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    • Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun
    • By: Jonathan Clements
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 285 ratings
    • This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion....

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    • Madagascar, an Island Story
    • By: John Gimlette
    • Narrated by: Mark Elstob
    • Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • A journey - both historical and contemporary - among the fantastical landscapes, beguiling creatures and isolated tribes of the world's fourth island: Madagascar....

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    • Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas
    • By: Jerry Dennis
    • Narrated by: Barry Press
    • Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • If fresh water is to be treasured, the Great Lakes are the mother lode. No bodies of water can compare to them. One of them, Superior, is the largest lake on earth....

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    • A Guide to the City of Light Following in the Footsteps of Famous Parisians Throughout History
    • By: Susan Cahill
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • From the author of Hidden Gardens of Paris, The Streets of Paris is Susan Cahill's wonderfully unique guide to present-day Paris following in the footsteps of famous Parisians through the last 800 years....

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    • Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
    • By: Michael Booth
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 04-22-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 662 ratings
    • In The Almost Nearly Perfect People, Michael Booth explains who the Scandinavians are, how they differ and why, and what their quirks and foibles are....

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    • By: John Hooper
    • Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
    • Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 141 ratings
    • John Hooper's marvelously entertaining and perceptive new book is ideal for anyone seeking to understand contemporary Italy and the unique character of the Italians....

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    • A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
    • By: Michael Booth
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 168 ratings
    • There is an ancient Chinese proverb that states, "Two tigers cannot share the same mountain." However, in East Asia, there are three tigers on that mountain: China, Japan, and Korea, and they have a long history of turmoil and tension with each other....

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    • A Borderland Journey Between England and Scotland
    • By: Rory Stewart
    • Narrated by: Rory Stewart
    • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • Ten years after the walk across Central Asia and Afghanistan that he memorialized in The Places in Between, Rory Stewart set out on a new journey, traversing a thousand miles....

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    • Stories of Accidents and Foolhardiness in the Crown of the Continent
    • By: Randi Minetor
    • Narrated by: Stephanie Dillard
    • Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • Adventures in the wilderness can be dramatic and deadly. Glacier National Park's death records date back to January 1913, when a man froze to death while snowshoeing between Cut Bank and St. Mary....

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    • A Travel Companion to the Hidden Secrets of the Eternal City
    • By: Phillip Barlag
    • Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
    • Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • The History of Rome in 12 Buildings is compelling, concise, and fun, and takes you behind the iconic buildings to reveal the hidden stories of the people that forged the Roman Empire....

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    • By: Jamaica Kincaid
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 580 ratings
    • Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright by turns, in a Swiftian mode, A Small Place cannot help but amplify our vision of one small place and all that it signifies....

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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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    • In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History
    • By: Simon Winder
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 18 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 162 ratings
    • Propelled by a wish to reclaim the varied German civilization that the Nazis ruined, and that many have worked to rebuild, Germania was recorded to enlighten us on serious topics, curiosities, and on the limits of language, the meaning of culture, and the pleasure of townscape....

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    • Murder and Survival on the First North Pole Expedition
    • By: Bruce Henderson
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 133 ratings
    • It began as President Ulysses S. Grant's bid for international glory after the Civil War - America's first attempt to reach the North Pole. It ended with Captain Charles Hall's death....

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    • Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past
    • By: Giles Tremlett
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 19 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • The appearance, more than 60 years after the Spanish Civil War ended, of mass graves containing victims of Francisco Franco's death squads finally broke what Spaniards call "the pact of forgetting" - the unwritten understanding that their recent, painful past was best left unexplored....

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    • The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook
    • By: Martin Dugard
    • Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
    • Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 390 ratings
    • Dugard's gripping account of the life and death of Captain James Cook is a thrilling story of a discoverer hell-bent on going farther than any man....

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    • By: Brian Herne
    • Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
    • Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 482 ratings
    • A little over 100 years ago, East Africa was terra incognita to most whites....

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    • A Journey Around the Coast of Britian
    • By: Paul Theroux
    • Narrated by: Ron Keith
    • Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • American-born Paul Theroux had lived in England for 11 years when he realized he'd explored dozens of exotic locations without discovering anything about his adopted home....

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    • Pure City
    • By: Peter Ackroyd
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-09-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • The Venetians' language and way of thinking set them aside from the rest of Italy. They are an island people, linked to the sea and to the tides rather than the land....

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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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