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River of Darkness
- Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 9 h y 49 m
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From the acclaimed author of Conquistador comes this thrilling account of one of history's greatest adventures of discovery. With cinematic immediacy and meticulous attention to historical detail, here is the true story of a legendary 16th-century explorer and his death-defying navigation of the Amazon - river of darkness, pathway to gold.
In 1541, the brutal conquistador Gonzalo Pizarro and his well-born lieutenant Francisco Orellana set off from Quito in search of La Canela, South America's rumored Land of Cinnamon, and the fabled El Dorado, "the golden man". Driving an enormous retinue of mercenaries, enslaved natives, horses, hunting dogs, and other animals across the Andes, they watched their proud expedition begin to disintegrate even before they descended into the nightmarish jungle, following the course of a powerful river.
Soon hopelessly lost in the swampy labyrinth, their numbers diminishing daily through disease, starvation, and Indian attacks, Pizarro and Orellana made a fateful decision to separate. While Pizarro eventually returned home barefoot and in rags, Orellana and 57 men, in a few fragile craft, continued downriver into the unknown reaches of the mighty Amazon, serenaded by native war drums and the eerie cries of exotic predators. Theirs would be the greater glory.
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- The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
- De: Keith Thomson
- Narrado por: Feodor Chin
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
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The year is 1680, in the heart of the Golden Age of Piracy, and more than 300 daring, hardened pirates—a potent mix of low-life scallywags and a rare breed of gentlemen buccaneers—gather on a remote Caribbean island. The plan: to wreak havoc on the Pacific coastline, raiding cities, mines, and merchant ships. The booty: the bright gleam of Spanish gold and the chance to become a legend. So begins one of the greatest piratical adventures of the era—a story not given its full due until now.
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Fascinating tale of 17th Piracy in the Americas
- De Xmeromotu en 07-11-22
De: Keith Thomson
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The Last Voyage of Columbus
- Being the Epic Tale of the Great Captain's Fourth Expedition
- De: Martin Dugard
- Narrado por: Simon Jones
- Duración: 6 h y 1 m
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The epic, never-before-told story of Columbus's final, and perhaps greatest, journey to the New World. The final voyage of Christopher Columbus was by far his most dangerous, unexpected, exhilarating, and consequential. It was, as Pulitzer Prize-winner Samuel Eliot Morison put it, "a story of adventure which imagination could hardly invent; a struggle between man and the elements, in which the most splendid manifestations of devotion, loyalty and courage are mingled with the vilest human passions."
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Brilliant!
- De David en 09-11-05
De: Martin Dugard
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Empire of Blue Water
- Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe that Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign
- De: Stephan Talty
- Narrado por: John H. Mayer
- Duración: 13 h y 26 m
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He challenged the greatest empire on earth with a ragtag bunch of renegades and brought it to its knees. This is the real story of the pirates of the Caribbean. Henry Morgan, a 20-year-old Welshman, crossed the Atlantic in 1655, hell-bent on making his fortune. Over the next three decades, his exploits in the Caribbean became legendary. His daring attacks on the mighty Spanish empire on land and at sea determined the fates of kings and queens, and his victories helped shape the destiny of the New World.
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Morbid Terrorists?
- De Jack en 11-11-08
De: Stephan Talty
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Conquerors
- How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
- De: Roger Crowley
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 13 h y 7 m
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Conquerors tells the almost forgotten story of how Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India, and beat the Spanish to the spice kingdoms of the East - then set about creating the first long-range maritime empire.
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Beautifully balanced
- De Nigel Roberts en 05-08-16
De: Roger Crowley
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Conquistadors
- De: Michael Wood
- Narrado por: John Telfer
- Duración: 10 h y 41 m
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Following in the footsteps of the greatest Spanish adventurers, Michael Wood retraces the path of the conquistadors from Amazonia to Lake Titicaca, and from the deserts of North Mexico to the heights of Machu Picchu. As he travels the same routes as Hernán Cortés, Francisco, and Gonzalo Pizarro, Wood describes the dramatic events that accompanied the epic sixteenth-century Spanish conquest of the Aztec and Inca empires.
