet All Day
- De bannedbum en 08-21-21
De: Derick Lugo
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There's No Such Thing as Bad Weather
- A Scandinavian Mom's Secrets for Raising Healthy, Resilient, and Confident Kids (from Friluftsliv to Hygge)
- De: Linda Åkeson McGurk
- Narrado por: Ann Richardson
- Duración: 8 h y 39 m
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Bringing Up Bébé meets Last Child in the Woods in this lively, insightful memoir about a mother who sets out to discover if the nature-centric parenting philosophy of her native Scandinavia holds the key to healthier, happier lives for her American children.
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- De Kate en 11-03-17
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The Last Season
- De: Eric Blehm
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 12 h y 34 m
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Destined to become a classic of adventure literature, The Last Season examines the extraordinary life of legendary backcountry ranger Randy Morgenson and his mysterious disappearance in California's unforgiving Sierra Nevada - mountains as perilous as they are beautiful. Eric Blehm's masterful work is a gripping detective story interwoven with the riveting biography of a complicated, original, and wholly fascinating man.
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Well Written Character Study of an NPS Ranger
- De Kathy in CA en 06-23-16
De: Eric Blehm
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Buried in the Sky
- The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day
- De: Peter Zuckerman, Amanda Padoan
- Narrado por: David Doersch
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
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When Edmund Hillary first conquered Mt. Everest, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay was at his side. Indeed, for as long as Westerners have been climbing the Himalaya, Sherpas have been the unsung heroes in the background. In August 2008, when eleven climbers lost their lives on K2, the world’s most dangerous peak, two Sherpas survived. They had emerged from poverty and political turmoil to become two of the most skillful mountaineers on earth. Based on unprecedented access and interviews, Buried in the Sky reveals their astonishing story for the first time.
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Sherpas, The True Unsung Heroes
- De Kathy in CA en 07-26-15
De: Peter Zuckerman, y otros
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The Keys to the Effortless Golf Swing
- Curing Your Hit Impulse in Seven Simple Lessons
- De: Michael McTeigue
- Narrado por: Rob Shamblin
- Duración: 1 h y 45 m
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The biggest paradox in golf is that the harder you try to hit the ball, the worse you do so. In The Keys to the Effortless Golf Swing, Michael McTeigue offers you a simple system of sequential body movements that produces a true swinging motion with every club in the bag. The result is increased distance and greater accuracy for all sizes, shapes, and ages of golfers for a minimum investment in learning time.
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My Swing
- De rrj0717 en 09-09-18
De: Michael McTeigue
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Thinner Leaner Stronger
- The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Female Body
- De: Michael Matthews
- Narrado por: Elliott Denkers
- Duración: 13 h y 39 m
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The bestselling fitness book for women who want to lose up to 35 pounds of fat or more and gain whole-body muscle definition in just 3-5 hours per week—and without giving up delicious foods or doing grueling workouts.
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"The Ultimate Female Body", but uses male examples
- De bookWorm en 06-29-15
De: Michael Matthews
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Ball Four
- The Final Pitch
- De: Jim Bouton
- Narrado por: Jim Bouton
- Duración: 18 h y 39 m
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When Ball Four was published in 1970, it created a firestorm. Bouton was called a Judas, a Benedict Arnold and a “social leper” for having violated the “sanctity of the clubhouse.” Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn tried to force Bouton to sign a statement saying the book wasn’t true. Ballplayers, most of whom hadn’t read it, denounced the book. It was even banned by a few libraries. Almost everyone else, however, loved Ball Four.
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Three Ten Year Updates Give Bouton a 5th Star
- De Byron en 08-09-12
De: Jim Bouton
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The Other Talent
- The Curiously Complex Role of Mental Health in Athletic Greatness and Why It's Never Too Late to Harness Your Potential
- De: Matt Fitzgerald
- Narrado por: Gregory Abbey
- Duración: 8 h y 11 m
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On the playing field, natural talent isn’t enough—there’s a mental component that determines whether athletes win the race or wipe out before the finish line. But what separates standout sports stars from the rest? In a paradigm-shifting new theory, acclaimed sportswriter Matt Fitzgerald identifies two key traits behind athletic success: strict self-regulation over thoughts and emotions and an unquenchable psychological need to pursue victory—even when it means enduring extreme mental and physical suffering.
