
The Secret Knowledge of Water
There Are Two Easy Ways to Die in the Desert: Thirst and Drowning
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Deserts are environments that can be inhospitable even to seasoned explorers. Craig Childs has spent years in the deserts of the American West, and his treks through arid lands in search of water reveal the natural world at its most extreme.
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Brandon P. Fleming grew up in an abusive home and was shuffled through school, his passing grades a nod to his skill on the basketball court, not his presence in the classroom. He turned to the streets and drug deals by 14, saved only by the dream of basketball stardom. When he suffered a career-ending injury during his first semester at a Division I school, he dropped out of college, toiling on an assembly line, until depression drove him to the edge. Miraculously, his life was spared. Returning to college, Fleming was determined to reinvent himself as a scholar.
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so glad I lasted through the first parts...
- De Elizabeth L. en 01-19-22
De: Brandon P. Fleming, y otros
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A Natural History of Empty Lots
- Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places
- De: Christopher Brown
- Narrado por: Christopher Brown
- Duración: 9 h
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During the real estate crash of the late 2000s, Christopher Brown purchased an empty lot in an industrial section of Austin, Texas. The property—a brownfield site bisected with an abandoned petroleum pipeline and littered with concrete debris and landfill trash—was an unlikely site for a home. Along with his son, Brown had explored similar empty lots around Austin, so-called “ruined” spaces once used for agriculture and industry awaiting their redevelopment as Austin became a 21st century boom town.
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Beautiful and encouraging
- De Aaron S. Hatfield en 11-09-24
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The Lost World of the Old Ones
- Discoveries in the Ancient Southwest
- De: David Roberts
- Narrado por: Shawn Compton
- Duración: 11 h y 27 m
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In this thrilling story of intellectual and archaeological discovery, David Roberts recounts his last 20 years of far-flung exploits in search of spectacular prehistoric ruins and rock art panels known to very few modern travelers. His adventures range across Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and southwestern Colorado, and illuminate the mysteries of the Ancestral Puebloans and their contemporary neighbors the Mogollon and Fremont, as well as of the more recent Navajo and Comanche.
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Totally Awesomeness
- De Jacob Gallegos en 10-02-23
De: David Roberts
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The Sun Is a Compass
- A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
- De: Caroline Van Hemert
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
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This gripping true story follows a biologist's human-powered journey from the Pacific Northwest to the Arctic to rediscover her love of birds, nature, and adventure—perfect for fans of Cheryl Strayed.
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The journey doesn’t get any better...
- De Philip Jacob Lee en 06-18-19
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The Library
- A Fragile History
- De: Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen
- Narrado por: Sean Barrett
- Duración: 15 h y 24 m
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Famed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed in a single day, ornamented with gold leaf and frescoes, or filled with bean bags and children’s drawings - the history of the library is rich, varied, and stuffed full of incident.
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Stays on point
- De Alex en 04-29-23
De: Andrew Pettegree, y otros
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Pacific
- Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
- Duración: 14 h y 2 m
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Best-selling author Simon Winchester offers an enthralling biography of the Pacific Ocean and its role in the modern world, exploring our relationship with this imposing force of nature. Winchester's personal experience is vast and his storytelling second to none. And his historical understanding of the region is formidable, making Pacific a paean to this magnificent sea of beauty, myth, and imagination that is transforming our lives.
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Political Asides Have Become Bombastic Didactic
- De Mark Patterson en 12-25-15
De: Simon Winchester
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N-4 Down
- The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia
- De: Mark Piesing
- Narrado por: Matt Jamie
- Duración: 11 h y 17 m
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Triumphantly returning from the North Pole on May 24, 1928, the world-famous exploring airship Italia — code-named N-4 — was struck by a terrible storm and crashed somewhere over the Arctic ice, triggering the largest polar rescue mission in history. Helping lead the search was Roald Amundsen, the poles’ greatest explorer, who himself soon went missing in the frozen wastes. Amundsen’s body has never been found, the last victim of one of the Arctic’s most enduring mysteries....
