The epic, never-before-told story of Columbus’s final, and perhaps greatest, journey to the New World. The final voyage of Christopher Columbus was by far his most dangerous, unexpected, exhilarating, and consequential. It was, as Pulitzer Prize-winner Samuel Eliot Morison put it, “a story of adventure which imagination could hardly invent; a struggle between man and the elements, in which the most splendid manifestations of devotion, loyalty and courage are mingled with the vilest human passions.
Shockingly, no book has been written about this fateful final journey until now. Martin Dugard finally brings to light this saga of shipwreck, mutiny, discovery, and political treachery—telling the story of how Columbus’s quest to find a passage to the Orient drove him onward in the face of peril. Here we meet Christopher Columbus, the determined, and sometimes desperate, elder adventurer—a far cry from the shrouded hero/villain of legend. The Last Voyage of Columbus offers up the long-lost last chapter in the life of a man whose story we only thought we knew.
Written By - Richard Curtis and Ben Elton
Performed By : Full Cast Production
Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime : 2 hours 55 minutes
Categories : Adult Comedy Pre 1900 Modern Classics
Price : $18.99
The serpentine Lord Blackadder lowers the whole tone of England's Golden Age. More info...
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Written By - Bernard Cornwell
Performed By : Jamie Glover
Publisher : Harper Collins US
Runtime : 6 hours
Categories : Historical British Pre 1900
Price : $29.95 $19.95
Alfred and Uhtred make an unlikely allies, yet the two forge an uneasy alliance that will lead them to where the Saxon army will fight for the very existence of Britain... More info...
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Written By - David McCullough
Performed By : David McCullough
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Runtime : 12 hours
Categories : American Pre 1900
Price : $49.95 $29.95
In this stirring audiobook, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence. More info...
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Written By - Chicago Post
Performed By : Ernie Winstanley
Publisher : Simply Audiobooks Publishing
Runtime : 59 minutes
Categories : American Pre 1900
Price : $9.95
As reported at the time. Accounts from 1871 of one of American history's most famous fire. More info...
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