Victorian Explorers
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Explorers of the Nile
- The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure
- By: Tim Jeal
- Narrated by: Clive Chafer
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
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From award-winning author Tim Jeal comes a vivid examination of the six larger-than-life men and one extraordinary woman who set out to find the source of the White Nile in the 19th century.
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Great Story Flawed
- By The Mays-Dickens Family on 05-12-12
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Explorers of the Nile
- The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure
- Narrated by: Clive Chafer
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 12-31-11
- Language: English
- From award-winning author Tim Jeal comes a vivid examination of the six larger-than-life men and one extraordinary woman who set out to find the source of the White Nile in the 19th century....
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Divine Lola
- A True Story of Scandal and Celebrity
- By: Cristina Morató, Andrea Rosenberg - translator
- Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Lola Montez was one of the most celebrated and notorious women of the nineteenth century. A raven-haired Andalusian who performed her scandalous “Spider Dance” in the greatest performance halls across Europe, she dazzled and beguiled all who met her with her astonishing beauty, sexuality, and shocking disregard for propriety. But Lola was an impostor, a self-invention. Born Eliza Gilbert, the beautiful Irish wild child escaped a stifling marriage and reimagined herself as Lola the Sevillian flamenco dancer and noblewoman.
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Kept My Atrention
- By martinis3 on 10-05-21
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Divine Lola
- A True Story of Scandal and Celebrity
- Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 09-01-21
- Language: English
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An enthralling biography about one of the most intriguing women of the Victorian age: the first self-invented international social celebrity....
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Between Man and Beast
- An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure that Took the Victorian World By Storm
- By: Monte Reel
- Narrated by: Bob Walter
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1856 Paul Du Chaillu marched into the equatorial wilderness of West Africa determined to bag an animal that, according to legend, was nothing short of a monster. When he emerged three years later, the summation of his efforts only hinted at what he'd experienced in one of the most dangerous regions on earth. Armed with an astonishing collection of zoological specimens, Du Chaillu leapt from the physical challenges of the jungle straight into the center of the biggest issues of the time.
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Extraordinary book! Masterpiece.
- By BVerité on 04-23-13
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Between Man and Beast
- An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure that Took the Victorian World By Storm
- Narrated by: Bob Walter
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 03-12-13
- Language: English
- In 1856 Paul Du Chaillu marched into the equatorial wilderness of West Africa determined to bag an animal that, according to legend, was nothing short of a monster....
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Dr. David Livingstone
- The Life and Legacy of the Victorian Era's Most Famous Explorer and Pioneer
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Kenneth Ray
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Modern society tends to portray men of history to be great saints or great sinners. In fact, biographers are often inclined, depending on their personal predilections, to portray their subjects as one of these two extremes, especially when someone is seen by a certain group as an example of religious ideals or values. Writers are often afraid that if any of the person's mistakes come to light, it will somehow disqualify them from being admired.
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Dr. David Livingstone
- The Life and Legacy of the Victorian Era's Most Famous Explorer and Pioneer
- Narrated by: Kenneth Ray
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Release date: 12-15-16
- Language: English
- Modern society tends to portray men of history to be great saints or great sinners....
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The Real-Life World's Most Interesting Men
- Victorian Explorers Francis Burton and Richard M. Stanley: History 1-Hour Reads, Book 3
- By: Michael Rank
- Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
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Everybody imagines the world's most interesting man to be a fictional, gray-haired lothario who drinks Mexican beer and boasts of his legendary exploits. But what if a man like this really lived? It turns out he did, and there were two of them--both Victorian explorers.
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The Real-Life World's Most Interesting Men
- Victorian Explorers Francis Burton and Richard M. Stanley: History 1-Hour Reads, Book 3
- Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Release date: 01-22-15
- Language: English
- Everybody imagines the world's most interesting man to be a fictional, gray-haired lothario who drinks Mexican beer and boasts of his legendary exploits. But what if a man like this really lived? Find out....
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Endless Novelties of Extraordinary Interest
- The Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger and the Birth of Modern Oceanography
- By: Doug Macdougall
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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From late 1872 to 1876, H.M.S. Challenger explored the world's oceans. Conducting deep sea soundings, dredging the ocean floor, recording temperatures, observing weather, and collecting biological samples, the expedition laid the foundations for modern oceanography. Following the ship's naturalists and their discoveries, earth scientist Doug Macdougall engagingly tells a story of Victorian-era adventure and ties these early explorations to the growth of modern scientific fields.
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Good but could have been better
- By subrookie on 09-05-19
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Endless Novelties of Extraordinary Interest
- The Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger and the Birth of Modern Oceanography
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 08-20-19
- Language: English
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A gripping tale of exploration aboard H.M.S. Challenger, an expedition that laid the foundations for modern oceanography....
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The Gentleman in the Parlour
- By: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrated by: Philip Bird
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
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Somerset Maugham's success as a writer enabled him to indulge his adventurous love of travel, and he recorded the sights and sounds of his wide-ranging journeys with a unique urbane, wry style. The Gentleman in the Parlour is an account of the author's trip through what was then Burma and Siam, ending in Haiphong, Vietnam. Whether by river to Mandalay, on horse through the mountains and forests of the Shan States to Bangkok, or onwards by sea, Maugham's vivid descriptions bring a lost world to life.
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Very relaxing!
- By Maria-Dulce Almeida on 05-11-23
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The Gentleman in the Parlour
- Narrated by: Philip Bird
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 11-09-12
- Language: English
- Somerset Maugham's success as a writer enabled him to indulge his adventurous love of travel....
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The Forbidden Orchid
- By: Sharon Biggs Waller
- Narrated by: Katharine Lee McEwan
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
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Staid, responsible Elodie Buchanan is the eldest of 10 sisters growing up in a small English market town in 1861. The girls barely know their father, a plant hunter usually off adventuring through China, more myth than man. Then disaster strikes: Mr. Buchanan reneges on his contract to collect an extremely rare and valuable orchid. He will be thrown into debtors' prison while his daughters are sent to the orphanage and the workhouse.
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The Forbidden Orchid
- Narrated by: Katharine Lee McEwan
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 03-08-16
- Language: English
- Staid, responsible Elodie Buchanan is the eldest of 10 sisters growing up in a small English market town in 1861. The girls barely know their father, a plant hunter usually off adventuring through China....
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