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Interesting and entertaining
- De 2451 en 09-01-21
De: Mark Piesing
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Finders Keepers
- A Tale of Archaeological Plunder and Obsession
- De: Craig Childs
- Narrado por: Craig Childs
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
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Is the archeologist who discovers a lost tomb a sort of hero - or a villain? If someone steals a relic from a museum and returns it to the ruin it came from, is she a thief? Craig Childs's riveting new book is a lyrical ghost story - an intense, impassioned investigation into the nature of the past and the things we leave behind. We visit lonesome desert canyons and fancy Fifth Avenue art galleries, journey throughout the Americas, Asia, the past and the present. The result is a brilliant book about man and nature, remnants and memory, a dashing tale of crime and detection.
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I roam the deserts
- De matt hewman en 08-21-19
De: Craig Childs
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How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog
- De: Chad Orzel
- Narrado por: Will Collyer, Cassandra Morris
- Duración: 9 h y 54 m
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They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks. But what about relativity? Physics professor Chad Orzel and his inquisitive canine companion, Emmy, tackle the concepts of general relativity in this irresistible introduction to Einstein's physics. Through armchair- and sometimes passenger-seat-conversations with Emmy about the relative speeds of dog and cat motion or the logistics of squirrel-chasing, Orzel translates complex Einsteinian ideas into examples simple enough for a dog to understand.
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Amazing!
- De Anonymous User en 11-08-23
De: Chad Orzel
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Evolution Gone Wrong
- The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work (Or Don't)
- De: Alex Bezzerides
- Narrado por: Joe Knezevich
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
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From blurry vision to crooked teeth, ACLs that tear at alarming rates and spines that seem to spend a lifetime falling apart, it's a curious thing that human beings have beaten the odds as a species. After all, we're the only survivors on our branch of the tree of life. Why is it that human mothers have such a life-endangering experience giving birth? And why are there entire medical specialties for teeth and feet? In this funny, wide-ranging and often surprising book, biologist Alex Bezzerides tells us just where we inherited our achy, brilliant bodies in the process of evolution.
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Answers questions you haven't thought of yet!
- De Mike en 05-25-21
De: Alex Bezzerides
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The House of Government
- A Saga of the Russian Revolution
- De: Yuri Slezkine, Claire Bloom - director
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 45 h y 9 m
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On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction. The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment.
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Inside saga of the leaders of Bolshevism & the USSR
- De Edward V. Blanchard en 11-05-17
De: Yuri Slezkine, y otros
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Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities
- De: Bettany Hughes
- Narrado por: Bettany Hughes
- Duración: 24 h y 35 m
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From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three names - Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul - resonates as an idea and a place, real and imagined. Standing as the gateway between East and West, North and South, it has been the capital city of the Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman Empires. For much of its history it was the very center of the world, known simply as "The City", but, as Bettany Hughes reveals, Istanbul is not just a city but a global story.
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A daunting undertaking pulled off superlatively
- De SGS en 12-24-17
De: Bettany Hughes
If You Ever Lived/Hiked The Desert Canyons.....
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The passion of the Desert.
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The Last Book about the Desert
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brilliant work
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Very interesting
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Amazing insight
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Astonishing, Start to Finish
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One of those books that left an indelible impression
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I recently ordered the Audible version to revisit the desert wonderland and I found the experience truly remarkable. I love this book, The desert has not been written about with such passion since Abbey introduced us to Arches N.P.and the Cabeza Prieta in Desert Solitaire, or as Luis Alberto Urrea did in The Devils Highway.
The Secret Knowledge of Water stands as the very finest example of descriptive writing about the desert southwest and will remain in my heart forever.
Thank You Mr. Childs for this Masterpiece.
Stunning
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Like a nature walk through Dune
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