Travel Biography
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A Course Called America
- Fifty States, Five Thousand Fairways, and the Search for the Great American Golf Course
- Auteur(s): Tom Coyne
- Narrateur(s): Jacques Roy
- Durée: 13 h et 35 min
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In the span of one unforgettable year, Coyne crisscrosses the country in search of its greatest golf experience, playing every course to ever host a US Open, along with more than two hundred hidden gems and heavyweights, visiting all fifty states to find a better understanding of his home country and countrymen. Coyne’s journey begins where the US Open and US Amateur got their start, historic Newport Country Club in Rhode Island.
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A Course Called America
- Fifty States, Five Thousand Fairways, and the Search for the Great American Golf Course
- Narrateur(s): Jacques Roy
- Durée: 13 h et 35 min
- Date de publication: 2021-05-25
- Langue: Anglais
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Globe-trotting golfer Tom Coyne has finally come home. And he’s ready to play all of it....
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South
- Auteur(s): Ernest Shackleton
- Narrateur(s): Rupert Degas
- Durée: 15 h et 48 min
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On 8 August 1914, five days after the outbreak of World War One, the Endurance, a wooden-hulled, coal-fired icebreaker, set sail for the South Pole, in a bid to complete the first-ever trans-Antarctic expedition, which would cross the continent from the Weddell Sea to Scott's base at Cape Evans, via the Pole. However, despite the best planning, the ship succumbs to the ice floes of the Weddell Sea, and is subjected to months of uncontrollable drifting before its crew makes a scramble for Elephant Island, where they battle constant cold and starvation.
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South
- Narrateur(s): Rupert Degas
- Durée: 15 h et 48 min
- Date de publication: 2019-11-08
- Langue: Anglais
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On 8 August 1914, five days after the outbreak of World War One, the Endurance, a wooden-hulled, coal-fired icebreaker, set sail for the South Pole, in a bid to complete the first-ever trans-Antarctic expedition, which would cross the continent from the Weddell Sea to Cape Evans....
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My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy
- Auteur(s): Clint Hill, Lisa McCubbin Hill
- Narrateur(s): Clint Hill
- Durée: 5 h et 11 min
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While preparing to sell his home in Alexandria, Virginia, retired Secret Service agent Clint Hill uncovers an old steamer trunk in the garage, triggering a floodgate of memories. As he and Lisa McCubbin, his coauthor on three previous books, pry it open for the first time in fifty years, they find forgotten photos, handwritten notes, personal gifts, and treasured mementos from the trips on which Hill accompanied First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy as her Secret Service agent.
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A good listen for Kennedy “fans”
- Écrit par Sandra Weitzel le 2022-11-02
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My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy
- Narrateur(s): Clint Hill
- Durée: 5 h et 11 min
- Date de publication: 2022-10-25
- Langue: Anglais
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From the authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller Mrs. Kennedy and Me comes another New York Times bestseller, which reveals never-before-told stories of Secret Service Agent Clint Hill’s travels with Jacqueline Kennedy through Europe, Asia, and South America.
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The Slow Road North
- How I Found Peace in an Improbable Country
- Auteur(s): Rosie Schaap
- Narrateur(s): Rosie Schaap
- Durée: 8 h et 17 min
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Rosie Schaap had a solid career as a journalist and a life that looked to others like nonstop fun: all drinking and dining and traveling to beautiful places—and getting paid to write about it. But under the surface she was reeling from the loss of her husband and her mother—who died just one year apart. Caring for them had claimed much of her daily life in her late thirties. Mourning them would take longer. It wasn’t until a reporting trip took her to the Northern Irish countryside that Rosie found a partner to heal with: Glenarm, a quiet seaside village in County Antrim.
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The Slow Road North
- How I Found Peace in an Improbable Country
- Narrateur(s): Rosie Schaap
- Durée: 8 h et 17 min
- Date de publication: 2024-08-20
- Langue: Anglais
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From the acclaimed author of Drinking with Men comes a poignant, wrenching, and ultimately hopeful book—equal parts memoir and social history—that follows the author, after a series of tragic losses, to Northern Ireland, where she finds a path toward healing.
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In the Footsteps of Du Fu
- Auteur(s): Michael Wood
- Narrateur(s): Michael Wood
- Durée: 4 h et 48 min
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Du Fu (712-70) is one of China’s greatest poets. His career coincided with periods of famine, war and huge upheaval, yet his secular philosophical vision, combined with his empathy for the common folk of his nation, ensured that he soon became revered. Like Shakespeare or Dante, his poetry resonates in a timeless manner that ensures it is always relevant and offers something new to the modern generation. Broadcaster and historian Michael Wood follows in his footsteps to try to understand the places that inspired Du Fu to write some of the most famous and best-loved poetry the world has known.
