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When Portuguese sailor Ferdinand Magellan set sail from Spain in 1519, he believed he could get to the Spice Islands by sailing west through or around the New World. He was right, but what he didn't know was that the treacherous voyage would take him three years and cost him his life.
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The story of the world's largest, longest, and best-financed scientific expedition of all time, triumphantly successful, gruesomely tragic, and never before fully told. The immense 18th-century scientific journey, variously known as the Second Kamchatka Expedition or the Great Northern Expedition, from St. Petersburg across Siberia to the coast of North America, involved over 3,000 people and cost Peter the Great over one-sixth of his empire's annual revenue.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Vivid History of Russia's First Contact In Alaska
- De Neil Ring en 09-01-18
De: Stephen R. Bown
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Conquerors
- How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
- De: Roger Crowley
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 13 h y 7 m
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Conquerors tells the almost forgotten story of how Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India, and beat the Spanish to the spice kingdoms of the East - then set about creating the first long-range maritime empire.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully balanced
- De Nigel Roberts en 05-08-16
De: Roger Crowley
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Born to Be Hanged
- The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
- De: Keith Thomson
- Narrado por: Feodor Chin
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
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The year is 1680, in the heart of the Golden Age of Piracy, and more than 300 daring, hardened pirates—a potent mix of low-life scallywags and a rare breed of gentlemen buccaneers—gather on a remote Caribbean island. The plan: to wreak havoc on the Pacific coastline, raiding cities, mines, and merchant ships. The booty: the bright gleam of Spanish gold and the chance to become a legend. So begins one of the greatest piratical adventures of the era—a story not given its full due until now.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating tale of 17th Piracy in the Americas
- De Xmeromotu en 07-11-22
De: Keith Thomson
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River of Darkness
- Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon
- De: Buddy Levy
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 9 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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In 1541, the brutal conquistador Gonzalo Pizarro and his well-born lieutenant Francisco Orellana set off from Quito in search of La Canela, South America's rumored Land of Cinnamon, and the fabled El Dorado, "the golden man". Driving an enormous retinue of mercenaries, enslaved natives, horses, hunting dogs, and other animals across the Andes, they watched their proud expedition begin to disintegrate even before they descended into the nightmarish jungle, following the course of a powerful river.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing!
- De Sammi en 02-17-18
De: Buddy Levy
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Columbus
- The Four Voyages
- De: Laurence Bergreen
- Narrado por: Tim Jerome
- Duración: 18 h y 11 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 221
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From the author of the Magellan biography, Over the Edge of the World, a mesmerizing new account of the great explorer. Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a trading route to China, and his unexpected landfall in the Americas, is a watershed event in world history.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Very Petty and frankly flat out dishonest
- De Jm en 02-16-21
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A Land So Strange
- The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
- De: Andres Resendez
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 7 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,505
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In 1528, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong: Delayed by a hurricane, knocked off course by a colossal error of navigation, and ultimately doomed by a disastrous decision to separate the men from their ships, the mission quickly became a desperate journey of survival. Of the 300 men who had embarked on the journey, only four survived - three Spaniards and an African slave.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A worthwhile listen
- De Blake en 07-10-13
De: Andres Resendez
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In the Heart of the Sea
- The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
- De: Nathaniel Philbrick
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,541
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,851
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,847
The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the sinking of the Titanic was in the twentieth. In 1819 the Essex left Nantucket for the South Pacific with 20 crew members aboard. In the middle of the South Pacific the ship was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale. The crew drifted for more than 90 days in three tiny whaleboats, succumbing to weather, hunger, and disease and ultimately turning to drastic measures in the fight for survival.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Audio must have been fixed
- De Amazon Customer en 02-11-18
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The Man Who Ate His Boots
- The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage
- De: Anthony Brandt
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 15 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 286
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The enthralling and often harrowing history of the adventurers who searched for the Northwest Passage, the holy grail of 19th-century British exploration. After the triumphant end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the British took it upon themselves to complete something they had been trying to do since the 16th century: Find the fabled Northwest Passage, a shortcut to the Orient via a sea route over Northern Canada. For the next 35 years the British Admiralty sent out expedition after expedition to probe the ice-bound waters of the Canadian Arctic in search of a route.
