Meilleures ventes
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The Thirty Years War
- Europe's Tragedy
- Auteur(s): Peter H. Wilson
- Narrateur(s): Matthew Waterson
- Durée: 33 h et 25 min
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Au global3.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Histoire3 out of 5 stars 5
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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3 out of 5 stars
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An amazing performance for an incomprehensible book
- Écrit par F. Toro le 2024-02-28
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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
- Auteur(s): Keith Thomson
- Narrateur(s): Feodor Chin
- Durée: 9 h et 41 min
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Au global3.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Histoire4 out of 5 stars 2
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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3 out of 5 stars
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Great story, hard to follow.
- Écrit par Steve Bohemier le 2025-06-16
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Reformations
- The Early Modern World, 1450-1650
- Auteur(s): Carlos M. N. Eire
- Narrateur(s): David Drummond
- Durée: 39 h et 42 min
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Au global5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Histoire5 out of 5 stars 2
Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles the 200-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention to issues that persist as concerns in the present day....
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The Taste of Conquest
- The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice
- Auteur(s): Michael Krondl
- Narrateur(s): Todd McLaren
- Durée: 10 h et 34 min
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In this engaging, anecdotal history of food, world conquest, and desire, a chef-turned-journalist tells the story of three legendary cities that transformed the globe in the quest for spice....
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Vermeer's Hat
- The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
- Auteur(s): Timothy Brook
- Narrateur(s): Malcolm Hillgartner
- Durée: 8 h et 22 min
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Au global4 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 6
A Vermeer painting shows a military officer in a Dutch sitting room, talking to a laughing girl....
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The Pirate Hunter
- Auteur(s): Richard Zacks
- Narrateur(s): Michael Prichard
- Durée: 18 h et 42 min
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Au global4 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 3
Captain Kidd has gone down in history as America's most ruthless buccaneer....
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The Thirty Years War
- Europe's Tragedy
- Auteur(s): Peter H. Wilson
- Narrateur(s): Matthew Waterson
- Durée: 33 h et 25 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global3.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Histoire3 out of 5 stars 5
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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3 out of 5 stars
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An amazing performance for an incomprehensible book
- Écrit par F. Toro le 2024-02-28
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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
- Auteur(s): Keith Thomson
- Narrateur(s): Feodor Chin
- Durée: 9 h et 41 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global3.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Histoire4 out of 5 stars 2
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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3 out of 5 stars
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Great story, hard to follow.
- Écrit par Steve Bohemier le 2025-06-16
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Reformations
- The Early Modern World, 1450-1650
- Auteur(s): Carlos M. N. Eire
- Narrateur(s): David Drummond
- Durée: 39 h et 42 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Histoire5 out of 5 stars 2
Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles the 200-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention to issues that persist as concerns in the present day....
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The Taste of Conquest
- The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice
- Auteur(s): Michael Krondl
- Narrateur(s): Todd McLaren
- Durée: 10 h et 34 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global0 out of 5 stars 0
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Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
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Histoire0 out of 5 stars 0
In this engaging, anecdotal history of food, world conquest, and desire, a chef-turned-journalist tells the story of three legendary cities that transformed the globe in the quest for spice....
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Vermeer's Hat
- The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
- Auteur(s): Timothy Brook
- Narrateur(s): Malcolm Hillgartner
- Durée: 8 h et 22 min
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Au global4 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 6
A Vermeer painting shows a military officer in a Dutch sitting room, talking to a laughing girl....
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The Pirate Hunter
- Auteur(s): Richard Zacks
- Narrateur(s): Michael Prichard
- Durée: 18 h et 42 min
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Au global4 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 3
Captain Kidd has gone down in history as America's most ruthless buccaneer....
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The Blood in Winter
- England on the Brink of Civil War, 1642
- Auteur(s): Jonathan Healey
- Durée: 9 h
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A riveting account of the five heated months in which King Charles I attempted to arrest five dissident Members of Parliament by bringing an armed force to the House of Commons—a shocking act of political terrorism that pushed England toward civil war and planted the seeds of the American Revolution
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Spain
- The Centre of the World 1519-1682
- Auteur(s): Robert Goodwin
- Narrateur(s): Jeremy Clyde
- Durée: 21 h et 2 min
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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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Under the Black Flag
- The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
- Auteur(s): David Cordingly
- Narrateur(s): Don Hagen
- Durée: 10 h et 31 min
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Au global4 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Histoire5 out of 5 stars 1
As he explodes many accepted pirate myths (i.e. "walking the plank" is pure fiction), Cordingly replaces them with a truth that is more complex and often bloodier....
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Killers of the King
- The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I
- Auteur(s): Charles Spencer
- Narrateur(s): Richard Trinder
- Durée: 12 h et 1 min
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Au global5 out of 5 stars 4
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Histoire5 out of 5 stars 4
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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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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Au global5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Histoire5 out of 5 stars 5
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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The Island at the Center of the World
- The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
- Auteur(s): Russell Shorto
- Narrateur(s): Russell Shorto
- Durée: 14 h et 33 min
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Au global5 out of 5 stars 9
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Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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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They Flew
- A History of the Impossible
- Auteur(s): Carlos M. N. Eire
- Narrateur(s): Emmanuel Chumaceiro
- Durée: 16 h et 56 min
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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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Taking Manhattan
- The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America
- Auteur(s): Russell Shorto
- Narrateur(s): Russell Shorto
- Durée: 11 h et 31 min
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The author of The Island at the Center of the World offers up a thrilling narrative of how New York—that brash, bold, archetypal city—came to be.