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In the Footsteps of Du Fu
- Narrateur(s): Michael Wood
- Durée: 4 h et 48 min
- Date de publication: 2023-10-26
- Langue: Anglais
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Du Fu (712-70) is one of China’s greatest poets. Now, broadcaster and historian Michael Wood follows in his footsteps to try to understand the places that inspired Du Fu to write some of the most famous and best-loved poetry the world has known....
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Do Something
- Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of '70s New York
- Auteur(s): Guy Trebay
- Narrateur(s): Edoardo Ballerini
- Durée: 6 h et 29 min
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Born in the Bronx, Guy Trebay was raised in an atmosphere of privilege on Long Island’s North Shore after his entrepreneurial father struck business gold with Hawaiian Surf, a wildly successful cologne company that capitalized on the optimism of the 1960s as marketed to “an adventurous new breed of men.’’ But behind the facade of material prosperity lay the emotional disarray of a household dominated by a charismatic, con artist father, a glamorous yet lost and careless mother, a family haunted by tragedy.
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Do Something
- Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of '70s New York
- Narrateur(s): Edoardo Ballerini
- Durée: 6 h et 29 min
- Date de publication: 2024-06-25
- Langue: Anglais
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An evocative coming-of-age memoir—the story of the education of a wayward wild child and acidhead who, searching for meaning and purpose, found refuge in the demimonde of the ruined but magical metropolis that was New York City in the 1970s....
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Off Grid and Free
- My Path to the Wilderness
- Auteur(s): Ron Melchiore
- Narrateur(s): Ron Melchiore
- Durée: 8 h et 21 min
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Off Grid and Free: My Path to the Wilderness is the story of the journey Ron Melchiore undertook as a young man from the city, first to homesteading in northern Maine and then to living in the bush of northern Saskatchewan. He has lived off grid since approximately 1980 and speaks candidly about the joys and the tribulations of his chosen lifestyle.
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Enjoyable
- Écrit par Nestor B. le 2022-06-25
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Off Grid and Free
- My Path to the Wilderness
- Narrateur(s): Ron Melchiore
- Durée: 8 h et 21 min
- Date de publication: 2016-12-29
- Langue: Anglais
- Off Grid and Free: My Path to the Wilderness is the story of the journey Ron Melchiore undertook as a young man from the city....
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Mawson
- And the Ice Men of the Heroic Age - Scott, Shackelton and Amundsen
- Auteur(s): Peter FitzSimons
- Narrateur(s): Paul English
- Durée: 23 h et 54 min
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Australia's best-selling nonfiction author of all time. Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, was Australia's greatest Antarctic explorer. On 2 December 1911, he led an expedition from Hobart to explore the virgin frozen coastline below, 2000 miles of which had never felt the tread of a human foot. After setting up Main Base at Cape Denision and Western Base on Queen Mary Land, he headed east on an extraordinary sledging trek with his companions, Belgrave Ninnis and Dr Xavier Mertz.
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Mawson
- And the Ice Men of the Heroic Age - Scott, Shackelton and Amundsen
- Narrateur(s): Paul English
- Durée: 23 h et 54 min
- Date de publication: 2012-02-03
- Langue: Anglais
- Australia's best-selling nonfiction author of all time. Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, was Australia's greatest Antarctic explorer....
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Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube
- Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North
- Auteur(s): Blair Braverman
- Narrateur(s): Blair Braverman
- Durée: 9 h et 8 min
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Blair Braverman fell in love with the North at an early age: By the time she was 19, she had left her home in California, moved to Norway to learn how to drive sled dogs, and worked as a tour guide on a glacier in Alaska. By turns funny and sobering, bold and tender, Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube charts Blair's endeavor to become a "tough girl" - someone who courts danger in an attempt to become fearless.
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DNF - Dog Abuse
- Écrit par Erika H. le 2022-06-17
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Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube
- Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North
- Narrateur(s): Blair Braverman
- Durée: 9 h et 8 min
- Date de publication: 2016-07-05
- Langue: Anglais
- A rich and revelatory memoir of a young woman confronting her fears and finding home in the North....
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As Long as It's Fun, the Epic Voyages and Extraordinary Times of Lin and Larry Pardey
- Auteur(s): Herb McCormick
- Narrateur(s): Russell Stamets
- Durée: 10 h et 40 min
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To anyone interested in small-boat cruising and voyaging, the names Lin and Larry Pardey need no introduction. As world-girdling sailors who roamed the planet on a pair of small, engineless boats that they built themselves, the Pardeys established their hard-earned reputations by eloquently (and sometimes controversially) telling their stories through a series of best-selling books and manuals, and countless seminars and boat shows.
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As Long as It's Fun, the Epic Voyages and Extraordinary Times of Lin and Larry Pardey
- Narrateur(s): Russell Stamets
- Durée: 10 h et 40 min
- Date de publication: 2014-04-17
- Langue: Anglais
- To anyone interested in small-boat cruising and voyaging, the names Lin and Larry Pardey need no introduction....
