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Best Sellers
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They Flew
- A History of the Impossible
- Written by: Carlos M. N. Eire
- Narrated by: Emmanuel Chumaceiro
- Length: 16 hrs and 56 mins
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Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era—tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft—even as skepticism, atheism, and empirical science were starting to supplant religious belief in the paranormal....
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The Thirty Years War
- Europe's Tragedy
- Written by: Peter H. Wilson
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 33 hrs and 25 mins
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The Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern world....
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An amazing performance for an incomprehensible book
- By F. Toro on 2024-02-28
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The English Civil Wars
- 1640-1660
- Written by: Blair Worden
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
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The political upheaval of the mid-17th century has no parallel in English history. Other events have changed the occupancy and the powers of the throne, but the conflict of 1640-60 was more dramatic....
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Kingdom of Dahomey
- A History from Beginning to End
- Written by: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
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Imagine a fervently militaristic state with a feared professional army that included some of the only all-female military units ever seen. Imagine that same state with its own unique and sophisticated culture, religion, language, art, and society....
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Batavia's Graveyard
- The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
- Written by: Mike Dash
- Narrated by: Guy Bethell
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
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It was the autumn of 1628, and the Batavia, the Dutch East India Company's flagship, was loaded with a king's ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java....
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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
- Written by: Keith Thomson
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
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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....
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They Flew
- A History of the Impossible
- Written by: Carlos M. N. Eire
- Narrated by: Emmanuel Chumaceiro
- Length: 16 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era—tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft—even as skepticism, atheism, and empirical science were starting to supplant religious belief in the paranormal....
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The Thirty Years War
- Europe's Tragedy
- Written by: Peter H. Wilson
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 33 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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The Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern world....
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An amazing performance for an incomprehensible book
- By F. Toro on 2024-02-28
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The English Civil Wars
- 1640-1660
- Written by: Blair Worden
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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The political upheaval of the mid-17th century has no parallel in English history. Other events have changed the occupancy and the powers of the throne, but the conflict of 1640-60 was more dramatic....
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Kingdom of Dahomey
- A History from Beginning to End
- Written by: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
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Imagine a fervently militaristic state with a feared professional army that included some of the only all-female military units ever seen. Imagine that same state with its own unique and sophisticated culture, religion, language, art, and society....
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Batavia's Graveyard
- The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
- Written by: Mike Dash
- Narrated by: Guy Bethell
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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It was the autumn of 1628, and the Batavia, the Dutch East India Company's flagship, was loaded with a king's ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java....
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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
- Written by: Keith Thomson
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
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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....
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A Hangman’s Diary
- The Journal of Master Franz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg, 1573-1617
- Written by: Franz Schmidt, Albrecht Keller - editor and translator, C. Calvert BA - translator, and others
- Narrated by: John McLain
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
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Now an esoteric of legal and criminal history, A Hangman's Diary gives a year-by-year breakdown on all of Master Franz Schmidt's executions, which included hangings, beheadings, and other methods, as well as details of each capital crime and the reason for the punishment....
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would be a lot better without the glitch
- By Juliet on 2023-10-12
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Spain
- The Centre of the World 1519-1682
- Written by: Robert Goodwin
- Narrated by: Jeremy Clyde
- Length: 21 hrs and 2 mins
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Robert Goodwin delves into previously unrecorded sources to bring a tumultuous and exciting period to life. Spain is a revealing portrait of an empire at the height of its power and a world at the dawn of a new age....
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The Dark Side of the Enlightenment
- Wizards, Alchemists, and Spiritual Seekers in the Age of Reason
- Written by: John V. Fleming
- Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
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Why spiritual and supernatural yearnings, even investigations into the occult, flourished in the era of rationalist philosophy.....
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Vermeer's Hat
- The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
- Written by: Timothy Brook
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
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A Vermeer painting shows a military officer in a Dutch sitting room, talking to a laughing girl....
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The Invention of Science
- A New History of the Scientific Revolution
- Written by: David Wootton
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 22 hrs and 5 mins
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A groundbreaking examination of the greatest event in history, the Scientific Revolution, and how it came to change the way we understand ourselves and our world....
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Good
- By ArcesseEum on 2018-01-02
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The Island at the Center of the World
- The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
- Written by: Russell Shorto
- Narrated by: Russell Shorto
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
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In a landmark work of history, Russell Shorto presents astonishing information on the founding of our nation and reveals in detail the crucial role of the Dutch in making America what it is today....
