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Four Points of the Compass
- The Unexpected History of Direction
- By: Jerry Brotton
- Length: Not Yet Known
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The Four Points of the Compass takes the listener on a journey of directional discovery. Jerry Brotton reveals why Hebrew culture privileges east; why Renaissance Europeans began drawing north at the top of their maps; why the early Islam revered the south; why the Aztecs used five colour-coded cardinal directions; and why no societies, primitive or modern, have ever oriented themselves westwards. He ends by reflecting on our digital age in which we, the little blue dot on the screen, have become the most important compass point.
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Four Points of the Compass
- The Unexpected History of Direction
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 05-09-2024
- Language: English
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The Bridleway
- How Horses Shaped the British Landscape
- By: Tiffany Francis-Baker
- Narrated by: Olivia Mace
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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Most of us have enjoyed walking on a bridleway at some time, but we rarely stop to think about how these old routes came to be. These ancient networks criss-cross the British countryside and are so familiar to walkers and riders that they have become almost invisible as we meander our way along them. From atop a horse and on foot, Tiffany Francis-Baker provides listeners with a new perspective on bridleways and a glimpse into their intriguing history.
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The Bridleway
- How Horses Shaped the British Landscape
- Narrated by: Olivia Mace
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 08-06-2023
- Language: English
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Invisible Countries
- Journeys to the Edge of Nationhood
- By: Joshua Keating
- Narrated by: Joshua Keating
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
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What is a country? While certain basic tenets - such as the clear demarcation of a country's borders, and the acknowledgment of its sovereignty by other countries and by international governing bodies like the United Nations - seem applicable, journalist Joshua Keating's book explores exceptions to these rules. Through stories about these countries' efforts at self-determination, as well as their respective challenges, Keating reveals that there is no universal legal authority determining what we consider a country.
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Invisible Countries
- Journeys to the Edge of Nationhood
- Narrated by: Joshua Keating
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 26-06-2018
- Language: English
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Glowing Still
- A Woman's Life on the Road
- By: Sara Wheeler
- Narrated by: Sara Wheeler
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
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Wheeler is Britain's foremost woman travel writer. Glowing Still is the story of her travelling life - what is 'important, revealing or funny' - in a notoriously testosterone-laden field. Growing up among blue-collar Conservatives in Bristol where 'we didn't know anyone who wasn't like us', Wheeler knew she needed to get away. In her twenties she began a dramatic escape: Pole to Pole, via Poland. Glowing Still recalls happy days on India's Puri Express; an Antarctic lavatory through which a seal popped up (hot fishy breath!); and the louche life of a Parisian shopgirl.
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Glowing Still
- A Woman's Life on the Road
- Narrated by: Sara Wheeler
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 16-03-2023
- Language: English
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The Inner Coast
- Essays
- By: Donovan Hohn
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
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Writing in the grand American tradition of Annie Dillard and Barry Lopez, Donovan Hohn is an "adventurous, inquisitive, and brightly illuminating writer" (New York Times). Since the publication of Moby-Duck a decade ago, Hohn has been widely hailed for his prize-winning essays on the borderlands between the natural and the human. The Inner Coast collects 10 of his best, many of them originally published in such magazines as the New York Times Magazine and Harper's.
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The Inner Coast
- Essays
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 14-07-2020
- Language: English
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No Place to Go
- How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs
- By: Lezlie Lowe
- Narrated by: Amanda Wood
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
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Adults don’t talk about the business of doing our business. We work on one assumption: The world of public bathrooms is problem - and politics-free. No Place to Go: How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs reveals the opposite is true. No Place to Go is a toilet tour from London to San Francisco to Toronto and beyond. From pay potties to deserted alleyways, No Place to Go is a marriage of urbanism, social narrative, and pop culture that shows the ways - momentous and mockable - public bathrooms just don’t work.
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No Place to Go
- How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs
- Narrated by: Amanda Wood
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 15-05-2021
- Language: English
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Wild Journeys
- By: Bruce Ansley
- Narrated by: Kevin Key
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
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Discover a world of wild, mysterious and audacious journeys. Bruce Ansley retraces the path of the doomed surveyor John Whitcombe across the Southern Alps; follows the raiding party of the Northern chief Te Puoho along the West Coast; sails around New Zealand's Northern and Southern capes; walks through the Valley under the Two Thumb Range to the mythical Mesopotamia; drives from Waiheke to Wanaka (in a hurry); sets off on a hunt for the South Island's Grey Ghost; looks deep into the heart of volcanic New Zealand and tracks our most unlikely hero, the prison escaper George Wilder.
