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    Penelope Bungles to Broome: New Speciality Titles , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 539min
    A follow-up to Tim Bowden's highly successful Penelope Goes West, this time covering the intriguing adventures of Tim, Ros, Penelope (the car), and The Manor (the caravan) as they travel across remote north western Australia. Tim and Ros Bowden explore the Kimberley by land and sea, where dramatic 12-metre tides guard coastal locations unchanged by time - still as 17th century buccaneer William Dampier first described them. For three months, Tim and Ros and their trusty four-wheel-drive, Penelope, travelled from the improbably sculptured Bungle Bungles to the Pilbara and the wildflower-filled Mid West. Bowden's enthusiasm for history is infectious and this book is peppered with great stories of present and past, ill-fated settlements and expeditions, tragic tourist deaths and the grandeur of Australia's intriguing, spectacular north-west. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tim Bowden. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/030408/bk_acx0_030408_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Das kleine Buch vom Meer: Helden
    Wir erzählen die Geschichten von Männern und Frauen, die unsere Welt ein klein wenig besser machten. Die Großes geleistet haben und Mut bewiesen, wenn es im Sturm und schwerer See darauf ankam. Die sich für Menschen in Not einsetzten und Grenzen sprengten. Manche sind weltberühmt, andere weitgehend unbekannt.In diesem Buch geht es um Grace Darling, eine Heldin vom Leuchtturm. Um Lilian Bilocca, Arbeiterin in einer Fischfabrik, die ihren Mann und ihren Sohn an die See verlor und danach für mehr Sicherheit an Bord von Trawlern kämpfte. Wir zeichnen die Reise des Passagierschiffs St. Louis nach, dessen Kapitän Gustav Schröder verzweifelt einen Ausweg für jüdische Passagiere an Bord suchte, die den deutschen Nationalsozialisten entkommen wollten.Wir blicken zurück auf die erste deutsche Polarexpedition, auf die Reisen von Entdeckern wie Lord Nelson, Ernest Shackleton oder dem weniger bekannten William Dampier. Wir wollen den Helden des Shetland Bus ein Denkmal setzen, die in kleinen Kuttern den Stürmen des Nordatlantiks trotzten, um Hitler zu bekämpfen.Ein Buch voller romantischer Geschichten der See.
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    Great Sovereigns Heroes And Pioneers
    Great Sovereigns Heroes And Pioneers ab 34.49 € als Taschenbuch: Sir Francis Drake Thomas Cavendish William Dampier (1910). Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,
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    Game of My Life: Kentucky Wildcats: Memorable Stories of Wildcats Basketball , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 452min
    Kentucky Wildcats celebrate their greatest moments in basketball - newly updated! How does it feel to play your last college game and land on the cover of Sports Illustrated? What was it like to be a part of the team that won the University of Kentucky’s first national championship ever? Listeners will find the answer to these questions and so much more in Ryan Clark’s newly updated edition of Game of My Life: Kentucky Wildcats. Clark takes listeners into the arena and onto the court with this in-depth look at the legends of Kentucky basketball. Stars like Jamal Mashburn, Dan Issel, Kenny Walker, Derek Anderson, Walter McCarty, Richie Farmer, Jack 'Goose' Givens, Louie Dampier, John Pelphrey, Travis Ford, and Brandon Knight are among the many players who share their stories. Some of the games described involve championships, while others have extraordinary personal meaning. Over 30 players share the moment that defined their college basketball careers. Without a doubt, Game of My Life: Kentucky Wildcats captures the passion and spirit of the men who have made this team a legend for the last 70 years. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Hensel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/008700/bk_adbl_008700_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Great Race: The Race Between the English and the French to Complete the Map of Australia , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 634min
    On the afternoon of 8 April 1802, in the remote southern ocean, two explorers had a remarkable chance encounter. Englishman Matthew Flinders and Frenchman Nicolas Baudin had been sent by their governments on the same quest: to explore the uncharted coast of the great south land and find out whether the west and east coasts, four thousand kilometres apart, were part of the same island. And so began the race to compile the definitive map of Australia. These men’s journeys were the culmination of two hundred years of exploration of the region by the Dutch - most famously Abel Tasman - the Portuguese, the Spanish and by Englishmen such as the colourful pirate William Dampier and, of course, James Cook. The three-year voyages of Baudin and Flinders would see them endure terrible hardships in the spirit of discovery. They suffered scurvy and heat exhaustion, and Flinders was shipwrecked and imprisoned - always knowing he was competing with the French to produce the first map of this mysterious continent. Written from diaries and other first-hand accounts, this is the thrilling story of men whose drawings recorded countless previously unknown species and turned mythical creatures into real ones, and whose skill and determination enabled Terra Australis Incognita to become Australia. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul English. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/001771/bk_boli_001771_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez: The True Adventures of a Spanish American with 17th-Century Pirates , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 350min
    In 1690, a dramatic account of piracy was published in Mexico City. The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez described the incredible adventures of a poor Spanish-American carpenter who was taken captive by British pirates near the Philippines and forced to work for them for two years. After circumnavigating the world, he was freed and managed to return to Mexico, where the Spanish viceroy commissioned the well-known Mexican scholar Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora to write down Ramírez's account as part of an imperial propaganda campaign against pirates. The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez has long been regarded as a work of fiction - in fact, as Latin America's first novel - but Fabio López Lázaro makes a convincing case that the book is a historical account of real events, albeit full of distortions and lies. Using contemporary published accounts, as well as newly discovered documents from Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, and Dutch archives, he proves that Ramírez voyaged with one of the most famous pirates of all time, William Dampier. López Lázaro's critical translation of The Misfortunes provides the only extensive Spanish eyewitness account of pirates during the period in world history (1650-1750) when they became key agents of the European powers jockeying for international political and economic dominance. An extensive introduction places The Misfortunes within the worldwide struggle that Spain, England, and Holland waged against the ambitious Louis XIV of France, which some historians consider to be the first world war. The book is published by University of Texas Press. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ted Brooks. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/098183/bk_acx0_098183_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Great South Land , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 584min
