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Beryl Markham
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Twenty-six-year-old cavalry officer Slavomir Rawicz was captured by the Red Army in 1939 during the German-Soviet partition of Poland and sent to the Siberian Gulag. In the spring of 1941, he escaped with six of his fellow prisoners, including one American. Thus began their astonishing trek to freedom.
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Inspiring and absorbing
- De A. Millard en 05-30-07
De: Slavomir Rawicz
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The Mark of the Beast
- De: Rudyard Kipling
- Narrado por: B.J. Harrison
- Duración: 33 m
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When a carousing Englishman disgraces the consecrated effigy of Hanuman, a leprous "Silver Man" marks him with a hideous curse. The ensuing night brings new terrors to the house of the doomed man.
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- De uffdasuzanne en 10-06-17
De: Rudyard Kipling
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Eagle in the Sky
- De: Wilbur Smith
- Narrado por: Byron Mondahl
- Duración: 13 h y 10 m
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The Syrian plane disintegrated, evaporating in a gush of silvery smoke, rent through with bright white lightning, and the ejecting pilot's body was blown clear of the fuselage. For an instant it was outlined ahead of David's screen, cruciform in shape with arms and legs thrown wide, the helmet still on the head, and the clothing ballooning in the rush of air.
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May be my favorite
- De JDD en 05-14-19
De: Wilbur Smith
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Shardik
- De: Richard Adams
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 23 h y 49 m
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Shardik is a fantasy of tragic character, centered on the long-awaited reincarnation of the gigantic bear Shardik and his appearance among the half-barbaric Ortelgan people. Mighty, ferocious, and unpredictable, Shardik changes the life of every person in the story. His advent commences a momentous chain of events.
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Overlooked, underappreciated and forgotten epic
- De "sharp31" en 08-06-18
De: Richard Adams
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Great American Stories
- De: Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, Ambrose Bierce
- Narrado por: Patrick Fraley, Patrick Hagan
- Duración: 5 h y 29 m
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Here are 10 unabridged stories by the greatest American authors. These treasured stories from the most influential authors of the 19th and early 20th centuries were selected for their literary importance as well as their dramatic oral qualities.
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Great Classic Stories
- De kutzkai en 03-13-21
De: Mark Twain, y otros
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Hannay: His 5 Adventures
- De: John Buchan
- Narrado por: Graham Scott
- Duración: 49 h y 49 m
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In The Thirty-Nine Steps, Hannay struggles to thwart an assassination plot designed to hasten war between Britain and Germany. Later he is plucked from the trenches first, in Greenmantle, to frustrate a plot to ferment an uprising in the Islamic world; and then, in Mr. Standfast, to undertake a vital secret mission against a German spy ring operating among pacifist elements in England. After the war, his adventures continue in The Three Hostages; and then in The Island of Sheep, when an old oath to protect the son of a friend from his days in Africa draws him into new danger.
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Values of a bygone era
- De Barbara en 03-16-24
De: John Buchan
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The Pearl
- De: John Steinbeck
- Narrado por: Hector Elizondo
- Duración: 2 h y 35 m
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In this short book illuminated by a deep understanding and love of humanity, John Steinbeck retells an old Mexican folk tale: the story of the great pearl, how it was found, and how it was lost. For the diver Kino, finding a magnificent pearl means the promise of a better life for his impoverished family. His dream blinds him to the greed and suspicions the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors, and even his loving wife cannot temper his obsession or stem the events leading to the tragedy. For Steinbeck, Kino and his wife illustrate the fall from innocence of people who believe that wealth erases all problems.
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Stay poor
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 10-31-11
De: John Steinbeck
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Burning Daylight
- De: Jack London
- Narrado por: Tim Behrens
- Duración: 12 h y 52 m
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Burning Daylight begins as many of London's finest works begin: with the depiction of a man blessed with physical prowess and keen perception who takes on the natural forces of the 19th century Yukon. Supreme gold miner, risk-all gambler, and unbeatable fighter, Burning Daylight is his name. Daylight moves from the Yukon to San Francisco, and plays "the bigger game of finance and wealth," until he is reminded of something he lost, something pure and good....
