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Bestsellers
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The Thirty Years War
- Europe's Tragedy
- Written by: Peter H. Wilson
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 33 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 4
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 4
The Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern world....
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3 out of 5 stars
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An amazing performance for an incomprehensible book
- By F. Toro on 2024-02-28
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Vermeer's Hat
- The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
- Written by: Timothy Brook
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6
A Vermeer painting shows a military officer in a Dutch sitting room, talking to a laughing girl....
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Reformations
- The Early Modern World, 1450-1650
- Written by: Carlos M. N. Eire
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 39 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles the 200-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention to issues that persist as concerns in the present day....
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Dark Brilliance
- The Age of Reason: From Descartes to Peter the Great
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
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Acclaimed historian Paul Strathern tells the vivid story of The Age of Reason, while also exploring the painful cost of creating the progress and modernity upon which the Western world was built.
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The Invention of Science
- A New History of the Scientific Revolution
- Written by: David Wootton
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 22 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4
A groundbreaking examination of the greatest event in history, the Scientific Revolution, and how it came to change the way we understand ourselves and our world....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good
- By Eugenius Radius on 2018-01-02
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Batavia's Graveyard
- The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
- Written by: Mike Dash
- Narrated by: Guy Bethell
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story5 out of 5 stars 5
It was the autumn of 1628, and the Batavia, the Dutch East India Company's flagship, was loaded with a king's ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java....
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The Thirty Years War
- Europe's Tragedy
- Written by: Peter H. Wilson
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 33 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 4
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 4
The Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern world....
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3 out of 5 stars
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An amazing performance for an incomprehensible book
- By F. Toro on 2024-02-28
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Vermeer's Hat
- The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
- Written by: Timothy Brook
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6
A Vermeer painting shows a military officer in a Dutch sitting room, talking to a laughing girl....
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Reformations
- The Early Modern World, 1450-1650
- Written by: Carlos M. N. Eire
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 39 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles the 200-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention to issues that persist as concerns in the present day....
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Dark Brilliance
- The Age of Reason: From Descartes to Peter the Great
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
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Story0 out of 5 stars 0
Acclaimed historian Paul Strathern tells the vivid story of The Age of Reason, while also exploring the painful cost of creating the progress and modernity upon which the Western world was built.
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The Invention of Science
- A New History of the Scientific Revolution
- Written by: David Wootton
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 22 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4
A groundbreaking examination of the greatest event in history, the Scientific Revolution, and how it came to change the way we understand ourselves and our world....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good
- By Eugenius Radius on 2018-01-02
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Batavia's Graveyard
- The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
- Written by: Mike Dash
- Narrated by: Guy Bethell
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story5 out of 5 stars 5
It was the autumn of 1628, and the Batavia, the Dutch East India Company's flagship, was loaded with a king's ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java....
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The True History of Merlin the Magician
- Written by: Anne Lawrence-Mathers
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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A medieval historian examines what we really know about the man who was "Merlin the Magician" and his impact on Britain....
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They Flew
- A History of the Impossible
- Written by: Carlos M. N. Eire
- Narrated by: Emmanuel Chumaceiro
- Length: 16 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era—tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft—even as skepticism, atheism, and empirical science were starting to supplant religious belief in the paranormal....
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Born to Be Hanged
- The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
- Written by: Keith Thomson
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1
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....
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A Hangman’s Diary
- The Journal of Master Franz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg, 1573-1617
- Written by: Franz Schmidt, Albrecht Keller - editor and translator, C. Calvert BA - translator, and others
- Narrated by: John McLain
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2
Now an esoteric of legal and criminal history, A Hangman's Diary gives a year-by-year breakdown on all of Master Franz Schmidt's executions, which included hangings, beheadings, and other methods, as well as details of each capital crime and the reason for the punishment....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Intermittent static ruins experience
- By Anonymous User on 2024-10-28
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Under the Black Flag
- The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
- Written by: David Cordingly
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
As he explodes many accepted pirate myths (i.e. "walking the plank" is pure fiction), Cordingly replaces them with a truth that is more complex and often bloodier....
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The Dutch East India Company: A History from Beginning to End
- Written by: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Bridger Conklin
- Length: 1 hr
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Once valued at close to seven trillion dollars by today’s standards, the Dutch East India Company, formed in 1602, became the world’s first multinational corporation....
