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1491
- New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
- By: Charles C. Mann
- Narrated by: Darrell Dennis
- Length: 16 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,771
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,245
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,232
Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus' landing had crossed the Bering Strait 12,000 years ago; existed mainly in small nomadic bands; and lived so lightly on the land that the Americas were, for all practical purposes, still a vast wilderness. But as Charles C. Mann now makes clear, archaeologists and anthropologists have spent the last 30 years proving these and many other long-held assumptions wrong.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Exposes Non-Academic Audience to The Debate Between Ideas of Pre-Colombian America's
- By Christopher on 01-19-17
- 1491
- New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
- By: Charles C. Mann
- Narrated by: Darrell Dennis
Inexcusable bad narration
Reviewed: 12-20-18
I'm used to great readers on Audible. What a disappointment to have a narrator who slurs vowels and reverts to a sing-song cadence. Example: "illustrates" is rendered "ill-strates."
This fine book deserved better.
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Learn Spanish - Level 5: Upper Beginner Spanish, Volume 1: Lessons 1-20
- Beginner Spanish #6
- By: Innovative Language Learning
- Narrated by: SpanishPod101.com
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 9
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 9
Start speaking Spanish in minutes, and grasp the language, culture and customs in just minutes more with Upper Beginner Spanish, Volume 1, a completely new way to learn Spanish with ease! Upper Beginner Spanish, Volume 1, will have you speaking with proper pronunciation from the very first lesson and arm you with cultural insight and other information to utterly shock and amaze your Spanish friends.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Amazingly horrible.
- By Michael on 11-07-12
- Learn Spanish - Level 5: Upper Beginner Spanish, Volume 1: Lessons 1-20
- Beginner Spanish #6
- By: Innovative Language Learning
- Narrated by: SpanishPod101.com
Amazingly horrible.
Reviewed: 11-07-12
The narrators' Spanish is not only excessively rapid, but slurred in a way that makes it impossible for a learner to distinguish words. The narration is filled with chatty English dialog between the narrators, which is stupid and distracting. There is no apparent logic to the subject matter. I am truly surprised that Audible would allow such a horrible product to be sold, so that unsuspecting listeners like myself waste a credit on it.
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