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Why was the redoubtable King Henry, an aborigine from Western Australia, killed during a thunderstorm in New South Wales? What was the feud that led to murder after nineteen long years had passed? And who was the woman who saw the murder and kept silent? This first story of Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, the half-aborigine detective, takes him to a sheep station in the Darling River bush country where he encounters those problems he understands so well... mixed blood and divided loyalties.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Story from another time....
- De A. Raymond en 06-15-15
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Bonecrack
- De: Dick Francis
- Narrado por: Tony Britton
- Duración: 6 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Dick Francis, the bestselling master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing. In the middle of the night, two masked men break into Neil Griffon’s home and abduct him. He quickly discovers that unless he agrees to their unreasonable demands, they will destroy his father’s precious horse and racing stable, and ultimately Neil himself. Returned to his father’s stables, he must find a way to bring down these criminals, because having to choose between his integrity and his life is no choice at all.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Horses and Fathers
- De Markhov en 06-28-23
De: Dick Francis
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Lad
- A Dog
- De: Albert Payson Terhune
- Narrado por: Bobbie Frohman
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 72
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Lad: A Dog is a novelized version of twelve short stories about a fantastic collie named Lad. Lad is a noble creature, risking life and limb in defense of the vulnerable. Many people believe Lad: A Dog was the basis for the highly popular "Lassie" series which gripped the imagination of children and adults alike, as has this book for generations past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Lad
- De SHERRY STEPHENS en 06-08-10
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The Yorkshire Shepherdess
- De: Amanda Owen
- Narrado por: Anne Dover
- Duración: 10 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Amanda Owen has been seen by millions on ITV's The Dales, living a life that has almost gone in today's modern world, a life ruled by the seasons and her animals. She is a farmer's wife and shepherdess, living alongside her husband, Clive, and seven children at Ravenseat, a 2,000 acre sheep hill farm at the head of Swaledale in North Yorkshire. It's a challenging life but one she loves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I want to go and have cream tea and meet all the animals and the shepherdess herself
- De luvs aussies en 05-30-19
De: Amanda Owen
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Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters Written by John Graham
- Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago
- De: George Horace Lorimer
- Narrado por: Alan Taylor
- Duración: 4 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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George Horace Lorimer is best known as the editor of The Saturday Evening Post, where he was credited with promoting and discovering authors like Jack London. Lorimer compiled his life advice into the fictional letters from John "Old Gorgon" Graham to his son Pierrepont. John Graham is a Chicago-based pork and finance baron. In the letters Pierrepont receives advice for his different stages of life. Old Gorgon's advice is packed throughout the book, easy to understand, and still rings true today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great but those were the times...
- De Harold en 08-20-18
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Hannay: His 5 Adventures
- De: John Buchan
- Narrado por: Graham Scott
- Duración: 49 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 12
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 12
In The Thirty-Nine Steps, Hannay struggles to thwart an assassination plot designed to hasten war between Britain and Germany. Later he is plucked from the trenches first, in Greenmantle, to frustrate a plot to ferment an uprising in the Islamic world; and then, in Mr. Standfast, to undertake a vital secret mission against a German spy ring operating among pacifist elements in England. After the war, his adventures continue in The Three Hostages; and then in The Island of Sheep, when an old oath to protect the son of a friend from his days in Africa draws him into new danger.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Values of a bygone era
- De Barbara en 03-16-24
De: John Buchan
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Plain Tales from the Hills
- De: Rudyard Kipling
- Narrado por: Martin Jarvis
- Duración: 4 h y 59 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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An intimate, evocative, often funny, and always vital portrait of India at the peak of the British Raj. Written at the age of 22, they immediately show Kipling's natural and prodigious talent. Timeless, they can be listened to forever.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Gentle irony
- De Simon Bowler en 01-25-06
De: Rudyard Kipling
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Tom Brown's Schooldays
- De: Thomas Hughes
- Narrado por: Hugh Bonneville
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 27
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The story of young Tom Brown's seemingly hideous years spent at rugby school and his spirited and astonishingly stalwart response to the institutionalised bullying prevalent at the 'Great' British public schools became exactly the campaigning tool its author hoped it would. The regimes at these schools had been largely unchallenged, with the assumption being that the education and training received were the best.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Greatness of Britain
- De Julian en 07-28-17
De: Thomas Hughes
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Animal Farm
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Ralph Cosham
- Duración: 3 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41,268
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 35,396
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 35,328
George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is an intimate part of our contemporary culture, quoted so often that we tend to forget who wrote the original words! This must-read is also a must-listen!
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4 out of 5 stars
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If you hate spoilers, save the intro for last.
- De Dusty en 02-18-11
De: George Orwell
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Death in the Afternoon
- De: Ernest Hemingway
- Narrado por: Boyd Gaines
- Duración: 9 h y 40 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 409
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 322
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 324
Still considered one of the best books ever written about bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon reflects Hemingway's belief that bullfighting was more than mere sport. Here he describes and explains the technical aspects of this dangerous ritual, and "the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped on a stick."
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5 out of 5 stars
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No previous interest in bullfighting required
- De Gary en 01-07-13
De: Ernest Hemingway
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All Creatures Great and Small
- The Warm and Joyful Memoirs of the World's Most Beloved Animal Doctor
- De: James Herriot
- Narrado por: Christopher Timothy
- Duración: 15 h y 41 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 7,460
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 6,233
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 6,220
In this first volume of his memoirs, then-newly-qualified vet James Herriot arrives in the small Yorkshire village of Darrowby, and he has no idea what to expect. How will he get on with his new boss? The local farmers? And what will the animals think? This program is filled with hilarious and touching tales of the unpredictable Siegfried Farnon, his charming student brother Tristan, and Herriot's first encounters with a beautiful girl named Helen.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Wonderful Listen--Stories That Never Get Old
- De Sara en 09-10-14
De: James Herriot
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The Virginian
- De: Owen Wister
- Narrado por: Jack Garrett
- Duración: 16 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 482
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 435
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Owen Wister’s The Virginian pre-dates the classic novels of Zane Grey and Max Brand and is considered by many to be the original Western. Dedicated to Wister’s friend and fellow outdoorsman Theodore Roosevelt, this timeless tale almost single-handedly established the cowboy archetype in literature. A quiet, noble foreman of a Wyoming cattle ranch in the 1870s, the Virginian falls for pretty schoolteacher Molly Wood. But when a rival suitor challenges his honor, the Virginian struggles to make his beloved Molly understand the harsh justice of the West.
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4 out of 5 stars
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What a Stunning Surprise this novel is!
- De Chiwiz en 09-04-12
De: Owen Wister
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Burning Daylight
- De: Jack London
- Narrado por: Tim Behrens
- Duración: 12 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Burning Daylight begins as many of London's finest works begin: with the depiction of a man blessed with physical prowess and keen perception who takes on the natural forces of the 19th century Yukon. Supreme gold miner, risk-all gambler, and unbeatable fighter, Burning Daylight is his name. Daylight moves from the Yukon to San Francisco, and plays "the bigger game of finance and wealth," until he is reminded of something he lost, something pure and good....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Favorite Jack London book
- De Anonymous User en 12-02-20
De: Jack London
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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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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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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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Roughing It
- De: Mark Twain
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 15 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,210
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,083
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,075
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