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Excellent
- De CC Coach Mike en 12-18-24
De: Matt Fitzgerald
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The Best Hunting Stories Ever Told
- De: Jay Cassell - editor
- Narrado por: Jason Culp
- Duración: 32 h y 45 m
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Follow the trails of hunters - the original storytellers - as they interpret signs, examine tracks, and chase and catch their prey (or fail to). Listeners can curl up with the best authentic hunting fiction and non-fiction, bringing the great Mount Kenya and the prairies of the American Bison into your living room. From Theodore Roosevelt and Gene Hill to Rick Bass and Charles Dickens, remember classic hunting tales and discover new stories of hunters’ luck, camaraderie, and use of smarts on the trail.
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A broad collection of hunting tales
- De Elaine en 06-21-15
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Wildlife Wars
- The Life and Times of a Fish and Game Warden
- De: Terry Grosz
- Narrado por: Pete Simonelli
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
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In Wildlife Wars, Terry Grosz serves up fascinating stories - alternately hair-raising, hilarious, and heart-wrenching - from his 30-year struggle to protect wildlife in America. A natural storyteller, Grosz writes about the remarkable characters he met - on both sides of the law - as he matched wits with elk poachers, salmon snaggers, commercial-market duck hunters, and a host of other law-breakers. Best of all, though, these stories are so remarkably entertaining you won't want to put them down.
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Title should be: "reckless egomaniac tells lies"
- De ross en 03-01-17
De: Terry Grosz
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Report from Ground Zero
- De: Dennis Smith
- Narrado por: Eric Conger, Jeff David, Don Leslie
- Duración: 6 h y 56 m
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Immediately after two hijacked jets struck the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, Dennis Smith volunteered in the rescue effort. Having spent his career as both a respected writer and a member of one of the city's busiest firehouses, Smith became determined to use his unique background to tell the story of the disaster and its aftermath with the empathy and understanding that only an insider could bring to it. In this audio memoir, he has collected astonishing first-person testimony.
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Intersting choice of narrator
- De Sara Roltgen en 09-24-18
De: Dennis Smith
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Eruption
- The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens
- De: Steve Olson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
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For months in early 1980, scientists, journalists, and ordinary people listened anxiously to rumblings in the long quiescent volcano Mount St. Helens. Still, when a massive explosion took the top off the mountain, no one was prepared. Fifty-seven people died, including newlywed logger John Killian (for years afterward, his father searched for him in the ash), scientist Dave Johnston, and celebrated local curmudgeon Harry Truman. The lives of many others were forever changed.
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- De Prairie Girl en 05-04-18
De: Steve Olson
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Report from Engine Co. 82
- De: Dennis Smith
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 2 h y 55 m
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Report from Engine Co. 82 is the story of one company of New York firefighters battling unimaginable death and destruction every day. Dennis Smith worked as a firefighter in the South Bronx, New York City, and the graphic detail and gripping prose of this firefighting classic drives the most important, accomplished, terrifying audiobook ever published on firefighting.
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stog was good
- De Bagladybl en 08-24-21
De: Dennis Smith
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Disaster!
- A History of Earthquakes, Floods, Plagues, and Other Catastrophes
- De: John Withington
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
- Duración: 17 h y 59 m
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A comprehensive catalog of the most devastating and deadly events-natural or man-made-in human history. If you follow the news it can seem like injury, sickness, and death are now constant, inescapable occurrences that threaten us every second of every day. But such catastrophic events - as terrible and frightening as they are - have been happening for as long as mankind has walked the Earth.... and even before. From ancient volcanoes and floods to epidemics of cholera and smallpox to Hitler's mass killings in the 20th century, humanity's continued existence has always seemed perilous.
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Fantastic account of disasters!
- De Gardenstate Reader en 12-30-19
De: John Withington
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A Furious Sky
- The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes
- De: Eric Jay Dolin
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 10 h y 50 m
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With A Furious Sky, Eric Jay Dolin has created a vivid, sprawling account of our encounters with hurricanes, from the nameless storms that threatened Columbus's New World voyages to the destruction wrought in Puerto Rico by Hurricane Maria. Weaving a story of shipwrecks and devastated cities, of heroism and folly, Dolin introduces a rich cast of unlikely heroes and puts us in the middle of the most devastating storms of the past, none worse than the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, which killed at least 6,000 people, the highest toll of any natural disaster in American history.
