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Between 1821 and 1826, the prolific writer and journalist William Cobbett travelled the countryside of the South of England on foot and horseback. Rural Rides is a fascinating account of his journeys, and depicts a way of life in transition, juxtaposing lyrical descriptions of the countryside with criticism of the poverty of agricultural workers. A man of radical politics who encouraged the rural rising of 1830, Cobbett went on to become MP for Oldham and sought to represent the interests of both industrial and agricultural workers. Above all, Rural Rides celebrates agrarian England.
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- De Kindle Customer en 06-14-11
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Harry Heathcote of Gangoil
- De: Anthony Trollope
- Narrado por: Peter Joyce
- Duración: 4 h y 18 m
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"He was too imperious, too masterful, too much inclined to think that all things should be made to go as he would have them." Thus Trollope describes his hero Harry Heathcote, a settler and sheep farmer in the untamed bush of Australia in 1871. However, Harry has made enemies. In seeking always to act in the honourable fashion he cannot bend and embrace the weaknesses of others.
De: Anthony Trollope
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The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England
- A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
- De: Ian Mortimer
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,267
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,946
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Imagine you could travel back to the 14th century. What would you see? What would you smell? More to the point, where are you going to stay? And what are you going to eat? Ian Mortimer shows us that the past is not just something to be studied; it is also something to be lived. He sets out to explain what life was like in the most immediate way, through taking you to the Middle Ages. The result is the most astonishing social history book you are ever likely to read: evolutionary in its concept, informative and entertaining in its detail.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Detailed, Interesting and Entertaining
- De Marc-Andr? en 05-13-10
De: Ian Mortimer
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Growth of the Soil
- De: Knut Hamsun, Sverre Lyngstad - translator, Brad Leithauser - introduction
- Narrado por: BJ Harrison
- Duración: 15 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Growth of the Soil, Hamsun's Nobel Prize winning novel, is a classic of Scandinavian literature. The farmer Isak scarcely acknowledges the values of modern living. Illiterate but capable of carrying out the business of running a farm, he has physical strength and works with his hands. Although initially amazed by Isak's prowess - his wife Inger, who came into contact with modern society when imprisoned for killing her infant due to its birth defect, return to the home much less impressed by the country life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Top of my all time favorites list
- De Pete en 05-17-21
De: Knut Hamsun, y otros
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The Pioneers
- The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: John Bedford Lloyd
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 5,051
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,363
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4,335
The number one New York Times best seller by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that's "as resonant today as ever" (The Wall Street Journal) - the settling of the Northwest Territory by courageous pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would define our country.
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5 out of 5 stars
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i would prefer david reading it
- De hooterwah en 05-07-19
De: David McCullough
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Twelve Years a Slave
- De: Solomon Northup
- Narrado por: Louis Gossett Jr.
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,588
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In this riveting landmark autobiography, which reads like a novel, Academy Award and Emmy winner Louis Gossett, Jr., masterfully transports us to 1840s New York; Washington, D.C.; and Louisiana to experience the kidnapping and 12 years of bondage of Solomon Northup, a free man of color. Twelve Years a Slave, published in 1853, was an immediate bombshell in the national debate over slavery leading up to the Civil War.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I've waited for this a long time
- De Book Reader en 04-04-13
De: Solomon Northup
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- De: Benjamin Franklin
- Narrado por: Qarie Marshall
- Duración: 6 h y 35 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,493
Left unfinished at the time of his death, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin has endured as one of the most well-known and influential autobiographies ever written. From his early years in Boston and Philadelphia to the publication of his Poor Richard's Almanac to the American Revolution and beyond, Franklin's autobiography is a fascinating, personal exploration into the life of America's most interesting founding father.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Egregious omission of important passage.
- De Walking Man en 02-14-19
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself (Annotated)
- Bicentennial Edition with Douglass Family Histories
- De: Frederick Douglass
- Narrado por: Gordon Jackson
- Duración: 5 h y 4 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 41
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This is a special bicentennial edition of Douglass' most famous book, which has been published by his direct descendants through Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives (FDFI).
