- 17th Century (88)
- 19th Century (358)
Best Sellers
-
Louis Riel
- Written by: Dan Asfar, Tim Chodan
- Narrated by: Steve Jodoin
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Champion of a people or traitorous rabble-rouser? Political visionary or religious lunatic? Louis Riel is one of the most ambiguous figures in Canadian history, a man who stood and fell for the Métis nation. Hear about the fascinating western icon in this well-paced biography....
-
-
Louis Riel Doesn’t Take Sides in Its Telling
- By Ringo Davil on 2023-07-09
-
Napoléon - Tome 2
- Written by: André Castelot
- Narrated by: Hervé Lavigne
- Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
D'Ajaccio à Sainte-Hélène, en passant par le Grand-Saint-Bernard, Austerlitz, Moscou, Waterloo, l'île d'Elbe, André Castelot a mis ses pas dans ceux...
-
Imperial Twilight
- The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
- Written by: Stephen R. Platt
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
As one of the most potent turning points in the country's modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today's China seeks to put behind it....
-
-
Well written but not the story I was hoping for
- By Simon on 2022-02-03
-
Liberty's Torch
- The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty
- Written by: Elizabeth Mitchell
- Narrated by: Andi Ackerman
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For decades, the myth has persisted that the statue was a grand gift from France, but now Liberty's Torch reveals how she was in fact the pet project of one quixotic and visionary French sculptor....
-
Island of the Lost
- Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
- Written by: Joan Druett
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In 1864, Captain Thomas Musgrave and his crew of four aboard the schooner Grafton wreck on the southern end of Auckland Island....
-
-
Dueling Journals...
- By Meredith on 2021-07-30
-
The North Star
- Canada and the Civil War Plots Against Lincoln
- Written by: Julian Sher
- Narrated by: Julian Sher
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The North Star weaves together the different strands of several Canadians and a handful of Confederate agents in Canada to present a riveting account of the years, months and days leading up to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln....
-
-
Fascinating and enjoyable
- By Derick on 2023-06-08
-
Louis Riel
- Written by: Dan Asfar, Tim Chodan
- Narrated by: Steve Jodoin
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Champion of a people or traitorous rabble-rouser? Political visionary or religious lunatic? Louis Riel is one of the most ambiguous figures in Canadian history, a man who stood and fell for the Métis nation. Hear about the fascinating western icon in this well-paced biography....
-
-
Louis Riel Doesn’t Take Sides in Its Telling
- By Ringo Davil on 2023-07-09
-
Napoléon - Tome 2
- Written by: André Castelot
- Narrated by: Hervé Lavigne
- Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
D'Ajaccio à Sainte-Hélène, en passant par le Grand-Saint-Bernard, Austerlitz, Moscou, Waterloo, l'île d'Elbe, André Castelot a mis ses pas dans ceux...
-
Imperial Twilight
- The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
- Written by: Stephen R. Platt
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
As one of the most potent turning points in the country's modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today's China seeks to put behind it....
-
-
Well written but not the story I was hoping for
- By Simon on 2022-02-03
-
Liberty's Torch
- The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty
- Written by: Elizabeth Mitchell
- Narrated by: Andi Ackerman
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For decades, the myth has persisted that the statue was a grand gift from France, but now Liberty's Torch reveals how she was in fact the pet project of one quixotic and visionary French sculptor....
-
Island of the Lost
- Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
- Written by: Joan Druett
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In 1864, Captain Thomas Musgrave and his crew of four aboard the schooner Grafton wreck on the southern end of Auckland Island....
-
-
Dueling Journals...
- By Meredith on 2021-07-30
-
The North Star
- Canada and the Civil War Plots Against Lincoln
- Written by: Julian Sher
- Narrated by: Julian Sher
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The North Star weaves together the different strands of several Canadians and a handful of Confederate agents in Canada to present a riveting account of the years, months and days leading up to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln....
-
-
Fascinating and enjoyable
- By Derick on 2023-06-08
-
Massacre, Trial, and Aftermath: 1880-1916
- The Donnellys, Volume 2
- Written by: John Little
- Narrated by: Gareth Richards
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In 1880, an organized mob of the Donnellys' enemies murders four family members and burns their house to the ground. Another sibling is shot to death in a house a short distance away. William Donnelly and a teenage boy are the only witnesses to the murders....
-
-
Worst narrator ever
- By DollakLaw on 2022-02-10
-
La guerre de Sécession
- Written by: John Keegan
- Narrated by: François Cottrelle
- Length: 18 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Occultée par la vision littéraire antagoniste de La Case de l'oncle Tom et d'Autant en emporte le vent, la guerre de Sécession demeure méconnue...
-
Palaces of Pleasure
- From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football, How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment
- Written by: Lee Jackson
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The Victorians invented mass entertainment. As the 19th century's growing industrialized class acquired the funds and the free time to pursue leisure activities, their every whim was satisfied by entrepreneurs building new venues for popular amusement....
-
The Darkest Jungle
- The True Story of the Darien Expedition and America's Ill-fated Race to Connect the Seas
- Written by: Todd Balf
- Narrated by: Ray Childs
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Abridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The Darkest Jungle tells the harrowing story of America's first ship canal exploration across a narrow piece of land in Central America called the Darien....
-
Skeletons on the Zahara
- A True Story of Survival
- Written by: Dean King
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Everywhere hailed as a masterpiece of historical adventure, this enthralling narrative recounts the experiences of 12 American sailors who were shipwrecked off the coast of Africa in 1815....
-
-
Skeletons on the Zahara
- By Conrad Noble on 2022-06-14
-
Hymns of the Republic
- The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
- Written by: S. C. Gwynne
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
From the New York Times best-selling, celebrated, and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes the spellbinding, epic account of the dramatic conclusion of the Civil War....
