Discovery History

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    • The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age
    • By: Derek Cheung, Eric Brach
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 151 ratings
    • Conquering the Electron offers listeners a true and engaging history of the world of electronics, beginning with the discoveries of static electricity and magnetism and ending with the creation of the smartphone and the iPad....

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    • The Evidence and the People Who Found It
    • By: Donald R. Prothero
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-22-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 92 ratings
    • In The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries, Donald R. Prothero explores the most fascinating breakthroughs in piecing together the evidence for evolution....

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    • A History of the Vikings
    • By: Neil Price
    • Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
    • Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,452 ratings
    • The Viking Age - from 750 to 1050 saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the wider world. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they ranged from eastern North America to the Asian steppe....

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    • Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon
    • By: Buddy Levy
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 12-22-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 661 ratings
    • 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....

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    • A Captivating Guide to an Era of Exploration in European History, Including Discoveries Such as Christopher Columbus’ Voyages to the Americas and Vasco da Gama’s Sea Route to India
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • If you want to discover the captivating history of the Age of Discovery, then pay attention.... The Age of Discovery began in the early part of the 15th century and carried on through most of the 17th century. It is sometimes also referred to as the Age of Exploration....

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    • John Colter, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and the Call of the American West
    • By: David Weston Marshall
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 137 ratings
    • 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....

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    • A Historical Geography
    • By: Graham Robb
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 09-23-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • A narrative of exploration - full of strange landscapes and even stranger inhabitants - that explains the enduring fascination of France. While Gustave Eiffel was changing the skyline of Paris, large parts of France were still terra incognita....

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    • How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
    • By: Steven Strogatz
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 686 ratings
    • Without calculus, we wouldn't have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn't have unraveled DNA or discovered Neptune or figured out how to put 5,000 songs in your pocket....

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    • The West and the Rest
    • By: Niall Ferguson
    • Narrated by: Niall Ferguson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,325 ratings
    • The rise to global predominance of Western civilization is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five hundred years....

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    • How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
    • By: Roger Crowley
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 730 ratings
    • Within a short time span, a tiny country whose population did not exceed a million created a maritime empire that stretched from Brazil to Nagasaki....

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    • Decoding the Story of the Flood
    • By: Irving Finkel
    • Narrated by: Irving Finkel, Gareth Armstrong
    • Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 215 ratings
    • It has been understood that the story of Noah, a central motif in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, derives from a much older story that existed centuries before in ancient Babylon....

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    • Hernando de Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms
    • By: Charles Hudson, Robbie Ethridge - foreword
    • Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
    • Length: 21 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • 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, Charles Hudson maps the story of the de Soto expedition, tying the route to a number of specific archaeological sites....

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    • Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition
    • By: Stephen R. Bown
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 214 ratings
    • The 18th-century story of the world's largest, longest, and best-financed scientific expedition of all time, triumphantly successful, gruesomely tragic, and never before fully told....

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    • The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917
    • By: Sir Ernest Shackleton
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 218 ratings
    • As war clouds darkened over Europe in 1914, a party led by Sir Ernest Shackleton set out to make the first crossing of the entire Antarctic continent via the Pole....

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    • The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
    • By: William Manchester
    • Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
    • Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,055 ratings
    • From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages....

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    • A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest
    • By: Fernando Cervantes
    • Narrated by: Luis Soto
    • Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 134 ratings
    • A sweeping, authoritative history of 16th-century Spain and its legendary conquistadors, whose ambitious and morally contradictory campaigns propelled a small European kingdom to become one of the formidable empires in the world....

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    • The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings
    • By: Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton, Jay Barbree, Neil Armstrong - introduction by
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 483 ratings
    • Desperate to beat the Russians into space, NASA put together a crew of the nation's most daring test pilots: the seven men who were to lead America to the moon. The first into space was Alan Shepard; the last was Deke Slayton, whose irregular heartbeat kept him grounded until 1975....

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    • The Radical New Discoveries About the Origins and Evolution of Life on Earth
    • By: Peter Ward, Joe Kirschvink
    • Narrated by: William Elsman
    • Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Charles Darwin’s theories, first published more than 150 years ago, still set the paradigm of how we understand the evolution of life—but scientific advances of recent decades have radically altered that understanding....

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    • The Fate of the Franklin Expedition
    • By: Owen Beattie, John Geiger
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 12-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • In 1845, Sir John Franklin and his men set out to "penetrate the icy fastness of the north, and to circumnavigate America." And then they disappeared. The truth about what happened to Franklin's ill-fated Arctic expedition was shrouded in mystery for more than a century....

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