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Horrific anti-European bias
- De Anonymous User en 08-30-20
De: Michael Wood
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América
- The Epic Story of Spanish North America, 1493-1898
- De: Robert Goodwin
- Narrado por: Thom Rivera
- Duración: 20 h y 59 m
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At the conclusion of the American Revolution, half the modern United States was part of the vast Spanish Empire. The year after Columbus' great voyage of discovery, in 1492, he claimed Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands for Spain. For the next 300 years, thousands of proud Spanish conquistadors and their largely forgotten Mexican allies went in search of glory and riches from Florida to California. Many died; few triumphed. Some were cruel; some were curious; some were kind. Missionaries and priests yearned to harvest Indian souls for God through baptism and Christian teaching.
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A Narration That is Difficult to Follow
- De Amazon Customer en 05-24-19
De: Robert Goodwin
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Conquistador Voices
- The Spanish Conquest of the Americas as Recounted Largely by the Participants, Volume I
- De: Kevin H. Siepel
- Narrado por: Kevin H Siepel
- Duración: 12 h y 18 m
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The Spanish Conquest: What really happened? If you like to use your drive time for education by audiobook, consider this audiobook for widening and deepening your view of an event you studied briefly in school - the Spanish conquest of the Americas. Conquistador Voices, neither glamorizes nor condemns the conquistadors. Somewhat in the manner of a modern film documentary, it treats the so-called conquest as an historical event that’s worth learning about for its own sake, with most of the moralizing left to the listener.
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The Misleading Title is the Most Forgivable Part..
- De Tyler Sanders en 12-19-22
De: Kevin H. Siepel
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The Last Days of the Incas
- De: Kim MacQuarrie
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 21 h y 53 m
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In 1532, the 54-year-old Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro led a force of 167 men, including his four brothers, to the shores of Peru. Unbeknownst to the Spaniards, the Inca rulers of Peru had just fought a bloody civil war in which the emperor Atahualpa had defeated his brother, Huascar. Pizarro and his men soon clashed with Atahualpa and a huge force of Inca warriors at the Battle of Cajamarca.
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Interesting but problematic
- De Matthew en 11-05-07
De: Kim MacQuarrie
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Into Africa
- The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone
- De: Martin Dugard
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 11 h y 46 m
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"Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" So goes the signature introduction of New York Herald star journalist Henry Morton Stanley to renowned explorer Dr. David Livingstone, who had been missing for six years in the wilds of Africa. Into Africa ushers us into the meeting of these remarkable men. In 1866, when Livingstone journeyed into the heart of the African continent in search of the Nile's source, the land was rough, unknown to Europeans, and inhabited by man-eating tribes.
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Riveting
- De Gene en 04-01-04
De: Martin Dugard
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Astoria
- John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival
- De: Peter Stark
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
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At a time when the edge of American settlement barely reached beyond the Appalachian Mountains, two visionaries, President Thomas Jefferson and millionaire John Jacob Astor, foresaw that one day the Pacific would dominate world trade as much as the Atlantic did in their day. Just two years after the Lewis and Clark expedition concluded in 1806, Jefferson and Astor turned their sights westward once again. Thus began one of history's dramatic but largely forgotten turning points in the conquest of the North American continent.
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Where Lewis and Clark Left Off
- De Mel en 01-11-15
De: Peter Stark
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War on the Run: The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America's First Frontier
- De: John F. Ross
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 21 h y 3 m
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Often hailed as the godfather of today's elite special forces, Robert Rogers trained and led an unorthodox unit of green provincials, raw woodsmen, farmers, and Indian scouts on "impossible" missions in colonial America that are still the stuff of soldiers' legend. The child of marginalized Scots-Irish immigrants, Rogers learned to survive in New England's dark and deadly forests, grasping, as did few others, that a new world required new forms of warfare. John F. Ross not only re-creates Rogers's life and his spectacular battles with breathtaking immediacy and meticulous accuracy...
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WOW!!!
- De Olaf the Black en 11-23-18
De: John F. Ross
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The First Frontier
- The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America
- De: Scott Weidensaul
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 16 h y 16 m
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Frontier: the word carries the inevitable scent of the West. But before Custer or Lewis and Clark, before the first Conestoga wagons rumbled across the Plains, it was the East that marked the frontier - the boundary between complex Native cultures and the first colonizing Europeans.Here is the older, wilder, darker history of a time when the land between the Atlantic and the Appalachians was contested ground - when radically different societies adopted and adapted the ways of the other, while struggling for control of what all considered to be their land.