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Thunderclap
- A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
- Auteur(s): Laura Cumming
- Narrateur(s): Laura Cumming
- Durée: 7 h et 39 min
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New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming tells the fascinating, little-known story of the massive explosion in Holland that killed Carel Fabritius, renowned painter of The Goldfinch and A View of Delft and nearly killed Johannes Vermeer—two of the greatest artists of the 17th century.
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Steel Lobsters
- Crown, Commonwealth, and the Last Knights in England
- Auteur(s): Myke Cole
- Narrateur(s): Oliver Hembrough
- Durée: 10 h et 28 min
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The 17th-century battlefield ushered in a new era, with formed musketeers and pistol-wielding cavalry gradually taking over from the knights and men-at-arms that had dominated the European battlefield. Based on a detailed study of the primary sources, Steel Lobsters tells the story.
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City of Light, City of Poison
- Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris
- Auteur(s): Holly Tucker
- Narrateur(s): Kate Reading
- Durée: 9 h et 6 min
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Au global4 out of 5 stars 11
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Histoire4 out of 5 stars 11
Appointed to conquer the "crime capital of the world", the first police chief of Paris faces an epidemic of murder in the late 1600s....
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A Hangman’s Diary
- The Journal of Master Franz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg, 1573-1617
- Auteur(s): Franz Schmidt, Albrecht Keller - editor and translator, C. Calvert BA - translator, Autres
- Narrateur(s): John McLain
- Durée: 4 h et 51 min
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Au global3 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Histoire4 out of 5 stars 2
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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2 out of 5 stars
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Intermittent static ruins experience
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2024-10-28
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Captain Alatriste
- Auteur(s): Arturo Pérez-Reverte
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick, Margaret Sayers Peden
- Durée: 6 h et 48 min
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Au global5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Histoire5 out of 5 stars 2
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful book!
- Écrit par Christian G. Cameron le 2022-01-10
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The English Civil Wars
- 1640-1660
- Auteur(s): Blair Worden
- Narrateur(s): Leighton Pugh
- Durée: 5 h et 29 min
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Au global4 out of 5 stars 1
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Histoire4 out of 5 stars 1
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
- Auteur(s): Hourly History
- Narrateur(s): Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Durée: 1 h et 9 min
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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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The Vanishing Velázquez
- A 19th Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece
- Auteur(s): Laura Cumming
- Narrateur(s): Siobhan Redmond
- Durée: 10 h et 16 min
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Au global5 out of 5 stars 3
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Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Intriguing
- Écrit par Roberta W le 2024-10-07
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Digging the Past: How and Why to Imagine Seventeenth-Century Agriculture
- Haney Foundation Series
- Auteur(s): Frances E. Dolan
- Narrateur(s): Nancy Bober
- Durée: 10 h et 8 min
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Au global5 out of 5 stars 1
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Digging the Past offers fine-grained case studies of projects heralded as innovations both in the 17th century and in our own time: composting and soil amendment, local food, natural wine, and hedgerows....
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The Year of Lear
- Shakespeare in 1606
- Auteur(s): James Shapiro
- Narrateur(s): Robert Fass
- Durée: 11 h et 6 min
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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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Devil-Land
- England Under Siege, 1588-1688
- Auteur(s): Clare Jackson
- Narrateur(s): Emma Gregory
- Durée: 24 h et 10 min
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Au global5 out of 5 stars 1
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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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5 out of 5 stars
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Decent coverage and listenable
- Écrit par DAVID STAMPE le 2025-01-23
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The Man Who Invented Fiction
- How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World
- Auteur(s): William Egginton
- Narrateur(s): Michael Butler Murray
- Durée: 8 h et 14 min
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Au global4 out of 5 stars 1
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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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4 out of 5 stars
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A powerful and provocative work
- Écrit par GUY le 2023-02-18
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Dark Brilliance
- The Age of Reason: From Descartes to Peter the Great
- Auteur(s): Paul Strathern
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Keeble
- Durée: 13 h et 30 min
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Acclaimed historian Paul Strathern tells the vivid story of The Age of Reason, while also exploring the painful cost of creating the progress and modernity upon which the Western world was built.
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The Dutch East India Company: A History from Beginning to End
- Auteur(s): Hourly History
- Narrateur(s): Bridger Conklin
- Durée: 1 h
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Au global5 out of 5 stars 1
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Once valued at close to seven trillion dollars by today’s standards, the Dutch East India Company, formed in 1602, became the world’s first multinational corporation....
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The Favourite
- Auteur(s): Ophelia Field
- Narrateur(s): Natalie Boscombe
- Durée: 17 h et 44 min
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Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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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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Restoration London
- Everyday Life in the 1660s
- Auteur(s): Liza Picard
- Narrateur(s): Sean Barrett
- Durée: 6 h et 29 min
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From poverty to pets, from medicine to magic, from slang to sex, from wallpaper to women's rights....