To Africa and Beyond
The Life and Work of My Father in the Gold Coast and Ghana While Occasionally I Traipsed Along
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James Stroud
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Bronnie Ellis Stroud left Indianapolis for Bawku. There, in the sahel, in the northeastern corner of the Gold Coast, now Ghana, and later along the forested coast, he altered the course of a people and a country.
A linguist, missionary, and educator, a husband, father, and grandfather, he was an adventurer and a man of unfailing affection. He built churches and schools.
More importantly, he formed enduring loyalties that strengthened those with whom he worked. A tireless man, his eyes twinkled blue and he walked fast.
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- Duración: 6 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 451
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 382
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 382
From simple practices such as walking, working, and getting lost to deep meditations on topics like prayer and pronouncing blessings, Taylor reveals concrete ways to discover the sacred in the small things we do and see. Something as ordinary as hanging clothes on a clothesline becomes an act of devotion if we pay attention to what we are doing and take time to attend to the sights, smells, and sounds around us. Making eye contact with the cashier at the grocery store becomes a moment of true human connection.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sorry Audible.
- De Evert en 07-19-13
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The Wife's Tale
- A Personal History
- De: Aida Edemariam
- Narrado por: Adjoa Andoh
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 30
In this indelible memoir of the life of her remarkable 95-year-old grandmother, Guardian journalist Aida Edemariam tells the story of modern Ethiopia - a nation that underwent a tumultuous transformation from feudalism to monarchy to Marxist revolution to democracy, over the course of one century. Filled with a vivid cast of characters - emperors and empresses, priests and scholars, monks and nuns, archbishops and slaves, Marxist revolutionaries and wartime double agents - The Wife's Tale introduces a woman both imperious and vulnerable.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Look At Ethiopia
- De Jean en 07-15-18
De: Aida Edemariam
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Essays of E. B. White
- De: E. B. White
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 12 h y 18 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 237
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 210
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 208
Legendary author and essayist E. B. White writes, "The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest." Covering a large number of subjects, this classic collection features 31 of White's most memorable essays.
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5 out of 5 stars
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E.B. White writes honestly, fearlessly and clearly
- De Bonny en 09-03-17
De: E. B. White
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Guernica
- A Novel
- De: Dave Boling
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 13 h y 2 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 127
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 79
Calling to mind such timeless war-and-love classics as Corelli's Mandolin and The English Patient, Guernica is a transporting novel that thrums with the power of storytelling and is peopled with characters driven by grit and heart.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Guernica a good historical novel
- De ARLEENE en 04-26-11
De: Dave Boling
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White Dog Fell from the Sky
- De: Eleanor Morse
- Narrado por: Carla Mercer-Meyer
- Duración: 14 h y 10 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 138
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 118
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 117
Botswana, 1976: Isaac Muthethe thinks he is dead. Smuggled across the border from South Africa in a hearse, he awakens covered in dust, staring at blue sky and the face of White Dog. Far from dead, he is, for the first time, in a country without apartheid. A medical student in South Africa, he was forced to flee after witnessing a friend murdered by white members of the South African Defense Force.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unexpectedly Stunning Work!
- De Kathi en 03-15-13
De: Eleanor Morse
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Bad Indians
- A Tribal Memoir
- De: Deborah A. Miranda
- Narrado por: Deborah Miranda
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 53
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 45
This beautiful and devastating book - part tribal history, part lyric and intimate memoir - should be required for anyone seeking to learn about California Indian history, past and present. Deborah A. Miranda tells stories of her Ohlone Costanoan Esselen family as well as the experience of California Indians as a whole through oral histories, newspaper clippings, anthropological recordings, personal reflections, and poems. The result is a work of literary art that is wise, angry, and playful all at once, a compilation that will break your heart and teach you to see the world anew.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Bad recording
- De Aspyn Maes en 09-18-21
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Good Poems
- Selected and Introduced by Garrison Keillor
- De: Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, y otros
- Narrado por: Garrison Keillor
- Duración: 4 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 213
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 174
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 163
Good Poems includes poems about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendence. It features the work of classic poets, such as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Robert Frost, as well as the work of contemporary greats such as Howard Nemerov, Charles Bukowski, Donald Hall, Billy Collins, Robert Bly, and Sharon Olds Good Poems includes poems about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very good, but. . .