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Too PC
- De Eric en 07-24-13
De: Scott Weidensaul
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African Samurai
- The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan
- De: Thomas Lockley, Geoffrey Girard
- Narrado por: Gary Furlong
- Duración: 10 h y 8 m
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The remarkable life of history’s first foreign-born samurai and his astonishing journey from Northeast Africa to the heights of Japanese society.
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Not worth finishing
- De William Shehan en 06-12-19
De: Thomas Lockley, y otros
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Conquistador
- Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
- De: Buddy Levy
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 12 h y 13 m
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It was a moment unique in human history: the face-to-face meeting between two men from civilizations a world apart. In 1519, Hernán Cortés arrived on the shores of Mexico, determined not only to expand the Spanish empire but to convert the natives to Catholicism and carry off a fortune in gold. That he saw nothing paradoxical in his intentions is one of the most remarkable and tragic aspects of this unforgettable story.
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A Great Book
- De Victor en 02-27-11
De: Buddy Levy
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Island of the Blue Foxes
- Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition
- De: Stephen R. Bown
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
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The story of the world's largest, longest, and best-financed scientific expedition of all time, triumphantly successful, gruesomely tragic, and never before fully told. The immense 18th-century scientific journey, variously known as the Second Kamchatka Expedition or the Great Northern Expedition, from St. Petersburg across Siberia to the coast of North America, involved over 3,000 people and cost Peter the Great over one-sixth of his empire's annual revenue.
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Vivid History of Russia's First Contact In Alaska
- De Neil Ring en 09-01-18
De: Stephen R. Bown
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American Legend
- The Real-Life Adventures of David Crockett
- De: Buddy Levy
- Narrado por: Chris Abernathy
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
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David Crockett was an adventurer, a pioneer, and a media-savvy national celebrity. In his short-but-distinguished lifetime, this charismatic frontiersman won three terms as a US congressman and a presidential nomination. His 1834 memoir enjoyed frenzied sales and prompted the first-ever "official" book tour for its enormously popular author. Down-to-earth, heroic, and independent to a fault, the real Crockett became lost in his own hype, and he's been overshadowed by a larger-than-life, pop-culture character in a coonskin cap.
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A honest take on an American Legend.
- De Chris Moore en 03-15-23
De: Buddy Levy
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Labyrinth of Ice
- The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition
- De: Buddy Levy
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 13 h y 13 m
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In July 1881, Lt. A. W. Greely and his crew of 24 scientists and explorers were bound for the last region unmarked on global maps. Their goal: Farthest North. What would follow was one of the most extraordinary and terrible voyages ever made. Greely and his men confronted every possible challenge - vicious wolves, sub-zero temperatures, and months of total darkness - as they set about exploring one of the most remote, unrelenting environments on the planet. In May 1882, they broke the 300-year-old record, and returned to camp to eagerly await the resupply ship. Only nothing came.
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An incredible read
- De Lauren Olson en 12-06-19
De: Buddy Levy
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Empire of Ice and Stone
- The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk
- De: Buddy Levy
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 14 h y 40 m
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In the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine Karluk departed Canada for the Arctic Ocean. At the helm was Captain Bob Bartlett, considered the world’s greatest living ice navigator. The expedition’s visionary leader was a flamboyant impresario named Vilhjalmur Stefansson hungry for fame. Just six weeks after the Karluk departed, giant ice floes closed in around her. As the ship became icebound, Stefansson disembarked with five companions and struck out on what he claimed was a 10-day caribou hunting trip. Most on board would never see him again.
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Great adventure story
- De Elaine McCollough en 01-06-23
De: Buddy Levy
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Fatal North
- Murder and Survival on the First North Pole Expedition
- De: Bruce Henderson
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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It began as President Ulysses S. Grant's bid for international glory after the Civil War - America's first attempt to reach the North Pole. It ended with Captain Charles Hall's death under suspicious circumstances, dissension among sailors, scientists, and explorers, and the ship's evacuation and eventual sinking. Then came a brutal struggle for survival by 33 men, women, and children stranded on the polar ice.
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An average reader says 10
- De Barbara en 11-10-16
De: Bruce Henderson
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Conquistador
- Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
- De: Buddy Levy
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 12 h y 13 m
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It was a moment unique in human history: the face-to-face meeting between two men from civilizations a world apart. In 1519, Hernán Cortés arrived on the shores of Mexico, determined not only to expand the Spanish empire but to convert the natives to Catholicism and carry off a fortune in gold. That he saw nothing paradoxical in his intentions is one of the most remarkable and tragic aspects of this unforgettable story.
