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The Africans
- Written by: David Lamb
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 18 hrs and 27 mins
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Written in 1983, The Africans is a remarkable and very personal commentary on the people of this vast continent. It offers colorful, close-up views of presidents, peasants, guerilla leaders, and merchants while tracing a vivid history of one of the most varied populations on earth. Everyone interested in world cultures will find The Africans a fascinating experience.
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The Africans
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 18 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 2009-04-30
- Language: English
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A Sense of the World
- Written by: Jason Roberts
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
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Journalist Jason Roberts has won critical praise for A Sense of the World. His biography of "the blind traveler" has been named a Best Book of the Year by numerous publications, including the Washington Post, and has been nominated for the Guardian First Book Award. Although blinded as a young Naval lieutenant, James Holman became one of the world's most prolific and observant travelers.
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A Sense of the World
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 2008-11-24
- Language: English
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Haunted Texas
- Famous Phantoms, Sinister Sites, and Lingering Legends, Second Edition
- Written by: Scott Williams, Donna Ingham
- Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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Texas history buffs and travelers have an eerie need for this book, which offers an unusual twist to seeing the "sights" in the Lone Star state. Organized by region - Gulf Coast, Rio Grande Valley, South Texas, Central Texas, North Texas, and West Texas - this book is the complete guide for both hardcore ghost hunters and more earthly tourists seeking to add some spirited fun to their travels.
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Haunted Texas
- Famous Phantoms, Sinister Sites, and Lingering Legends, Second Edition
- Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 2017-07-03
- Language: English
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Rising From the Plains
- Annals of the Former World, Book 3
- Written by: John McPhee
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
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Rising From the Plains takes McPhee to the high country of Utah along the Continental Divide. His guide is David Love, "the grand old man of Rocky Mountain geology". Helping McPhee see the physical changes that have shaped this region over millions of years, Love also traces his own family's history in this oil-rich, windswept land.
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Rising From the Plains
- Annals of the Former World, Book 3
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Series: Annals of the Former World, Book 3
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 2004-08-19
- Language: English
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My Venice and Other Essays
- Written by: Donna Leon
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
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Donna Leon’s wildly popular novels starring Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti have often been praised for their insight into culture, politics, family life, and the history of Venice, one of the world’s most treasured cities and her home for over thirty years. My Venice and Other Essays collects over fifty of Leon’s funny, charming, and passionate essays on subjects that range from battles over garbage in the canals to troubles with rehabbing Venetian real estate.
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My Venice and Other Essays
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2023-10-24
- Language: English
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Best. State. Ever.
- A Florida Man Defends His Homeland
- Written by: Dave Barry
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
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We never know what will happen next in Florida. We know only that, any minute now, something will. Every few months, Dave Barry gets a call from some media person wanting to know, "What the hell is wrong with Florida?" Somehow, the state's acquired an image as a subtropical festival of stupid, and as a loyal Floridian, Dave begs to differ. Sure, there was the 2000 election. And people seem to take their pants off for no good reason. And it has flying insects the size of LeBron James. But it is a great state, and Dave is going to tell you why.
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A funny and honest view of Florida
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Best. State. Ever.
- A Florida Man Defends His Homeland
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 2016-09-06
- Language: English
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The Sea and the Jungle
- Written by: H.M. Tomlinson
- Narrated by: Ron Keith
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
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What would it be like to cast aside the industrial bustle of the early 20th century to hop a freighter bound for the verdant jungles and untamed wildlife of the fabled Amazon? H.M. Tomlinson did just that, trading the streets of Swansea, Wales, for the open sea of the Atlantic. Thanks to Tomlinson's sharp eye for detail, his spellbinding account of this 1909 journey is much more than a standard travel narrative.
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The Sea and the Jungle
- Narrated by: Ron Keith
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 2002-04-01
- Language: English
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All the Way to the Tigers
- Written by: Mary Morris
- Narrated by: Susan Bennett
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
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In February 2008 a casual afternoon of ice skating derailed the trip of a lifetime. Mary Morris was on the verge of a well-earned sabbatical, but instead she endured three months in a wheelchair, two surgeries, and extensive rehabilitation. On Easter Sunday, when she was supposed to be in Morocco, Morris was instead lying on the sofa reading Death in Venice, casting her eyes over these words again and again: "He would go on a journey. Not far. Not all the way to the tigers." Disaster shifted to possibility and Morris made a decision.
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All the Way to the Tigers
- Narrated by: Susan Bennett
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 2020-06-09
- Language: English
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Wide-Open World
- How Volunteering Around the Globe Changed One Family's Lives Forever
- Written by: John Marshall
- Narrated by: John Marshall
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
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John Marshall had read about the growth of voluntourism, and frankly, it was the only kind of extended trip he could afford. He'd heard that some peoples' lives were changed by a week of overseas service - what might half a year accomplish for his family? His wife, Traca, was all in favor of it; his kids, especially his 14-year-old daughter, were strongly opposed. Wide-Open World is the totally engaging, bluntly honest story of the Marshall family's life-changing adventure.
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- By Roxanne on 2021-12-31
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Wide-Open World
- How Volunteering Around the Globe Changed One Family's Lives Forever
- Narrated by: John Marshall
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2015-02-10
- Language: English
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The Second John McPhee Reader, Book One
- Written by: John McPhee
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
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For a person who has not encountered John McPhee's lively writing, The Second John McPhee Reader is the perfect introduction. McPhee, author of Coming Into the Country, and Assembling California punctuates his delightful prose with a sharp sense of humor and a fascination with things most of us never bother to notice.
