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    The Silk Roads: A New History of the World , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1453min
    It was on the Silk Roads that East and West first encountered each other through trade and conquest, leading to the spread of ideas, cultures, and religions, and it was the appetites for foreign goods that drove economies and the growth of nations. From the first cities in Mesopotamia to the emergence of Greece and Rome to the depredations by the Mongols, the transmission of the Black Death, the struggles of the Great Game, and the fall of Communism - the fate of the West has always been inextricably linked to the East. By way of events as disparate as the American Revolution and the world wars of the 20th century, Peter Frankopan realigns the world, orienting us eastward and illuminating how even the rise of the West 500 years ago resulted from its efforts to gain access to and control of these Eurasian trading networks. In an increasingly globalized planet, where current events in Asia and the Middle East dominate the world's attention, this magnificent work of history is very much a work of our times. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Laurence Kennedy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/001038/bk_high_001038_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Cry for Jerusalem 63-66 CE: Resisting Tyranny, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1021min
    Was it fate, destiny, or some divine plan that brought four very different travelers together in their struggle to survive what should have been a routine trip to Rome? Driven by events, these new friends and their family members found themselves playing pivotal roles at a focal point in the history of Western civilization. Winds that had spread a great fire across Rome also carried embers eastward to Judea, where they threatened to ignite a conflict that would forever change the world for Jews and Christians. In this first of a series of four novels, the Jewish rebellion begins in a backdrop of secret tunnels and assassins, where the dreaded Sicarii can strike like lightning and blend back into the crowd just as quickly. Even trained Roman mercenaries are no match for them. In between these historical events - recorded by the historian and eyewitness Josephus - there’s the story of the people involved. You get to meet them in Cry for Jerusalem. For more information go to cryforjerusalem.com. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Simon de Deney. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/235582/bk_acx0_235582_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Tales from Mushroom Manor: Book Two: The Search for Ferante , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 570min
    Our friends from Mushroom Manor are back! The evil sorceress elf, Leona, has finally risen into power! After nearly destroying Firefly Forest, she now has her sights set on conquering the rest of the Lands of Morada! Our enchanted pals separate into two different groups, hoping to find a way to stop her before their time runs out!Join little Molly Mishkin, Francois Frog, and Mr. Blinkystein as they head north to Dark Minion Marsh, hoping to rescue Molly's mother and the once mighty Governor Peryton, who Leona has captured! Meanwhile, Suzy Shortbread, Dafydd Canicus, and Penelope Pringles travel eastward across Morada heading to the Dragon Mountains.Following the ominous orders from Oracle of Wayward Wetlands as our faithful friends of Mushroom Manor find out that their world is a much more dangerous place than they had ever realized.Will Suzy Shortbread be able to find Ferante, the ancient one, in time so he can restore the heart of white magic? Will all of Morada fall in Leona's darkness? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Littlejo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/149352/bk_acx0_149352_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Luminous Way to the East (eBook, ePUB)
    The Luminous Way to the East offers a comprehensive survey of the historical, literary, epigraphic, and archaeological sources of the first stage of the Christian mission to China. It explores the complex and multifaceted process of the interaction with the different cultural and religious milieux that the Church of the East experienced in its diffusion throughout Central Asia and into China during the first millennium. Matteo Nicolini-Zani provides an overview of the Christian presence in China during the Tang dynasty (618-907) by reconstructing the composition and organization of Christian communities, the geographical location of Christian monasteries, and the related historical events attested by the sources. Through a new and richly annotated English translation of the Chinese Christian texts produced in Tang China, the volume provides a documented look at what was the earliest, and perhaps the most extraordinary, encounter of Christianity with Chinese culture and religions (Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism). It shows how East Syriac Christianity in its eastward expansion along the Silk Road from Persia to China was open to the adoption of other languages and imagery and was able to enculturate the Christian teaching into new cultural and religious forms without losing its identity.
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    The Luminous Way to the East (eBook, PDF)
    The Luminous Way to the East offers a comprehensive survey of the historical, literary, epigraphic, and archaeological sources of the first stage of the Christian mission to China. It explores the complex and multifaceted process of the interaction with the different cultural and religious milieux that the Church of the East experienced in its diffusion throughout Central Asia and into China during the first millennium. Matteo Nicolini-Zani provides an overview of the Christian presence in China during the Tang dynasty (618-907) by reconstructing the composition and organization of Christian communities, the geographical location of Christian monasteries, and the related historical events attested by the sources. Through a new and richly annotated English translation of the Chinese Christian texts produced in Tang China, the volume provides a documented look at what was the earliest, and perhaps the most extraordinary, encounter of Christianity with Chinese culture and religions (Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism). It shows how East Syriac Christianity in its eastward expansion along the Silk Road from Persia to China was open to the adoption of other languages and imagery and was able to enculturate the Christian teaching into new cultural and religious forms without losing its identity.
