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Mutiny on the Bounty
- A saga of sex, sedition, mayhem and mutiny, and survival against extraordinary odds
- Auteur(s): Peter FitzSimons
- Narrateur(s): Michael Carman
- Durée: 22 h et 32 min
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Performance34
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Histoire34
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...
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excellent story, masterful narration
- Écrit par Justin R Trupp le 2023-08-21
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Batavia's Graveyard
- The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
- Auteur(s): Mike Dash
- Narrateur(s): Guy Bethell
- Durée: 12 h et 36 min
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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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James Cook
- The story behind the man who mapped the world
- Auteur(s): Peter FitzSimons
- Narrateur(s): Michael Carman
- Durée: 21 h et 23 min
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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. But who was the real James Cook? This Yorkshire farm boy would go on to become the foremost mariner, scientist, navigator and...
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Brilliant
- Écrit par kevin le 2022-02-11
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The Battle of Midway (Pivotal Moments in American History)
- Auteur(s): Craig L. Symonds
- Narrateur(s): James Lurie
- Durée: 14 h et 47 min
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Au global28
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Performance24
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Histoire24
There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway....
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Truly excellent!
- Écrit par Trevor le 2020-01-27
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Captain Cook’s Epic Voyage
- Auteur(s): Geoffrey Blainey
- Narrateur(s): John Gregg
- Durée: 12 h et 49 min
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In 1768 Captain James Cook and his crew set out on a small British naval vessel in search of a missing continent....
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Island at the Edge of the World
- The Forgotten History of Easter Island
- Auteur(s): Mike Pitts
- Narrateur(s): Mike Pitts
- Durée: 12 h et 19 min
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“A crisp, confident, and convincing new account of the place and its chroniclers" — The New Yorker “Revelatory…fascinating… wholly convincing” — Daily Mail (UK) “Striking . . . a stunning unraveling of many layers of hidden history.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) A...
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Mutiny on the Bounty
- A saga of sex, sedition, mayhem and mutiny, and survival against extraordinary odds
- Auteur(s): Peter FitzSimons
- Narrateur(s): Michael Carman
- Durée: 22 h et 32 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global39
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Performance34
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Histoire34
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...
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excellent story, masterful narration
- Écrit par Justin R Trupp le 2023-08-21
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Batavia's Graveyard
- The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
- Auteur(s): Mike Dash
- Narrateur(s): Guy Bethell
- Durée: 12 h et 36 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global6
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Performance5
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Histoire5
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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James Cook
- The story behind the man who mapped the world
- Auteur(s): Peter FitzSimons
- Narrateur(s): Michael Carman
- Durée: 21 h et 23 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global5
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Performance5
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Histoire5
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. But who was the real James Cook? This Yorkshire farm boy would go on to become the foremost mariner, scientist, navigator and...
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Brilliant
- Écrit par kevin le 2022-02-11
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The Battle of Midway (Pivotal Moments in American History)
- Auteur(s): Craig L. Symonds
- Narrateur(s): James Lurie
- Durée: 14 h et 47 min
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Au global28
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Performance24
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Histoire24
There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway....
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Truly excellent!
- Écrit par Trevor le 2020-01-27
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Captain Cook’s Epic Voyage
- Auteur(s): Geoffrey Blainey
- Narrateur(s): John Gregg
- Durée: 12 h et 49 min
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Performance2
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Histoire2
In 1768 Captain James Cook and his crew set out on a small British naval vessel in search of a missing continent....
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Island at the Edge of the World
- The Forgotten History of Easter Island
- Auteur(s): Mike Pitts
- Narrateur(s): Mike Pitts
- Durée: 12 h et 19 min
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“A crisp, confident, and convincing new account of the place and its chroniclers" — The New Yorker “Revelatory…fascinating… wholly convincing” — Daily Mail (UK) “Striking . . . a stunning unraveling of many layers of hidden history.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) A...
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The World Until Yesterday
- What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
- Auteur(s): Jared Diamond
- Narrateur(s): Jay Snyder
- Durée: 18 h et 31 min
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Au global47
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Performance39
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Histoire39
Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem...
