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Flight Paths
- How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration
- De: Rebecca Heisman
- Narrado por: Allyson Ryan
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29
For the past century, scientists and naturalists have been steadily unravelling the secrets of bird migration. How and why birds navigate the skies, traveling from continent to continent—flying thousands of miles across the earth each fall and spring—has continually fascinated the human imagination, but only recently have we been able to fully understand these amazing journeys.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I should have read the description more carefully
- De non de plume en 11-17-24
- Flight Paths
- How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration
- De: Rebecca Heisman
- Narrado por: Allyson Ryan
Very Good
Revisado: 10-05-23
Well researched and written. Enjoyed it!. I hope this author writes more books. I will read them.
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Knowing What We Know
- The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
- Duración: 14 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 156
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 122
From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes—this is Simon Winchester’s brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to change our lives and our minds. Throughout this fascinating tour, Winchester forces us to ponder what rational humans are becoming. What good is all this knowledge if it leads to lack of thought? What is information without wisdom?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Colorful anecdotes but tiring after a while.
- De Thumb Guy en 05-03-23
- Knowing What We Know
- The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
Audible needs "chapter breaks" at each section
Revisado: 08-21-23
Another good Simon Winchester book. If you like his work, you will like this.
The chapters are very long, with numbered sections within each chapter. Audible needs to break the "chapters" at each section. Then it would be much easier to find your place when searching.
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Outposts
- Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
- Duración: 6 h y 46 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 219
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 128
Originally published in 1985, Outposts is Simon Winchester's journey to find the vanishing empire, "on which the sun never sets". In the course of a three-year, 100,000 mile journey - from the chill of the Antarctic to the blue seas of the Caribbean, from the South of Spain and the tip of China to the utterly remote specks in the middle of gale-swept oceans - he discovered such romance and depravity, opulence and despair that he was inspired to write what may be the last contemporary account of the British empire.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Nice Travelogue
- De J. S. Koehler en 01-28-06
- Outposts
- Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
Good book, chapters are off
Revisado: 09-12-21
I read the print version of this book and loved it.
The audio version is well read by the author.
However, it is abridged; with a sample of another book by Winchester at the end. Why abridge it, and then add something from another book?
Also, the chapters are off. They break in the middle of a chapter. Seems easy to fix...
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