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Favorite Jack London book
- De Anonymous User en 12-02-20
De: Jack London
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Lens of the World
- Lens of the World, Book 1
- De: R. A. MacAvoy
- Narrado por: Jeremy Arthur
- Duración: 9 h y 54 m
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Lens of the World is the story of a prodigious life. It recounts the coming of age of Nazhuret, an outcast and orphan who rises from his lowly estate as a ward of the Sordaling military school to become a mighty warrior, philosopher, and confidant of the King of Vestinglon. As he grows, the young man receives outlandish knowledge and is prepared for an entirely exceptional destiny far beyond the narrow confines of his kingdom.
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Beautifully told coming of age story
- De KH en 12-13-12
De: R. A. MacAvoy
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The Last King of Scotland
- De: Giles Foden
- Narrado por: Mirron E. Willis
- Duración: 13 h y 53 m
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Shortly after his arrival in Uganda, Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan is called to the scene of a bizarre accident: Idi Amin, careening down a dirt road in his Maserati, has hit a cow. When Garrigan tends to Amin, the dictator, obsessed with all things Scottish, appoints him as his personal physician. So begins a fateful dalliance with the African leader whose Emperor Jones-style autocracy would transform into a reign of terror.
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Worst Production Ever
- De James en 01-24-07
De: Giles Foden
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West with the Night
- De: Beryl Markham
- Narrado por: Anna Fields
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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Beryl Markham, the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west, describes her childhood on a farm in Kenya, her apprenticeship as a horse trainer, and her later career as a pioneer aviator who piloted passengers and supplies in a small plane to remote corners of Africa.
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I Read this wonderful book
- De Sunspot en 06-09-05
De: Beryl Markham
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Out of Africa
- De: Isak Dinesen
- Narrado por: Julie Harris
- Duración: 2 h y 57 m
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Danish countess Karen Blixon, known as Isak Dineson, ran a coffee plantation in Kenya in the years when Africa remained a romantic and formidable continent to most Europeans. Out of Africa is her account of her life there, with stories of her respectful relationships with the Masai, Kikuyu, and Somali natives who work on her land; the European friends who visit her; and the imposing permanence of the wild, high land itself.
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I did not expect to enjoy this
- De Tyler Tanner en 10-08-14
De: Isak Dinesen
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The Story of My Life
- De: Helen Keller
- Narrado por: Amy J. Johnson
- Duración: 16 h y 52 m
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This inspiring autobiography by Helen Keller is an account of her life from her family history up to her last years of college, supplemented by her personal letters from age 7 to 21. This edition includes letters and reports contributed by her teacher, Anne Sullivan, and the editor, John Albert Macy.
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WONDERFUL
- De Sweetpea en 12-29-24
De: Helen Keller
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Hippie Woman Wild
- A Memoir of Life & Love on an Oregon Commune
- De: Carol Schlanger
- Narrado por: Carol Schlanger
- Duración: 13 h y 26 m
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At 23, Carol Schlanger was an insecure upper-middle-class radical. Her parents spoiled her, and she expected the universe to follow. It didn't. After being expelled from Yale, losing a coveted Broadway lead, and seeing a suicide splatter at her feet, she left NYC for the Great Northwest, to live in nature with a man "who made everything beautiful with his hands". At that time she chose love and nature over art and career...until she didn't.
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My favorite memoir of the year so far!
- De NMwritergal en 04-06-21
De: Carol Schlanger
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Fish Out of Water
- A Search for the Meaning of Life: A Memoir
- De: Eric Metaxas
- Narrado por: Eric Metaxas
- Duración: 17 h y 25 m
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What happens when one of America’s most beloved biographers writes his own biography? For five-time New York Times best-selling author Eric Metaxas, the answer is Fish Out of Water: A Search for the Meaning of Life - a soaring, lyrical, and often mischievous account of his early years, in which the astute Queens-born son of Greek and German immigrants struggles to make sense of a world in which he never quite seems to fit.
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Reliving my childhood
- De Rhinocermom en 02-18-21
De: Eric Metaxas
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Out of Africa & Shadows on the Grass
- De: Isak Dinesen
- Narrado por: Susan Lyons
- Duración: 16 h y 35 m
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In this audiobook, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives; of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom; of her guests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoal burner, who visited her; of primitive festivals; of big game that were her near neighbors - lions, rhinos, elephants, zebras, buffaloes; and of Lulu, the little gazelle who came to live with her, unbelievably ladylike and beautiful.
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Sketches of Africa
- De Jay Quintana en 03-26-16
De: Isak Dinesen
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West with the Night
- De: Beryl Markham
- Narrado por: Anna Fields
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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Beryl Markham, the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west, describes her childhood on a farm in Kenya, her apprenticeship as a horse trainer, and her later career as a pioneer aviator who piloted passengers and supplies in a small plane to remote corners of Africa.
