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Prisoners of Geography
- Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World
- De: Tim Marshall
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 8 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,877
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,331
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,308
Maps have a mysterious hold over us. Whether ancient, crumbling parchments or generated by Google, maps tell us things we want to know, not only about our current location or where we are going but about the world in general. And yet, when it comes to geo-politics, much of what we are told is generated by analysts and other experts who have neglected to refer to a map of the place in question.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It's a Book about Maps! Please provide the Maps!
- De Sherry en 06-19-17
- Prisoners of Geography
- Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World
- De: Tim Marshall
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
Good overview, lacks depth
Revisado: 07-19-18
If you're new to geopolitics and world history, this book is a great introduction. However, if you have done much reading on this topic before, don't expect to find much new information here.
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Gold Diggers
- Striking It Rich in the Klondike
- De: Charlotte Gray
- Narrado por: Steven Cooper
- Duración: 12 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 53
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 47
Between 1896 and 1899, thousands of people lured by gold braved a grueling journey into the remote wilderness of North America. Within two years, Dawson City, in the Canadian Yukon, grew from a mining camp of four hundred to a raucous town of more than thirty thousand. The stampede to the Klondike was the last great gold rush in history. Scurvy, dysentery, frostbite, and starvation stalked all who dared to be in Dawson. And yet the possibilities attracted people from all walks of life.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointed...
- De Michael McGrath en 01-29-14
- Gold Diggers
- Striking It Rich in the Klondike
- De: Charlotte Gray
- Narrado por: Steven Cooper
Fascinating stories mixed with boring characters
Revisado: 06-30-18
This book alternates between riveting and tedious as it cleverly uses individual narratives to show the Klondike Gold Rush through firsthand accounts. The only drawback is that several of the characters who are examined and followed don't have particularly exciting stories. I found myself finishing the book only to learn about what happened to Bill Haskell and Belinda Mulrooney without caring about the character discussed in the current chapter.
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The High Middle Ages
- De: Philip Daileader, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Philip Daileader
- Duración: 12 h y 25 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,520
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,337
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,331
At the dawn of the last millennium in the year 1000, Europe was one of the world's more stagnant regions-an economically undeveloped, intellectually derivative, and geopolitically passive backwater, with illiteracy, starvation, and disease the norm for almost everyone. Yet only three centuries later, all of this had changed.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good, but not his best
- De Hellocat en 09-05-14
- The High Middle Ages
- De: Philip Daileader, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Philip Daileader
A fascinating time period made boring...
Revisado: 04-27-17
Normally, I'm amazed by history and our past. In these lectures, I failed to notice interesting tidbits, greater themes, and the slow march of history towards the present. For those of us with limited knowledge of the period, this was dry and directionless.
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