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Good but too long
- Écrit par Esme le 2024-09-04
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Girt
- The Unauthorised History of Australia, Volume 1
- Auteur(s): David Hunt
- Narrateur(s): David Hunt
- Durée: 6 h et 43 min
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Performance6
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Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia.... In this hilarious history, David Hunt reveals the truth of Australia's past....
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great
- Écrit par P.G le 2020-01-24
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The Far Land
- 200 Years of Murder, Mania, and Mutiny in the South Pacific
- Auteur(s): Brandon Presser
- Narrateur(s): Steve Quinn
- Durée: 11 h et 8 min
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A thrilling true tale of power, obsession, and betrayal at the edge of the world In 1808, an American merchant ship happened upon an uncharted island in the South Pacific and unwittingly solved the biggest nautical mystery of the era: the whereabouts of a band of fugitives who, after seizing...
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Great retrospective, context and first person experience
- Écrit par RW le 2022-11-12
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History of Australia
- A Captivating Guide to Australian History, Starting from the Aborigines Through the Dutch East India Company, James Cook, and World War II to the Present (Australasia)
- Auteur(s): Captivating History
- Narrateur(s): Jason Zenobia
- Durée: 4 h et 5 min
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Long before Australia started to be considered one of the best places in the world to live, it was thought to be completely unlivable. In the 15th century, the European race to claim land began....
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The Sea and Civilization
- A Maritime History of the World
- Auteur(s): Lincoln Paine
- Narrateur(s): Tom Perkins
- Durée: 29 h et 41 min
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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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Dark Emu
- Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident?
- Auteur(s): Bruce Pascoe
- Narrateur(s): Bruce Pascoe
- Durée: 5 h et 36 min
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A completely accessible, compelling and riveting account of pre-invasion Aboriginal agricultural systems....
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Outlaw Bikers in Australia
- The Men, the Myths, the Mayhem
- Auteur(s): Duncan McNab
- Narrateur(s): Peter Houghton
- Durée: 10 h et 20 min
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Australia has a unique place in the history of outlaw motorcycle gangs, boasting the highest per capita membership in the world, and a biker culture where bombings, drive-by shootings, arson, beatings and murder are regular occurrences.
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A Commonwealth of Thieves
- The Improbable Birth of Australia
- Auteur(s): Thomas Keneally
- Narrateur(s): Simon Vance
- Durée: 12 h et 26 min
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It was 1786 when Arthur Phillip, an ambitious captain in the Royal Navy, was assigned the formidable task of organizing an expedition to Australia in order to establish a penal colony....
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Sea People
- The Puzzle of Polynesia
- Auteur(s): Christina Thompson
- Narrateur(s): Susan Lyons
- Durée: 11 h et 40 min
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Au global22
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Performance16
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Sea People has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher...
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Fascinating Polynesia 101
- Écrit par Jacob R. le 2020-02-16
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Dead Man Running
- An Insider's Story on One of the World's Most Feared Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs ... The Bandidos
- Auteur(s): Ross Coulthart, Duncan McNab
- Narrateur(s): Michael Carman
- Durée: 10 h et 53 min
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Performance10
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We are the people our parents warned us about" is the motto of the Bandidos, one of the world's most feared outlaw motorcycle gangs....
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Like listening to someone read a textbook
- Écrit par James Zwingli le 2024-11-01
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Question 7
- Auteur(s): Richard Flanagan
- Narrateur(s): Richard Flanagan
- Durée: 7 h et 38 min
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THE WASHINGTON POST'S TOP TEN NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR PRIX FÉMINA ETRANGER LONGLISTED FOR PRIX MÉDICIS An exquisite, genre-defying new book from the Booker Prize–winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a...
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I don’t get the hype…
- Écrit par Elsa le 2025-12-13
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Island of the Lost
- Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
- Auteur(s): Joan Druett
- Narrateur(s): David Colacci
- Durée: 8 h et 35 min
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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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Dueling Journals...
- Écrit par Meredith le 2021-07-30
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Orca
- How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean's Greatest Predator
- Auteur(s): Jason M. Colby
- Narrateur(s): Paul Heitsch
- Durée: 14 h et 24 min
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Drawing on interviews, official records, private archives, and his own family history, Jason M. Colby tells the exhilarating and often heartbreaking story of how people came to love the ocean's greatest predator....
