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The Very Best of Nellie Bly: 10 Days in a Mad House and Around the World in Seventy-Two Days , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 479min

The Victorian journalist Nellie Bly (1864-1922) performed one of the most courageous acts in the history of investigative reporting by posing as an inmate at a Women’s lunatic asylum on Blackwell’s Island. Her exposé, titled "Ten Days in a Mad-House" led to a grand jury investigation, which resulted in a one million dollar increase in New York City’s budget for the care of the mentally ill. "Around the World in Seventy-Two Days" chronicles the author’s 72-day trip around the world for Joseph Pulitzer's newspaper, the New York World. On her journey around the world on steamships and by train, Bly went through England, France, Italy, the Suez Canal, Ceylon, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Japan. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Museum Audiobooks cast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/yurt/002087/bk_yurt_002087_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain'I'm unfavorable to killin' a man as long as you can git around it; it ain't good sense, it ain't good morals. Ain't I right?'The original Great American Novel, an incomparable adventure story and a classic of anarchic humour, Twain's masterpiece sees Huckleberry Finn and Jim the slave escape their difficult lives by fleeing down the Mississippi on a raft. There, they find steamships, feuding families, an unlikely Duke and King and vital lessons about the world in which they live. With its unforgettable cast of characters, Hemingway called this 'the best book we've ever had'.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

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Detroit: Engine of America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 393min

This is the story of how a crude French settlement along the Detroit River in 1701 became the birthplace of the automotive industry in 1900. Forging the first industrial powerhouse wasn’t easy. Scant inbound supplies from the English colonies took months, if they arrived at all. The first 100 inhabitants led by explorer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, with the guidance of Native American tribes, built a fledgling economy of fishing, farming, and hunting - the latter propelled mightily by the fur trade. As the populace sputtered and grew, they developed the machinery and skilled trades that produced - in volume - wagons, stagecoaches, steamships, hearths, locomotives, boxcars, furniture, stoves, equipment, marine engines, pharmaceutical drugs, and, finally, the horseless carriage. Detroit’s grit and brawn ignited ingenuity and self-sufficiency that thrust the first city in the Midwest onto the world stage. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: R. J. King. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/235665/bk_acx0_235665_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Last Voyage of Sigismund Skrik , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 356min

Widely known as "master hairdresser of the seven seas," Sigismund Skrik is famous both as an artist of the scissors and comb, and as the soul of discretion. Not only will he give clients new, life-changing looks - he also gets to know all their secrets. But the days of transatlantic sailing are numbered. It's 1879, and Europeans immigrating to the United States are starting to prefer the huge new steamships that make the crossing ten times as fast. As those glory days come to an end, Sigismund embarks on his final voyage from Hamburg in the old clipper Liberty, welcoming the latest batch of emigrants with his usual open-minded calm. He doesn't know them yet, but he will. As each one passes through his cabin salon, the stories they tell reveal the drama, pathos, and humor of a thousand lives that, for a brief, wave-tossed spell, come together on their way to the promised land. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeff Cummings. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/007497/bk_brll_007497_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Penguin English Library, Hörbuch, Digital, 296min

Penguin Classics presents Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, adapted for audio and now available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by the actor Kerry Shale.'I'm unfavorable to killin' a man as long as you can git around it; it ain't good sense, it ain't good morals. Ain't I right?'The original Great American Novel, an incomparable adventure story and a classic of anarchic humour, Twain's masterpiece sees Huckleberry Finn and Jim the slave escape their difficult lives by fleeing down the Mississippi on a raft. There, they find steamships, feuding families, an unlikely Duke and King and vital lessons about the world in which they live. With its unforgettable cast of characters, Hemingway called this 'the best book we've ever had'.Part of a series of vintage recordings taken from the Penguin Archives. Affordable, collectable, quality productions - perfect for on-the-go listening. Language: English. Narrator: Kerry Shale. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pauk/000245/bk_pauk_000245_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Canadian Pacific Ships (eBook, ePUB)