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Wild Journeys
- Narrated by: Kevin Key
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 01-11-2018
- Language: English
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Borders (2nd Edition)
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Alexander C. Diener, Joshua Hagen
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
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First published in 2012, Borders: A Very Short Introduction began with the premise that "we live in a very bordered world." The intervening decade has witnessed a flurry of events and developments that continue to highlight the centrality of borders in contemporary domestic and international affairs, as well as the interstices between the two....
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Borders (2nd Edition)
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 09-07-2024
- Language: English
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From Here to There
- The Art and Science of Finding and Losing Our Way
- By: Michael Bond
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
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How is it that we can walk unfamiliar streets while maintaining a sense of direction? How can we come up with shortcuts on the fly, in places we've never traveled? The answer is the complex mental map in our brains. This feature of our cognition is easily taken for granted, but it's also critical to our species' evolutionary success. In From Here to There, Michael Bond tells stories of the lost and found - Polynesian sailors, orienteering champions, early aviators - and surveys the science of human navigation.
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From Here to There
- The Art and Science of Finding and Losing Our Way
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 12-05-2020
- Language: English
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Black Faces, White Spaces
- Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors
- By: Carolyn Finney
- Narrated by: Chanté McCormick
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
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Drawing on a variety of sources from film, literature, and popular culture, and analyzing different historical moments, including the establishment of the Wilderness Act in 1964 and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Finney reveals the perceived and real ways in which nature and the environment are racialized in America. Looking toward the future, she also highlights the work of African Americans who are opening doors to greater participation in environmental and conservation concerns.
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Black Faces, White Spaces
- Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors
- Narrated by: Chanté McCormick
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 27-07-2021
- Language: English
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Extra Time
- 10 Lessons for an Ageing World
- By: Camilla Cavendish
- Narrated by: Camilla Cavendish
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
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The Western world is undergoing a dramatic demographic shift. By 2020, for the first time in history, the number of people aged 65 and over will outnumber children aged five and under. But our systems are lagging woefully behind this new reality. In Extra Time, Camilla Cavendish embarks on a journey to understand how different countries are responding to these unprecedented challenges.
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Extra Time
- 10 Lessons for an Ageing World
- Narrated by: Camilla Cavendish
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 02-05-2019
- Language: English
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Peak Everything
- Waking Up to the Century of Declines
- By: Richard Heinberg
- Narrated by: Edward Dalmas
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
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Peak Everything addresses many of the cultural, psychological and practical changes we will have to make as nature rapidly dictates our new limits. This latest book from Richard Heinberg, author of three of the most important books on Peak Oil, touches on the most important aspects of the human condition at this unique moment in time.
A combination of wry commentary and sober forecasting on subjects as diverse as farming and industrial design, this book tells how we might make the transition from The Age of Excess to the Era of Modesty with grace and satisfaction....
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One of the most important books in the world
- By Gecho on 25-07-2019
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Peak Everything
- Waking Up to the Century of Declines
- Narrated by: Edward Dalmas
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 25-05-2011
- Language: English
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La France Orange Mécanique
- By: Laurent Obertone
- Narrated by: Raynald Delannoye
- Length: 15 hrs and 56 mins
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Enquête sur un sujet tabou : l'ensauvagement d'une nation. Chaque jour en France : 2860 violences physiques dont 360 avec arme - 660 violences sexuelles dont 300 viols et tentatives. Dans la Manche, un clandestin est jugé pour viol et agression sexuelle sur deux jeunes filles. Un " prédateur " pour la police, des " difficultés d’interprétation " selon son avocate. La cour estime que le prévenu n’a pas eu « conscience d’imposer un rapport sexuel ». Il ne mettra pas les pieds en prison. Pourquoi notre société protège-t-elle les criminels ? Dans notre pays, on agresse des pompiers à coups de marteau.
