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Below Stairs: The Classic Kitchen Maid’s Memoir That Inspired 'Upstairs, Downstairs' and 'Downton Abbey' , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 306min
Brilliantly evoking the long-vanished world of masters and servants portrayed in Downton Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs, Margaret Powell’s classic memoir of her time in service, Below Stairs, is the remarkable true story of an indomitable woman who, though she served in the great houses of England, never stopped aiming high. Powell first arrived at the servants' entrance of one of those great houses in the 1920s. As a kitchen maid - the lowest of the low - she entered an entirely new world; one of stoves to be blacked, vegetables to be scrubbed, mistresses to be appeased, and bootlaces to be ironed. Work started at 5:30 am and went on until after dark. It was a far cry from her childhood on the beaches of Hove, where money and food were scarce, but warmth and laughter never were. Yet from the gentleman with a penchant for stroking the housemaids’ curlers, to raucous tea-dances with errand boys, to the heartbreaking story of Agnes the pregnant under-parlormaid, fired for being seduced by her mistress’s nephew, Margaret’s tales of her time in service are told with wit, warmth, and a sharp eye for the prejudices of her situation. Margaret Powell's true story of a life spent in service is a fascinating "downstairs" portrait of the glittering, long-gone worlds behind the closed doors of Downton Abbey and 165 Eaton Place. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mary Wells. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/011631/bk_adbl_011631_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Best There Ever Was: Dan Patch and the Dawn of the American Century , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 403min
His winning percentage was well above Jordan’s shooting average or Woods’s domination of golf tournaments. And he sold products and drew spectators like no one had ever done. He was hands down the most famous athlete in America’s most popular spectator sport, and exactly one hundred years ago you would have been hard pressed to find anybody in the country who didn’t know his name. He was Dan Patch, and he was a racehorse. At the turn of the last century, harness racing drew larger crowds and offered bigger paychecks than any other sport. Its stars were household names, and Dan Patch was both the most celebrated and the richest. As successful as he was on the track, Dan Patch was also America’s first “marketing machine”: the horse who could sell cigars, washing machines, stoves, automobiles, and animal feed, just by the presence of his name and photograph. The Best There Ever Was examines the evolution of sports marketing through the lives of Dan Patch and the three men who owned him: an Indiana breeder, Dan Messner; M. E. Sturgis, who sold the horse for $20,000 (a fortune in those days) and spent the rest of his life trying to buy him back; and Marion W. Savage of Minneapolis, whose entrepreneurial skills presaged today’s sports marketing geniuses. Any athlete who can draw a 90,000-person crowd, offer up world records, and then sell a coal stove with his name on it may well be the best by anybody’s standards. A fun and fascinating listen for sports lovers. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rob Gorden. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/014959/bk_adbl_014959_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Angola Horror: The 1867 Train Wreck That Shocked the Nation and Transformed American Railroads , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 570min
On December 18, 1867, the Buffalo and Erie Railroad's eastbound New York Express derailed as it approached the high truss bridge over Big Sister Creek, just east of the small settlement of Angola, New York, on the shores of Lake Erie. The last two cars of the express train were pitched completely off the tracks and plummeted into the creek bed below. When they struck bottom, one of the wrecked cars was immediately engulfed in flames as the heating stoves in the coach spilled out coals and ignited its wooden timbers. The other car was badly smashed. About fifty people died at the bottom of the gorge or shortly thereafter, and dozens more were injured. Rescuers from the small rural community responded with haste, but there was almost nothing they could do but listen to the cries of the dying-and carry away the dead and injured thrown clear of the fiery wreck. The next day and in the weeks that followed, newspapers across the country carried news of the "Angola Horror," one of the deadliest railway accidents to that point in U.S. history. In a dramatic historical narrative, Charity Vogel tells the gripping, true-to-life story of the wreck and the characters involved in the tragic accident. Her tale weaves together the stories of the people - some unknown and others soon to be famous - caught up in the disaster, the facts of the New York Express's fateful run, the fiery scenes in the creek ravine, and the subsequent legal, legislative, and journalistic search for answers to the question: what had happened at Angola, and why The Angola Horror is a classic story of disaster and its aftermath, in which events coincide to produce horrific consequences and people are forced to respond to experiences that test the limits of their endurance. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: J.M. Ross. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/013683/bk_acx0_013683_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Raw Vegan Bible: Detoxify Your Body and Achieve a Higher Level of Consciousness with Raw Vegan Foods! , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 22min