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The Second John McPhee Reader, Book One
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 2004-07-29
- Language: English
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One Dry Season
- In the Footsteps of Mary Kingsley
- Written by: Caroline Alexander
- Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
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When she first read of Victorian explorer Mary Kingsley’s travels in the French colony of Gabon, Alexander knew she had to experience the present-day nation for herself. Soon she is retracing Kingsley’s route - struggling through tangled vines in humid rain forests, chugging up the churning Ogooué River in a packed steamer, and fending off gigantic cockroaches. The country she discovers is a challenging mixture of Africa’s exotic past and its practical present
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One Dry Season
- In the Footsteps of Mary Kingsley
- Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 2012-09-11
- Language: English
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Baggage
- Confessions of a Globe-Trotting Hypochondriac
- Written by: Jeremy Hance
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
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An award-winning journalist's eco-adventures across the globe with his three traveling companions: his fiancée, his OCD, and his chronic anxiety - a hilarious, wild jaunt that will inspire travelers, environmentalists, and anyone with mental illness.
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Baggage
- Confessions of a Globe-Trotting Hypochondriac
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 2020-10-06
- Language: English
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Greek to Me
- Adventures of the Comma Queen
- Written by: Mary Norris
- Narrated by: Mary Norris
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
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Greek to Me is a charming account of Norris’s lifelong love affair with words and her solo adventures in the land of olive trees and ouzo. Along the way, Norris explains how the alphabet originated in Greece, makes the case for Athena as a feminist icon, seeks the fabled Baths of Aphrodite, and reveals the surprising ways Greek helped form English. Filled with Norris’s memorable encounters with Greek words, Greek gods, Greek wine - and more than a few Greek men - Greek to Me is the Comma Queen’s fresh take on Greece and its exotic yet strangely familiar language.
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Greek to Me
- Adventures of the Comma Queen
- Narrated by: Mary Norris
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 2019-04-10
- Language: English
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Texas Bigger and Brighter
- 50 Iconic Lone Star People, Places, and Things
- Written by: Donna Ingham
- Narrated by: Rebecca Mitchell
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
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From blue bells to armadillos, and the San Antonio River Walk to Cadillac Ranch, here's the inside story about the very things that give the state its character. Did you know that Texas has more bird species than any other state? That Texas is the largest producer of oil and gas in the United States and the nation's leader in pickup sales? That Texas has museums and larger-than-life statues that honor native sons and daughters such as Lyndon B. Johnson, Barbara Jordan, Buddy Holly, and J. Frank Dobie?
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Texas Bigger and Brighter
- 50 Iconic Lone Star People, Places, and Things
- Narrated by: Rebecca Mitchell
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 2017-07-01
- Language: English
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Mother Tongue
- My Family's Globe-Trotting Quest to Dream in Mandarin, Laugh in Arabic, and Sing in Spanish
- Written by: Christine Gilbert
- Narrated by: Angela Dawe
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
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Imagine negotiating for a replacement carburetor in rural Mexico with words you're secretly pulling from a pocket dictionary. Imagine your two-year-old asking for more niunai at dinner - a Mandarin word for milk that even you don't know yet. Imagine finding out that you're unexpectedly pregnant while living in war-torn Beirut. With vivid and evocative language, Christine Gilbert takes us along with her into foreign lands, showing us what it's like to make a life in an unfamiliar world - and in an unfamiliar tongue.
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Mother Tongue
- My Family's Globe-Trotting Quest to Dream in Mandarin, Laugh in Arabic, and Sing in Spanish
- Narrated by: Angela Dawe
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 2016-05-17
- Language: English
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Crossing the Craton
- Annals of the Former World, Book 4
- Written by: John McPhee
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
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With his Pulitzer Prize-winning Annals of the Former World, John McPhee explores not only the richly varied surface of the United States, but the geological wonders hidden deep beneath our feet. In this final book of the series, he embarks on a fascinating journey across the basement of the continent - the land masses forming Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, and thereabouts - with a professor and geochronologist acting as a guide.
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Crossing the Craton
- Annals of the Former World, Book 4
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Series: Annals of the Former World, Book 4
- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
- Release date: 2006-12-22
- Language: English
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Tigers in the Snow
- Written by: Peter Matthiessen
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
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Author of At Play in the Fields of the Lord, national Book Award-winner Peter Matthiessen is an accomplished naturalist and one of the most acclaimed writers in the world. This book is a stirring look at the tiger, a magnificent animal that has long fueled human fascination. In critical danger of extinction, only a few thousand of these giant cats remain. Matthiessen's exquisite prose stunningly captures the tigers' dramatic fight to survive.
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Tigers in the Snow
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 2004-08-05
- Language: English
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The Ragged Edge of the World
- Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands, and Indigenous People Meet
- Written by: Eugene Linden
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
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Award-winning journalist Eugene Linden has written numerous critically acclaimed works on the environment. In The Ragged Edge of the World, Linden recounts his experiences in locales ranging from Vietnam to Antarctica, offering an intimate look at creatures and cultures struggling to adapt to globalization.
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The Ragged Edge of the World
- Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands, and Indigenous People Meet
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 2012-06-03
- Language: English
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Notes From China
- Written by: Barbara W. Tuchman
- Narrated by: Rita Knox
- Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
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Two hundred years ago China's imperial rulers sensed a threat to a past-oriented society in the dynamism of the West and tried to frustrate foreign entry.
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Notes From China
- Narrated by: Rita Knox
- Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 2005-07-01
- Language: English
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Sunrise with Seamonsters,Pt.1
- Written by: Paul Theroux
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
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Quintessential travel articles and thoughtful essays by the observant, witty and skeptical travel writer and novelist. Part One: 1964-1978 includes: "Winter in Africa"; "Leper Colony"; "V.S. Naipaul"; "Memories of Old Afghanistan"; "The Night Ferry to Paris"; and "A Circuit of Corsica".
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Sunrise with Seamonsters,Pt.1
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 2008-10-31
- Language: English
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