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- De J. Natael en 08-07-13
De: Alain de Botton
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On Elizabeth Bishop
- De: Colm Tóibín
- Narrado por: John Keating
- Duración: 5 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
In this book novelist Colm Tóibín offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences - the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her poetry, prose, letters, and biography, Tóibín creates a vivid picture of Bishop while also revealing how her work has helped shape his sensibility as a novelist and how her experiences of loss and exile resonate with his own.
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5 out of 5 stars
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ELIZABETH BISHOP
- De chetyarbrough.blog en 05-19-16
De: Colm Tóibín
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Wanderlust
- A History of Walking
- De: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrado por: Liisa Ivary
- Duración: 13 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 375
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 317
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 318
Drawing together many histories - of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores - Rebecca Solnit creates a fascinating portrait of the range of possibilities presented by walking. Arguing that the history of walking includes walking for pleasure as well as for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit focuses on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have shaped our culture, from philosophers to poets to mountaineers.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Walking as politics
- De Jason V en 06-04-18
De: Rebecca Solnit
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The Wild Places
- De: Robert Macfarlane
- Narrado por: Simon Bubb
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 85
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 72
Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we tarmacked, farmed and built ourselves out of wildness? In his vital, bewitching, inspiring classic, Robert Macfarlane sets out in search of the wildness that remains.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Magical
- De Jennifer en 01-27-22
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Walking
- De: Henry David Thoreau
- Narrado por: Deaver Brown
- Duración: 1 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 265
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 227
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 229
> Walking is not as well known as Thoreau's other works Walden, The Maine Woods, and Civil Disobedience. But it is a good place to start exploring his writing because it was his last book, in 1862, published by the Atlantic Monthly shortly after his death. It is less well known because it is general, as opposed to singular, in focus. It is his summing up of his thoughts on life: One should saunter through life and take notice; one need not go far.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Brief transcendental ditty; amateurish narration
- De Ryan en 12-19-12
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How to Read Water
- De: Tristan Gooley
- Narrado por: Jeff Harding
- Duración: 10 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43
A must-have audiobook for walkers, sailors, swimmers, anglers and everyone interested in the natural world, in How to Read Water, Natural Navigator Tristan Gooley shares knowledge, skills, tips and useful observations to help you enjoy the landscape around you. From wild swimming in Sussex to wayfinding off Oman, via the icy mysteries of the Arctic, Tristan Gooley draws on his own pioneering journeys to reveal the secrets of ponds, puddles, rivers, oceans and more to show us all the skills we need to read the water around us.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Reasonably Interesting, Perhaps Better in Print
- De Alex Angel en 12-05-22
De: Tristan Gooley
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1919
- De: Eve L. Ewing
- Narrado por: Eve L. Ewing
- Duración: 1 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 39
The Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the most intense of the riots comprising the nation's Red Summer, has shaped the last century but is not widely discussed. In 1919, award-winning poet Eve L. Ewing explores the story of this event - which lasted eight days and resulted in 38 deaths and almost 500 injuries - through poems recounting the stories of everyday people trying to survive and thrive in the city. Ewing uses speculative and Afrofuturist lenses to recast history and illuminates the thin line between the past and the present.