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5 out of 5 stars
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Most authentic voice
- De Troy Harris en 08-15-19
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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
- De: Henry David Thoreau
- Narrado por: Jim Killavey
- Duración: 1 h y 3 m
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This essay by Thoreau first published in 1849, argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule their consciences. It goes on to say that individuals have a duty to avoid allowing the government to make them the agents of injustice. The quote: "That government is best which governs least," sometimes attributed to Thomas Jefferson or Thomas Paine, actually was first found in this essay. Thoreaus' thoughts were motivated by his disgust with slavery and the Mexican-American War but they are still relevant and resonate today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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10:22 p.m., 10th of January, 2018
- De Anonymous User en 01-11-18
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What Men Live By
- De: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrado por: Max Highstein
- Duración: 1 h
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General5 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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One winter evening a shoemaker finds a mysterious stranger naked and freezing by a shrine in his small village. The shoemaker rescues the man, and takes him home. Though the stranger won’t say where he came from, Simon invites him to work beside him, and stay with his family. As the story unfolds, the stranger transforms, and ultimately reveals an astonishing and deeply moving secret. Late in Tolstoy’s life, after he had written his great masterpieces War and Peace, and Anna Karenina, he underwent a spiritual transformation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Short but powerful story from Leo Tolstoy
- De Anonymous User en 09-19-21
De: Leo Tolstoy
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The Map That Changed the World
- William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
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In 1793 William Smith, a canal digger, made a startling discovery that was to turn the fledgling science of the history of the earth - and a central plank of established Christian religion - on its head. He noticed that the rocks he was excavating were arranged in layers; more important, he could see quite clearly that the fossils found in one layer were very different from those found in another. And out of that realization came an epiphany.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Who knew rocks could be so deceptive?
- De Jody R. Nathan en 11-09-04
De: Simon Winchester
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Roughing It
- De: Mark Twain
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 15 h y 46 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,080
In 1861, young Mark Twain found himself adrift as a tenderfoot in the Wild West. Roughing It is a hilarious record of his travels over a six-year period that comes to life with his inimitable mixture of reporting, social satire, and rollicking tall tales. Twain reflects on his scuffling years mining silver in Nevada, working at a Virginia City newspaper, being downandout in San Francisco, reporting for a newspaper from Hawaii, and more.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The wild humorist of the West
- De Tad Davis en 01-02-12
De: Mark Twain
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Life in a Medieval Village
- De: Frances Gies, Joseph Gies
- Narrado por: Anne Flosnik
- Duración: 6 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Life in a Medieval Village, by respected historians Joseph and Frances Gies, paints a lively, convincing portrait of rural people at work and at play in the Middle Ages. Focusing on the village of Elton, in the English East Midlands, the Gieses detail the agricultural advances that made communal living possible, explain what domestic life was like for serf and lord alike, and describe the central role of the church in maintaining social harmony.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A step back in time
- De Diana en 10-02-19
De: Frances Gies, y otros
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Dombey and Son
- De: Charles Dickens
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 36 h y 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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In this carefully crafted novel, Dickens reveals the complexity of London society in the enterprising 1840s as he takes the listener into the business firm and home of one of its most representative patriarchs, Paul Dombey.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect pair
- De Philip en 03-25-08
De: Charles Dickens
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The Graves Are Walking
- The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People
- De: John Kelly
- Narrado por: Gerard Doyle
- Duración: 13 h y 50 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 424
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It started in 1845 and lasted six years. Before it was over, more than one million men, women, and children starved to death and another million fled the country. Measured in terms of mortality, the Great Irish Potato Famine was one of the worst disasters in the 19th century-it claimed twice as many lives as the American Civil War. A perfect storm of bacterial infection, political greed, and religious intolerance sparked this catastrophe.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unforgettable, Haunting, and a Compelling Warning
- De Carole T. en 08-22-12
De: John Kelly
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The Discovery of France
- A Historical Geography
- De: Graham Robb
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 14 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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A narrative of exploration - full of strange landscapes and even stranger inhabitants - that explains the enduring fascination of France. While Gustave Eiffel was changing the skyline of Paris, large parts of France were still terra incognita. Even in the age of railways and newspapers, France was a land of ancient tribal divisions, prehistoric communication networks, and pre-Christian beliefs. French itself was a minority language.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great history of the cultural formation of France
- De Scotty en 07-31-21
De: Graham Robb