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Joyce-Armstrong is a pilot, whose allies dies while they are trying to break the current height record of 30,00 feet. The man is curious over the mysterious deaths and thinks that his friends have been caught in what he calls "air-jungles". Hay Connor and Myrtle are its two most recent casualties. Connor dies immediately after landing, while Myrtle is found beheaded. Joyce-Armstrong then decides to conduct his own investigation and takes his plane to a height of 40,000 feet.
Who or what is killing the pilots? Will the brave aviator, Joyce-Armstrong, find the truth about the mysterious deaths? After take-off, can he safely return to the ground? What shocking discoveries will he make while in the air?
"The Horror of the Heights" is a horror story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, first published in 1913
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Bored with inactivity following the end of the Civil War, the fanatical members of the American Gun Club in Baltimore look for a project to fulfill their passion for rearms. Their distinguished President, Impey Barbicane, proposes an exciting new endeavor - one that will cement their names in history: They will build the largest projectile ever known to man and shoot it at the moon! The bullet will be hollowed to accommodate Barbicane and two bold companions, along with their dog, and they will claim the moon as America's 37th state.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Earth to Moon
- De PJL0815 en 04-15-20
De: Jules Verne
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The Complete Cosmicomics
- Translated by Martin McLaughlin, Tim Parks, & William Weaver
- De: Italo Calvino, Martin McLaughlin - translator, Tim Parks - translator, y otros
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
- Duración: 15 h y 9 m
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Italo Calvino's beloved cosmicomics cross planets and traverse galaxies, speed up time or slow it down to the particles of an instant. Through the eyes of an ageless guide named Qfwfq, Calvino explores natural phenomena and tells the story of the origins of the universe. Poignant, fantastical, and wise, these 34 dazzling stories - collected here in one definitive anthology - relate complex scientific and mathematical concepts to our everyday world.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Moments of Greatness = Worth the Read
- De Amazon Customer en 08-06-18
De: Italo Calvino, y otros
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The Machine Stops [Classic Tales Edition]
- De: E. M. Forster
- Narrado por: B. J. Harrison
- Duración: 1 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 157
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The earth's surface is no longer habitable. All humanity is sequestered beneath the ground, couched in isolation and contentment. The Machine provides the needs of humanity. Mankind becomes subservient drones to the life-supporting Machine. But what happens when the Machine stops?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Classic
- De H. Metz en 05-13-19
De: E. M. Forster
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 1
- De: Edgar Allan Poe
- Narrado por: Nicholas Stikoski
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 58
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A collection of classic works by Edgar Allan Poe, American author, poet, editor, and literary critic. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Poor narration hurts these Poe classics
- De Jeremy C. Kuban en 11-29-12
De: Edgar Allan Poe
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To Conquer the Air
- The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight
- De: James Tobin
- Narrado por: Boyd Gaines
- Duración: 6 h y 10 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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To Conquer the Air is a hero's tale of overcoming obstacles within and without that plumbs the depths of creativity and character. With a historian's accuracy and a novelist's eye, Tobin has captured the interplay of remarkable personalities at an extraordinary moment in our history. In the centennial year of human flight, To Conquer the Air is itself a heroic achievement.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A great story
- De Jere en 05-30-03
De: James Tobin
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The Smoky God or A Voyage to the Inner World
- Esoteric Classics: Occult Fiction
- De: Willis George Emerson
- Narrado por: Shea Taylor
- Duración: 2 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 158
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The Smoky God is a classic tale from the genre of hollow Earth or subterranean literature. A once-favorite tale of Amazing Stories publisher Ray Palmer, The Smoky God is the (purportedly true) tale of two Norwegian fishermen Jens and Olaf Jansen, who sailed their fishing vessel into the inner Earth in the year 1829. While in the center of the Earth, they find an entire society and meet a race and of advanced giants.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great story
- De Rodney C Kilgore en 07-25-21
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Open Cockpit
- De: Arthur Gould Lee
- Narrado por: Roger Davis
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 100
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Author of three books, this is by far his best. Lee puts you in the cockpit in a riveting account of life as a fighter pilot at the front. At times humorous and dramatic, this thoughtful, enlightening, true account is a classic to be ranked with Winged Victory by W. V. Yeates, also published by Grub Street.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Really great insights into WW1 air combat!
