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This Much Is True
- De: Miriam Margolyes
- Narrado por: Miriam Margolyes
- Duración: 15 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,101
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 971
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 964
Award-winning actor, creator of a myriad of memorable characters from Lady Whiteadder to Professor Sprout, Miriam Margolyes is a national treasure. Now, at last, at the age of 80, she has finally decided to tell her extraordinary life story. And it's far richer and stranger than any part she's played.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Simply Brilliant
- De Stuart Huddart en 09-21-21
- This Much Is True
- De: Miriam Margolyes
- Narrado por: Miriam Margolyes
An autobiography without all the things you hate about autobiographies
Revisado: 01-28-23
I don't often review but for me this book will be unforgettable. It seems that throughout her life MM has played the Shakespearean 'fool' - easily dismissed by a good number of her peers as just jokes and flippancy, but all along the keen observer and recorder of humanity with its nonsense and foibles, richness and kindness. Over her long life MM has seemingly met 'everyone', and been 'everywhere', but because she's not reached super-stellar celebrity status has been able to keep the spotlight turned on the world around her rather than becoming preoccupied with whether it's shining on her. The result is an autobiography without any undeserved ego in it at all, as well as a biography of 'every actor' in the performance arts in Britain and the west from the 60s to date. Moreover, and without becoming a bleeding heart exercise, it also captures with a truth that's confronting the challenges faced by actors often regarded by the mainstream as 'novelty extras' because they're not male, Christian, heterosexual and/or 'pretty'. MM's story is a series of beautifully written vignettes of a life lead with passion, persistence and refreshing honesty. The narration by MM is a live performance in itself - especially her impersonations which are the best I've ever heard - Barbra Streisand, Julia Gillard and the Australian immigration officer my favourites. I've always gravitated towards productions involving MM and I now know why. I hope she comes back to Australia and spends some more time here - we have a great new PM and are all a lot nicer again :)
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Three Sheets to the Wind
- De: Adam Courtenay
- Narrado por: James Saunders
- Duración: 7 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2
When Campbell & Clark, Scottish merchants based in India, dispatched an Indian ship hurriedly renamed the Sydney Cove to the colony of NSW in 1797, they were hoping to make their fortune. The ship's 'speculative' cargo included all kinds of products to entice the new colony's inhabitants, including 7,000 gallons of rum intended to be sold to the Rum Corp. But when the ship went down north of Van Diemen's Land, cargo master William Campbell and 16 other crew members decided to walk the 600 miles to Sydney Town to get help and rescue crew and cargo.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Compelling tale of human struggle and survival
- De Freddo en 07-10-22
- Three Sheets to the Wind
- De: Adam Courtenay
- Narrado por: James Saunders
Compelling tale of human struggle and survival
Revisado: 07-10-22
This book was very hard to "put down". It's the gripping and little known tale of the doomed sea voyage in 1796 of the trading ship, the "Sydney Cove", from India to Sydney Town and the crew's battle for survival, not only on the wildest of oceans but in the wildernesses where they are ultimately stranded, hundreds of miles from the nearest settlements and with seemingly no hope of rescue. But "Three Sheets to the Wind" is much more than just a wild-ride story about the thrills of 18th century seafaring and human survival. The author captures, at times with chilling foreboding, the ebbing power of the common purpose of survival shared by these late 18th century sailors, their Indigenous helpmates and even pre-colonial Australian wildlife populations. In the end they are all destined to become subjugated to the vaulting private ambitions of the powerful, the privileged and the entitled rising to the fore in early colonial Australia. The narration performance is first rate and with "Three Sheets to the Wind" Adam Courtenay has once again produced a compelling and highly readable account of a truly fascinating period in Australian history. Highly recommended.
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The Ghost and the Bounty Hunter
- William Buckley, John Batman and the Theft of Kulin Country
- De: Adam Courtenay
- Narrado por: John Derum
- Duración: 9 h y 28 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1
Just after Christmas 1803, convict William Buckley fled an embryonic settlement in the land of the Kulin nation (now the Port Phillip area), to take his chances in the wilderness. A few months later, the local Aboriginal people found the six-foot-five former soldier near death. Believing he was a lost kinsman returned from the dead, they took him in, and for 32 years Buckley lived as a Wadawurrung man, learning his adopted tribe's language, skills and methods to survive.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fresh and captivating insights into the ‘real’ history of Australia
- De Freddo en 06-27-20
- The Ghost and the Bounty Hunter
- William Buckley, John Batman and the Theft of Kulin Country
- De: Adam Courtenay
- Narrado por: John Derum
Fresh and captivating insights into the ‘real’ history of Australia
Revisado: 06-27-20
I loved Adam Courtenay’s first book, ‘ The Ship That Never Was’ and was looking forward to this one, his latest release. A more serious, poignant story was told in this work about the anti-hero Buckley and his life with the Wadawurrang people compared with the great escape tale of Porter and co of ‘The Ship...’. But it’s handled once again with such skill, balance and humanity that I’m sure it will go down as one of the great works in Australian historical writing to explore the truths (as best they can be discovered) of the destruction by stealth of the Indigenous way of life in south eastern Australia. The thing I admire most about this author’s works is his vivid, gripping and very human account of the sophistication with which the authorities of the time and their mercenary accomplices organised themselves to successfully achieve their colonising objectives with such breathtaking and efficient brutality. Another great book from Adam Courtenay - looking forward to the next one.
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