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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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Last Train to Paradise
- Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad That Crossed an Ocean
- De: Les Standiford
- Narrado por: Del Roy
- Duración: 8 h y 14 m
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The paths of the great American robber barons were paved with riches, and though ordinary citizens paid for them, they also profited. Les Standiford, author of the John Deal thrillers, tells how the man who turned Florida's swamps into the playgrounds of the rich performed the almost superhuman feat of building a railroad from the mainland to Key West at the turn of the century.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Pleasant Surprise
- De Roy en 04-05-09
De: Les Standiford
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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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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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The Storm of the Century
- Tragedy, Heroism, Survival, and the Epic True Story of America's Deadliest Natural Disaster: The Great Gulf Hurricane of 1900
- De: Al Roker, William Hogeland
- Narrado por: Byron Wagner
- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
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On the afternoon of September 8, 1900, 200-mile-per-hour winds and 15-foot waves slammed into Galveston, the prosperous and growing port city on Texas' Gulf Coast. By dawn the next day, when the storm had passed, the city that had existed just hours before was gone. Shattered, grief-stricken survivors emerged to witness a level of destruction never before seen: 8,000 corpses littered the streets and were buried under the massive wreckage.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Review of "The Storm of the Century "
- De S. Noe en 09-04-15
De: Al Roker, y otros
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Storm Kings
- The Untold History of America's First Tornado Chasers
- De: Lee Sandlin
- Narrado por: Andrew Garman
- Duración: 11 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Isaac's Storm meets The Age of Wonder in Lee Sandlin's Storm Kings, a riveting tale of the weather's most vicious monster - the super cell tornado - that recreates the origins of meteorology, and the quirky, pioneering, weather-obsessed scientists who helped change America.
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5 out of 5 stars
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American Meteorological History at its best
- De Leslye Sinn en 10-23-16
De: Lee Sandlin
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The Promise of the Grand Canyon
- John Wesley Powell's Perilous Journey and His Vision for the American West
- De: John F. Ross
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 13 h y 4 m
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John Wesley Powell’s first descent of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon in 1869 counts among the most dramatic chapters in American exploration history. When the Canyon spit out the surviving members of the expedition - starving, battered, and nearly naked - they had accomplished what others thought impossible and finished the exploration of continental America that Lewis and Clark had begun almost 70 years before.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Parallels
- De Bruce McClenahan en 01-25-19
De: John F. Ross
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In the Kingdom of Ice
- The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
- De: Hampton Sides
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 17 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,429
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,113
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In the late nineteenth century, people were obsessed by one of the last unmapped areas of the globe: The North Pole. No one knew what existed beyond the fortress of ice rimming the northern oceans. On July 8, 1879, the USS Jeannette set sail from San Francisco to cheering crowds in the grip of "Arctic Fever." The ship sailed into uncharted seas, but soon was trapped in pack ice. Two years into the harrowing voyage, the hull was breached. Amid the rush of water and the shrieks of breaking wooden boards, the crew abandoned the ship.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Superb tale that unravels at an iceburg's pace
- De Mel en 03-19-15
De: Hampton Sides
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A Wretched and Precarious Situation
- In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier
- De: David Welky
- Narrado por: Joel Richards
- Duración: 15 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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A remarkable true story of adventure, betrayal, and survival set in one of the world's most inhospitable places. In 1906, from atop a snow-swept hill in the ice fields northwest of Greenland, hundreds of miles from another human being, Commander Robert E. Peary spotted a line of mysterious peaks looming in the distance. He called this unexplored realm "Crocker Land". Scientists and explorers agreed that the world-famous explorer had discovered a new continent rising from the frozen Arctic Ocean.