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The Penguin History of New Zealand
- Auteur(s): Michael King
- Durée: 17 h et 21 min
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This bestselling book, the triumphant fruit of careful research, wide reading and judicious assessment, is the unchallenged contemporary reference on the history of New Zealand. New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered and settled by humankind. It was also the first to...
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Hawaiian Mythology: The Legends and Myths of Hawaii
- The Fables and Folk-Lore of a Strange People
- Auteur(s): King David Kalakaua
- Narrateur(s): James Francis Markert
- Durée: 20 h et 14 min
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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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Vietnam
- The Australian War
- Auteur(s): Paul Ham
- Narrateur(s): Peter Byrne
- Durée: 31 h et 16 min
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The definitive account of Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War, by best-selling author of Kokoda....
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Breaker Morant
- Auteur(s): Peter FitzSimons
- Narrateur(s): Cameron Goodall
- Durée: 23 h et 4 min
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The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet - murderer or hero? Most Australians have heard of the Boer War and of Harry 'Breaker' Morant, a figure who rivals Ned Kelly as an archetypal Australian folk hero. But Morant was a complicated man. Born in...
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A real education
- Écrit par fraser le 2026-01-27
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By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean
- The Birth of Eurasia
- Auteur(s): Barry Cunliffe
- Narrateur(s): Jennifer M. Dixon
- Durée: 18 h et 18 min
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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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Burke and Wills
- The triumph and tragedy of Australia's most famous explorers
- Auteur(s): Peter FitzSimons
- Narrateur(s): Michael Carman
- Durée: 23 h et 43 min
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'They have left here today!' he calls to the others. When King puts his hand down above the ashes of the fire, it is to find it still hot. There is even a tiny flame flickering from the end of one log. They must have left just hours ago. MELBOURNE, 20 AUGUST 1860. In an ambitious quest to be the...
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History of New Zealand
- A Captivating Guide to the History of the Land of the Long White Cloud, from the Polynesians Through the Māori Musket Wars to the Present (Australasia)
- Auteur(s): Captivating History
- Narrateur(s): Jason Zenobia
- Durée: 4 h et 18 min
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Since the Polynesians (the first humans in New Zealand who would become known as the Māori) were the most modern humans to settle in an uninhabited land, it is no surprise New Zealand has always been ahead of its time....
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The Maori
- The History and Legacy of New Zealand’s Indigenous People
- Auteur(s): Charles River Editors
- Narrateur(s): Dan Gallagher
- Durée: 1 h et 48 min
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In 1769, Captain James Cook’s historic expedition in the region would lead to an English claim on Australia, but before he reached Australia, he sailed near New Zealand....
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couldn't listen
- Écrit par Darcy le 2026-01-15
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Lucky 666
- The Impossible Mission
- Auteur(s): Bob Drury, Tom Clavin
- Narrateur(s): Jeremy Bobb
- Durée: 9 h et 3 min
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“A fast-paced, well-researched…irresistible” (USA TODAY) World War II aviation account of friendship, heroism, and sacrifice that reads like Unbroken meets The Dirty Dozen from the authors of the #1 New York Times bestselling The Heart of Everything That Is. It’s 1942, just after the...
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Turning Point
- The Battle for Milne Bay 1942 - Japan's first land defeat in World War II
- Auteur(s): Michael Veitch
- Narrateur(s): Michael Veitch
- Durée: 8 h et 49 min
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The Battle for Milne Bay - Japan's first defeat on land in the Second World War - was a defining moment in the evolution of the indomitable Australian fighting spirit. For the men of the AIF, the militia and the RAAF, it was the turning point in the Pacific, and their finest - though now largely...
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The Catalpa Rescue
- The gripping story of the most dramatic and successful prison break in Australian history
- Auteur(s): Peter FitzSimons
- Narrateur(s): Michael Carman
- Durée: 16 h et 20 min
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The incredible true story of one of the most extraordinary and inspirational prison breaks in Australian history. New York, 1874. Members of the Clan-na-Gael - agitators for Irish freedom from the English yoke - hatch a daring plan to free six Irish political prisoners from the most remote...