    For many, the colonial story of Australia starts with Captain Cook's discovery of the east coast in 1770, but it was some 164 years before his historic voyage that European mariners began their romance with the immensity of the Australian continent. 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, by design, chance or shipwreck, discovered and mapped the majority of the vast, unknown waters and land masses in the Indian and Southern Oceans. This is the setting that sees Rob Mundle back on the water with another sweeping and powerful account of Australian maritime history. It is the story of 17th-century European mariners - sailors, adventurers and explorers - who became transfixed by the idea of the existence of a Great South Land: "Terra Australis Incognita". Rob takes you aboard the tiny ship, Duyfken, in 1606 when Dutch navigator and explorer Willem Janszoon and his 20-man crew became the first Europeans to discover Australia on the coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria. In the decades that followed, more Dutch mariners, like Hartog, Tasman, and Janszoon (for a second time), discovered and mapped the majority of the coast of what would become Australia. Yet, incredibly, the Dutch made no effort to lay claim to it or establish any settlements. This process began with British explorer and former pirate William Dampier on the west coast in 1688, and by the time Captain Cook arrived in 1770, all that was to be done was chart the east coast and claim what the Dutch had discovered. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul English. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/002607/bk_boli_002607_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Explorers of Australia
    Explorers of Australia ab 33.49 € als Taschenbuch: James Cook Abel Tasman Joseph Banks Jean-François de Galaup comte de Lapérouse Ernest Giles Jules Dumont d'Urville George Grey John Forrest John Franklin John McDouall Stuart Matthew Flinders Félix Delahaye William Dampier. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,
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    The British Colonization of New Zealand: The History of New Zealand from Settlement to Dominion , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 97min
    By the mid-17th century, the existence of a land in the South referred to as Terra Australis was generally known and understood by the Europeans, and incrementally, its shores were observed and mapped. Van Diemen’s Land, an island off the South Coast of Australia now called Tasmania, was identified in 1642 by Dutch mariner Abel Tasman, and a few months later, the intrepid Dutchman would add New Zealand to the map of the known world.At the time, the English were the greatest naval power in Europe, but they arrived on the scene rather later. The first to appear was William Dampier, captain of the HMS Roebuck, in 1699, after he had been granted a Royal Commission by King William III to explore the East Coast of New Holland. By then, the general global balance of power was shifting, and with the English gaining a solid foothold in India, their supremacy in the Indian Ocean trade zone began. It was now just the French and the English who were facing one another down in a quest to dominate the world, but their imperial interests were focused mainly in India and the East Indies, as well as the Caribbean and the Americas. As a result, the potential of a vast, practically uninhabited great Southern continent did not yet hold much interest.By then the world was largely mapped. At the same time, a great deal of imperial energy was at play in Europe, particularly in Britain. Britain stood at the cusp of global dominance thanks almost entirely to the Royal Navy, which emerged in the 17th and 18th centuries as an institution significantly more than the sum of its parts. With vast assets available even in peacetime, expeditions of science and explorations were launched in every direction. This was done not only to claim ownership of the field of global exploration, but also to undercut the imperial ambitions of others, in particular the French. In 1769, Captain James Cook’s historic expedition in the region would lead to an English claim on Australia ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colin Fluxman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/123599/bk_acx0_123599_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    New Zealand and the British Empire: The History of New Zealand Under British Sovereignty , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 147min
    By the mid-17th century, the existence of a land in the South referred to as Terra Australis was generally known and understood by the Europeans, and incrementally, its shores were observed and mapped. Van Diemen’s Land, an island off the South Coast of Australia now called Tasmania, was identified in 1642 by Dutch mariner Abel Tasman, and a few months later, the intrepid Dutchman would add New Zealand to the map of the known world.At the time, the English were the greatest naval power in Europe, but they arrived on the scene rather later. The first to appear was William Dampier, captain of the HMS Roebuck, in 1699, after he had been granted a Royal Commission by King William III to explore the East Coast of New Holland. By then, the general global balance of power was shifting, and with the English gaining a solid foothold in India, their supremacy in the Indian Ocean trade zone began. It was now just the French and the English who were facing one another down in a quest to dominate the world, but their imperial interests were focused mainly in India and the East Indies, as well as the Caribbean and the Americas. As a result, the potential of a vast, practically uninhabited great Southern continent did not yet hold much interest.By then the world was largely mapped. At the same time, a great deal of imperial energy was at play in Europe, particularly in Britain. Britain stood at the cusp of global dominance thanks almost entirely to the Royal Navy, which emerged in the 17th and 18th centuries as an institution significantly more than the sum of its parts. With vast assets available even in peacetime, expeditions of science and explorations were launched in every direction. This was done not only to claim ownership of the field of global exploration, but also to undercut the imperial ambitions of others, in particular the French. In 1769, Captain James Cook’s historic expedition in the region would lead to an English claim on Australia ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colin Fluxman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/123725/bk_acx0_123725_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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