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La France Orange Mécanique
- Narrated by: Raynald Delannoye
- Length: 15 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 13-06-2024
- Language: French
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Living Sustainably
- What Intentional Communities Can Teach Us About Democracy, Simplicity, and Nonviolence
- By: A. Whitney Sanford
- Narrated by: Effie Bradley
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
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In light of concerns about food and human health, fraying social ties, economic uncertainty, and rampant consumerism, some people are foregoing a hurried, distracted existence and embracing a mindful way of living. Intentional residential communities across the United States are seeking the freedom to craft their own societies and live based on the values of nonviolence, self-sufficiency, equality, and voluntary simplicity.
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Living Sustainably
- What Intentional Communities Can Teach Us About Democracy, Simplicity, and Nonviolence
- Narrated by: Effie Bradley
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 09-01-2020
- Language: English
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Let Me Take You by the Hand
- True Tales from London's Streets
- By: Jennifer Kavanagh
- Narrated by: Jess Nesling
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
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In 1861, the great journalist and social advocate Henry Mayhew published London Labour and the London Poor, an oral history of those living and working on the streets of Victorian London. Nothing on this scale had been attempted before. On the surface, the streets of London in 1861 and in 2019 are entirely different places. But dig just a little and the similarities are striking and, in many cases, shocking. Taking Mayhew's book as inspiration, Jennifer Kavanagh explores the changes and continuities by collecting and mapping stories from today's London.
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Let Me Take You by the Hand
- True Tales from London's Streets
- Narrated by: Jess Nesling
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 03-06-2021
- Language: English
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How to Draw a Map
- By: Malcolm Swanston, Alex Swanston
- Narrated by: Philip Bretherton
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
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In How to Draw a Map, father and son cartographers Alexander and Malcolm Swanston demonstrate the skill, creativity and care involved in the timeless art of creating maps - and what these artefacts reveal about the legion of mapmakers who went before us.
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How to Draw a Map
- Narrated by: Philip Bretherton
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 05-09-2019
- Language: English
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Hitching for Hope
- A Journey into the Heart and Soul of Ireland
- By: Ruairí McKiernan
- Narrated by: Gary Furlong
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
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By turns exciting, provocative, and sincere, Hitching for Hope: A Journey into the Heart and Soul of Ireland is the tale of a pilgrimage both deeply personal and explicitly political. McKiernan embarks without an itinerary, not knowing with whom he may speak, what he may hear, or where he may sleep each night. As he reflects on his past, faces his fears, and listens to the struggles, hopes, and dreams of Ireland’s people, he excavates a human resilience often obscured by the media.
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Hitching for Hope
- A Journey into the Heart and Soul of Ireland
- Narrated by: Gary Furlong
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 13-04-2020
- Language: English
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Invisible Lines
- Boundaries and Belts That Define the World
- By: Maxim Samson
- Narrated by: Neil Gardner
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
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Our world has innumerable boundaries, ranging from the obvious - like an ocean - to subtle differences in language or climate. Most of us cross invisible lines all the time, but don't stop to consider them. In Invisible Lines, geographer Maxim Samson presents 30 such unseen boundaries, intriguing and unexpected examples of the myriad ways in which we collectively engage with and experience the world.
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Invisible Lines
- Boundaries and Belts That Define the World
- Narrated by: Neil Gardner
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 24-08-2023
- Language: English
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Human Geography for Dummies
- By: Kyle Tredinnick
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
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Human Geography For Dummies introduces you to the ideas and perspectives encompassed by the field of human geography and makes a great supplement to human geography courses in high school or college. So what is human geography? Human geography explores the relationship between humans and their natural environment, tracking the broad social patterns that shape human societies. You'll learn about immigration, urbanization, globalization, empire and political expansion, and economic systems, to name a few.
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Human Geography for Dummies
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 25-06-2024
- Language: English
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Asylum Speakers
- Stories of Migration from the Humans Behind the Headlines
- By: Jaz O'Hara
- Narrated by: Jaz O'Hara
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
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We are currently experiencing the biggest humanitarian crisis of our time. Across the world, from Ukraine to Sudan to Mexico, people are forced to flee their homes every day due to conflict, climate change and persecution. And devastatingly, the scale of this crisis is only predicted to get worse: by 2050, 1 in 10 people on earth will be displaced. Having met and interviewed hundreds of people impacted by migration, charity founder Jaz O'Hara shares 31 remarkable and inspiring stories, from refugees to volunteers working on the frontline: ordinary people with extraordinary experiences.
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Asylum Speakers
- Stories of Migration from the Humans Behind the Headlines
- Narrated by: Jaz O'Hara
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 20-06-2023
- Language: English
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