The Bridleway
How Horses Shaped the British Landscape
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Bloomsbury presents The Bridleway by Tiffany Francis-Baker, read by Olivia Mace.
WINNER OF THE ELWYN HARTLEY-EDWARDS AWARD FOR EQUINE WRITING, 2023.
Tiffany Francis-Baker explores how the relationship between humans and horses has shaped the British landscape and how this connection has become part of our nation’s ecosystems.
Many of us enjoy walking or riding on bridleways. These ancient networks crisscross the British countryside, but we rarely pause to ponder how they came to be.
Tiffany Francis-Baker tells the intriguing history of Britain’s bridleways, revealing how our relationship with horses is deeply woven into the fabric of British culture, from street and pub names to trading routes and coaching inns. She meets the closest living descendants of wild horses and investigates our evolving relationship with horses, exploring equestrian sports, horse fairs, horseback travellers and adventurers, and how humans and horses have worked together for millennia.
Part-domesticated and part-fiercely independent, horses have long captured our imaginations, and in The Bridleway, Francis-Baker reveals how deeply rooted they have been in our culture for thousands of years and how they can help us understand the natural world and our place within it.
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Horses have a story to tell - one of resilience, sociability, and intelligence and of partnership with human beings. In The Horse, journalist and equestrienne Wendy Williams brings that story brilliantly to life. Williams chronicles the 56-million-year journey of horses as she visits with experts around the world, exploring what our biological affinities and differences can tell us about the bond between horses and humans and what our longtime companions might think and feel.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Full of science.
- De Jennifer90046 en 02-07-17
De: Wendy Williams
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The Marches
- A Borderland Journey Between England and Scotland
- De: Rory Stewart
- Narrado por: Rory Stewart
- Duración: 12 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 62
Ten years after the walk across Central Asia and Afghanistan that he memorialized in The Places in Between, Rory Stewart set out on a new journey, traversing a thousand miles between England and Scotland. Stewart was raised along the border of the two countries, the frontier taking on poignant significance in his understanding of what it means to be both Scottish and English, of his relationship with his father, who's lived on this land his whole life, and of his ties to the rich history and culture of the region.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Uneven and unexpected, still worth it.
- De Nassir en 04-29-17
De: Rory Stewart
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Horse People
- Scenes from the Riding Life
- De: Michael Korda
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 11 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
Best-selling author Michael Korda's Horse People is the story - sometimes hilariously funny, sometimes sad and moving, always shrewdly observed - of a lifetime love affair with horses, and of the bonds that have linked humans with horses for more than 10,000 years. It is filled with intimate portraits of the kind of people, rich or poor, Eastern or Western, famous or humble, whose lives continue to revolve around the horse. Korda is a terrific storyteller, and his book is intensely personal and seductive, a joy for everyone who loves horses.
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4 out of 5 stars
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good yarn for nag lovers
- De bj bell en 03-27-21
De: Michael Korda
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The Men Who United the States
- America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
- Duración: 13 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,181
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,076
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,070
How did America become “one nation, indivisible”? What unified a growing number of disparate states into the modern country we recognize today? To answer these questions, Winchester follows in the footsteps of America’s most essential explorers, thinkers, and innovators. Introducing the fascinating people who played a pivotal role in creating today’s United States, he ponders whether the historic work of uniting the States has succeeded, and to what degree.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Sarcastic
- De Cynthia Hartman en 06-16-16
De: Simon Winchester
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Land
- How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
- Duración: 13 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 434
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 367
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 366
Land - whether meadow or mountainside, desert or peat bog, parkland or pasture, suburb or city - is central to our existence. It quite literally underlies and underpins everything. Employing the keen intellect, insatiable curiosity, and narrative verve that are the foundations of his previous bestselling works, Simon Winchester examines what we human beings are doing - and have done - with the billions of acres that together make up the solid surface of our planet.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Audiobook Version is the Best!
- De semarla en 01-31-21
De: Simon Winchester
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Walking
- De: Henry David Thoreau
- Narrado por: Deaver Brown
- Duración: 1 h y 28 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 268
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 230
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 232
> Walking is not as well known as Thoreau's other works Walden, The Maine Woods, and Civil Disobedience. But it is a good place to start exploring his writing because it was his last book, in 1862, published by the Atlantic Monthly shortly after his death. It is less well known because it is general, as opposed to singular, in focus. It is his summing up of his thoughts on life: One should saunter through life and take notice; one need not go far.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Brief transcendental ditty; amateurish narration
- De Ryan en 12-19-12
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Lasso the Wind
- Away to the New West
- De: Timothy Egan
- Narrado por: John McLain
- Duración: 11 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 70
Egan leads us on an unconventional, freewheeling tour: from America's oldest continuously inhabited community, the Ancoma Pueblo in New Mexico, to the high kitsch of Lake Havasu City, Arizona, where London Bridge has been painstakingly rebuilt stone by stone; from the fragile beauty of Idaho's Bitterroot Range to the gross excess of Las Vegas, a city built as though in defiance of its arid environment.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator mispronounces everything
- De Catherine en 01-27-22
De: Timothy Egan
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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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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,385
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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Cræft
- An Inquiry into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts
- De: Alexander Langlands
- Narrado por: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Duración: 10 h y 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 90
In Craeft, archaeologist and medieval historian Alexander Langlands argues that our modern understanding of craft only skims the surface. His journeys from his home in Wales have taken him along the Atlantic seaboard of Europe, from Spain through France and England to Scotland and Iceland in search of the lost meaning of craft.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Too little information too much brag and biography
- De Thomas B. en 04-28-21
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A Most Remarkable Creature
- The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World's Smartest Birds of Prey
- De: Jonathan Meiburg
- Narrado por: Jonathan Meiburg
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 678
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 579
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 576
An enthralling account of a modern voyage of discovery as we meet the clever, social birds of prey called caracaras, which puzzled Darwin, fascinate modern-day falconers, and carry secrets of our planet's deep past in their family history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I don't leave reviews often, but . . .
