World Disasters

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    • El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
    • By: Mike Davis
    • Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • ike Davis discloses the relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history....

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    • Thirty-Nine Tiny Mistakes That Changed the World Forever
    • By: Jared Knott
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
    • Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • How often does a single tiny mistake cause an entire civilization to collapse? More often than you think! Listeners of Jared Knott’s book Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters will be amazed at the little things that changed history in a big way....

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    • Disaster, 1940-1945
    • By: Frank McDonough
    • Narrated by: Paul McGann
    • Series: The Hitler Years, Book 2
    • Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • In this second volume of The Hitler Years, Professor Frank McDonough charts the dramatic change of fortune for the Third Reich and Germany's ultimate defeat....

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    • The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster
    • By: Andrew Leatherbarrow
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,017 ratings
    • At 01:23:40 on April 26th 1986, Alexander Akimov pressed the emergency shutdown button at Chernobyl's fourth nuclear reactor. It was an act that forced the permanent evacuation....

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    • How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch
    • By: Lewis Dartnell
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-17-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 510 ratings
    • The Knowledge is a brilliantly original guide to the fundamentals of science and how it built our modern world as well as a thought experiment about the very idea of scientific knowledge itself....

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    • A History of Earthquakes, Floods, Plagues, and Other Catastrophes
    • By: John Withington
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • This audiobook is a comprehensive catalog of the most devastating and deadly events-natural or man-made-in human history. If you follow the news it can seem like injury, sickness, and death are now constant, inescapable occurrences that threaten us every second of every day....

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    • EMP Survival in a Powerless World, Book 2
    • By: James Hunt
    • Narrated by: Tia Rider Sorensen
    • Series: EMP Survival in a Powerless World, Book 2
    • Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-24
    • Language: English
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    • The thin thread holding the civilized world together has been severed. Millions of citizens have been thrust into the unknown, breeding fear into the minds and souls of those seeking to survive.

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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 How and Why of the World's Worst Aviation Disaster
    • By: Jon Ziomek, Caroline Hopkins - contributor
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • The world's worst air disaster happened more than 40 years ago on a remote Atlantic Ocean island, when two fully loaded 747 passenger jets collided after a horrendous series of human errors....

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    • By: Wyn Craig Wade
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 209 ratings
    • In this centennial edition of the definitive book on the Titanic, new findings and interviews shed light on the world’s most famous marine disaster....

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    • By: Dennis Smith
    • Narrated by: Eric Conger, Jeff David, Don Leslie
    • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 207 ratings
    • Report from Ground Zero is the most detailed and immediate record of 9/11, with the unique perspective of a writer who has been praised as "the poet laureate of firefighters"....

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    • Unconventional and controversial ideas to surviving riots, civil war, and nuclear war.
    • By: Don Shift
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • You may find yourself in the middle of a human disaster you may never have anticipated. Cyberattacks may cripple cell phone networks, nuclear war ...

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    • 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History
    • By: William K. Klingaman, Nicholas P. Klingaman
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • 1816 was a remarkable year - mostly for the fact that there was no summer. As a result of a volcanic eruption at Mount Tambora in Indonesia, weather patterns were disrupted worldwide for months, allowing for excessive rain, frost, and snowfall....

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    • Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions
    • By: Peter Brannen
    • Narrated by: Adam Verner
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,959 ratings
    • Our world has ended five times: It has been broiled, frozen, poison gassed, smothered, and pelted by asteroids....

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    • Collapsing World Series Book One
    • By: Owen Davis
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The economic collapse started in China. But the world's economies were interconnected and interdependent. Within hours, the collapse had spread ...

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    • The Mount Pelee Disaster: May 7, 1902
    • By: Gordon Thomas, Max Morgan-Witts
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • In late April 1902, Mount Pelee, a volcano on the Caribbean island Martinique, began to wake up. It emitted clouds of ash and smoke for two weeks until violently erupting on May 8....

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