Perfect Skin. Perfect Health. Perfect Life. It's a proven fact that people who eat a raw vegan diet live longer, never age, and make approximately a million dollars or more each year (eat more greens, make more green). Now you, too, can learn the secrets of the perfect human diet in The Raw Vegan Bible by esteemed author (and super cool musician), Dr. David "Greens" Connor. Learn why enzymes are the key to increasing vitality and raising your Kundalini energy. Discover the secrets of superfoods and begin to have super poop (yes, it's true, you'll even get more comfortable with your poop after listening to this audiobook!). SAD is Sad The Standard American Diet is killing us all, as evidenced by the death of the author's elderly grandfather. If only he had known to eat a 100 percent raw vegan diet, he could have lived forever. So which will you choose? Chicken nuggets and cancer or kale and perfect health? The choice here should be obvious, but if it's not yet clear, "Greens" gives some excellent examples in the book of people who have healed from all sorts of unpleasant diseases by just eating raw. Zebras Don't Cook and Neither Should You Ever wonder why wild animals never get degenerative diseases? It's because they don't have stoves! Our hands were designed to pluck fruit off of trees, not to hold a spatula. Get back to nature and discover the glowing abundance available to you when you eschew all of the food all of the people around you are eating. (I mean, come on, you don't really want to look like them, do you?) The Raw Vegan Bible will teach you the way of perfect health, so you can be in alignment with all the other species on the planet. No more fire for you, you caveman. Humans have evolved. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matt Stone. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/046629/bk_acx0_046629_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Benjamin Franklin (eBook, ePUB)
Benjamin Franklin is the Founding Father who winks at us. An ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings, he seems made of flesh rather than of marble. In bestselling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin seems to turn to us from history's stage with eyes that twinkle from behind his new-fangled spectacles. By bringing Franklin to life, Isaacson shows how he helped to define both his own time and ours. He was, during his 84-year life, America's best scientist, inventor, diplomat, writer, and business strategist, and he was also one of its most practical -- though not most profound -- political thinkers. He proved by flying a kite that lightning was electricity, and he invented a rod to tame it. He sought practical ways to make stoves less smoky and commonwealths less corrupt. He organized neighborhood constabularies and international alliances, local lending libraries and national legislatures. He combined two types of lenses to create bifocals and two concepts of representation to foster the nation's federal compromise. He was the only man who shaped all the founding documents of America: the Albany Plan of Union, the Declaration of Independence, the treaty of alliance with France, the peace treaty with England, and the Constitution. And he helped invent America's unique style of homespun humor, democratic values, and philosophical pragmatism.But the most interesting thing that Franklin invented, and continually reinvented, was himself. America's first great publicist, he was, in his life and in his writings, consciously trying to create a new American archetype. In the process, he carefully crafted his own persona, portrayed it in public, and polished it for posterity. Through it all, he trusted the hearts and minds of his fellow "leather-aprons" more than he did those of any inbred elite. He saw middle-class values as a source of social strength, not as something to be derided. His guiding principle was a "dislike of everything that tended to debase the spirit of the common people." Few of his fellow founders felt this comfort with democracy so fully, and none so intuitively.In this colorful and intimate narrative, Isaacson provides the full sweep of Franklin's amazing life, from his days as a runaway printer to his triumphs as a statesman, scientist, and Founding Father. He chronicles Franklin's tumultuous relationship with his illegitimate son and grandson, his practical marriage, and his flirtations with the ladies of Paris. He also shows how Franklin helped to create the American character and why he has a particular resonance in the twenty-first century.- Shop: buecher
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Camp Without Coolers or Stoves
Camp Without Coolers or Stoves: ab 5.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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The Book of Non-electric Lighting: The Classic Guide to the Safe Use of Candles Fuel Lamps Lanterns Gaslights & Fire-View Stoves
The Book of Non-electric Lighting: The Classic Guide to the Safe Use of Candles Fuel Lamps Lanterns Gaslights & Fire-View Stoves: ab 13.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Old-Time Camp Stoves and Fireplaces
Old-Time Camp Stoves and Fireplaces: ab 12.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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