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    • The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi
    • By: Boyce Upholt
    • Narrated by: Gabriel Vaughan
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Boyce Upholt tells the sweeping history of the Mississippi River—and the centuries of human meddling that have transformed both it and America.

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    • Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
    • By: Michael Booth
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 04-22-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 662 ratings
    • In The Almost Nearly Perfect People, Michael Booth explains who the Scandinavians are, how they differ and why, and what their quirks and foibles are....

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    • Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun
    • By: Jonathan Clements
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 286 ratings
    • This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion....

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    • A Guide to the City of Light Following in the Footsteps of Famous Parisians Throughout History
    • By: Susan Cahill
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • From the author of Hidden Gardens of Paris, The Streets of Paris is Susan Cahill's wonderfully unique guide to present-day Paris following in the footsteps of famous Parisians through the last 800 years....

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    • Stories of Accidents and Foolhardiness in the Crown of the Continent
    • By: Randi Minetor
    • Narrated by: Stephanie Dillard
    • Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • Adventures in the wilderness can be dramatic and deadly. Glacier National Park's death records date back to January 1913, when a man froze to death while snowshoeing between Cut Bank and St. Mary....

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    • The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917
    • By: Sir Ernest Shackleton
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 219 ratings
    • As war clouds darkened over Europe in 1914, a party led by Sir Ernest Shackleton set out to make the first crossing of the entire Antarctic continent via the Pole....

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    • How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves
    • By: Lucy Lethbridge
    • Narrated by: Lucy Lethbridge
    • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 08-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • From portable cameras to postcards and suntans, Tourists explores how tourism has reflected changing attitudes to modernity and how, from the grand hotel to the campsite, the foreign holiday exposes deep fears, hopes and even longings for home....

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    • The Vintage Departures Series
    • By: Toby Wilkinson
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • The Nile, like all of Egypt, is both timeless and ever-changing. In this audio, renowned Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson takes us on a journey downriver that is both history and travelogue. We begin at the First Nile Cataract, close to the modern city of Aswan....

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    • A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
    • By: Michael Booth
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 168 ratings
    • There is an ancient Chinese proverb that states, "Two tigers cannot share the same mountain." However, in East Asia, there are three tigers on that mountain: China, Japan, and Korea, and they have a long history of turmoil and tension with each other....

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    • By: Jamaica Kincaid
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 580 ratings
    • Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright by turns, in a Swiftian mode, A Small Place cannot help but amplify our vision of one small place and all that it signifies....

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    • By: Wilfred Thesiger
    • Narrated by: Laurence Kennedy
    • Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 97 ratings
    • Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger’s stunning account of five years spent crossing the Arabian Peninsula by foot and on camels, with nomadic Bedouin tribesmen as guides....

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    • An Irreverent History of Travel
    • By: Shahnaz Habib
    • Narrated by: Deepa Samuel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • The color of one's skin and passport have long dictated the conditions of travel. For Shahnaz Habib, travel and travel writing have always been complicated pleasures.

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    • Adventures in Reaching the Summit
    • By: Robert Macfarlane
    • Narrated by: James A. Gillies
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 149 ratings
    • Combining accounts of legendary mountain ascents with vivid descriptions of his own forays into wild, high landscapes, Robert Macfarlane reveals how the mystery of the world's highest places has come to grip the Western imagination....

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    • By: Brian Herne
    • Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
    • Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 482 ratings
    • A little over 100 years ago, East Africa was terra incognita to most whites....

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    • Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas
    • By: Jerry Dennis
    • Narrated by: Barry Press
    • Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • If fresh water is to be treasured, the Great Lakes are the mother lode. No bodies of water can compare to them. One of them, Superior, is the largest lake on earth....

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    • A Child, an Elder, and the Light from an Ancient Sky
    • By: Kent Nerburn
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 319 ratings
    • A haunting dream that will not relent pulls author Kent Nerburn back into the hidden world of Native America, where dreams have meaning, animals are teachers, and the "old ones" still have powers beyond our understanding....

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    • Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life
    • By: Francis Parkman
    • Narrated by: Robert Morris
    • Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 179 ratings
    • The Oregon Trail is an eyewitness account of the Mormons and outlaws, trappers and Indians, pioneers and adventurers who struggled to conquer the frontier....

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    • A Round the World Bicycle Adventure
    • By: Barbara Savage
    • Narrated by: Nan McNamara
    • Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 05-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 127 ratings
    • This is the story of Barbara and Larry Savage's sometimes dangerous, often zany, but ultimately rewarding 23,000-mile global bicycle odyssey, which took them through 25 countries in two years. Miles from Nowhere is an adventure not to be missed....

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    • Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past
    • By: Giles Tremlett
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 19 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • The appearance, more than 60 years after the Spanish Civil War ended, of mass graves containing victims of Francisco Franco's death squads finally broke what Spaniards call "the pact of forgetting" - the unwritten understanding that their recent, painful past was best left unexplored....

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    • Dispatches from a Precarious State
    • By: Declan Walsh
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times's most distinguished international correspondents. His portrait of Pakistan over a tumultuous decade captures the sweep of this strange, wondrous, and benighted country through the dramatic lives of nine fascinating individuals....

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