- De Steven L Peck en 06-24-21
De: Jonathan Meiburg
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Wonderlandscape
- Yellowstone National Park and the Evolution of an American Cultural Icon
- De: John Clayton
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 118
Yellowstone is America's premier national park. Today Yellowstone is often a byword for conservation, natural beauty, and a way for everyone to enjoy the great outdoors. But it was not always this way. Wonderlandscape presents a new perspective on Yellowstone, the emotions that various natural wonders and attractions evoke, and how this explains the park's relationship to America as a whole.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating blend of history and storytelling
- De NC en 02-08-21
De: John Clayton
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The Old Ways
- A Journey on Foot
- De: Robert Macfarlane
- Narrado por: Robin Sachs
- Duración: 11 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 727
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 639
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 643
In this exquisitely written book, Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge, England, home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove roads, and sea paths that crisscross both the British landscape and its waters and territories beyond. The result is an immersive, enthralling exploration of the ghosts and voices that haunt old paths, of the stories our tracks keep and tell, and of pilgrimage and ritual. Told in Macfarlane’s distinctive voice, The Old Ways folds together natural history, cartography, geology, archaeology, and literature.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A perfect pairing of prose and narrator
- De chris en 11-05-12
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Wanderlust
- A History of Walking
- De: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrado por: Liisa Ivary
- Duración: 13 h y 58 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 378
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 319
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 320
Drawing together many histories - of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores - Rebecca Solnit creates a fascinating portrait of the range of possibilities presented by walking. Arguing that the history of walking includes walking for pleasure as well as for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit focuses on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have shaped our culture, from philosophers to poets to mountaineers.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Walking as politics
- De Jason V en 06-04-18
De: Rebecca Solnit
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Aloha Rodeo
- Three Hawaiian Cowboys, the World's Greatest Rodeo, and a Hidden History of the American West
- De: David Wolman, Julian Smith
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith
- Duración: 6 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 77
In the spirit of The Boys in the Boat comes the captivating true story of the Hawaiian cowboys who changed rodeo and the West forever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A walk in Grandpa’s Boots. Maika’i!
- De Anonymous User en 06-09-19
De: David Wolman, y otros
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American Serengeti
- The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains
- De: Dan Flores
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,649
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,452
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,450
America's Great Plains once possessed one of the grandest wildlife spectacles of the world, equaled only by such places as the Serengeti, the Masai Mara, or the veld of South Africa. Pronghorn antelope, gray wolves, bison, coyotes, wild horses, and grizzly bears: less than 200 years ago these creatures existed in such abundance that John James Audubon was moved to write "it is impossible to describe or even conceive the vast multitudes of these animals".
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3 out of 5 stars
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Could have been great, but
- De An Amazon Buyer en 08-29-18
De: Dan Flores
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The Oregon Trail
- A New American Journey
- De: Rinker Buck
- Narrado por: Rinker Buck
- Duración: 16 h y 42 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,138
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,035
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,041
In the best-selling tradition of Bill Bryson and Tony Horwitz, Rinker Buck's The Oregon Trail is a major work of participatory history: an epic account of traveling the entire 2,000-mile length of the Oregon Trail the old-fashioned way, in a covered wagon with a team of mules - which hasn't been done in a century - that also tells the rich history of the trail, the people who made the migration, and its significance to the country.
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1 out of 5 stars
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An author does not a good narrator make
- De C. Davis en 07-03-15
De: Rinker Buck
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Horse Crazy
- De: Sarah Maslin Nir
- Narrado por: Sarah Maslin Nir
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 106
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 102
It may surprise you to learn that there are over seven million horses in America - even more than when they were the only means of transportation - and nearly two million horse owners. Acclaimed journalist and avid equestrian Sarah Maslin Nir is one of them; she began riding horses when she was just two years old and hasn’t stopped since. Horse Crazy is a fascinating, funny, and moving love letter to these graceful animals and the people who - like her - are obsessed with them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Return to riding at 71 years old!
- De Barbara en 09-24-20
De: Sarah Maslin Nir