Discovery History

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    • A History of the Vikings
    • By: Neil Price
    • Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
    • Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 25-08-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • The Viking Age - from 750 to 1050 saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the wider world. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they ranged from eastern North America to the Asian steppe....

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    • Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
    • By: Alfred Lansing
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble
    • Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-2008
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 974 ratings
    • In August of 1914, the British ship Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic. In October 1915, still half a continent away from its intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in the ice

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    • The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age
    • By: Derek Cheung, Eric Brach
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Conquering the Electron offers listeners a true and engaging history of the world of electronics, beginning with the discoveries of static electricity and magnetism and ending with the creation of the smartphone and the iPad....

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    • The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917
    • By: Sir Ernest Shackleton
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 23-03-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • As war clouds darkened over Europe in 1914, a party led by Sir Ernest Shackleton set out to make the first crossing of the entire Antarctic continent via the Pole....

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    • True Tales of Hunting, Trapping, Fighting, and Survival
    • By: Stephen Brennan
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 28-02-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Experience the true “great outdoors” through the stories of the men who lived it.....

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    • The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings
    • By: Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton, Jay Barbree, Neil Armstrong - introduction by
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Desperate to beat the Russians into space, NASA put together a crew of the nation's most daring test pilots: the seven men who were to lead America to the moon. The first into space was Alan Shepard; the last was Deke Slayton, whose irregular heartbeat kept him grounded until 1975....

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    • How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
    • By: Steven Strogatz
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 20-08-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Without calculus, we wouldn't have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn't have unraveled DNA or discovered Neptune or figured out how to put 5,000 songs in your pocket....

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    • Wizard at War: The Genius, the Particle Beam Weapon, and the Pursuit of Power
    • By: Marc J. Seifer
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 29-06-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Drawing on 40 years of research and a treasure trove of new information, Tesla: Wizard at War provides a comprehensive view of Tesla's discoveries, which continue to influence today's military technology and diplomatic strategies....

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    • By: Peter FitzSimons
    • Narrated by: Richard Aspel
    • Length: 17 hrs
    • Release date: 13-12-2012
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 727 ratings
    • The story begins in 1629, when the pride of the Dutch East India Company, the Batavia, is on its maiden voyage en route from Amsterdam to the Dutch East Indies, laden down with the greatest treasure to leave Holland....

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    • By: Stephen Brennan - editor
    • Narrated by: Mark Ashby
    • Length: 21 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-2013
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • For thousands of years, we have set out sailing for all kinds of reasons - for battle, for infinite wealth, for the excitement of exploring the unknown....

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    • Cook, Peary, and Byrd - How Three American Heroes Duped the World into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole
    • By: Anthony Galvin
    • Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 18-11-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • The Great Polar Fraud explores the history of the three men who claimed the pole, their claims, and the subsequent doubts of those claims....

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    • Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA's Double Helix
    • By: Howard Markel
    • Narrated by: Donald Corren
    • Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 21-09-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • One of our most prominent medical historians presents an authoritative history of the race to unravel DNA’s structure....

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    • The Fascinating, True Account of the Discovery of the Old Testament's Most Infamous City
    • By: Dr Steven Collins, Dr. Latayne C. Scott
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-2013
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The audiobook follows Dr. Collins as he tracks down Biblical, archaeological, and geological clues to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, narrowing down the list of possible sites....

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    • And the Ice Men of the Heroic Age - Scott, Shackelton and Amundsen
    • By: Peter FitzSimons
    • Narrated by: Paul English
    • Length: 23 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-2012
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 195 ratings
    • Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, was Australia’s greatest Antarctic explorer.

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    • John Colter, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and the Call of the American West
    • By: David Weston Marshall
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-2021
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In 1804, John Colter set out with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the first US expedition to traverse the North American continent. During the 28-month ordeal, Colter served as a hunter and scout, and honed his survival skills on the western frontier....

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    • A Captivating Guide to an Era of Exploration in European History, Including Discoveries Such as Christopher Columbus’ Voyages to the Americas and Vasco da Gama’s Sea Route to India
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • If you want to discover the captivating history of the Age of Discovery, then pay attention.... The Age of Discovery began in the early part of the 15th century and carried on through most of the 17th century. It is sometimes also referred to as the Age of Exploration....

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    • The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery
    • By: Mark Charles, Soong-Chan Rah
    • Narrated by: William Sarris
    • Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • You cannot discover lands already inhabited. Injustice has plagued American society for centuries. And we cannot move toward being a more just nation without understanding the root causes that have shaped our culture and institutions....

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    • A Legendary British Explorer's Deadly Quest to Uncover the Secrets of the Amazon
    • By: David Grann
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-2023
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • David Grann retraces the footsteps of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett and his followers as he unravels one of the greatest mysteries of exploration....

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    • By: Grantlee Kieza
    • Narrated by: Peter Houghton
    • Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • Fearless, sharp-eyed and handsome, Matthew Flinders was one of the greatest of all maritime adventurers and undertook one of the most important voyages of discovery – to circumnavigate and map the famed Great Southern Land....

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    • By: Rob Mundle
    • Narrated by: Paul English
    • Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-2015
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • Between 1606 and 1688, while the British had their hands full with the Gunpowder Plot and the English Civil War, it was highly skilled Dutch seafarers who mapped the land masses....

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