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    Great Fire of London: History , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 7min
    Learn about the Great Fire of London with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series. Before the Great Fire, the City of London was filled with crowded, timber-framed buildings with thin, plaster walls. Candles, rush lights, coals, and fireplaces were omnipresent, and the risk of fire was paramount. The Great Fire of London is believed to have been started by the baker Thomas Farrynger shortly after midnight on Sunday, 2 September 1666, in his shop on Pudding Lane, just East of London Bridge. Within a few hours, the fire had spread rapidly, consuming Pudding Lane, Star Inn at Fish Street Hill and also part of Thames Street. For the next four days the fire raged, mercilessly consuming everything in its wake. Londoners were beside themselves trying to extinguish it. Among average Londoners doing what they could to control the blaze were the likes of the Lord Mayor, the Duke of York, and King Charles II. Perfect to listen to while commuting, exercising, shopping or cleaning the house.. iMinds brings knowledge to your MP3 with 8 minute information segments to whet your mental appetite and broaden your mind. iMinds offers 12 main categories; become a Generalist by increasing your knowledge of Business, Politics, People, History, Pop Culture, Mystery, Crime, Culture, Religion, Concepts, Science and Sport. Clean and concise, crisp and engaging, discover what you never knew you were missing. iMinds is the knowledge solution for the information age cutting through the white noise to give you quick, accurate knowledge .. Perfect your dinner party conversation, impress your boss - an excellent way to discover topics of interest for the future. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ellouise Rothwell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/imnd/000048/bk_imnd_000048_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Jack the Ripper's Streets of Terror: Life During the Reign of Victorian London's Most Brutal Killer , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 414min
    The shocking murders carried out by an unknown serial killer in London's East End during the autumn of 1888, haunted the public imagination at the time and have continued to exert a baleful influence ever since. But what was it like to live through those terrifying weeks? This audiobook looks at the crimes of Jack the Ripper through the eyes of Londoners, including the rumors that swept through the capital city, the alarms, the riots, the persecutions, the suspicions, and the sheer naked terror of the awful autumn when a killer stalked the streets. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Phil Fox. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/094494/bk_acx0_094494_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Black Out , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 760min
    As the Luftwaffe make their last desperate assault on the city, Londoners take to the shelters once again and eagerly await the signal for D-Day. In the East End, children lead police to a charred, dismembered corpse buried in a bombsite. The victim is German, and it soon becomes clear that this is no ordinary murder. For Russian emigré Detective-Sergeant Troy, it is the start of a manhunt which will lead him into a world of military intelligence and corruption in high places - a manhunt in which Troy is both the hunter and the hunted. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lewis Hancock. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/oakh/000567/bk_oakh_000567_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    London Bastards: The Worst Historical Londoners of All Time (London Sinister, Book 1) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 88min
    Since the first major settlement by the Romans in AD 43, London has teemed with many different kinds of people. Scholars, merchants, soldiers, and scribes have all jostled with each other on the English capital’s overcrowded streets. With a tightly packed population all competing for space and resources in a confined area, and one as wealthy as London, there were always going to be people who would prove unscrupulous in their pursuit of health, wealth, and happiness. Put simply, London has had its share of bastards. Some you may have heard of: Henry VIII, Jack the Ripper, and Doctor Crippen, to name just a few. But there are many through the ages who will be unknown to you, but whose bastardy will leave you amazed and appalled.  Here are a few of them, of whom you may not have heard.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Whitelock, Christian Edwards. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/129330/bk_acx0_129330_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Language of Cities
    The director of the Design Museum defines the greatest artefact of all time: the cityWe live in a world that is now predominantly urban. So how do we define the city as it evolves in the twenty-first century? Drawing examples from across the globe, Deyan Sudjic decodes the underlying forces that shape our cities, such as resources and land, to the ideas that shape conscious elements of design, whether of buildings or of space. Erudite and entertaining, he considers the differences between capital cities and the rest to understand why it is that we often feel more comfortable in our identities as Londoners, Muscovites, or Mumbaikars than in our national identities.
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    An Inquisitive Man , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 138min
    A Dead Man...A Dead Ringer...An Undead Mystery.... Twenty years ago, one foggy night, David Bowler, a tailor disappeared. Twenty years later, a ringer by the name of Easter Wells appears and finds himself instantly drawn into the tale. Intrigued by the inconsistencies surrounding the reports, Wells sets out to unravel the 20-year-old mystery. But all he has at his disposal are a bunch of Londoners and their foggy memories. As conversations flow over wine, tea, and even haircuts, Easter Wells must disentangle the right thread to put to rest a 20-year-old enigma. A murder is certain. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Todd Haskell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/097003/bk_acx0_097003_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fire , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 551min
    It's 1666. The Great Plague has passed. Londoners celebrate survival in different ways. They drink. They gamble. They indulge in carnal delights. But 666 is the number of the Beast, the year foretold when Christ will return. A gang of fanatics - the Saints - choose to hasten that prophesied day. They will kidnap, rape, murder. Above all they will kill a king. Two men - the highwayman William Coke and the thief-taker Pitman - are recruited to stop them. Then, in the early hours of September 2, 1666, something starts that will overtake them all.... London's a tinderbox. Politically, sexually, religiously. Literally. It is about to burn. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: C. C. Humphreys. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/isis/002666/bk_isis_002666_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    London Travel Guide , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 39min
    If you ask a Londoner where the center of London is, you are likely to get a wry smile. This is because, historically, London was two cities: a commercial city and a separate government capital. However, the point from which distances to "London" are measured is in Trafalgar Square, where the original Charing Cross stood. The commercial capital was the City of London. This had a dense population and all the other prerequisites of a medieval city: walls, a castle (The Tower of London), a cathedral (Saint Paul's), a semi-independent city government, a port and a bridge across which all trade was routed so Londoners could make money (London Bridge). ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Phillip J. Mather. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/104118/bk_acx0_104118_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Swap: A Nicole Graves Mystery : Nicole Graves Mysteries, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 637min
    When Nicole Graves arranges a summer-long swap of her Los Angeles condo for a London couple’s house, she thinks it’s the perfect arrangement. She’s always dreamed of seeing the real London; she’s also hopeful the time away with her husband Brad will be good for their troubled marriage.But things don’t turn out the way Nicole expects: The Londoners fail to arrive in LA and appear to be missing. Then people begin following Nicole and making threats, demanding information she doesn’t have. Soon, Nicole realizes she’s in serious trouble - but she can’t get Brad or the police to believe her. When the confrontations turn deadly, Nicole must either solve the case or become the next victim. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jane Oppenheimer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/133704/bk_acx0_133704_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The People of the Ruins , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 589min
    Trapped in a London laboratory during a worker uprising in 1924, ex-artillery officer and physics instructor Jeremy Tuft awakens 150 years later - in a neo-medieval society whose inhabitants have forgotten how to build or operate machinery. Not only have his fellow Londoners forgotten most of what humankind used to know, before civilization collapsed, but they don't particularly care to re-learn any of it. Though he is at first disconcerted by the failure of his own era's smug doctrine of Progress, Tuft eventually decides that post-civilized life is simpler, more peaceful. That is, until northern English and Welsh tribes threaten London - at which point he sets about reinventing weapons of mass destruction. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steven Crossley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/drms/000309/bk_drms_000309_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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