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A Great Book
- De Victor en 02-27-11
De: Buddy Levy
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Island of the Blue Foxes
- Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition
- De: Stephen R. Bown
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
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The story of the world's largest, longest, and best-financed scientific expedition of all time, triumphantly successful, gruesomely tragic, and never before fully told. The immense 18th-century scientific journey, variously known as the Second Kamchatka Expedition or the Great Northern Expedition, from St. Petersburg across Siberia to the coast of North America, involved over 3,000 people and cost Peter the Great over one-sixth of his empire's annual revenue.
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Vivid History of Russia's First Contact In Alaska
- De Neil Ring en 09-01-18
De: Stephen R. Bown
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American Legend
- The Real-Life Adventures of David Crockett
- De: Buddy Levy
- Narrado por: Chris Abernathy
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
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David Crockett was an adventurer, a pioneer, and a media-savvy national celebrity. In his short-but-distinguished lifetime, this charismatic frontiersman won three terms as a US congressman and a presidential nomination. His 1834 memoir enjoyed frenzied sales and prompted the first-ever "official" book tour for its enormously popular author. Down-to-earth, heroic, and independent to a fault, the real Crockett became lost in his own hype, and he's been overshadowed by a larger-than-life, pop-culture character in a coonskin cap.
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A honest take on an American Legend.
- De Chris Moore en 03-15-23
De: Buddy Levy
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Labyrinth of Ice
- The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition
- De: Buddy Levy
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 13 h y 13 m
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In July 1881, Lt. A. W. Greely and his crew of 24 scientists and explorers were bound for the last region unmarked on global maps. Their goal: Farthest North. What would follow was one of the most extraordinary and terrible voyages ever made. Greely and his men confronted every possible challenge - vicious wolves, sub-zero temperatures, and months of total darkness - as they set about exploring one of the most remote, unrelenting environments on the planet. In May 1882, they broke the 300-year-old record, and returned to camp to eagerly await the resupply ship. Only nothing came.
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An incredible read
- De Lauren Olson en 12-06-19
De: Buddy Levy
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Empire of Ice and Stone
- The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk
- De: Buddy Levy
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 14 h y 40 m
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In the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine Karluk departed Canada for the Arctic Ocean. At the helm was Captain Bob Bartlett, considered the world’s greatest living ice navigator. The expedition’s visionary leader was a flamboyant impresario named Vilhjalmur Stefansson hungry for fame. Just six weeks after the Karluk departed, giant ice floes closed in around her. As the ship became icebound, Stefansson disembarked with five companions and struck out on what he claimed was a 10-day caribou hunting trip. Most on board would never see him again.
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Great adventure story
- De Elaine McCollough en 01-06-23
De: Buddy Levy
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Fatal North
- Murder and Survival on the First North Pole Expedition
- De: Bruce Henderson
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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It began as President Ulysses S. Grant's bid for international glory after the Civil War - America's first attempt to reach the North Pole. It ended with Captain Charles Hall's death under suspicious circumstances, dissension among sailors, scientists, and explorers, and the ship's evacuation and eventual sinking. Then came a brutal struggle for survival by 33 men, women, and children stranded on the polar ice.
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An average reader says 10
- De Barbara en 11-10-16
De: Bruce Henderson
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Into the Great Emptiness
- Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap
- De: David Roberts
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 9 h y 50 m
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By 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupied the relatively accessible west coast for centuries. The east coast, however, was another story. In August 1930, Henry George Watkins (nicknamed “Gino”), a twenty-three-year-old British explorer, led thirteen scientists and explorers on an ambitious expedition to the east coast of Greenland and into its vast and forbidding interior to set up a permanent meteorological base on the icecap, 8,200 feet above sea level.
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Wonderful!
- De Sandy L Fleming en 12-02-22
De: David Roberts
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Realm of Ice and Sky
- Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue
- De: Buddy Levy
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 11 h y 40 m
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Arctic explorer and American visionary Walter Wellman pioneered both polar and trans-Atlantic airship aviation, making history’s first attempts at each. Wellman has been cast as a self-promoting egomaniac known mostly for his catastrophic failures. Instead he was a courageous innovator who pushed the boundaries of polar exploration and paved the way for the ultimate conquest of the North Pole—which would be achieved not by dogsled or airplane, but by airship.
