Exploration History

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    • The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
    • By: Eric Jay Dolin
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,257 ratings
    • Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic and surprising history of American piracy's "Golden Age" - spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s - when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond....

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    • Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
    • By: Buddy Levy
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,315 ratings
    • It was a moment unique in human history: the face-to-face meeting between two men from civilizations a world apart....

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    • The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
    • By: Julian Sancton
    • Narrated by: Vikas Adam
    • Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 823 ratings
    • The true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry—with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter....

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    • A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance
    • By: David Howarth
    • Narrated by: Stuart Langton
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,009 ratings
    • One of the most enthralling true adventure stories ever written, We Die Alone, set in Nazi-occupied Norway in 1943, is an epic tale of survival against staggering odds....

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    • Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting
    • By: William Thomas Hamilton
    • Narrated by: A.T. Chandler
    • Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 212 ratings
    • In his concise, richly detailed memoir My Sixty Years on the Plains, fur-trapper W. T. Hamilton - also known as "Wildcat Bill"-gives the listener a first-hand account of life outdoors in the Old West....

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    • The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
    • By: David Roberts
    • Narrated by: Matthew Brenher
    • Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,202 ratings
    • On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp - the dogs were gone....

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    • On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest
    • By: David Roberts
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • Famed adventure writer David Roberts retraces the route of the legendary Dominguez-Escalante expedition....

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    • Theodore Roosevelt, A Lifetime of Exploration, and the Triumph of American Natural History
    • By: Darrin Lunde
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 720 ratings
    • The surprising story of intrepid naturalist Theodore Roosevelt and how his lifelong passion for the natural world set the stage for America's wildlife conservation movement....

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    • Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
    • By: Laurence Bergreen
    • Narrated by: Laurence Bergreen
    • Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 853 ratings
    • In 1519 Magellan and his fleet of five ships set sail from Seville, Spain, to discover a water route to the fabled Spice Islands in Indonesia, where the most sought-after commodities flourished....

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    • Journey to the Lost City of Z
    • By: Lt. Col. P. H. Fawcett
    • Narrated by: Robin Sachs
    • Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 97 ratings
    • This is the true story of the real Colonel Fawcett, whose life was the inspiration for the best-selling book The Lost City of Z and an upcoming movie starring Brad Pitt....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the History of the Golden State, Starting from When Native Americans Dominated Through European Exploration to the Present
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • California’s transformation into the most populous state in America and the home of some of the country’s richest citizens spread amongst Silicon Valley and Hollywood, was certainly no accident....

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    • The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance
    • By: Jennifer Armstrong
    • Narrated by: Taylor Mali
    • Length: 3 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-00
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 239 ratings
    • It's a survival story almost too incredible to believe, but it's the extraordinary true tale of endurance in the harshest environment on earth...

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    • The History of the Captain Who Went Further Than Any Had Before
    • By: Una McCormack
    • Narrated by: Kate Mulgrew
    • Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,435 ratings
    • Captain Janeway of the USS Voyager tells the story of her life in Starfleet, for fans of Star Trek....

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    • The Epic Voyages of Vasco da Gama
    • By: Nigel Cliff
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Historian Nigel Cliff delivers a sweeping reinterpretation of Vasco da Gama's pioneering voyages, revealing their significance as a decisive turning point in the struggle between Christianity and Islam - a series of events which forever altered the relationship between East and West....

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    • Arctic Expedition Book about Epic Journeys, Heroic Explorations, and Tragedies in the Early Voyages of Discovery to the Arctic and Polar Regions.
    • By: Bo Carson
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The frozen wilderness of the Arctic captivated and mystified voyagers and explorers in the 1800s, driven by greed for riches, fame, and the search ...

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    • A Cover-To-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
    • By: Keith Houston
    • Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • We may love books, but do we know what lies behind them? In The Book, Keith Houston reveals that the paper, ink, thread, glue, and board from which a book is made tell as rich a story as the words on its pages - of civilizations, empires, human ingenuity, and madness....

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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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    • Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap
    • By: David Roberts
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 12-13-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • The riveting story of one of the greatest but least-known sagas in the history of exploration from David Roberts, the “dean of adventure writing”....

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    • Columbus, Magellan, and the Early Explorations
    • By: Paul Herrmann
    • Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 315 ratings
    • In the space of 400 years, Western man methodically set out to explore and map the entire earth....

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