In 1873 a company was formed to construct the first railway across Canada. It soon branched out into shipping, chartering ships from the Cunard Line for service between Vancouver, Yokohama, Shanghai and Hong Kong. In 1889 Canadian Pacific would be awarded the mail contract for the service across the Pacific and, by 1903, they would purchase Elder Dempster & Company and begin sailing from Liverpool to Quebec and Montreal. They obtained control of the Atlantic, rail and Pacific routes, and later interest in the Canadian-Australasian Line, becoming 'the world's greatest transportation system', bridging two oceans and linking four continents. Canada's largest operator of Atlantic and Pacific steamships until after the Second World War, CP Ships boasted such names as Empress of Britain, Empress of Ireland and Empress of Canada. This new history of the shipping side of Canadian Pacific includes a wealth of illustrations and a detailed fleet list that will enthral maritime enthusiasts.

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Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 830min

In 1911 two wealthy British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, came to a sanitorium in the forests of the Pacific Northwest to undergo the revolutionary fasting treatment of Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard. It was supposed to be a holiday for the two sisters. But within a month of arriving at what the locals called Starvation Heights, the women were emaciated shadows of their former selves, waiting for death. They were not the first victims of Linda Hazzard, a quack doctor of extraordinary evil and greed who would stop at nothing short of murder to achieve her ambitions. As their jewelry disappeared and forged bank drafts began transferring their wealth to Hazzards accounts, Dora Williamson sent a last desperate plea to a friend in Australia, begging her to save them from the brutal treatments and lonely isolation of Starvation Heights. In this true story, a haunting saga of medical murder set in an era of steamships and gaslights, Gregg Olsen reveals one of the most unusual and disturbing criminal cases in American history. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jennifer Van Dyck. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/002199/bk_adbl_002199_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Bomb Squad: Clash of the Patriots , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 536min

At the stroke of midnight, a devastating explosion at Black Tom Island, an armaments depot, rocks New York City awake; and so begins this story of two patriots in World War I, each willing to put his life on the line in order to achieve a glorious victory for his cause.Serving the Fatherland is Dr. Harold Schwartz, administrator of the prestigious Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital and a German spy. Along with his father, a dealer in lethal weapons and a lifelong friend of Kaiser Wilhelm, Schwartz is hell-bent on distracting the Americans from entering the war.Meanwhile, the British Secret Intelligence Service recruits highly regarded New York City police detective Max Rothman to assemble a team of German-speaking specialists, known as the Bomb Squad. Their mission is to investigate the sudden surge of German espionage activity wreaking havoc along the Eastern Seaboard and among steamships attempting to cross the Atlantic.The Bomb Squad follows these men’s exploits through an interconnecting tale of love, loss, friendship, and betrayal, stretching from American shores to the epicenter of German power during a time when the world is at war. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Frank Block. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/199880/bk_acx0_199880_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Life of Henry Bradley Plant

The Life of Henry Bradley Plant ab 1.99 € als epub eBook: Founder and President of the Plant System of Railroads and Steamships and Also of the Southern Express Company. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen,

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Steam and Stratagem: A Roberta Stephenson Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 474min

Welcome to the Steampunk World of Regency, where the power of steam has already passed from the age of unsatisfactory experiments to the first country-spanning railways and ships that no longer sail at the whims of weather. Roberta Stephenson is the daughter of the "father of railways"--a girl almost raised in the engine works and, through her experience and education in the most advanced halls of Miss Mather's Academy for Girls, fit to become manager and designer at her father's steamship yard on the Clyde. And Britain needs Roberta's expertise, for fate in this world has dealt more kindly with Napoleon, allowing him to extricate most of his army from Moscow in 1812, and granting him at least a draw at Leipzig in 1813. With developments of the steamships begun in France in 1783, he is ready to take one more gamble to rid himself of the interference of Perfidious Albion, and the island's safety may depend on the steam-powered rams Roberta is offering to their lordships of the admiralty. Complicating Roberta's professional life are her romantic suitors: Lord Julian Bond, man about town and admiralty spy; the enigmatic Symington Holmes; and Engineer Lieutenant Alfred Worthington, RN. It seems Roberta is destined to choose one of these gentlemen, but will she choose wisely? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Shannon Burgess. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/029228/bk_acx0_029228_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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