De: Buddy Levy
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Hell on Ice
- The Saga of the Jeannette
- De: Edward Ellsberg
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 14 h y 40 m
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In the 1870s, newspaperman James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald drummed up excitement and publicity for his paper through highly publicized missions of exploration. In 1879, Bennett's idea for a voyage was his most audacious to date: the North Pole. To do this, he hired a team of naval veterans in addition to a smattering of civilians with specialized knowledge in meteorology, whaling, and naturalism. The men on board the Jeannette set off in September of 1879. This would be the last time anyone saw them for two years.
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Great story, and great way to approach the telling
- De Christopher en 08-22-14
De: Edward Ellsberg
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Farther Than Any Man
- The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook
- De: Martin Dugard
- Narrado por: Jack Chekijian
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
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In the annals of seafaring and exploration, there is one name that immediately evokes visions of the open ocean, billowing sails, visiting strange, exotic lands previously uncharted, and civilizations never before encountered - Captain James Cook. Full of realistic action, lush descriptions of places and events, and fascinating historical characters such as King George III and the soon-to-be-notorious Master William Bligh, Dugard's gripping account of the life and death of Captain James Cook is a thrilling story of a discoverer hell-bent on going farther than any man.
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Sloppy History
- De Kyle P. Dalton en 04-06-18
De: Martin Dugard
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A Land So Strange
- The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
- De: Andres Resendez
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 7 h y 13 m
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In 1528, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong: Delayed by a hurricane, knocked off course by a colossal error of navigation, and ultimately doomed by a disastrous decision to separate the men from their ships, the mission quickly became a desperate journey of survival. Of the 300 men who had embarked on the journey, only four survived - three Spaniards and an African slave.
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A worthwhile listen
- De Blake en 07-10-13
De: Andres Resendez
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Ruthless River
- Love and Survival by Raft on the Amazon's Relentless Madre de Dios
- De: Holly FitzGerald
- Narrado por: Jorjeana Marie
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
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Holly FitzGerald and her husband, Fitz - married less than two years - set out on a yearlong honeymoon adventure of a lifetime, backpacking around the world. Five months into the trip, their plane crash-lands in Peru at a penal colony walled in by jungle, and their blissfully romantic journey turns into a terrifying nonstop labyrinth of escape and survival.
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Disappointed!
- De Teachermary en 08-20-17
De: Holly FitzGerald
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Lions of the West
- Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion
- De: Robert Morgan
- Narrado por: David Drummond
- Duración: 18 h y 19 m
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Thomas Jefferson, a naturalist and visionary, dreamed that the United States would stretch across the continent from ocean to ocean. The account of how that dream became reality unfolds in the stories of Jefferson and nine other Americans whose adventurous spirits and lust for land pushed the westward boundaries: Andrew Jackson, John “Johnny Appleseed” Chapman, David Crockett, Sam Houston, James K. Polk, Winfield Scott, Kit Carson, Nicholas Trist, and John Quincy Adams.
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Pretty good
- De Chelsey en 05-11-16
De: Robert Morgan
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Mountain Man
- John Colter, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and the Call of the American West
- De: David Weston Marshall
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 6 h y 43 m
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In 1804, John Colter set out with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the first US expedition to traverse the North American continent. During the 28-month ordeal, Colter served as a hunter and scout, and honed his survival skills on the western frontier. But when the journey was over, Colter stayed behind. He spent two more years trekking alone through dangerous and unfamiliar territory, charting some of the West's most treasured landmarks.
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Piqued Curoisty
- De Julie en 01-30-22
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In the Wake of Madness
- The Murderous Voyage of the Whaleship Sharon
- De: Joan Druett
- Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Duración: 6 h y 16 m
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Commanded by Captain Howes Norris, the Sharon headed for the whaling grounds of the northwestern Pacific. At Pohnpei Island, 12 men from the Sharon deserted the ship, leaving her critically shorthanded. After steering for New Zealand to recruit more crew, the men on lookout raised a school of sperm whales. Two boats gave chase, each with a crew of six. Five men were left on board the Sharon: Norris, three pacific Islanders, and a Portuguese boy named Manuel.
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Love this author.
