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Nomads

The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World

by Anthony Sattin ...

**“Sattin is a terrific storyteller.” —David Farley, New York TimesThe remarkable story of how nomads have fostered and refreshed civilization throughout our history.**Moving across millennia, Nomads explores the transformative and often bloody relationship between settled and mobile societies. Often overlooked in history, the story of the umbilical connections between these two very different ... Read more

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**“Sattin is a terrific storyteller.” —David Farley, New York TimesThe remarkable story of how nomads have fostered and refreshed civilization throughout our history.**Moving across millennia, Nomads explores the transformative and often bloody relationship between settled and mobile societies. Often overlooked in history, the story of the umbilical connections between these two very different
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The Young T. E. Lawrence

by Anthony Sattin ...

An intimate biography of the years that turned T. E. Lawrence into Lawrence of Arabia.Lawrence of Arabia's heroism during the Arab revolt and his disgust at the subsequent betrayal of the Arabs in the postwar negotiations have become the stuff of legend. But T. E. Lawrence’s adventures in the Levant began long before the outbreak of war. This intimate biography is the first to focus on Lawrence in ... Read more

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An intimate biography of the years that turned T. E. Lawrence into Lawrence of Arabia.Lawrence of Arabia's heroism during the Arab revolt and his disgust at the subsequent betrayal of the Arabs in the postwar negotiations have become the stuff of legend. But T. E. Lawrence’s adventures in the Levant began long before the outbreak of war. This intimate biography is the first to focus on Lawrence in
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The Pharaoh's Shadow

Travels in Ancient and Modern Egypt

by Anthony Sattin ...

In a ruined temple on the Nile, Anthony Sattin sees a woman praying to the gods of ancient Egypt to bless her with a child. Later in central Cairo he experiences the exuberant celebrations of a saint's day and hears their stony condemnation by an Islamist. The ancient continues to rub up against the modern just as dramatically as when Flaubert wrote, 'Egypt is a wonderful place for contrasts ... Read more

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In a ruined temple on the Nile, Anthony Sattin sees a woman praying to the gods of ancient Egypt to bless her with a child. Later in central Cairo he experiences the exuberant celebrations of a saint's day and hears their stony condemnation by an Islamist. The ancient continues to rub up against the modern just as dramatically as when Flaubert wrote, 'Egypt is a wonderful place for contrasts
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Nomads

The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World

by Anthony Sattin ...

Narrated by Anthony Sattin ...

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11 hours 27 min

The remarkable story of how nomads have fostered and refreshed civilization throughout our history.Moving across millennia, Nomads explores the transformative and often bloody relationship between settled and mobile societies. The story of the shifting, umbilical connections between these two very different ways of living presents a radical new view of human civilization. From the Neolithic ... Read more

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The remarkable story of how nomads have fostered and refreshed civilization throughout our history.Moving across millennia, Nomads explores the transformative and often bloody relationship between settled and mobile societies. The story of the shifting, umbilical connections between these two very different ways of living presents a radical new view of human civilization. From the Neolithic
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Fortunes of War: The Levant Trilogy

by Olivia Manning ...

Series series Fortunes of War
The classic WW2 historical fiction saga—hailed as “among the very best fiction about the Second World War”—continues with this second trilogy following the Pringles family (Sunday Times).As the Nazi army advances, English ex-pats are caught overseas in the Middle East amid personal battles between courage and fear, love and betrayal.Olivia Manning returns to the story of the young English couple ... Read more

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The classic WW2 historical fiction saga—hailed as “among the very best fiction about the Second World War”—continues with this second trilogy following the Pringles family (Sunday Times).As the Nazi army advances, English ex-pats are caught overseas in the Middle East amid personal battles between courage and fear, love and betrayal.Olivia Manning returns to the story of the young English couple
... Read more
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Lawrence after Arabia

by T. E. Lawrence ...

In 1922, his dreams of an independent Arabia shattered, T.E. Lawrence enlisted in the RAF under the assumed name John Hume Ross. Though methodical and restrictive, life there seemed to suit Lawrence: "The Air Force is not a man-crushing humiliating slavery, all its days. There is sun & decent treatment, and a very real measure of happiness, to those who do not look forward or back." With poetic ... Read more

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In 1922, his dreams of an independent Arabia shattered, T.E. Lawrence enlisted in the RAF under the assumed name John Hume Ross. Though methodical and restrictive, life there seemed to suit Lawrence: "The Air Force is not a man-crushing humiliating slavery, all its days. There is sun & decent treatment, and a very real measure of happiness, to those who do not look forward or back." With poetic
... Read more

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Ends of the Earth

Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future

by Neil Shubin ...