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- De thebreeze en 03-24-21
De: Eric Jay Dolin
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The Longest Minute
- The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906
- De: Matthew J. Davenport
- Narrado por: Traber Burns
- Duración: 17 h y 19 m
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At 5:12 am on April 18, 1906, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck San Francisco, catching most of the city asleep. For approximately forty-eight seconds, shock waves buckled streets, shattered water mains, collapsed buildings, crushed hundreds of residents to death, and trapped many alive. Matthew Davenport draws on letters, diaries, unpublished memoirs, and previously unearthed archival records, as well as interviews with engineers and geologists, to combine history and science to tell the dramatic true story of one of the greatest disasters in American history.
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History told from those who survived
- De BamaState en 12-26-23
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Report from Ground Zero
- De: Dennis Smith
- Narrado por: Eric Conger, Jeff David, Don Leslie
- Duración: 6 h y 56 m
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Immediately after two hijacked jets struck the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, Dennis Smith volunteered in the rescue effort. Having spent his career as both a respected writer and a member of one of the city's busiest firehouses, Smith became determined to use his unique background to tell the story of the disaster and its aftermath with the empathy and understanding that only an insider could bring to it. In this audio memoir, he has collected astonishing first-person testimony.
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Intersting choice of narrator
- De Sara Roltgen en 09-24-18
De: Dennis Smith
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Eruption
- The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens
- De: Steve Olson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
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For months in early 1980, scientists, journalists, and ordinary people listened anxiously to rumblings in the long quiescent volcano Mount St. Helens. Still, when a massive explosion took the top off the mountain, no one was prepared. Fifty-seven people died, including newlywed logger John Killian (for years afterward, his father searched for him in the ash), scientist Dave Johnston, and celebrated local curmudgeon Harry Truman. The lives of many others were forever changed.
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- De Prairie Girl en 05-04-18
De: Steve Olson
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Report from Engine Co. 82
- De: Dennis Smith
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 2 h y 55 m
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Report from Engine Co. 82 is the story of one company of New York firefighters battling unimaginable death and destruction every day. Dennis Smith worked as a firefighter in the South Bronx, New York City, and the graphic detail and gripping prose of this firefighting classic drives the most important, accomplished, terrifying audiobook ever published on firefighting.
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- De Bagladybl en 08-24-21
De: Dennis Smith
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Disaster!
- A History of Earthquakes, Floods, Plagues, and Other Catastrophes
- De: John Withington
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
- Duración: 17 h y 59 m
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A comprehensive catalog of the most devastating and deadly events-natural or man-made-in human history. If you follow the news it can seem like injury, sickness, and death are now constant, inescapable occurrences that threaten us every second of every day. But such catastrophic events - as terrible and frightening as they are - have been happening for as long as mankind has walked the Earth.... and even before. From ancient volcanoes and floods to epidemics of cholera and smallpox to Hitler's mass killings in the 20th century, humanity's continued existence has always seemed perilous.
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Fantastic account of disasters!
- De Gardenstate Reader en 12-30-19
De: John Withington
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A Furious Sky
- The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes
- De: Eric Jay Dolin
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 10 h y 50 m
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With A Furious Sky, Eric Jay Dolin has created a vivid, sprawling account of our encounters with hurricanes, from the nameless storms that threatened Columbus's New World voyages to the destruction wrought in Puerto Rico by Hurricane Maria. Weaving a story of shipwrecks and devastated cities, of heroism and folly, Dolin introduces a rich cast of unlikely heroes and puts us in the middle of the most devastating storms of the past, none worse than the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, which killed at least 6,000 people, the highest toll of any natural disaster in American history.
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Good start but went political at the end.
- De thebreeze en 03-24-21
De: Eric Jay Dolin
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The Longest Minute
- The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906
- De: Matthew J. Davenport
- Narrado por: Traber Burns
- Duración: 17 h y 19 m
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At 5:12 am on April 18, 1906, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck San Francisco, catching most of the city asleep. For approximately forty-eight seconds, shock waves buckled streets, shattered water mains, collapsed buildings, crushed hundreds of residents to death, and trapped many alive. Matthew Davenport draws on letters, diaries, unpublished memoirs, and previously unearthed archival records, as well as interviews with engineers and geologists, to combine history and science to tell the dramatic true story of one of the greatest disasters in American history.
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- De BamaState en 12-26-23
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The Children's Blizzard
- De: David Laskin
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
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January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota, the weather so mild that children walked to school without coats and gloves. But that afternoon, without warning, the atmosphere suddenly, violently changed. One moment the air was calm; the next the sky exploded in a raging chaos of horizontal snow and hurricane-force winds. Temperatures plunged as an unprecedented cold front ripped through the center of the continent.