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    Andy Adams Library Vol 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1308min
    This Raging Bull Publishing Box Set contains three classic Western books by Andy Adams, including: Cattle Brands (1906) A collection of 14 western short campfire stories. Bandits, desperadoes, cattle, and bloody shoot-outs are just some of the highlights of these easy to listen to snippets which continued to mimic Andy's life on the cattle trail. Reed Anthony, Cowman (1907) Tells the story of Virginian born Reed Anthony who served during the Civil War, then migrated to Texas to start life as a cowboy, herding cattle to rail heads for transport eastward. More realistic glimpses into western life with Andy Adams. Wells Brothers (1911) Dell and Joel Wells are about to abandon their dead father's claim on Beaver Creek because it won't grow crops. Then unexpected events, and a drover seeking aid, allow them a decent chance in life. The boys develop their own ranch on the Beaver, without capital but with honor. No amount of savvy can entirely prepare them for the risks: cruel winters, rapacious wolf packs, summer droughts, mysterious Texas fever, or the shifting circumstances of the cattle trade. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: George Utley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/094861/bk_acx0_094861_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Climb the Wind: A Novel of Another America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 910min
    The Civil War is finally over, and a weakened America is struggling to rebuild. The white man is sweeping across the continent, driving native peoples on the prairies and plains from their lands. But time is about to stand still, the map of history rewritten.... Something is wrong out West. The Buffalo Soldiers sent to subdue the Cheyenne are deserting and joining their former enemy. The Sioux are leaving their reservations in hordes. And armed bands of Apaches have been sighted riding east of the Mississippi! Lemuel Rowland, formerly Poyeshao, a son of the Seneca, has spent his life learning the white man's ways. A Washington bureaucrat, he must now choose between his successful career and his ancient heritage, for the dreams of his native people are about to come true. An obscure Lakota chief, inspired by visions of a female soothsayer and armed by a foreign spy, is uniting the Indian nations into an awesome fighting force that will thunder eastward and try to reclaim all of America for its peoples. As a loyal employee of the United States government, it is Rowland's job to stop these renegade warriors - but he wants them to win! And what will it mean for America - and her future history- if they do? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/005416/bk_adbl_005416_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    First World War: 1918: Voices from the BBC Archive, Hörbuch, Digital, 132min
    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. Language: English. Narrator: Jonathan Keeble. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/002932/bk_rhuk_002932_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Golden Hawks of Genghis Khan , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 364min
    You must not speak of the Golden Hawks! Word easily flies down the caravan trails to the ears of the Mongols in the land of Genghis Khan. And then, Jalair, the Mongols will come and slay you! With this warning from his grandfather, Kurush, the summer of 1218 in Samarkand begins for young Jalair. He has always been told that Mongols slew his father, Darien--the greatest hawker of the empire--and robbed him of a spectacular breed of hunting bird that Darien had perfected. Since then the Mongols have searched relentlessly for the son of the slain hawker. A broken promise and mysterious circumstances cause Jalair to risk the journey eastward to recapture the Golden Hawks. Striving at all costs to conceal his identity, the boy arrives at Karakorum, the city of Genghis Khan. There he finds not only the Golden Hawks but also a deepening of the mystery surrounding them and his father. Affectionately adopted into a Mongol family, Jalair continues to seek the answers he needs until finally, after treachery on a faraway caravan trail and a desperate struggle to save the last of the Golden Hawks, he finds the truth--in the presence of Genghis Khan himself. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kamran Khan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/030132/bk_acx0_030132_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Grey Morning Pass , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 531min
    In 1979, two strangers share a story from the 1860s that will change their lives forever. It's a story about the tragic life and times of a family in lower Kentucky...from a farm called "Cloverhaven".Jacob O'Sullivan and his family are thrown headlong into perhaps the bloodiest war America has ever experienced...the Civil War. Accused of murder, Jacob escapes across country with 12 runaway slaves, while others in his family experience their own dreadful obstacles. Together and apart, they must endure the horrible difficulties that war creates.Jacob's group is stranded in a foreboding swamp where everyone struggles for their lives. Some make it out, others don't. Brother Miles makes his way eastward under the protection of the Confederate Army in search for his brother, Jacob and abducted sister, Sarah. In his efforts to find his siblings and reunite his family before returning to their home in Kentucky, Jacob locates Sarah and together they must navigate through the "Grey Morning Pass", a haunted and unpredictable path that will secure everyone's fate in an explosive climax.Along the way, you will be introduced to a host of extraordinary characters in this epic story of tragedy and the horrors of the Civil War. You will find unique original music created to accompany this book on Amazon and at greymorningpass.com. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James W. Dixon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/166518/bk_acx0_166518_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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