-
Le chant du départ
- Napoléon 1
- Written by: Max Gallo
- Narrated by: Jean-Marc Galéra
- Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Il est arrivé le 15 mai 1779 à l'École royale militaire de Brienne. Il n'a pas encore dix ans et parle à peine le français... Il va rester cinq ans dans cette école...
-
The Butchering Art
- Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
- Written by: Lindsey Fitzharris
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of 19th-century surgery on the eve of profound transformation....
-
-
I really wanted to like this but...
- By Sam Larkham on 2018-09-06
-
The Greek Revolution
- 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe
- Written by: Mark Mazower
- Narrated by: John Lee, Mark Mazower
- Length: 20 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
As Mark Mazower shows us in his enthralling and definitive new account, myths about the Greek War of Independence outpaced the facts from the very beginning, and for good reason....
-
-
The only Greek independence audio book I can find
- By Jason Gacek on 2023-06-15
-
Bismarck's War
- The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe
- Written by: Rachel Chrastil
- Narrated by: Sarah Borges
- Length: 17 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Historian Rachel Chrastil presents a definitive new history of the war that toppled the French Empire, unified Germany, and set Europe on the path to World War I....
-
The Year Without Summer
- 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History
- Written by: William K. Klingaman, Nicholas P. Klingaman
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
1816 was a remarkable year - mostly for the fact that there was no summer. As a result of a volcanic eruption at Mount Tambora in Indonesia, weather patterns were disrupted worldwide for months, allowing for excessive rain, frost, and snowfall....
-
Blood and Iron
- The Rise and Fall of the German Empire; 1871-1918
- Written by: Katja Hoyer
- Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In this vivid 50-year history of Germany from 1871-1918 - which inspired events that forever changed the European continent - is the story of the Second Reich from its violent beginnings and rise to power to its calamitous defeat in the First World War....
-
-
Iron and blood
- By Amazon Customer on 2023-01-25
-
L'empereur des rois
- Napoléon 3
- Written by: Max Gallo
- Narrated by: Jean-Marc Galéra
- Length: 15 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Il est Napoléon le Grand : après Austerlitz, qui peut arrêter l'Empereur des Français ? Il bouscule les Rois, à Iéna, à Friedland, à Wagram...
-
Burke and Wills
- The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia's Most Famous Explorers
- Written by: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Michael Carman
- Length: 23 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The iconic Australian exploration story - brought to life by Peter FitzSimons, Australia's storyteller....
-
Twilight of the Belle Epoque
- The Paris of Picasso, Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, and Their Friends Through the Great War
- Written by: Mary McAuliffe
- Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
- Length: 16 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Mary McAuliffe's Dawn of the Belle Epoque took the listener from the multiple disasters of 1870-1871 through the extraordinary re-emergence of Paris as the cultural center of the Western world. Now McAuliffe portrays Paris in full flower at the turn of the 20th century....
-
Formation
- The Making of Nigeria from Jihad to Amalgamation
- Written by: Fola Fagbule, Feyi Fawehinmi
- Narrated by: Elnathan John
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Formation: The Making of Nigeria from Jihad to Amalgamation tracks the unlikely series of events and characters that turned a collection of disparate nations into a British colony in 1914....
-
The Battle of Leipzig: The History and Legacy of the Biggest Battle of the Napoleonic Wars
- Written by: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Phillip J. Mather
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The defeat at Leipzig sealed the fate of Napoleon's empire. The four-day Battle of Leipzig in October 1813 determined the course the Napoleonic Wars took from that moment forward....
-
On the Origin of Species
- Written by: Charles Darwin
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Abridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A literally world-changing book, Darwin put forward the anti-religious and scientific idea that humans in fact evolved over millions of generations from animals....
-
-
Been wanting to read this for years!!!
- By canadianoakley on 2021-07-14
-
The China Mirage
- The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia
- Written by: James Bradley
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The China Mirage explores a difficult century that defines US-Chinese relations to this day....
-
The Pursuit of Power
- Europe: 1815-1914
- Written by: Richard J. Evans
- Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
- Length: 41 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Richard J. Evans's gripping narrative ranges across a century of social and national conflicts, from the revolutions of 1830 and 1848 to the unification of both Germany and Italy....
-
-
So good
- By MyPublicName on 2023-11-12
-
Stranger in the Shogun's City
- A Japanese Woman and Her World
- Written by: Amy Stanley
- Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A vivid, deeply researched work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman during the first half of the 19th century in Edo - the city that would become Tokyo - and a portrait of a great city on the brink of a momentous encounter with the West....
-
-
A pindrop of history
- By Amazon Customer on 2024-02-20
-
Napoléon - Tome 1
- Written by: André Castelot
- Narrated by: Hervé Lavigne
- Length: 16 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
D'Ajaccio à Sainte-Hélène, en passant par le Grand-Saint-Bernard, Austerlitz, Moscou, Waterloo, l'île d'Elbe, André Castelot a mis ses pas dans ceux de Napoléon Bonaparte...
-
The Famine Plot
- England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy
- Written by: Tim Pat Coogan
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Unflinching in depicting the evidence, Coogan presents a vivid and horrifying picture of a catastrophe that shook the 19th century and finally calls to account those responsible....
-
-
Captivating
- By Dude on 2020-10-25
-
Elisabeth d'Autriche
- La véritable histoire de Sissi
- Written by: Brigitte Hamann
- Narrated by: Hélène Lausseur
- Length: 20 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Impératrice d'Autriche-Hongrie, la monarchie la plus autoritaire et la plus compassée qui fût en Europe, elle haïssait l'Etiquette...