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- De Sunspot en 06-09-05
De: Beryl Markham
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Out of Africa
- De: Isak Dinesen
- Narrado por: Julie Harris
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Danish countess Karen Blixon, known as Isak Dineson, ran a coffee plantation in Kenya in the years when Africa remained a romantic and formidable continent to most Europeans. Out of Africa is her account of her life there, with stories of her respectful relationships with the Masai, Kikuyu, and Somali natives who work on her land; the European friends who visit her; and the imposing permanence of the wild, high land itself.
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I did not expect to enjoy this
- De Tyler Tanner en 10-08-14
De: Isak Dinesen
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The Story of My Life
- De: Helen Keller
- Narrado por: Amy J. Johnson
- Duración: 16 h y 52 m
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This inspiring autobiography by Helen Keller is an account of her life from her family history up to her last years of college, supplemented by her personal letters from age 7 to 21. This edition includes letters and reports contributed by her teacher, Anne Sullivan, and the editor, John Albert Macy.
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WONDERFUL
- De Sweetpea en 12-29-24
De: Helen Keller
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Hippie Woman Wild
- A Memoir of Life & Love on an Oregon Commune
- De: Carol Schlanger
- Narrado por: Carol Schlanger
- Duración: 13 h y 26 m
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At 23, Carol Schlanger was an insecure upper-middle-class radical. Her parents spoiled her, and she expected the universe to follow. It didn't. After being expelled from Yale, losing a coveted Broadway lead, and seeing a suicide splatter at her feet, she left NYC for the Great Northwest, to live in nature with a man "who made everything beautiful with his hands". At that time she chose love and nature over art and career...until she didn't.
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My favorite memoir of the year so far!
- De NMwritergal en 04-06-21
De: Carol Schlanger
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Fish Out of Water
- A Search for the Meaning of Life: A Memoir
- De: Eric Metaxas
- Narrado por: Eric Metaxas
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What happens when one of America’s most beloved biographers writes his own biography? For five-time New York Times best-selling author Eric Metaxas, the answer is Fish Out of Water: A Search for the Meaning of Life - a soaring, lyrical, and often mischievous account of his early years, in which the astute Queens-born son of Greek and German immigrants struggles to make sense of a world in which he never quite seems to fit.
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Reliving my childhood
- De Rhinocermom en 02-18-21
De: Eric Metaxas
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Out of Africa & Shadows on the Grass
- De: Isak Dinesen
- Narrado por: Susan Lyons
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In this audiobook, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives; of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom; of her guests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoal burner, who visited her; of primitive festivals; of big game that were her near neighbors - lions, rhinos, elephants, zebras, buffaloes; and of Lulu, the little gazelle who came to live with her, unbelievably ladylike and beautiful.
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Sketches of Africa
- De Jay Quintana en 03-26-16
De: Isak Dinesen
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All But My Life
- De: Gerda Weissmann Klein
- Narrado por: Grace Conlin
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A classic of Holocaust literature, Gerda Weissmann Klein's celebrated memoir tells the moving story of a young woman's 3 frightful years as a slave laborer of the Nazis and her miraculous liberation. All But My Life stands as the ultimate lesson in humanity, hope, and friendship.
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All But My Life
- De cbrann en 08-06-07
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The American Classics Collection - Volume One: 15+ Novels, and Stories from HP Lovecraft, Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Frederick Douglass, & More
- A Farewell to Arms, At the Mountains of Madness, Little Women, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Call of the Wild, The Great Gatsby, The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass, Walden, & More
- De: Louisa May Alcott, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, y otros
- Narrado por: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Nathan Osgood, Robert G. Slade, y otros
- Duración: 120 h y 16 m
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The American Classics Collection is a century-spanning collection of 17 classic novels, short stories, essay, and poetry by American authors, read by a cast of incredible narrators including Kobna Holdbrook-Smith; Nathan Osgood; Robert G. Slade; Jonathan Keeble, and more. Included here are stories by some of the greatest writers of all time, including Ernest Hemingway; Mark Twain; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Edith Wharton; Frederick Douglass; and H.P. Lovecraft, amongst a host of others.
