A Gentleman from Japan
The Untold Story of an Incredible Journey from Asia to Queen Elizabeth’s Court
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Thomas Lockley
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An incredible sea story that turns the Age of Exploration on its head, following the first Japanese man to set foot on North America and England.
On November 12, 1588, five young Asian men—led by a twenty-one-year-old called Christopher—traveled up the River Thames to meet Queen Elizabeth I. Christopher’s epic sea voyage had spanned from Japan, via the Philippines, New Spain (Mexico), Java and Southern Africa. On the way, he had already become the first recorded Japanese person in North America. Now Christopher was the first ever Japanese visitor to England, and no other would leave such a legacy for centuries to come.
The story of Christopher is almost utterly forgotten and has never been fully told before.
A Gentleman from Japan is a fast-paced, historical narrative of adventure, cross-cultural endeavor, intellectual exchange, perseverance, espionage and conflict in the Age of Exploration.
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Kokoro
- Japanese Wisdom for a Life Well Lived
- De: Beth Kempton
- Narrado por: Beth Kempton
- Duración: 6 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 10
Join author Beth Kempton on a life-changing pilgrimage through rural Japan in search of answers to some of life's biggest questions: How do we find calm in the chaos and beauty in the darkness? How do we let go of the past and stop worrying about the future? What can an awareness of impermanence teach us about living well?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible sharing of wisdom
- De Shelly Neto, RN en 11-10-24
De: Beth Kempton
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The House of Yan
- A Family at the Heart of a Century in Chinese History
- De: Lan Yan
- Narrado por: Angela Lin
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 9
The history of the Yan family is inseparable from the history of China over the last century. One of the most influential businesswomen of China today, Lan Yan grew up in the company of the country's powerful elite, including Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, and other top leaders. In recounting her family history, Lan Yan brings to life a century of Chinese history from the last emperor to present day, including the Cultural Revolution which tore her childhood apart. The little girl who was crushed by the Cultural Revolution has become one of the most active businesswomen in her country.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Incredible Saga of Yan’s Family
- De Mei Karras en 02-17-20
De: Lan Yan
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In Miniature
- How Small Things Illuminate the World
- De: Simon Garfield
- Narrado por: Adrian Scarborough
- Duración: 7 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 5
Best-selling, award-winning writer Simon Garfield returns with an enthralling investigation of humans’ peculiar fascination with small things - and what small things tell us about our larger world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Delightful exploration of miniatures
- De RJ en 05-30-19
De: Simon Garfield
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The Age of Wood
- Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization
- De: Roland Ennos
- Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 207
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 181
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 180
As the dominant species on Earth, humans have made astonishing progress since our ancestors came down from the trees. But how did the descendants of small primates manage to walk upright, become top predators, and populate the world? How were humans able to develop civilizations and produce a globalized economy? Now, in The Age of Wood, Roland Ennos shows for the first time that the key to our success has been our relationship with wood.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great text; poor narration
- De Richard Yates en 08-03-21
De: Roland Ennos
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We, the Drowned
- De: Carsten Jensen
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 25 h y 22 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1
We, the Drowned is the story of the port town of Marstal, Denmark, whose inhabitants sailed the world from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the Second World War. The novel tells of ships wrecked and blown up in wars, of places of terror and violence that continue to lure each generation. The result is a brilliant seafaring novel, a gripping saga encompassing industrial growth, the years of expansion and exploration, the crucible of the first half of the twentieth century, and most of all, the sea.
De: Carsten Jensen
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The Birth of Classical Europe
- A History from Troy to Augustine
- De: Simon Price, Peter Thonemann
- Narrado por: Don Hagen
- Duración: 14 h y 47 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 160
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 134
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 133
To an extraordinary extent we continue to live in the shadow of the classical world. At every level, from languages to calendars to political systems, we are the descendants of a “classical Europe,” using frames of reference created by ancient Mediterranean cultures. As this consistently fresh and surprising new audio book makes clear, however, this was no less true for the inhabitants of those classical civilizations themselves, whose myths, history, and buildings were an elaborate engagement with an already old and revered past - one filled with great leaders and writers....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent overview of the Classical World
- De David I. Williams en 01-12-14
De: Simon Price, y otros
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Twelve Trees
- The Deep Roots of Our Future
- De: Daniel Lewis
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 19
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 17
The world today is undergoing the most rapid environmental transformation in human history—from climate change to deforestation. Scientists, ethnobotanists, indigenous peoples, and collectives of all kinds are closely studying trees and their biology to understand how and why trees function individually and collectively in the ways they do. In Twelve Trees, Daniel Lewis, curator and historian at one of the world’s most renowned research libraries, travels the world to learn about these trees in their habitats.
