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The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers | Audiobook
Jan 30, 201808:17:00Tap to summarizeListen to free audiobook with a 30 day free trial :https://esound.space/audibleTitle: The Monk of MokhaAuthor: Dave EggersNarrator: Dion GrahamFormat: UnabridgedLength: 8 hrs and 17 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 01-30-18Publisher: Random House AudioGenres: History, WorldSummary:From the best-selling author of The Circle, the true story of a young Yemeni-American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana'a by civil war, and his riveting tale of escape.Mokhtar Alkhanshali grew up in San Francisco, one of seven siblings raised by Yemeni immigrants in a tiny apartment. At age 24, unable to pay for college, he works as a doorman. Until: a statue of an Arab raising a cup of coffee awakens something in him. He sets out to learn the rich history of coffee in Yemen and the complex art of tasting and identifying varietals. He travels to Yemen, collects samples of beans, eager to bring improved cultivation methods to the farmers. And he is on the verge of success when civil war engulfs Yemen in 2015 and he is trapped in Sana'a.Desperate to escape, he embarks on a passage that has him twice kidnapped at gunpoint, dodging US-made bombs dropped by the Saudi air force, and crossing the Red Sea onboard an unsafe skiff, all the while carrying two suitcases of coffee. A heart-pounding true story that weaves together the history of coffee, the ongoing Yemeni civil war, and the courageous journey of a young man - a Muslim and a US citizen - following the most American of dreams.Contact: info@esound.space
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Jan 30, 201808:17:00Tap to summarizeListen to full audiobooks for free on :https://esound.space/audibleTitle: The Monk of MokhaAuthor: Dave EggersNarrator: Dion GrahamFormat: UnabridgedLength: 8 hrs and 17 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 01-30-18Publisher: Random House AudioGenres: History, WorldSummary:From the best-selling author of The Circle, the true story of a young Yemeni-American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana'a by civil war, and his riveting tale of escape.Mokhtar Alkhanshali grew up in San Francisco, one of seven siblings raised by Yemeni immigrants in a tiny apartment. At age 24, unable to pay for college, he works as a doorman. Until: a statue of an Arab raising a cup of coffee awakens something in him. He sets out to learn the rich history of coffee in Yemen and the complex art of tasting and identifying varietals. He travels to Yemen, collects samples of beans, eager to bring improved cultivation methods to the farmers. And he is on the verge of success when civil war engulfs Yemen in 2015 and he is trapped in Sana'a.Desperate to escape, he embarks on a passage that has him twice kidnapped at gunpoint, dodging US-made bombs dropped by the Saudi air force, and crossing the Red Sea onboard an unsafe skiff, all the while carrying two suitcases of coffee. A heart-pounding true story that weaves together the history of coffee, the ongoing Yemeni civil war, and the courageous journey of a young man - a Muslim and a US citizen - following the most American of dreams.Contact: info@esound.space
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Searching for Augusta by Martin King | Audiobook
Jan 30, 201806:40:00Tap to summarizeListen to free audiobook with a 30 day free trial :https://esound.space/audibleTitle: Searching for AugustaAuthor: Martin KingNarrator: Roger ClarkFormat: UnabridgedLength: 6 hrs and 40 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 01-30-18Publisher: Tantor AudioGenres: History, MilitarySummary:A brutal siege. A forgotten heroine. A war-torn romance. And a historian determined to uncover the truth.Untold millions who saw Band of Brothers can finally know the whole story of what happened to American soldiers and civilians in Bastogne during that arduous Winter of 1944/45.In the television version of Band of Brothers, a passing reference is made to an African nurse assisting in an aid station in Bastogne. When military historian Martin King watched the episode, he had to know who that woman was; thus began a multi-year odyssey that revealed the horror of a town under siege as well as an improbable love story between a white Army medic, Jack Prior, and his black nurse, Augusta Chiwy, as they saved countless lives while under constant bombardment.Based on the recent discovery of Prior's diary as well as an exhaustive and occasionally futile search for Augusta herself, King was at last able to bring belated recognition of Augusta's incredible story by both the US Army and Belgian government shortly before she died.This is not only a little-known story of the Battle of the Bulge, but also the author's own relentless mission to locate Augusta and bestow upon her the honors she so richly deserved.Contact: info@esound.space
