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The Wager
- A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
- De: David Grann
- Narrado por: Dion Graham, David Grann
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,767
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,100
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,097
On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty’s Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as “the prize of all the oceans,” it had wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Gasping for Air
- De Jean Engle en 04-19-23
- The Wager
- A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
- De: David Grann
- Narrado por: Dion Graham, David Grann
Felt like an eightyear-old being read to by an enthusiastic teacher
Revisado: 05-31-23
Tend to agree with the others, narration was breathless , overly dramatic and thus a distraction to the content, had a hard time staying with it
Was though it was not the same author as killers of the flower moon
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The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820 - 1875
- De: Gary Clayton Anderson
- Narrado por: George Utley
- Duración: 18 h y 36 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 18
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 18
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 18
The Conquest of Texas is the story of the struggle between Anglos and Indians for land. Anderson tells how Scotch-Irish settlers clashed with farming tribes and then challenged the Comanches and Kiowas for their hunting grounds. Next, the decade-long conflict with Mexico merged with war against Indians. For fifty years Texas remained in a virtual state of war. Piercing the very heart of Lone Star mythology, Anderson tells how the Texas government encouraged the Texas Rangers to annihilate Indian villages, including women and children. This policy of terror succeeded.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Texas, well and truly messed with!
- De Buretto en 11-09-19
Excellent history, Marble mouthed narration
Revisado: 11-03-20
The narrator is either unfamiliar with the pronunciation of Spanish terms and many English phrases and Texas references or simply did not rehearse them The pronunciation was practically slurred at times; however, thehistorical perspective is excellent and should confirm our cynicism about what we were not told in our Texas history classes
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