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5 out of 5 stars
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visceral felt and poetically read
- De BF J.V. en 01-30-24
De: Eve L. Ewing
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Known and Strange Things
- Essays
- De: Teju Cole
- Narrado por: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Duración: 12 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
With this collection of more than 50 pieces on politics, photography, travel, history, and literature, Teju Cole solidifies his place as one of today's most powerful and original voices. Minute after minute, deploying prose dense with beauty and ideas, he finds fresh and potent ways to interpret art, people, and historical moments, taking in subjects from Virginia Woolf, Shakespeare, and W. G. Sebald to Instagram, Barack Obama, and Boko Haram.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Book that Teaches and Shares
- De Carolyn J. en 10-08-17
De: Teju Cole
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The Seine
- The River That Made Paris
- De: Elaine Sciolino
- Narrado por: Elaine Sciolino
- Duración: 12 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 100
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 79
Elaine Sciolino came to Paris as a young foreign correspondent and was seduced by a river. In The Seine, she tells the story of that river from its source on a remote plateau of Burgundy to the wide estuary where its waters meet the sea, and the cities, tributaries, islands, ports, and bridges in between.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointed
- De Nom de Guerre en 08-06-21
De: Elaine Sciolino
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Desert Notebooks
- A Road Map for the End of Time
- De: Ben Ehrenreich
- Narrado por: David Bendena
- Duración: 11 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
Layering climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and personal experiences, Desert Notebooks offers a vital and necessary chronicle of our past and our present - perfect for fans of Robert Macfarlane and Elizabeth Rush - that’s unflinching, urgent, and yet timeless and profound.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not about the desert, Not about Joshua Tree
- De Steve en 07-12-20
De: Ben Ehrenreich
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The Old Ways
- A Journey on Foot
- De: Robert Macfarlane
- Narrado por: Robin Sachs
- Duración: 11 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 719
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 632
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 636
In this exquisitely written book, Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge, England, home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove roads, and sea paths that crisscross both the British landscape and its waters and territories beyond. The result is an immersive, enthralling exploration of the ghosts and voices that haunt old paths, of the stories our tracks keep and tell, and of pilgrimage and ritual. Told in Macfarlane’s distinctive voice, The Old Ways folds together natural history, cartography, geology, archaeology, and literature.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A perfect pairing of prose and narrator
- De chris en 11-05-12
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Becoming Animal
- An Earthly Cosmology
- De: David Abram
- Narrado por: David Abram
- Duración: 13 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 249
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 221
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 219
As the climate veers toward catastrophe, the innumerable losses cascading through the biosphere make vividly evident the need for a metamorphosis in our relation to the living land. For too long we've inured ourselves to the wild intelligence of our muscled flesh, taking our primary truths from technologies that hold the living world at a distance. This audiobook subverts that distance, drawing listeners ever deeper into their animal senses in order to explore, from within, the elemental kinship between the body and the breathing Earth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a life changer
- De EH555 en 07-26-18
De: David Abram
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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
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,142
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 720
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 718
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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A Crack in the Edge of the World
- America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
- Duración: 12 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 586
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 329
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 325
San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative informative look at the tumultuous subterranean world that produces earthquakes, the planet's most sudden and destructive force. In the early morning hours of April 18, 1906, San Francisco and a string of towns to its north-northwest and the south-southeast were overcome by an enormous shaking that was compounded by the violent shocks of an earthquake, registering 8.25 on the Richter scale.
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2 out of 5 stars
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7 Hours and 45 minutes . . .
- De Tim en 12-09-05
De: Simon Winchester
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City
- A Guidebook for the Urban Age
- De: P. D. Smith
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 13 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 75
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 65
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 65
For the first time in the history of our planet, more than half the population - 3.3 billion people - is now living in cities. City is the ultimate guidebook to our urban centers - the signature unit of human civilization. With erudite prose, this unique work of metatourism explores what cities are and how they work. It covers history, customs and language, districts, transport, money, work, shops and markets, and tourist sites, creating a fantastically detailed portrait of the city through history and into the future.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Commuters companion
- De Anna en 05-19-13
De: P. D. Smith
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The 99% Invisible City
- A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
- De: Kurt Kohlstedt, Roman Mars
- Narrado por: Roman Mars
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 596
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 492
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 492
99% Invisible is a big-ideas podcast about small-seeming things, revealing stories baked into the buildings we inhabit, the streets we drive, and the sidewalks we traverse. The show celebrates design and architecture in all of its functional glory and accidental absurdity, with intriguing tales of both designers and the people impacted by their designs.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The 99% Invisible City
- De Louise Schraa en 01-09-21
De: Kurt Kohlstedt, y otros
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Downtown
- My Manhattan
- De: Pete Hamill
- Narrado por: Pete Hamill
- Duración: 6 h y 2 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 55
In Downtown, Hamill leads us on an unforgettable journey through the city he loves, from the island's southern tip to 42nd Street, combining a moving memoir of his days and nights in New York with a passionate history of its most enduring places and people.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A frustrating read
- De David Ross en 09-09-05
De: Pete Hamill