- De KSmith en 01-27-11
De: Emily Dickinson, y otros
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I Heard the Owl Call My Name
- De: Margaret Craven
- Narrado por: Frank Muller
- Duración: 3 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 314
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 274
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 274
The touching story of a young, mortally ill priest who spends his last days working among the Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Uncanny insight...
- De MetaThink en 03-22-15
De: Margaret Craven
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Grandma Gatewood's Walk
- The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
- De: Ben Montgomery
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,628
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,298
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,288
Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than $200. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, 67-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. And in September 1955, atop Maine's Mount Katahdin, she sang the first verse of "America, the Beautiful" and proclaimed, "I said I'll do it, and I've done it."
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4 out of 5 stars
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Inspiring story about a strong amazing woman
- De David Shear en 12-22-14
De: Ben Montgomery
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Elephant Company
- The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II
- De: Vicki Constantine Croke
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 9 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,336
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,109
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,107
At the onset of World War II, Williams formed Elephant Company and was instrumental in defeating the Japanese in Burma and saving refugees, including on his own "Hannibal Trek." Billy Williams became a media sensation during the war, telling reporters that the elephants did more for him than he was ever able to do for them, but his story has since been forgotten.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Story of Friendship, Loyalty, and Bravery
- De Patrick en 04-15-15
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End of the Spear
- De: Steve Saint
- Narrado por: Todd Busteed
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 140
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 110
Steve Saint was five years old when his father, missionary pilot Nate Saint, was speared to death by a primitive Ecuadorian tribe. In adulthood, Steve, having left Ecuador for a successful business career, never imagined making the jungle his home again. But when that same tribe asks him to help them, Steve, his wife, and their teenage children move back to the jungle. There, Steve learns long-buried secrets about his father's murder, confronts difficult choices, and finds himself caught between two worlds.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of my favorite books
- De N. Land en 02-28-23
De: Steve Saint
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All the Lives We Never Lived
- De: Anuradha Roy
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
From the Man Booker Prize-nominated author of Sleeping on Jupiter, The Folded Earth, and An Atlas of Impossible Longing, a poignant and sweeping novel set in India during World War II and the present day about a son’s quest to uncover the truth about his mother....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful book
- De Sonia S. en 12-13-19
De: Anuradha Roy
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The Poet of Tolstoy Park
- De: Sonny Brewer
- Narrado por: Rick Bragg
- Duración: 10 h y 36 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 44
This book is based on the true life of Henry Stuart. When the 67-year-old former professor finds out he is dying of tuberculosis, he vows to “learn in solitude how to save myself.” He sets off for Fairhope, Alabama, with only the writings of his beloved Tolstoy for company. There, the barefoot poet builds himself a small hut and slowly becomes an inspiration for the rest of the utopian town. When his last few months become his last few years, Henry’s attempt to understand death becomes a lesson on life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great read
- De Jimmy Oaks en 03-23-15
De: Sonny Brewer
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The Mission Walker
- I Was Given Three Months to Live....
- De: Edie Littlefield Sundby
- Narrado por: Jaimee Paul
- Duración: 11 h y 36 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
Walking alone, and with one lung (the other lost to cancer), Edie Littlefield Sundby became the first person in history to walk the 1,600-mile El Camino Real de las Californias mission trail through the mountain wilderness of Mexico and one of the hottest deserts on Earth, and across the border to Northern California - a walk that elevated her life with meaning and purpose that transcended pain and fear – and healed her broken body.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Narrator ruins it...
- De LS en 09-11-17
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The Mosquito Coast
- De: Paul Theroux
- Narrado por: David Aaron Baker
- Duración: 16 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 314
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 281
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 283
Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilisation and takes the family to live in the Honduran jungle. There his tortured messianic genius keeps them alive, his hoarse tirades harrying them through a diseased and dirty Eden towards unimaginable darkness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dreadful in every sense of the word.
- De Joan en 07-12-15
De: Paul Theroux
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Crossing the Waters
- Following Jesus Through the Storms, the Fish, the Doubt, and the Seas
- De: Leslie Leyland Fields
- Narrado por: Pamela Klein
- Duración: 6 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
The Gospels are dramatic and incredibly wet, set in a rich maritime culture on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. Yet we've missed much of this perspective - until now. Leslie Leyland Fields, a seasoned Alaskan fisherwoman, leads us across the waters of time and culture out onto the Sea of Galilee, through a rugged season of commercial fishing with her family in Alaska, and through the waters of the New Testament beside the ragtag fishermen disciples.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Breath taking!
- De Meg White Haven Hill en 09-13-17