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Killers of the King
- The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I
- Written by: Charles Spencer
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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January, 1649. After seven years of fighting in the bloodiest war in Britain’s history, Parliament faced a problem: what to do with a defeated king, a king who refused to surrender....
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The Dutch Moment
- War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World
- Written by: Wim Klooster
- Narrated by: Fred Filbrich
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
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In The Dutch Moment, Wim Klooster shows how the Dutch built and eventually lost an Atlantic empire that stretched from the homeland in the United Provinces to the Hudson River and from Brazil and the Caribbean to the African Gold Coast....
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Thunderclap
- A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
- Written by: Laura Cumming
- Narrated by: Laura Cumming
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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As a brilliant art critic and historian, Laura Cumming has explored the importance of art in life and can give us a perspective on the time and place in which the artist worked....
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Captain Alatriste
- Written by: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Margaret Sayers Peden
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
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Captain Alatriste is the story of a fictional 17th-century Spanish soldier who, after being wounded in battle during the Thirty Years' War, is forced to retire from the army....
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Wonderful book!
- By Christian G. Cameron on 2022-01-10
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Louis XIV et ses maîtresses
- Written by: Louis de Rouvroy de Saint-Simon
- Narrated by: Yannick Lopez
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
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Saint-Simon fut souvent considéré comme l'un des plus grands écrivains de la langue française. Il fut contemporain de Louis XIV et ses...
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The Man Who Invented Fiction
- How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World
- Written by: William Egginton
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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In the early 17th century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a novel....
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A powerful and provocative work
- By GUY on 2023-02-18
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The Vanishing Velázquez
- A 19th Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece
- Written by: Laura Cumming
- Narrated by: Siobhan Redmond
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
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When John Snare, a 19th-century provincial bookseller, traveled to a liquidation auction, he stumbled on a vivid portrait of King Charles I that defied any explanation....
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Beautifully Written
- By Rob Lewis on 2024-04-06
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The Enlightenment
- And Why It Still Matters
- Written by: Anthony Pagden
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
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One of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world....
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The Year of Lear
- Shakespeare in 1606
- Written by: James Shapiro
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
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In the years leading up to 1606, since the death of Queen Elizabeth and the arrival in England of her successor, King James, Shakespeare's great productivity had ebbed....
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The Favourite
- Written by: Ophelia Field
- Narrated by: Natalie Boscombe
- Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
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This biography brings Sarah Churchill's own voice, passionate and intelligent, back to life and casts a critical eye over images of the Duchess handed down through art, history and literature....
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The Barbarous Years
- The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675
- Written by: Bernard Bailyn
- Narrated by: Henry Strozier
- Length: 26 hrs and 11 mins
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Bernard Bailyn gives us a compelling account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to British North America....
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Devil-Land
- England Under Siege, 1588-1688
- Written by: Clare Jackson
- Narrated by: Emma Gregory
- Length: 24 hrs and 10 mins
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Clare Jackson's dazzling original account of English history's most turbulent and radical era tells the story of a nation in a state of near continual crisis....
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Nature's Mutiny
- How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present
- Written by: Philipp Blom
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
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An illuminating work of environmental history that chronicles the great climate crisis of the 1600s, which transformed the social and political fabric of Europe....
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Excellent listening experience
- By Marcus Aurelius on 2023-02-08
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Unfabling the East
- The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia
- Written by: Jürgen Osterhammel, Robert Savage - translator
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 25 hrs and 49 mins
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During the long 18th century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and openness. Author Jürgen Osterhammel tells the story of the European Enlightenment's nuanced encounter with the great civilizations of the East....
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A Warrior Dynasty
- The Rise and Fall of Sweden as a Military Superpower 1611-1721
- Written by: Henrik O. Lunde
- Narrated by: Mark Ashby
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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This audiobook examines the meteoric rise of Sweden as the pre-eminent military power in Europe during the Thirty Years War during the 1600s....
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Restoration London
- Everyday Life in the 1660s
- Written by: Liza Picard
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
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From poverty to pets, from medicine to magic, from slang to sex, from wallpaper to women's rights....
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1619
- Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy
- Written by: James Horn
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
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Along the banks of the James River, Virginia, during an oppressively hot spell in the middle of summer 1619, two events occurred within a few weeks of each other that would profoundly shape the course of history....