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Jan 30, 201806:40:00Tap to summarizeListen to full audiobooks for free on :https://esound.space/audibleTitle: Searching for AugustaAuthor: Martin KingNarrator: Roger ClarkFormat: UnabridgedLength: 6 hrs and 40 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 01-30-18Publisher: Tantor AudioGenres: History, MilitarySummary:A brutal siege. A forgotten heroine. A war-torn romance. And a historian determined to uncover the truth.Untold millions who saw Band of Brothers can finally know the whole story of what happened to American soldiers and civilians in Bastogne during that arduous Winter of 1944/45.In the television version of Band of Brothers, a passing reference is made to an African nurse assisting in an aid station in Bastogne. When military historian Martin King watched the episode, he had to know who that woman was; thus began a multi-year odyssey that revealed the horror of a town under siege as well as an improbable love story between a white Army medic, Jack Prior, and his black nurse, Augusta Chiwy, as they saved countless lives while under constant bombardment.Based on the recent discovery of Prior's diary as well as an exhaustive and occasionally futile search for Augusta herself, King was at last able to bring belated recognition of Augusta's incredible story by both the US Army and Belgian government shortly before she died.This is not only a little-known story of the Battle of the Bulge, but also the author's own relentless mission to locate Augusta and bestow upon her the honors she so richly deserved.Contact: info@esound.space
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When Montezuma Met Cortés by Matthew Restall | Audiobook
Jan 30, 201816:05:00Tap to summarizeListen to free audiobook with a 30 day free trial :https://esound.space/audibleTitle: When Montezuma Met CortésAuthor: Matthew RestallNarrator: Steven CrossleyFormat: UnabridgedLength: 16 hrs and 5 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 01-30-18Publisher: Harper AudioGenres: History, WorldSummary:A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cortés that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the AmericasOn November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan. This introduction - the prelude to the Spanish seizure of Mexico City and to European colonization of the mainland of the Americas - has long been the symbol of Cortés' bold and brilliant military genius. Montezuma, on the other hand, is remembered as a coward who gave away a vast empire and touched off a wave of colonial invasions across the hemisphere.But is this really what happened? In a departure from traditional tellings, When Montezuma Met Cortés uses "the Meeting" - as Restall dubs their first encounter - as the entry point into a comprehensive reevaluation of both Cortés and Montezuma. Drawing on rare primary sources and overlooked accounts by conquistadors and Aztecs alike, Restall explores Cortés' and Montezuma's posthumous reputations, their achievements and failures, and the worlds in which they lived - leading, step by step, to a dramatic inversion of the old story. As Restall takes us through this sweeping, revisionist account of a pivotal moment in modern civilization, he calls into question our view of the history of the Americas and, indeed, of history itself.Contact: info@esound.space
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Jan 30, 201816:05:00Tap to summarizeListen to full audiobooks for free on :https://esound.space/audibleTitle: When Montezuma Met CortésAuthor: Matthew RestallNarrator: Steven CrossleyFormat: UnabridgedLength: 16 hrs and 5 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 01-30-18Publisher: Harper AudioGenres: History, WorldSummary:A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cortés that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the AmericasOn November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan. This introduction - the prelude to the Spanish seizure of Mexico City and to European colonization of the mainland of the Americas - has long been the symbol of Cortés' bold and brilliant military genius. Montezuma, on the other hand, is remembered as a coward who gave away a vast empire and touched off a wave of colonial invasions across the hemisphere.But is this really what happened? In a departure from traditional tellings, When Montezuma Met Cortés uses "the Meeting" - as Restall dubs their first encounter - as the entry point into a comprehensive reevaluation of both Cortés and Montezuma. Drawing on rare primary sources and overlooked accounts by conquistadors and Aztecs alike, Restall explores Cortés' and Montezuma's posthumous reputations, their achievements and failures, and the worlds in which they lived - leading, step by step, to a dramatic inversion of the old story. As Restall takes us through this sweeping, revisionist account of a pivotal moment in modern civilization, he calls into question our view of the history of the Americas and, indeed, of history itself.Contact: info@esound.space
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First World War: 1918 by Sarah Kilgarriff | Audiobook