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True Account of 1888 Prairie Blizzard
- De Mary Burnight en 01-09-17
De: David Laskin
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First In, Last Out
- Leadership Lessons from the New York Fire Department
- De: John Salka Battalion Chief FDNY, Dennis Smith - Introduction by, Barret Neville - With
- Narrado por: John Salka
- Duración: 6 h y 52 m
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As a high-ranking officer of the FDNY, John Salka is an expert at both practicing and teaching high-stakes leadership. In First In, Last Out, he explains the department's unique strategies and how they can be adopted by leaders in any field - as he has taught them to organizations around the country. In a tough-talking, no-nonsense style, Salka uses real-world stories to convey leadership imperatives.
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Very Good.
- De Dustin Titzman en 10-22-21
De: John Salka Battalion Chief FDNY, y otros
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Storm Clouds over the Pacific, 1931-1941
- War in the Far East Series, Book 1
- De: Peter Harmsen
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
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Storm Clouds over the Pacific begins the story long before Pearl Harbor, showing how the war can only be understood if ancient hatreds and long-standing geopolitics are taken into account. Harmsen demonstrates how Japan and China's ancient enmity led to increased tensions in the 1930s, which, in turn, exploded into conflict in 1937.
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Interesting Story
- De Coach Mark en 03-25-23
De: Peter Harmsen
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3000 Degrees
- The True Story of a Deadly Fire and the Men Who Fought It
- De: Sean Flynn
- Narrado por: Richard Rohan
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
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On December 3, 1999, the call crackled in to the men of the Worchester, Massachusetts Fire Department: a three-alarm warehouse blaze in a six-story windowless colossus of brick and mortar. What happened next - and how their lives and community were changed forever - offers an unprecedented look at these heroic men whose job it is to rush into burning buildings when everyone else just wants out.
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a book about a very heroic breed
- De Andy en 06-03-03
De: Sean Flynn
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The Year Without Summer
- 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History
- De: William K. Klingaman, Nicholas P. Klingaman
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 11 h y 27 m
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1816 was a remarkable year - mostly for the fact that there was no summer. As a result of a volcanic eruption at Mount Tambora in Indonesia, weather patterns were disrupted worldwide for months, allowing for excessive rain, frost, and snowfall through much of the Northeastern US and Europe in the summer of 1816.
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- De Ellen NB en 02-24-20
De: William K. Klingaman, y otros
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The Great Quake
- How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet
- De: Henry Fountain
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
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A riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North American recorded history - the 1964 Alaska earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and swept away the island village of Chenega - and the geologist who hunted for clues to explain how and why it took place.
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Fascinating to hear the full story
- De Debby A Davis en 08-18-17
De: Henry Fountain
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The Modern Fire Officer
- Communicate, Motivate, & Lead
- De: Jared Vermeulen
- Narrado por: Justin Koehn
- Duración: 2 h y 13 m
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The world has changed, the fire department has changed, and the firefighters you serve with have changed. Fire organizations offer more services to the public via a more diverse group of firefighters than ever before. Those that rely on you to serve and lead them deserve a fire officer who can effectively evolve to meet their specific and unique needs while keeping what has historically made the fire service great.
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- De Michael McFadden en 01-22-25
De: Jared Vermeulen
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The Perfect Storm
- A True Story of Men Against the Sea
- De: Sebastian Junger
- Narrado por: Richard Davidson
- Duración: 9 h y 25 m
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Man’s struggle against the sea is a theme that has created some of the world’s most exciting stories. Now, in the tradition of Moby Dick comes a New York Times best seller destined to become a modern classic. Written by journalist Sebastian Junger, The Perfect Storm combines an intimate portrait of a small fishing crew with fascinating scientific data about boats and weather systems.
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Best as a Listen
- De Cynthia en 01-28-15
De: Sebastian Junger
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The Last Stand of Fox Company
- A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat
- De: Bob Drury, Tom Clavin
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 11 h y 43 m
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The Last Stand of Fox Company is a fast-paced and gripping account of heroism and self-sacrifice in the face of impossible odds. The authors have conducted dozens of firsthand interviews with the battle's survivors, and they narrate the story with the immediacy of such classic accounts of single battles as Guadalcanal Diary, Pork Chop Hill, and Black Hawk Down.