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5 out of 5 stars
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They don't get any better than this
- De Christopher en 08-15-14
De: Anthony Brandt
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The Republic of Pirates
- Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
- De: Colin Woodard
- Narrado por: Lewis Grenville
- Duración: 13 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 8,280
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7,287
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7,247
In the early 18th century, the Pirate Republic was home to some of the great pirate captains, including Blackbeard, "Black Sam" Bellamy, and Charles Vane. Along with their fellow pirates - former sailors, indentured servants, and runaway slaves - this "Flying Gang" established a crude but distinctive democracy in the Bahamas, carving out their own zone of freedom in which servants were free, Blacks could be equal citizens, and leaders were chosen or deposed by a vote.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Audible is better
- De CaptainRavick en 01-19-16
De: Colin Woodard
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Astoria
- John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival
- De: Peter Stark
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,715
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At a time when the edge of American settlement barely reached beyond the Appalachian Mountains, two visionaries, President Thomas Jefferson and millionaire John Jacob Astor, foresaw that one day the Pacific would dominate world trade as much as the Atlantic did in their day. Just two years after the Lewis and Clark expedition concluded in 1806, Jefferson and Astor turned their sights westward once again. Thus began one of history's dramatic but largely forgotten turning points in the conquest of the North American continent.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Where Lewis and Clark Left Off
- De Mel en 01-11-15
De: Peter Stark
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Barrow's Boys
- De: Fergus Fleming
- Narrado por: James Gillies
- Duración: 17 h y 6 m
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Barrow's Boys is a spellbinding account of perilous journeys to uncharted areas under the most challenging conditions. Fergus Fleming captures the passion for exploration that led a band of men into situations that would humble today's bravest adventurers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow
- De Robert B. Golson en 07-05-17
De: Fergus Fleming
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The Whydah
- A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked, and Found
- De: Martin W. Sandler
- Narrado por: Jeff Cummings
- Duración: 3 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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For more than 200 years, the wreck of the Whydah (and the riches that went down with it) eluded treasure seekers, until the ship was finally found in 1984 by marine archaeologists. The artifacts brought up from the ocean floor are priceless, both in value and in the picture they reveal of life in that much-mythologized era, changing much of what we know about pirates.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must for any authentic pirate enthusiast!
- De The Wizzzard en 01-17-23
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Batavia
- De: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrado por: Richard Aspel
- Duración: 17 h
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The story begins in 1629, when the pride of the Dutch East India Company, the Batavia, is on its maiden voyage en route from Amsterdam to the Dutch East Indies, laden down with the greatest treasure to leave Holland. The magnificent ship is already boiling over with a mutinous plot that is just about to break into the open when, just off the coast of Western Australia, it strikes an unseen reef in the middle of the night.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Disaster, Mutiny, Murder, Survival
- De Todd en 02-07-13
De: Peter FitzSimons
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In the Kingdom of Ice
- The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
- De: Hampton Sides
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 17 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,504
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,182
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,176
In the late nineteenth century, people were obsessed by one of the last unmapped areas of the globe: The North Pole. No one knew what existed beyond the fortress of ice rimming the northern oceans. On July 8, 1879, the USS Jeannette set sail from San Francisco to cheering crowds in the grip of "Arctic Fever." The ship sailed into uncharted seas, but soon was trapped in pack ice. Two years into the harrowing voyage, the hull was breached. Amid the rush of water and the shrieks of breaking wooden boards, the crew abandoned the ship.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Superb tale that unravels at an iceburg's pace
- De Mel en 03-19-15
De: Hampton Sides