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Devil-Land
- England Under Siege, 1588-1688
- Written by: Clare Jackson
- Narrated by: Emma Gregory
- Length: 24 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Clare Jackson's dazzling original account of English history's most turbulent and radical era tells the story of a nation in a state of near continual crisis....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Decent coverage and listenable
- By DAVID STAMPE on 2025-01-23
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The Island at the Center of the World
- The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
- Written by: Russell Shorto
- Narrated by: Russell Shorto
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9
In a landmark work of history, Russell Shorto presents astonishing information on the founding of our nation and reveals in detail the crucial role of the Dutch in making America what it is today....
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Restoration London
- Everyday Life in the 1660s
- Written by: Liza Picard
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Abridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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From poverty to pets, from medicine to magic, from slang to sex, from wallpaper to women's rights....
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The English Civil Wars
- 1640-1660
- Written by: Blair Worden
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1
The political upheaval of the mid-17th century has no parallel in English history. Other events have changed the occupancy and the powers of the throne, but the conflict of 1640-60 was more dramatic....
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Killers of the King
- The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I
- Written by: Charles Spencer
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4
January, 1649. After seven years of fighting in the bloodiest war in Britain’s history, Parliament faced a problem: what to do with a defeated king, a king who refused to surrender....
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The Vanishing Velázquez
- A 19th Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece
- Written by: Laura Cumming
- Narrated by: Siobhan Redmond
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
When John Snare, a 19th-century provincial bookseller, traveled to a liquidation auction, he stumbled on a vivid portrait of King Charles I that defied any explanation....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Intriguing
- By Roberta W on 2024-10-07
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City of Light, City of Poison
- Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris
- Written by: Holly Tucker
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10
Appointed to conquer the "crime capital of the world", the first police chief of Paris faces an epidemic of murder in the late 1600s....
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Spain
- The Centre of the World 1519-1682
- Written by: Robert Goodwin
- Narrated by: Jeremy Clyde
- Length: 21 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Robert Goodwin delves into previously unrecorded sources to bring a tumultuous and exciting period to life. Spain is a revealing portrait of an empire at the height of its power and a world at the dawn of a new age....
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The Age of Intoxication
- Origins of the Global Drug Trade
- Written by: Benjamin Breen
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Age of Intoxication, Benjamin Breen offers a window into a time when drugs were not yet separated into categories - illicit and licit, recreational and medicinal, modern and traditional - and there was no barrier between the drug dealer and the pharmacist....
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Captain Alatriste
- Written by: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Margaret Sayers Peden
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
Captain Alatriste is the story of a fictional 17th-century Spanish soldier who, after being wounded in battle during the Thirty Years' War, is forced to retire from the army....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful book!
- By Christian G. Cameron on 2022-01-10
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The Year of Lear
- Shakespeare in 1606
- Written by: James Shapiro
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
In the years leading up to 1606, since the death of Queen Elizabeth and the arrival in England of her successor, King James, Shakespeare's great productivity had ebbed....
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Thunderclap
- A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
- Written by: Laura Cumming
- Narrated by: Laura Cumming
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming tells the fascinating, little-known story of the massive explosion in Holland that killed Carel Fabritius, renowned painter of The Goldfinch and A View of Delft and nearly killed Johannes Vermeer—two of the greatest artists of the 17th century.
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Digging the Past: How and Why to Imagine Seventeenth-Century Agriculture
- Haney Foundation Series
- Written by: Frances E. Dolan
- Narrated by: Nancy Bober
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Digging the Past offers fine-grained case studies of projects heralded as innovations both in the 17th century and in our own time: composting and soil amendment, local food, natural wine, and hedgerows....
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Republic
- Britain's Revolutionary Decade, 1649–1660
- Written by: Alice Hunt
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Events moved fast in the 1650s. Something cataclysmic happened every year, something that would thrust the newly formed republic, its people, and its eventual 'Lord Protector' Oliver Cromwell, in an entirely new direction.
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The East India Company: A History From Beginning to End
- Written by: Hourly History
- Narrated by: John Riddle
- Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Founded at the dawn of the 17th century as European nations were establishing global empires, the English East India Company would become a vital part of burgeoning British supremacy....
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The Pirate Hunter
- Written by: Richard Zacks
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
Captain Kidd has gone down in history as America's most ruthless buccaneer....
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The Enlightenment
- And Why It Still Matters
- Written by: Anthony Pagden
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story2 out of 5 stars 2
One of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world....
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The Favourite
- Written by: Ophelia Field
- Narrated by: Natalie Boscombe
- Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2
This biography brings Sarah Churchill's own voice, passionate and intelligent, back to life and casts a critical eye over images of the Duchess handed down through art, history and literature....