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Outstanding story, poor narration
- De Stephen en 03-05-09
De: Bob Drury, y otros
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The Day the World Ended
- The Mount Pelee Disaster: May 7, 1902
- De: Gordon Thomas, Max Morgan-Witts
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 8 h y 38 m
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In late April 1902, Mount Pelee, a volcano on the Caribbean island Martinique, began to wake up. It emitted clouds of ash and smoke for two weeks until violently erupting on May 8. Over 30,000 residents of St. Pierre were killed; they burned to death under rivers of hot lava and suffocated under pounds of hot ash. Only three people managed to survive: a prisoner trapped in a dungeon-like jail cell, a man on the outskirts of town, and a young girl found floating unconscious in a boat days later.
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Thrilling Account of a Sadly Preventable Disaster
- De Admiralu en 10-17-20
De: Gordon Thomas, y otros
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Floodpath
- The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster of 20th Century America and the Making of Modern Los Angeles
- De: Jon Wilkman
- Narrado por: Charles Constant
- Duración: 10 h
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Driven by eyewitness accounts and combining urban history with a life-and-death drama and a technological detective story, Floodpath grippingly reanimates the reality behind LA noir fictions like the classic film Chinatown. In an era of climate change, increasing demand on water resources, and a neglected American infrastructure, the tragedy of the St. Francis Dam has never been more relevant.
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Incredible story
- De C. Jackson en 04-07-21
De: Jon Wilkman
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Halsey's Typhoon
- De: Bob Drury, Tom Clavin
- Narrado por: Eric Conger
- Duración: 10 h y 38 m
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December 1944, the Pacific Theater. General Douglas MacArthur has vowed to return to the Philippines. He will need the help of Admiral William "Bull" Halsey's Pacific Fleet. But at the height of the invasion, Halsey's ships are blindsided by a typhoon of unprecedented strength and scope. Battleships are tossed like toys, fighter planes are blown off carriers, destroyers are capsized, and hundreds of sailors are swept into the roiling, shark-infested sea.
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Weather and Naval History Masterpiece
- De M. Taussig en 02-17-07
De: Bob Drury, y otros
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre San Francisco Is Burning
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History of the fire!
Incredible work! I absolutely recommend this if you want to examine San Francisco at the time of the great fire. Detailed and absorbing.
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- timothy martin
- 06-12-21
Needs to be made into a Hollwood movie!
This book is so good I wish James Cameron would turn it into a movie the way he did with Titanic. I could see mayor Eugene Schmitz and general Frederick Funston along with fire chief Dennis T Sullivan characters brought to life. The details in the book could be used to recreate the horror and destruction in state of the art CGI.
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- Shadow007
- 07-04-24
A minute by minute account written by the gullible
This book is a minute by minute account of the San Francisco 1906 earthquake and fire. It uses accounts of witnesses and survivors to tell how the fire spread and was growth by police incompetence.
It uses these primary sources just fine. The author doesn’t take into account bias written into the accounts so he sounds pretty dumb at times for example believing everything police says despite the police essentially causing the spreading of the city’s fire and basically occupying the city and killing civilians for no reason.
The author also uses the writing style of saying ‘this person was thinking that today was scary’ which I hate. How does the author know how a person who lived over 110 years old felt? Also the author complains that the police didn’t get heroics despite describing their crimes of shooting random fleeing civilians and destroying the city while the police themselves also don’t credit any of their “heroics”.
The book ends with a long rant from a retired firefighter that you should just skip (does he ever shut up?) and a short profiles of what happened to the major players of the event. So the book kind of falls off after the fire gets put out.
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- alaina davis
- 12-23-24
fantastic story of chaos and heroes
immersive narrative of the 8.0 earth quake that lead to the largest fire in America in 1906.
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- SENewman
- 01-01-25
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Factual narrative which demonstrates the tremendous research that went into creating this book. Narration was very good as well.
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- Robert
- 03-02-07
Lessons from history
The story of the 1906 SF Earthquake & Fire is a facinating tale of corruption and incompetance that is eerily reminiscint of the 2005 Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans.
I found my blood boiling when learing of the arrogance & stupidity of the US Army and its' selective treatment of people (rich & white vs. poor & Asian). I also loved the general history of San Fran's neighborhoods & city founders and whenever I return to the Bay Area I now often think of this disaster as I walk the town.
My only complaint is the length. An Abridgment would've been nice as this does tend to ramble on at times when describing the various fire fighting methods over & over again.
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- C D Halvorsen
- 05-10-24
A masterful narrative on prominent American history and spirit.
A masterful narrative on prominent American history and spirit. Dennis Smith sheds light on important moments, policies, individuals, and actions in the decades impacted by one of America’s worst disasters.
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