- De B Taub en 12-21-16
De: Arthur Gould Lee
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The Snow Goose
- De: Paul Gallico
- Narrado por: Steve Mackintosh, Georgia Groome, Deborah Findlay, y otros
- Duración: 57 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 79
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 78
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Paul Gallico’s The Snow Goose by Nick Warburton, starring Steven Mackintosh.
When Open Book asked various authors to champion a favourite neglected classic on the programme, Michael Morpurgo chose The Snow Goose - perhaps no surprise, with his own story 'War Horse' depicting a friendship between a boy and his horse which takes them both into the horror of World War I.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Snow Goose
- De Sarah FitzGerald en 08-29-11
De: Paul Gallico
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2001
- A Space Odyssey
- De: Arthur C. Clarke
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
- Duración: 6 h y 42 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 10,784
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It has been 40 years since the publication of this classic science-fiction novel that changed the way we look at the stars and ourselves. From the savannas of Africa at the dawn of mankind to the rings of Saturn as man adventures to the outer rim of our solar system, 2001: A Space Odyssey is a journey unlike any other.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Movie Makes More Sense Now
- De Douglas en 12-10-08
De: Arthur C. Clarke
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The Star Diaries
- Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy
- De: Stanislaw Lem
- Narrado por: David Marantz
- Duración: 11 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 136
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Ijon Tichy, Lem's Candide of the Cosmos, encounters bizarre civilizations and creatures in space that serve to satirize science, the rational mind, theology, and other icons of human pride.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Gulliver in Space
- De Joe Kraus en 12-29-18
De: Stanislaw Lem
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Spring and All: Facsimile Edition
- New Directions Pearls
- De: William Carlos Williams
- Narrado por: Sean Slater
- Duración: 1 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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A beautiful facsimile of the 1923 original edition which is considered "one of the greatest poems of the twentieth century" by The New York Times. Spring and All is a manifesto of the imagination - a hybrid of alternating sections of prose and free verse that coalesce in dramatic, energetic, and beautifully cryptic statements of how language re-creates the world. Spring and All contains some of Williams' best-known poetry.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Classic!
- De Amazon Customer en 01-25-18
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Mountains of the Mind
- Adventures in Reaching the Summit
- De: Robert Macfarlane
- Narrado por: James A. Gillies
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 150
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Combining accounts of legendary mountain ascents with vivid descriptions of his own forays into wild, high landscapes, Robert Macfarlane reveals how the mystery of the world's highest places has come to grip the Western imagination - and perennially draws legions of adventurers up the most perilous slopes. His story begins three centuries ago, when mountains were feared as the forbidding abodes of dragons and other mysterious beasts.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Pretentious Narrator
- De karla arens en 09-07-20
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Krakatoa
- The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,150
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 728
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 726
The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa - the name has since become a byword for a cataclysmic disaster - was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly 40,000 people. Beyond the purely physical horrors of an event that has only very recently been properly understood, the eruption changed the world in more ways than could possibly be imagined. Dust swirled round die planet for years, causing temperatures to plummet and sunsets to turn vivid with lurid and unsettling displays of light.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great subject, great writing, great voice
- De rwise en 01-26-04
De: Simon Winchester
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Stickeen
- De: John Muir
- Narrado por: Andre Stojka
- Duración: 1 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 188
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"Stickeen.... pushed his head past my shoulders, looked down and across, then looked me in the face and began to mutter and whine; saying as plainly as if speaking with words, "Surely, you are not going into that awful place. "As the darkness of a freezing night approaches, an experienced American naturalist and a dog are trapped on an Alaskan Glacier. This is a true story, written by one of the United States' most famous naturalists and explorers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Adventure for all ages..
- De MD en 09-12-19
De: John Muir
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The End of the Story
- De: Clark Ashton Smith
- Narrado por: Josh Greenwood
- Duración: 44 m
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In “The End of the Story” by Clark Ashton Smith, mysterious passion and ardor lead us through forbidden manuscripts, mystical encounters, and matters of the heart. Set in 17th-century France, young law student Christophe Morand discovers the tale of Gerard de Venteillon, a knight seduced by a lamia dwelling in the ruins of Chateau des Faussesflammes near Perigon. Will Morand share his fate? The choice between heart and the abbot’s counsel becomes pivotal, and the enigmatic woman continues to tempt.