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5 out of 5 stars
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lots of detail
- De David M Hazelton en 03-06-25
De: Daniel Lewis
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Under Pressure
- Living Life and Avoiding Death on a Nuclear Submarine
- De: Richard Humphreys
- Narrado por: Richard Humphreys
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 18
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 13
What’s it like to spend three months without sunlight, sharing what little space you have with over 100 fellow crewmen and more firepower than all the bombs dropped in World War II combined? As a restless and adventurous 18-year-old, Richard Humphreys joined the Royal Navy submarine service. For five years during the Cold War, he served on the nuclear sub HMS Resolution. Nothing could have prepared him for life beneath the waves.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not for me
- De GEORGE en 10-18-20
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The Incorruptibles
- A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld
- De: Dan Slater
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 11 h y 13 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 26
In the early 1900s, prior to World War I, New York City was a vortex of vice and corruption. On the Lower East Side, then the most crowded ghetto on earth, Eastern European Jews formed a dense web of crime syndicates. Gangs of horse poisoners and casino owners, pimps and prostitutes, thieves and thugs, jockeyed for dominance while their family members and neighbors toiled in the unregulated garment industry. But when the notorious murder of a gambler attracted global attention, a coterie of affluent German-Jewish uptowners decided to take matters into their own hands.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very Entertaining/Researched
- De ptr en 02-23-25
De: Dan Slater
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Soonish
- Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
- De: Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
- Narrado por: Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
- Duración: 10 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,307
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,172
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,165
In this smart and funny book, celebrated cartoonist Zach Weinersmith and noted researcher Dr. Kelly Weinersmith give us a snapshot of what's coming next - from robot swarms to nuclear fusion powered-toasters. By weaving their own research and interviews with the scientists who are making these advances happen, the Weinersmiths investigate why these technologies are needed, how they would work, and what is standing in their way.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Really Good-ish!
- De See Reverse en 04-16-18
De: Kelly Weinersmith, y otros
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The Island of Extraordinary Captives
- A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp
- De: Simon Parkin
- Narrado por: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Duración: 12 h y 47 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 106
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 89
Following the events of Kristallnacht in 1938, Peter Fleischmann evaded the Gestapo’s roundups in Berlin by way of a perilous journey to England on a Kindertransport rescue, an effort sanctioned by the UK government to evacuate minors from Nazi-controlled areas. But he could not escape the British police, who came for him in the early hours and shipped him off to Hutchinson Camp on the Isle of Man, under suspicion of being a spy for the very regime he had fled.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Another gem of WWII history
- De Marjorie en 04-03-23
De: Simon Parkin
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The Cleopatras
- The Forgotten Queens of Egypt
- De: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
- Narrado por: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
- Duración: 14 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 12
One of history’s most iconic figures, Cleopatra is rightly remembered as a clever and charismatic ruler. But few today realize that she was the last in a long line of Egyptian queens who bore that name. In The Cleopatras, historian Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones tells the dramatic story of these seven incomparable women, vividly recapturing the lost world of Hellenistic Egypt and tracing the kingdom’s final centuries before its fall to Rome.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Thorough on events, weak on analysis
- De Christopher Riedel en 07-30-24
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African Samurai
- The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan
- De: Thomas Lockley, Geoffrey Girard
- Narrado por: Gary Furlong
- Duración: 10 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 887
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 769
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 765
The remarkable life of history’s first foreign-born samurai and his astonishing journey from Northeast Africa to the heights of Japanese society.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not worth finishing
- De William Shehan en 06-12-19
De: Thomas Lockley, y otros
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Foundation
- The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors: The History of England, Book 1
- De: Peter Ackroyd
- Narrado por: Clive Chafer
- Duración: 18 h y 21 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 862
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 782
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 777
In Foundation the chronicler of London and of its river, the Thames, takes us from the primeval forests of England's prehistory to the death of the first Tudor king, Henry VII, in 1509. He guides us from the building of Stonehenge to the founding of the two great glories of medieval England: common law and the cathedrals. He shows us glimpses of the country's most distant past - a Neolithic stirrup found in a grave, a Roman fort, a Saxon tomb, a medieval manor house.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Most Annoying Narrator EVER
- De JudieBee en 12-25-15
De: Peter Ackroyd
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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit
- My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
- De: Lucette Lagnado
- Narrado por: Joyce Bean
- Duración: 12 h y 21 m
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General4.5 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 45
In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado recreates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years before Gamal Abdel Nasser’s rise to power. With Nasser’s nationalization of Egyptian industry, her father, Leon, a boulevardier who conducted business in his white sharkskin suit, loses everything and departs with the family for any land that will take them. The poverty and hardships they encounter in their flight from Cairo to Paris to New York are strikingly juxtaposed against the beauty and comforts of the lives they left behind.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Touching Memoir of a Jewish Family in Egypt
- De Brustar en 06-10-20
De: Lucette Lagnado
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Salmon P. Chase
- Lincoln's Vital Rival
- De: Walter Stahr
- Narrado por: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Duración: 27 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
Salmon P. Chase is best remembered as a rival of Lincoln’s for the Republican nomination in 1860—but there would not have been a national Republican Party, and Lincoln could not have won the presidency, were it not for the groundwork Chase laid over the previous two decades. Starting in the early 1840s, long before Lincoln was speaking out against slavery, Chase was forming and leading antislavery parties. He represented fugitive slaves so often in his law practice that he was known as the attorney general for runaway negroes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very inspiring and insightful
- De Mike Haverty en 06-20-23
De: Walter Stahr
Wonderful storytelling
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