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    • By: Peter FitzSimons
    • Narrated by: Michael Carman
    • Length: 22 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 926 ratings
    • The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before. Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plants from Tahiti and take them to the West Indies, the Bounty's crew found themselves in a tropical paradise. Five months later, they did not want to leave.

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    • The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero
    • By: Timothy Egan
    • Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
    • Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,411 ratings
    • The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told through the improbable life of one man....

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    • Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
    • By: Joan Druett
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,133 ratings
    • In 1864, Captain Thomas Musgrave and his crew of four aboard the schooner Grafton wreck on the southern end of Auckland Island....

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    • The Puzzle of Polynesia
    • By: Christina Thompson
    • Narrated by: Susan Lyons
    • Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,021 ratings
    • A thrilling, intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know....

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    • A Maritime History of the World
    • By: Lincoln Paine
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 29 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 161 ratings
    • A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean, river, lake and stream....

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    • The Story Behind the Man Who Mapped the World
    • By: Peter FitzSimons
    • Narrated by: Michael Carman
    • Length: 21 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 272 ratings
    • The name Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated....

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    • What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Jay Snyder
    • Length: 18 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,169 ratings
    • The World Until Yesterday provides a mesmerizing firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years....

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    • The Fables and Folk-Lore of a Strange People
    • By: King David Kalakaua
    • Narrated by: James Francis Markert
    • Length: 20 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • Dive into the captivating realm of The Legends and Myths of Hawaii, where the mystical allure of the Pacific islands comes alive through the mesmerizing fables and folk-lore shared by none other than the esteemed King David Kalakaua....

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    • The Gripping Story of the Most Dramatic and Successful Prison Break in Australian History
    • By: Peter FitzSimons
    • Narrated by: Michael Carman
    • Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • The incredible true story of one of the most extraordinary and inspirational prison breaks in history....

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    • The Birth of Eurasia
    • By: Barry Cunliffe
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 18 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean is nothing less than the story of how humans first started building the globalized world we know today....

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    • By: Michael King
    • Narrated by: Rosemary Ronald
    • Length: 17 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • This best-selling book, the triumphant fruit of careful research, wide reading and judicious assessment, is the unchallenged contemporary reference on the history of New Zealand....

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    • America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
    • By: Nathaniel Philbrick
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 626 ratings
    • The New York Times best-selling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye presents the harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, dwarfing Lewis and Clark with its discoveries....

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    • World War II's Great Forgotten Battlegrounds
    • By: Alan Rems
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 08-18-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • South Pacific Cauldron is the first complete history embracing all land, sea, and air operations in the Pacific War....

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    • The Legends and Myths of Hawaiʻi: The Fables and Folk-Lore of a Strange People
    • By: King David Kalākaua
    • Narrated by: Kekoa Lake
    • Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Spanning several centuries of history in the Pacific, The Legends and Myths of Hawaiʻi: Fables and Folk-Lore of a Strange People is a collection of Hawaiian stories that were preserved through the ages by oral tradition and documented for posterity by King David Kalākaua in 1887....

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    • The Impossible Mission
    • By: Bob Drury, Tom Clavin
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 943 ratings
    • The dramatic, untold story of a daredevil bomber pilot and his misfit crew who fly their lone B-17 into the teeth of the Japanese Empire in 1943 and engage in the longest dogfight in history....

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    • A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
    • By: Mitchell Zuckoff
    • Narrated by: Mitchell Zuckoff
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,598 ratings
    • On May 13, 1945, 24 American servicemen and WACs boarded a transport plane for a sightseeing trip over “Shangri-La"....

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    • By: Peter FitzSimons
    • Narrated by: David Tredinnick
    • Length: 21 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • From the bestselling author of Kokoda and Gallipoli comes the epic story of Australia's deadliest Vietnam War battle....

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    • The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia's Most Famous Explorers
    • By: Peter FitzSimons
    • Narrated by: Michael Carman
    • Length: 23 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • The iconic Australian exploration story - brought to life by Peter FitzSimons, Australia's storyteller....

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    • Captivating Dreamtime Stories of Indigenous Australians
    • By: Matt Clayton
    • Narrated by: Mike Reaves
    • Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Stories of how the world came to be the way it is, stories of heroism and perfidy, stories about animals and birds, and stories about love and hate all have parts to play in the wide array of myths, legends, and tales created by Indigenous Australians....

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