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The Appalachian Trail
- A Biography
- Auteur(s): Philip D'Anieri
- Narrateur(s): Jason Culp
- Durée: 7 h et 51 min
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The conception and building of the Appalachian Trail is a story of unforgettable characters who explored it, defined it, and captured national attention by hiking it. From Grandma Gatewood—a mother of eleven who thru-hiked in canvas sneakers and a drawstring duffle—to Bill Bryson, author of the best-selling A Walk in the Woods, the AT has seized the American imagination like no other hiking path. The 2,000-mile-long hike from Georgia to Maine is not just a trail through the woods, but a set of ideas about nature etched in the forest floor.
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The Appalachian Trail
- A Biography
- Narrateur(s): Jason Culp
- Durée: 7 h et 51 min
- Date de publication: 2021-06-08
- Langue: Anglais
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The Appalachian Trail is America’s most beloved trek, with millions of hikers setting foot on it every year. Yet few are aware of the fascinating backstory of the dreamers and builders who helped bring it to life over the past century....
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Man Seeks God
- My Flirtations with the Divine
- Auteur(s): Eric Weiner
- Narrateur(s): Eric Weiner
- Durée: 12 h et 22 min
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When a health scare puts him in the hospital, Eric Weiner-an agnostic by default-finds himself tangling with an unexpected question, posed to him by a well-meaning nurse. "Have you found your God yet?" The thought of it nags him, and prods him-and ultimately launches him on a far-flung journey to do just that.
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Man Seeks God
- My Flirtations with the Divine
- Narrateur(s): Eric Weiner
- Durée: 12 h et 22 min
- Date de publication: 2011-12-28
- Langue: Anglais
- When a health scare puts him in the hospital, Eric Weiner-an agnostic by default-finds himself tangling with an unexpected question, posed to him by a well-meaning nurse....
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A Woman in Arabia
- The Writings of the Queen of the Desert
- Auteur(s): Gertrude Bell, Georgina Howell - introduction, Georgina Howell - editor
- Narrateur(s): Sian Thomas, Adjoa Andoh
- Durée: 9 h et 28 min
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Gertrude Bell was leaning in 100 years before Sheryl Sandberg. One of the great woman adventurers of the 20th century, she turned her back on Victorian society to study at Oxford and travel the world and became the chief architect of British policy in the Middle East after World War I. Mountaineer, archaeologist, Arabist, writer, poet, linguist, and spy, she dedicated her life to championing the Arab cause and was instrumental in drawing the borders that define today's Middle East.
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A Woman in Arabia
- The Writings of the Queen of the Desert
- Narrateur(s): Sian Thomas, Adjoa Andoh
- Durée: 9 h et 28 min
- Date de publication: 2015-10-27
- Langue: Anglais
- Gertrude Bell was leaning in 100 years before Sheryl Sandberg. One of the great woman adventurers of the 20th century, she turned her back on Victorian society to study at Oxford....
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Neon Pilgrim
- Auteur(s): Lisa Dempster
- Narrateur(s): Lisa Dempster
- Durée: 7 h et 40 min
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During a culture-shocked exchange year in Japan, 15-year-old Lisa Dempster's imagination is ignited by the story of the henro michi, an arduous 1,200-kilometre Buddhist pilgrimage through the mountains of Japan. Perfectly suiting the romantic view of herself as a dusty, travel-worn explorer (well, one day), she promises to return to Japan and walk the henro michi, one way or another, as soon as humanely possible. Fast-forward 13 years, and Lisa's life is vastly different to what she pictured it would be.
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Neon Pilgrim
- Narrateur(s): Lisa Dempster
- Durée: 7 h et 40 min
- Date de publication: 2017-12-20
- Langue: Anglais
- During an exchange year in Japan, 15-year-old Lisa Dempster's imagination is ignited by the story of the henro michi, an arduous 1,200-kilometre Buddhist pilgrimage through the mountains of Japan....
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Discovering the City of Sodom
- The Fascinating, True Account of the Discovery of the Old Testament's Most Infamous City
- Auteur(s): Dr Steven Collins, Dr. Latayne C. Scott
- Narrateur(s): Sean Runnette
- Durée: 9 h et 11 min
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The fascinating, true account of the quest for one of the Old Testament’s most infamous cities. Like many modern-day Christians, Dr. Steven Collins struggled with what seemed to be a clash between his belief in the Bible and the research regarding ancient history - a crisis of faith that inspired him to put both his education and the Bible to the test by embarking on an expedition that has led to one of the most exciting finds in recent archaeology.