- De David H. en 07-15-17
De: Joan Druett
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The Conquest of the Incas
- De: John Hemming
- Narrado por: Gary Tiedemann
- Duración: 23 h y 57 m
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In 1532, the magnificent Inca empire was the last great civilization still isolated from the rest of humankind. The Conquest of the Incas is the definitive history of this civilization's overthrow, from the invasion by Pizarro's small gang of conquistadors and the Incas' valiant attempts to expel the invaders to the destruction of the Inca realm, the oppression of its people, and the modern discoveries of Machu Picchu and the lost city of Vilcabamba.
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The Incas thoroughly defined and explored
- De Chris en 03-09-24
De: John Hemming
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The Boiling River
- TED Books
- De: Andrés Ruzo
- Narrado por: Andrés Ruzo
- Duración: 2 h y 37 m
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In this exciting true adventure mixed with amazing scientific study, a young, exuberant explorer and geoscientist journeys deep into the Amazon - where rivers boil and legends come to life. When Andrés Ruzo was just a small boy in Peru, his grandfather told him the story of a mysterious legend: There is a river, deep in the Amazon, that boils as if a fire burns below it. Twelve years later, Ruzo - now a geoscientist - hears his aunt mention that she herself had visited this strange river....
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Fantastic story about the Peruvian Amazon.
- De S Massie en 02-22-16
De: Andrés Ruzo
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Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun
- Hernando de Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms
- De: Charles Hudson, Robbie Ethridge - foreword
- Narrado por: Gary Tiedemann
- Duración: 21 h y 26 m
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Between 1539 and 1542, the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto led a small army on an expedition of almost four thousand miles across Southeastern America. De Soto's path had been one of history's most intriguing mysteries until the publication of Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun. Using a new route reconstruction, anthropologist Charles Hudson maps the story of the de Soto expedition, tying the route to a number of specific archaeological sites.
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- De Pete Stephens en 12-12-23
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-26-22
Amazing!!
Another fantastic book by buddy levy. Highly recommend for anyone interested in Spanish exploration and conquest.
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- Caney Fork
- 01-02-23
Untold story of the first would-be conquerors of the Amazon
A riveting story of conquest and exploration, Buddy Levy's River of Darkness tells the little known story of the earliest explorers of the Amazon river. With evidence based on the journals and reports of the earliest explorers, Levy provides an excellent accounting of the world encountered by Gonzalo Pissarro and his lieutenant Francisco Orellana, who led hundreds of Spanish troops from Quito to the mouth of the Amazon inflicting murder and mayhem on vulnerable tribes, and the eventual ruin of most of the conquistadors.
Jonathan Davis' narration adds depth and drama to the story. I will look for other works narrated by Mr. Davis.
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- RaggedBox
- 04-29-23
solid but unspectacular
solid telling of a story that I love. nothing spectacular, pretty similar to others.
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- Jim
- 08-21-24
interesting history
Great read on 1500s history of Spanish conquest of Peru. kept me in suspense the whole listen.
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- Joe
- 01-27-23
A tale to inspire tales
A tale to rival Teddy Roosevelt's River of Doubt! The first Amazonian expedition simply did it best by having the worst. What sets this apart from other books (especially about the amazon) is the exploration of the people as much as the land. Later expeditions only saw the survivors of smallpox not the thriving civilizations. I had no idea there was what is essentially antiquity Europe entirely contained in this fog shrouded land with millions of people, trade, road systems, art, kingdom's the list goes on. It was also a spectacle to see as they desended the river that it only grew in scope and wonder. I think this is a rare instance of the old world meeting the new world before it was completely ravaged by conquest and disease and thus so much more interesting to listen to.
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- Doc Ott
- 06-18-21
Great read
having just finished 1491 and 1493 by Charles Mann I really enjoyed River of darkness by Buddy Levy. The author weaves a compelling and captivating story while holding true to historical understanding of the voyage. I highly recommend this book.
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- Carl O.
- 05-27-22
Great Narrator
Intriguing story of the Amazon River and the conquistadors that discovered it, that was brought to life by a excellent narrator.
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- David Oakes
- 12-08-23
Epic Adventure
This is without a doubt one of the greatest adventure stories of all time! This 15 word minimum is silly.
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- allie wenz
- 08-18-24
Another Good Levy Book
Another good adventure book by Levy. I did not enjoy it as much as his other books but still would recommend.
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- Lance person
- 11-21-18
Loved it! Conquistadors survive the Amazon.
Great narration. Amazing journey! Poison darts! Incredible will and tough men struggled to survive the starvation and attacks.
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