Narrated by Fred Berman ...

Unabridged

7 hours 43 min

****Shortlisted for the 2025 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize**The bestselling author of Your Inner Fish takes readers on an epic adventure to the North and South Poles to reveal the secrets locked in the ice about life, the cosmos, and our planet’s future.“Urgent [and] prescient…The book captures Shubin’s reverence for both the beauty and the mysteries hidden in the cold, barren tundra.” ... Read more

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****Shortlisted for the 2025 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize**The bestselling author of Your Inner Fish takes readers on an epic adventure to the North and South Poles to reveal the secrets locked in the ice about life, the cosmos, and our planet’s future.“Urgent [and] prescient…The book captures Shubin’s reverence for both the beauty and the mysteries hidden in the cold, barren tundra.”
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New World, Inc.

The Making of America by England's Merchant Adventurers

by John Butman, Simon Targett ...

Narrated by Chris Kipiniak ...

Unabridged

12 hours 32 min

Three generations of English merchant adventurers-not the Pilgrims, as we have so long believed-were the earliest founders of America. Profit-not piety-was their primary motive.Some seventy years before the Mayflower sailed, a small group of English merchants formed "The Mysterie, Company, and Fellowship of Merchant Adventurers for the Discovery of Regions, Dominions, Islands, and Places Unknown," ... Read more

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Three generations of English merchant adventurers-not the Pilgrims, as we have so long believed-were the earliest founders of America. Profit-not piety-was their primary motive.Some seventy years before the Mayflower sailed, a small group of English merchants formed "The Mysterie, Company, and Fellowship of Merchant Adventurers for the Discovery of Regions, Dominions, Islands, and Places Unknown,"
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Death in the Jungle

Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown

by Candace Fleming ...

Narrated by Karen Murray ...

Unabridged

9 hours 47 min

How did Jim Jones, the leader of Peoples Temple, convince more than 900 of his followers to commit "revolutionary suicide" by drinking cyanide-laced punch? From a master of narrative nonfiction comes a chilling chronicle of one of the most notorious cults in American history.Using riveting first-person accounts, award-winning author Candace Fleming reveals the makings of a monster: from Jones’s ... Read more

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How did Jim Jones, the leader of Peoples Temple, convince more than 900 of his followers to commit "revolutionary suicide" by drinking cyanide-laced punch? From a master of narrative nonfiction comes a chilling chronicle of one of the most notorious cults in American history.Using riveting first-person accounts, award-winning author Candace Fleming reveals the makings of a monster: from Jones’s
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Sea of Glory

America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842

by Nathaniel Philbrick ...

Narrated by Dennis Boutsikaris ...

Abridged

5 hours 51 min

**"A treasure of a book."—David McCulloughThe harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, dwarfing Lewis and Clark with its discoveries, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye.**A New York Times Notable BookAmerica's first frontier was not the West; it was the sea, and no one writes more ... Read more

$15.00 USD

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**"A treasure of a book."—David McCulloughThe harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, dwarfing Lewis and Clark with its discoveries, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye.**A New York Times Notable BookAmerica's first frontier was not the West; it was the sea, and no one writes more
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Impossible Monsters

Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion

by Michael Taylor ...

Narrated by Michael Langan ...

Unabridged

15 hours

"Vivid with a Mesozoic bestiary" (Tom Holland), this on-the-ground, must-listen narrative weaves together the chance discovery of dinosaurs and the rise of the secular age.When the twelve-year-old daughter of a British carpenter pulled some strange-looking bones from the country's southern shoreline in 1811, few people dared to question that the Bible told the accurate history of the world. But ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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"Vivid with a Mesozoic bestiary" (Tom Holland), this on-the-ground, must-listen narrative weaves together the chance discovery of dinosaurs and the rise of the secular age.When the twelve-year-old daughter of a British carpenter pulled some strange-looking bones from the country's southern shoreline in 1811, few people dared to question that the Bible told the accurate history of the world. But
... Read more

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Botticelli's Secret

The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance

by Joseph Luzzi ...

Narrated by Keith Szarabajka ...

Unabridged

6 hours 55 min

A true historical “detective story” full of insight about how we look at art―and the artists and eras that produced itSome five hundred years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created work of unearthly beauty. An intimate associate of Florence’s unofficial rulers, the Medici, he was commissioned by a member of their family to execute a near-impossible project: to illustrate all ... Read more

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A true historical “detective story” full of insight about how we look at art―and the artists and eras that produced itSome five hundred years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created work of unearthly beauty. An intimate associate of Florence’s unofficial rulers, the Medici, he was commissioned by a member of their family to execute a near-impossible project: to illustrate all
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