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4 out of 5 stars
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it all comes together at the end
- De Kat en 01-30-18
De: David Welky
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The Johnstown Flood
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,127
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At the end of the last century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation's burgeoning industrial prosperity. In the mountains above Johnstown, an old earth dam had been hastily rebuilt to create a lake for an exclusive summer resort patronized by the tycoons of that same industrial prosperity, among them Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and Andrew Mellon.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A page-turner! HIstory that reads like a novel
- De Susan K Donley en 06-17-05
De: David McCullough
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Ice Ghosts
- The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition
- De: Paul Watson
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 12 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 458
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Ice Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the Lost Franklin Expedition of 1845 - whose two ships and crew of 129 were lost to the Arctic ice - with the modern tale of the scientists, divers, and local Inuit behind the incredible discovery of the flagship's wreck in 2014. Paul Watson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who was on the icebreaker that led the discovery expedition, tells a fast-paced historical adventure story: Sir John Franklin and the crew of the HMS Erebus and Terror setting off in search of the fabled Northwest Passage.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Flawed Writing Dashes High Hopes :(
- De Gillian en 03-31-17
De: Paul Watson
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Jungle of Stone
- The True Story of Two Men, Their Extraordinary Journey, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya
- De: William Carlsen
- Narrado por: Paul Michael Garcia
- Duración: 16 h y 35 m
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In 1839 rumors of extraordinary yet baffling stone ruins buried within the unmapped jungles of Central America reached two of the world's most intrepid travelers. Seized by the reports, American diplomat John Lloyd Stephens and British artist Frederick Catherwood sailed together out of New York Harbor on an expedition into the forbidding rainforests of present-day Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico. What they found would rewrite the West's understanding of human history.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Unsung Explorers at the Heart of History
- De thomas en 01-10-17
De: William Carlsen
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Sudden Sea
- De: R.A. Scotti
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 60
In the tradition of The Perfect Storm, Sudden Sea hearkens back to a natural disaster that struck terror in the hearts of many. In this narrative, listeners experience the Great Hurricane of 1938, the most financially destructive storm on record.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very professional and interesting
- De Careful Consumer en 08-09-23
De: R.A. Scotti
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The Sea Hunters II
- De: Craig Dirgo, Clive Cussler
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann
- Duración: 5 h y 59 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 105
From the authors of the number-one best-selling The Sea Hunters comes more unforgettable true adventures with famous shipwrecks.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A wonderful insight into Clive Cussler.
- De Rjs194943 en 02-14-18
De: Craig Dirgo, y otros
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Falling Upwards
- How We Took to the Air
- De: Richard Holmes
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
- Duración: 13 h y 34 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 40
Falling Upwards tells the story of the enigmatic group of men and women who first risked their lives to take to the air and so discovered a new dimension of human experience. Why they did it, what their contemporaries thought of them, and how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet in wholly unexpected ways is its subject.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A Significant Factual-Interpretative Error
- De William P. Mitchell en 04-01-20
De: Richard Holmes
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Travels in Siberia
- De: Ian Frazier
- Narrado por: Ian Frazier
- Duración: 20 h y 26 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 419
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 306
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 305
Ian Frazier trains his eye for unforgettable detail on Siberia, that vast expanse of Asiatic Russia. He explores many aspects of this storied, often grim region. He writes about the geography, the resources, the native peoples, the history, the 40-below midwinter afternoons, the bugs. The book brims with Mongols, half-crazed Orthodox archpriests, fur seekers, ambassadors of the czar bound for Peking, tea caravans, German scientists, American prospectors, intrepid English nurses, and prisoners and exiles of every kind....
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5 out of 5 stars
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I Loved This Book
- De Sara en 01-05-14
De: Ian Frazier
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The Great Bridge
- The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 27 h y 24 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,766
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,445
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,446
This monumental book tells the enthralling story of one of the greatest accomplishments in our nation's history, the building of what was then the longest suspension bridge in the world. The Brooklyn Bridge rose out of the expansive era following the Civil War, when Americans believed all things were possible.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Historian and not a Novelist
- De Tim en 06-01-12
De: David McCullough
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Last Volcano
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Total4 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución4 out of 5 stars
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- GeoMap55
- 01-06-23
Solid recounting of a pivotal volcanologist
Overall, I enjoyed this book very much. I knew some of Dr. Jaggers accomplishments and background, but this book filled out and amplified that knowledge. It would have been helpful to know the age of Dr. Jagger at some of the key points of time discussed in the book. Highly recommended!
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- A.H. Derman
- 07-08-24
More Sluggish than Hawaiian Lava
Disappointing to say the least. HOW THE MOUNTAINS GREW is such a beautiful work of geology, deep time and storytelling, I was expecting a similar volume on volcanoes! Though Dvorak’s research, eye for detail and prose are exceptional, the focus of this book left a lot to be desired. I expected a yarn about the Earth, volcanoes, paleogeography, disaster science and seismology. I would have settled for a history of early geology and its smart, important and ruthless characters. What I got was the biography of a forgotten geologist whose life was delivered by Dvorak with all the passion of a tedious 19th-20th century packing list, and I like Dvorak as an author!!
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