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5* Collection of American Classics
- De James en 01-08-25
De: Louisa May Alcott, y otros
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Coyote America
- A Natural and Supernatural History
- De: Dan Flores
- Narrado por: Elijah Alexander
- Duración: 8 h y 51 m
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Coyote America is both an environmental and a deep natural history of the coyote. It traces both the five-million-year-long biological story of an animal that has become the "wolf" in our backyards and its cultural evolution from a preeminent spot in Native American religions to the hapless foil of the Road Runner. A deeply American tale, the story of the coyote in the American West and beyond is a sort of Manifest Destiny in reverse.
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Very Enjoyable Book, Subject Matter, and Reader
- De John Townsend en 03-17-17
De: Dan Flores
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Heart of Darkness: A Signature Performance by Kenneth Branagh
- De: Joseph Conrad
- Narrado por: Kenneth Branagh
- Duración: 3 h y 49 m
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A Signature Performance: Kenneth Branagh plays this like a campfire ghost story, told by a haunted, slightly insane Marlow.
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Disgusting Revision
- De Long_Schlong_Silver en 09-27-18
De: Joseph Conrad
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Lonesome Dove
- De: Larry McMurtry
- Narrado por: Lee Horsley
- Duración: 36 h y 41 m
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Two retired Texas Rangers, Captains Woodrow Call and Augustus "Gus" McCrae, lead a cattle drive from the small town of Lonesome Dove to the unsettled Montana territories. On their grueling journey, they are joined by Joshua Deets, a Black scout and former Ranger, Jake Spoon, a fugitive, and Newt Dobbs, a 17-year-old boy who may have family ties to Call. Richly authentic, beautifully written, always dramatic, Lonesome Dove will make listeners laugh and weep, dream and remember.
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- De Amazon Customer en 09-05-18
De: Larry McMurtry
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Heroes Behind Headlines
- Only the Brave
- De: Ralph Pezzullo
- Narrado por: Ralph Pezzullo
- Duración: 6 h y 33 m
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How did DEA agents orchestrate the capture of one of the world’s most wanted weapons dealers? How does an all-female, unarmed group of rangers stop poachers from killing South Africa’s most majestic wild animals? And how did a scrappy crew of soldiers help desperate Afghans escape Kabul during the Taliban’s rapid takeover? Welcome to Heroes Behind Headlines: Only the Brave, where host Ralph Pezzullo takes you on deep dives into extraordinary true stories, told to you by the experts and the brave men and women who lived them.
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Just another podcast
- De Jennifer Naughton en 01-13-25
De: Ralph Pezzullo
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Stiff
- The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
- De: Mary Roach
- Narrado por: Shelly Frasier
- Duración: 8 h
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For two thousand years, cadavers have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every new surgical procedure, from heart transplants to gender reassignment surgery, cadavers have been there alongside surgeons, making history in their quiet way.
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I worked with cadavers for years, but....
- De POQA en 11-11-12
De: Mary Roach
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A Walk in the Park
- De: Kevin Fedarko
- Narrado por: Kevin Fedarko
- Duración: 14 h y 40 m
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A few years after quitting his job to follow an ill-advised dream of becoming a guide on the Colorado River, Kevin Fedarko was approached by his friend, the National Geographic photographer Pete McBride, with a vision as bold as it was harebrained. Together, they would embark on an end-to-end traverse of the Grand Canyon, a journey that, McBride promised, would be “a walk in the park.” Against his better judgment, Fedarko agreed to the scheme. The ensuing ordeal, which lasted more than a year, revealed a place that was richer, and far more complex, than anything the two men had imagined.
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I so wanted to love this book but I just couldn’t.
- De Barbara W. en 05-31-24
De: Kevin Fedarko
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Empire of the Summer Moon
- Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
- De: S. C. Gwynne
- Narrado por: David Drummond
- Duración: 15 h y 9 m
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Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. The second entails one of the most remarkable narratives ever to come out of the Old West: the epic saga of the pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker and her mixed-blood son, Quanah, who became the last and greatest chief of the Comanches.
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Difficult to endure narrator
- De fowler en 12-21-19
De: S. C. Gwynne
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The Dutch House
- A Novel
- De: Ann Patchett
- Narrado por: Tom Hanks
- Duración: 9 h y 53 m
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At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. The story is told by Cyril’s son Danny, as he and his older sister, the brilliantly acerbic and self-assured Maeve, are exiled from the house where they grew up by their stepmother.
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Not my favorite Patchett
- De Regina en 12-07-19
De: Ann Patchett
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The Warmth of Other Suns
- The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
- De: Isabel Wilkerson
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 22 h y 40 m
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From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves.
