British Empire Memoir

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    • Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
    • By: Georgina Howell
    • Narrated by: Corrie James
    • Length: 18 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 127 ratings
    • She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire....

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    • Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire
    • By: Laurence Bergreen
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 746 ratings
    • In this grand and thrilling narrative, the acclaimed biographer of Magellan, Columbus, and Marco Polo brings alive the singular life and adventures of Sir Francis Drake, the pirate/explorer/admiral whose mastery of the seas during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I changed....

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    • Love, War, and the End of Empire
    • By: Deborah Baker
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 08-21-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Set in Calcutta, London, the glacier-locked wilds of the Karakoram, and on Everest itself, The Last Englishmen is also the story of a generation. The cast of this exhilarating drama includes Indian and English writers and artists, explorers and Communist spies....

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    • By: W. Somerset Maugham
    • Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 02-17-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • William Somerset Maugham (1874�1965) was born at the height of British imperial power. When he died, the British Empire was all but a memory....

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    • My Family from Empire to Independence
    • By: Mishal Husain
    • Narrated by: Mishal Husain
    • Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • An extraordinary history of Mishal Husain’s four grandparents, whose lives were shaped by the tumultuous politics and prejudices of empire, war and partition.

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    • Of Passive and Violent Resistance
    • By: Peter Baxter
    • Narrated by: Peter Baxter
    • Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Towards the end of 1906, a meeting took place between two emerging giants of the age, Mohandas K. Gandhi and General Jan Christian Smuts....

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    • A Tale of Two Islands
    • By: Hazel V. Carby
    • Narrated by: Hazel V. Carby
    • Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • “Where are you from?” was the question hounding Hazel Carby as a girl in post-war London. One of the so-called brown babies of the Windrush generation, born to a Jamaican father and Welsh mother....

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    • My Search for an Outlaw Uncle Who Vanished in British India
    • By: Kief Hillsbery
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 07-25-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Lost in time for generations, the story of a 19th-century English gentleman in British India - a family mystery of love found and loyalties abandoned, finally brought to light....

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    • Never a Dull Moment
    • By: Jane Ridley
    • Narrated by: Joanna David
    • Length: 22 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • The lasting reputation of George V is for dullness. He was a crack shot and an outstanding stamp collector, but that's about it....

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    • The Quest for Timbuktu and the Fantastic Mission to Save Its Past
    • By: Charlie English
    • Narrated by: Enn Reitel
    • Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • To Westerners, the name "Timbuktu" long conjured a tantalizing paradise, an African El Dorado where even the slaves wore gold....

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    • The Legendary Seafarer, Navigator, and Explorer
    • By: Leo Lexicon
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 09-23-24
    • Language: English
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    • Embark on an extraordinary journey of discovery with "Captain Cook: The Legendary Seafarer, Navigator, and Explorer”, a captivating and ...

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    • Letters from the British Empire Expedition 1922
    • By: Agatha Christie
    • Narrated by: Fenella Woolgar
    • Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-22
    • Language: English
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    • Unpublished for 90 years, Agatha Christie’s extensive and evocative letters from her year-long round-the-world trip to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and America as part of the British trade mission for the famous 1924 Empire Exhibition....

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    • V.O. Chidambaram Pillai and the Battle Against the British Maritime Empire
    • By: A.R. Venkatachalapathy
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Francis
    • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-24
    • Language: English
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    • In 1906, Britain's grip on the world was unassailable. Its navy ruled the seas, and its trade empire spanned the globe. But in the small port town of Tuticorin, a lawyer named V.O. Chidambaram Pillai—known to the world as VOC—had an idea that would challenge the might of the empire itself.

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    • The Story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici
    • By: Estelle Paranque
    • Narrated by: Anna Wilson-Jones
    • Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-22
    • Language: English
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    • In 16th-century Europe, two women came to hold all the power, against all the odds. They were Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici....

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