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An African History of Africa
- From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
- De: Zeinab Badawi
- Narrado por: Zeinab Badawi
- Duración: 15 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
For too long, Africa’s history has been dominated by western narratives of slavery and colonialism, or simply ignored. Now, Zeinab Badawi sets the record straight. In this fascinating book, Badawi guides us through Africa’s spectacular history—from the very origins of our species, through ancient civilizations and medieval empires with remarkable queens and kings, to the miseries of conquest and the elation of independence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Strap in. One of my toughest listens yet.
- De Kindle Customer en 01-31-25
- An African History of Africa
- From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
- De: Zeinab Badawi
- Narrado por: Zeinab Badawi
Simply brilliant!
Revisado: 02-22-25
There was a wealth of new information and everything old felt new again and far more accurate. This text had me researching other sources side by side.
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Jabberwocky
- De: Lewis Carroll
- Narrado por: Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Duración: 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 12
This poem describes a battle with a fearsome beast called The Jabberwocky and is considered to be one of the greatest nonsense poems written in the English language. The poem is included in Lewis Carroll's 1871 novel, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Needs more energy
- De iancaldeian en 12-17-23
- Jabberwocky
- De: Lewis Carroll
- Narrado por: Tim Gerard Reynolds
Needs more energy
Revisado: 12-17-23
I like my “one two, one two” to be more energetic. The story itself was brillig though.
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Piranesi
- De: Susanna Clarke
- Narrado por: Chiwetel Ejiofor
- Duración: 6 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9,592
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 8,359
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8,335
Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has. In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder up staircases, the clouds that move in slow procession through the upper halls. On Tuesdays and Fridays Piranesi sees his friend, the Other. At other times he brings tributes of food to the Dead. But mostly, he is alone.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating Social Study
- De Henry V en 02-26-21
- Piranesi
- De: Susanna Clarke
- Narrado por: Chiwetel Ejiofor
I stayed for the performance and am glad I did.
Revisado: 12-12-23
Chiwetel Ejiofor has a euphonic and mellow voice. It captured the narrator's personality really well. I did not know where the story was leading but I stayed until the end and am glad I did. Susanna Clarke effected poetic justice in a way that made me feel satisfied and supportive. I played several parts of the novel again and again after my first listen. Then I listened to it from start to finish once more. Very well executed. Anything more than this and it would be giving away too much of the plot. You will enjoy.
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Tutankhamun's Trumpet
- Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects from the Boy-King's Tomb
- De: Toby Wilkinson
- Narrado por: David Timson
- Duración: 12 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 22
In 1922, after fifteen years of searching, archaeologists finally discovered the tomb of King Tutankhamun. There, buried alongside the king's mummy, they found more than 5,000 unique objects, from the mundane to the extravagant, from the precious to the everyday. Tutankhamun's spectacular gold mask is justifiably famous, but the rest of the treasures remain largely unknown, their stories untold.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The final 25 pages are missing
- De Robert en 02-03-24
- Tutankhamun's Trumpet
- Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects from the Boy-King's Tomb
- De: Toby Wilkinson
- Narrado por: David Timson
Wealth of knowledge with references
Revisado: 07-20-23
I thoroughly enjoyed this text. It gave me the references that I have always sought on the vast topic of ancient Egypt.
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Daphnis and Chloe
- De: Longus
- Narrado por: Nicholas Boulton
- Duración: 2 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 28
Daphnis and Chloe is a gem from the pen of the otherwise unknown second-century CE Greek writer Longus. It is the only work of his to survive, and little is known of him. Though perhaps overshadowed by the Roman magnificence of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (dating from a century earlier), Longus’ story entranced the choreographer Michel Fokine, who persuaded the French composer Maurice Ravel to write music for a ballet on the love story as part of the Ballets Russes’ season in Paris in 1912. Ravel, inspired, produced one of the most ravishing scores of the Impressionist period.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exquisitely Constructed Ode to Love
- De Sonny Johnson en 08-22-24
- Daphnis and Chloe
- De: Longus
- Narrado por: Nicholas Boulton
Beautiful performance
Revisado: 06-02-23
Oh, what a joy to be innocent. This took me back to my childhood days.