Jan 25, 201802:11:00Tap to summarizeListen to free audiobook with a 30 day free trial :https://esound.space/audibleTitle: First World War: 1918Author: Sarah KilgarriffNarrator: Jonathan KeebleFormat: Original RecordingLength: 2 hrs and 11 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 01-25-18Publisher: BBC Digital AudioGenres: History, WorldSummary:A unique collection of historic recordings in which the last brutal encounters of the war and the mixed emotions of the armistice are remembered by troops from both sides.By the end of March 1918, Germany's Spring Offensive had thrown British forces back over the old Somme battlefields. But this last push failed, and with the stalemate of trench warfare broken, the Allies swept from near defeat to victory. However, their joy was tempered by sorrow. Too many would not come home. For the Germans, the mood was despairing as their 'endless columns rolled eastward', the November fog and rain adding to their melancholy.Memorable reminiscences include an evocative portrait of poet Wilfred Owen, killed shortly before the armistice; American troops on their initiation into the horrors of battle; and reflections on the 'punitive' demands of the Paris Peace Conference. As the Treaty of Versailles was being drafted, the German navy decided its own fate in one final act of defiance, witnessed by a group of schoolchildren on an outing in Scapa Flow.These enduring recollections from the men who fought and the women who waited are a poignant and powerful reminder of the shocking realities of the war.Contact: info@esound.space
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Jan 25, 201802:11:00Tap to summarizeListen to full audiobooks for free on :https://esound.space/audibleTitle: First World War: 1918Author: Sarah KilgarriffNarrator: Jonathan KeebleFormat: Original RecordingLength: 2 hrs and 11 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 01-25-18Publisher: BBC Digital AudioGenres: History, WorldSummary:A unique collection of historic recordings in which the last brutal encounters of the war and the mixed emotions of the armistice are remembered by troops from both sides.By the end of March 1918, Germany's Spring Offensive had thrown British forces back over the old Somme battlefields. But this last push failed, and with the stalemate of trench warfare broken, the Allies swept from near defeat to victory. However, their joy was tempered by sorrow. Too many would not come home. For the Germans, the mood was despairing as their 'endless columns rolled eastward', the November fog and rain adding to their melancholy.Memorable reminiscences include an evocative portrait of poet Wilfred Owen, killed shortly before the armistice; American troops on their initiation into the horrors of battle; and reflections on the 'punitive' demands of the Paris Peace Conference. As the Treaty of Versailles was being drafted, the German navy decided its own fate in one final act of defiance, witnessed by a group of schoolchildren on an outing in Scapa Flow.These enduring recollections from the men who fought and the women who waited are a poignant and powerful reminder of the shocking realities of the war.Contact: info@esound.space
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The Sea and Civilization by Lincoln Paine | Audiobook
Jan 24, 201829:41:00Tap to summarizeListen to free audiobook with a 30 day free trial :https://esound.space/audibleTitle: The Sea and CivilizationAuthor: Lincoln PaineNarrator: Tom PerkinsFormat: UnabridgedLength: 29 hrs and 41 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 01-24-18Publisher: Tantor AudioGenres: History, WorldSummary:A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world's waterways, bringing together civilizations and defining what makes us most human.Lincoln Paine takes us back to the origins of long-distance migration by sea with our ancestors' first forays from Africa and Eurasia to Australia and the Americas. He demonstrates the critical role of maritime trade to the civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley. He reacquaints us with the great seafaring cultures of antiquity like those of the Phoenicians and Greeks as well as those of India and Southeast and East Asia, who parlayed their navigational skills, shipbuilding techniques, and commercial acumen to establish thriving overseas colonies and trade routes in the centuries leading up to the age of European expansion. And finally, his narrative traces how commercial shipping and naval warfare brought about the enormous demographic, cultural, and political changes that have globalized the world throughout the post-Cold War era.Contact: info@esound.space
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Jan 24, 201829:41:00Tap to summarizeListen to full audiobooks for free on :https://esound.space/audibleTitle: The Sea and CivilizationAuthor: Lincoln PaineNarrator: Tom PerkinsFormat: UnabridgedLength: 29 hrs and 41 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 01-24-18Publisher: Tantor AudioGenres: History, WorldSummary:A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world's waterways, bringing together civilizations and defining what makes us most human.Lincoln Paine takes us back to the origins of long-distance migration by sea with our ancestors' first forays from Africa and Eurasia to Australia and the Americas. He demonstrates the critical role of maritime trade to the civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley. He reacquaints us with the great seafaring cultures of antiquity like those of the Phoenicians and Greeks as well as those of India and Southeast and East Asia, who parlayed their navigational skills, shipbuilding techniques, and commercial acumen to establish thriving overseas colonies and trade routes in the centuries leading up to the age of European expansion. And finally, his narrative traces how commercial shipping and naval warfare brought about the enormous demographic, cultural, and political changes that have globalized the world throughout the post-Cold War era.Contact: info@esound.space
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