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Discovering the City of Sodom
- The Fascinating, True Account of the Discovery of the Old Testament's Most Infamous City
- Narrateur(s): Sean Runnette
- Durée: 9 h et 11 min
- Date de publication: 2013-06-12
- Langue: Anglais
- The audiobook follows Dr. Collins as he tracks down Biblical, archaeological, and geological clues to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, narrowing down the list of possible sites....
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Survival Is Not Assured
- The Life of Climber Jim Donini
- Auteur(s): Geoff Powter, Michael Kennedy - foreword
- Narrateur(s): Brian Wiggins
- Durée: 9 h et 27 min
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Jim Donini has been an icon of American climbing for the past fifty years, pushing the boundaries of alpine ascents around the world, and inspiring generations with his achievements. In Survival Is Not Assured, award-winning author Geoff Powter dives into Donini's remarkable life story, exploring his groundbreaking climbs and his tumultuous experiences both on and off the rock.
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Survival Is Not Assured
- The Life of Climber Jim Donini
- Narrateur(s): Brian Wiggins
- Durée: 9 h et 27 min
- Date de publication: 2024-06-01
- Langue: Anglais
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In Survival Is Not Assured, award-winning author Geoff Powter dives into Donini's remarkable life story, exploring his groundbreaking climbs and his tumultuous experiences both on and off the rock.
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Wayfaring Stranger
- A Musical Journey in the American South
- Auteur(s): Emma John
- Narrateur(s): Emma John
- Durée: 9 h et 24 min
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Suffused with her much-loved warmth and wit, Emma John's memoir follows her moving and memorable journey to master one of the hardest musical styles on earth - and to find her place in an alien world. Emma had fallen out of love with her violin when a chance trip to the American South introduced her to bluegrass music. Classically trained, highly strung and wedded to London life, Emma was about as country as a gin martini. So why did it feel like a homecoming?
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Inspiring and entertaining!
- Écrit par Melissa W le 2021-05-18
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Wayfaring Stranger
- A Musical Journey in the American South
- Narrateur(s): Emma John
- Durée: 9 h et 24 min
- Date de publication: 2020-08-27
- Langue: Anglais
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Suffused with her much-loved warmth and wit, Emma John's memoir follows her moving and memorable journey to master one of the hardest musical styles on earth - and to find her place in an alien world....
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Seraffyn's Mediterranean Adventure
- 30th Anniversary Edition
- Auteur(s): Lin Pardey, Larry Pardey
- Narrateur(s): Clara Harris
- Durée: 7 h et 25 min
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Lin and Larry Pardey's first book, Cruising in Seraffyn, is credited with launching 50,000 dreams. This third book in the critically-acclaimed Seraffyn series chronicles their three years spent exploring Ulysses' wine-colored sea.
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Seraffyn's Mediterranean Adventure
- 30th Anniversary Edition
- Narrateur(s): Clara Harris
- Durée: 7 h et 25 min
- Date de publication: 2015-04-02
- Langue: Anglais
- Lin and Larry Pardey's first book, Cruising in Seraffyn, is credited with launching 50,000 dreams....
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Amazing Surfing Stories
- Tales of Incredible Waves and Remarkable Riders
- Auteur(s): Alex Wade
- Narrateur(s): Mark Meadows
- Durée: 6 h et 42 min
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An eclectic mix of exciting stories every surfer will love. This eclectic mix has something for everyone, from classic tales of monster waves and epic battles to stories of when life among the breakers goes wrong. There are accounts of death and disaster, as well as bravery and triumph. The bizarre and the extreme rub shoulders with perfect breaks and beautiful beaches. Be thrilled by legendary surfers like Laird Hamilton and Shane Dorian as well as learning about local heroes who never made the headlines.
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Amazing Surfing Stories
- Tales of Incredible Waves and Remarkable Riders
- Narrateur(s): Mark Meadows
- Durée: 6 h et 42 min
- Date de publication: 2013-06-06
- Langue: Anglais
- An eclectic mix of exciting stories every surfer will love....
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The Road to Burgundy
- The Unlikely Story of an American Making Wine and a New Life in France
- Auteur(s): Ray Walker
- Narrateur(s): Sean Crisden
- Durée: 7 h et 51 min
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Ray Walker had a secure career in finance until a wine-tasting vacation ignited a passion that he couldn't stifle. Ray neglected his work, spending hours poring over ancient French winemaking texts, learning the techniques and the language, and daydreaming about vineyards. After Ray experienced his first taste of wine from Burgundy, he could wait no longer. He quit his job and went to France to start a winery - with little money, a limited command of French, and virtually no winemaking experience.
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The Road to Burgundy
- The Unlikely Story of an American Making Wine and a New Life in France
- Narrateur(s): Sean Crisden
- Durée: 7 h et 51 min
- Date de publication: 2013-07-11
- Langue: Anglais
- After Ray experienced his first taste of wine from Burgundy, he quit his job and went to France to start a winery - with little money, poor French, and virtually no winemaking experience....
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