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Good Behaviour
- A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick – Booker Prize Gems
- De: Molly Keane
- Narrado por: Aoife McMahon
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 29
Behind the gates of Temple Alice, the aristocratic Anglo-Irish St Charles family sinks into a state of decaying grace. To Aroon St Charles, large and unlovely daughter of the house, the fierce forces of sex, money, jealousy and love seem locked out by the ritual patterns of good behaviour. But crumbling codes of conduct cannot hope to save the members of the St Charles family from their own unruly and inadmissible desires. This elegant and allusive novel established Molly Keane as the natural successor to Jean Rhys.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great all around
- De Kindle Customer en 07-18-24
- Good Behaviour
- A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick – Booker Prize Gems
- De: Molly Keane
- Narrado por: Aoife McMahon
All around beautiful.
Revisado: 04-21-23
Revenge is a dish best served cold. This is my go to novel when I’m feeling down.
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The Yellow Wife
- A Novel
- De: Sadeqa Johnson
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 5,742
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 5,151
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 5,137
Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Delores Brown has lived a relatively sheltered life. Shielded by her mother’s position as the estate’s medicine woman and cherished by the Master’s sister, she is set apart from the others on the plantation, belonging to neither world. She’d been promised freedom on her eighteenth birthday, but instead of the idyllic life she imagined with her true love, Essex Henry, Pheby is forced to leave the only home she has ever known. She unexpectedly finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous Devil’s Half Acre.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Real page turner
- De Elizabeth Early en 01-19-21
- The Yellow Wife
- A Novel
- De: Sadeqa Johnson
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
Love it!
Revisado: 12-26-22
I thoroughly enjoyed the story as well as the performance. At first, I didn’t thing the brutality of slavery was captured enough in the description but this left my imagination to run wild.
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Ancient African Kingdoms
- A Captivating Guide to Civilizations of Ancient Africa Such as the Land of Punt, Carthage, the Kingdom of Aksum, the Mali Empire, and the Kingdom of Kush
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Jason Zenobia
- Duración: 7 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 113
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 99
Africa is the continent where the first humans were born. They explored the vast land and produced the first tools. And although we migrated from that continent, we never completely abandoned it. From the beginning of time, humans lived and worked in Africa, leaving evidence of their existence in the sands of the Sahara Desert and the valleys of the great rivers such as the Nile and the Niger.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A wealth of information about African history
- De Windchill-06 en 02-20-21
- Ancient African Kingdoms
- A Captivating Guide to Civilizations of Ancient Africa Such as the Land of Punt, Carthage, the Kingdom of Aksum, the Mali Empire, and the Kingdom of Kush
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Jason Zenobia
Great start for a nonspecialists.
Revisado: 04-18-22
Highly recommended for the layperson who wants to find out more about Africa before her encounter with Europeans after Rome and Greece. However, there were some choppy bits of information that might have been left out completely or needed some more clarification. As I stated, this is a good start.
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The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt
- De: Toby Wilkinson
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 18 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,134
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 990
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 985
In this landmark work, one of the world's most renowned Egyptologists tells the epic story of this great civilization, from its birth as the first nation-state to its final absorption into the Roman Empire - 3,000 years of wild drama, bold spectacle, and unforgettable characters. Award-winning scholar Toby Wilkinson captures not only the lavish pomp and artistic grandeur of this land of pyramids and pharaohs but for the first time reveals the constant propaganda and repression that were its foundations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well Written and Detailed
- De Matthew G. en 01-26-18
- The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt
- De: Toby Wilkinson
- Narrado por: Michael Page
Helped to ground me.
Revisado: 05-09-20
My rose tinted glasses have become a bit more transparent. Not only did this text do a great job of placing the rulers in context, it also helped me to place the Egyptians in a more realistic light. I love everything about this text.
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The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality
- De: Cheikh Anta Diop
- Narrado por: Frank Block
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 29
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 25
This classic presents historical, archaeological, and anthropological evidence to support the theory that ancient Egypt was a black civilization.
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4 out of 5 stars
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African Origins
- De Samuel Mitchell en 12-30-18
- The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality
- De: Cheikh Anta Diop
- Narrado por: Frank Block
This text is simply put: a masterpiece!
Revisado: 01-08-20
The text is a masterpiece! It is essential along with other great historical text such as Herodotus "Histories" in understanding ancient Egypt in geographical, religious and linguistic context alongside its neighbors. It is not only a masterpiece, but essential for anyone who plans to study Egypt.
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