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Superior non-fiction
- De Lila en 05-20-11
De: Isabel Wilkerson
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A Gentleman in Moscow
- A Novel
- De: Amor Towles
- Narrado por: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Duración: 17 h y 52 m
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In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.
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A Reprieve Amidst Ugly News, Relentless Negativity
- De Cathy Lindhorst en 08-27-17
De: Amor Towles
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A dream of a book!
Julie Harris's narration is delicious. It is not a theatrical performance, she is unabashedly reading a book to you. The story is incredible - not about Africa but about LIVING in Africa, about experiencing history instead of hearing about it.
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- Reader By The Water
- 08-26-21
Bloody Wonderful Book
Fan-freaking-tastic memoir. The writing alone is worth the price of admission. It’s equal parts poetry and blow-by-blow, bare bones, “just the facts, Ma’am” action. Add in the stories (hunting barefoot as a child, training racehorses, learning to fly) and you have one of the best memoirs available. She literally gives no thought to what a woman should do, she just does what she’s good at (and there are no other women around..in the whole Continent, it seems). She is funny, brave, humble, self-aware, and glorious. I loved this book.
But don’t listen to me. Here’s what Hemingway said about the book (and the spectacular author): "Did you read Beryl Markham's book, West With The Night? ...She has written so well, and marvelously well, that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer. I felt that I was simply a carpenter with words, picking up whatever was furnished on the job and nailing them together and sometimes making an okay pig pen. But this girl, who is to my knowledge very unpleasant and we might even say a high-grade bitch, can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves as writers ... it really is a bloody wonderful book."
Bloody wonderful book. All the stars.
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- Bgrove
- 10-31-21
Amazing Woman but wanted more insight into her
Having read her biography before listening to this, I was disappointed so much was left out. She was great on describing the details of others, events and nature. But I wish she had shared more about her own motivations. She never mentioned her husband’s, child or some other challenges. Certainly, a unique listen and reflection on her journey. Without reading Circling the Sun first , I am not sure I would have loved it as much which is why I gave it 4 stars.
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- Kathy S. Runyon
- 06-11-18
Poignant
Truly poetic prose. A masterful use of the English language that paints powerful word pictures.
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- Rebecca del Rio
- 07-07-18
A wonder of a listen
This is a beautifully written memoir of a exquisite, fascinating life from an era now only imagined. The narrator is perfect for the material.
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- Robert Anderson
- 07-17-20
Both the best and worst audiobook I’ve listened to.
Fascinating, wonderfully written book. Julie Harris’s narration was full of page turning, prolonged swallowing and background noise. But the horse race was the best piece of audio I ever listened to.
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- Rebecca Gibbons
- 08-11-20
Captivating and beautiful storytelling
I've just this year begun reading memoirs. I've read about 7 this year, from all kinds of people, from several different eras. This is my favorite. Her writing is deeply engaging, across a wonderful landscape and entertains in a way that just makes me feel so very grateful for her and this book. Highly recommend. Again and again.
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- RJL
- 06-09-22
Outstanding
A great piece of literature. Beryl Markham’s name is familiar to most people who have taken interest in the early decades of powered flight and I was interested to learn more about her Westward flight across the Atlantic, Unexpected, however, were the eloquence and intimacy with which Beryl conveyed her personal history leading up to that event, and her evocative description of places and people who gave her space to become the remarkable woman she was.
Flawlessly narrated and brought to life by Ms. Harris.
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- Amazon Customer Susan Bentley
- 08-17-13
Captivating from the first page
Would you consider the audio edition of West with the Night to be better than the print version?
Yes, without question. Julie Harris WAS Beryl Markham. You could hear her love of the story as if it were her own.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Beryl herself. A remarkable childhood turned her into a remarkable woman.
What about Julie Harris’s performance did you like?
The honesty of it. Her voice rose and fell like the tides, putting every emotion of the writer into each page. I will look for more books narrated by Julie Harris.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
The horse race between Rack and Wise Child. It would not have been nearly as exciting without Julie Harris' interpretation. (I have not yet completed the book...there may be more.)
Any additional comments?
I wish Beryl Markham had written more. I do not want the story to end. I wish I had not waited so long to listen to the book. It is absolutely incredible - my very favorite of all my books.
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- Amazonphili
- 05-13-15
Superb style
Hemingway stated Markham could write circles around him. With due respect for him, he was right. A delicious read all the way through.
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