Discovery World

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    • Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
    • By: Fei-Fei Li
    • Narrated by: Cindy Kay
    • Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • The Worlds I See is the moving memoir of a scientist coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling at the forefront of the AI revolution.

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    • Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
    • By: Alfred Lansing
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble
    • Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-08
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3,597 ratings
    • In August of 1914, the British ship Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic. In October 1915, still half a continent away from its intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in the ice

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    • What They Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries from a Secret World
    • By: Peter Wohlleben
    • Narrated by: Mike Grady
    • Series: The Mysteries of Nature Trilogy, Book 1
    • Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 13-09-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,471 ratings
    • How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings? Research is now suggesting trees are capable of much more than we have ever known....

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    • A History of the Vikings
    • By: Neil Price
    • Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
    • Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 25-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 257 ratings
    • The Viking Age - from 750 to 1050 saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the wider world. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they ranged from eastern North America to the Asian steppe....

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    • How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
    • By: Steven Strogatz
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 20-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • Without calculus, we wouldn't have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn't have unraveled DNA or discovered Neptune or figured out how to put 5,000 songs in your pocket....

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    • By: Apsley Cherry-Garrard
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 20 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 29-04-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 305 ratings
    • This gripping story of courage and achievement is the account of Robert Falcon Scott's last fateful expedition to the Antarctic, as told by surviving expedition member Apsley Cherry-Garrard....

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    • The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917
    • By: Sir Ernest Shackleton
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 23-03-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • As war clouds darkened over Europe in 1914, a party led by Sir Ernest Shackleton set out to make the first crossing of the entire Antarctic continent via the Pole....

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    • The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings
    • By: Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton, Jay Barbree, Neil Armstrong - introduction by
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • Desperate to beat the Russians into space, NASA put together a crew of the nation's most daring test pilots: the seven men who were to lead America to the moon. The first into space was Alan Shepard; the last was Deke Slayton, whose irregular heartbeat kept him grounded until 1975....

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    • The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age
    • By: Derek Cheung, Eric Brach
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Conquering the Electron offers listeners a true and engaging history of the world of electronics, beginning with the discoveries of static electricity and magnetism and ending with the creation of the smartphone and the iPad....

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    • Tom Crean – Antarctic Survivor
    • By: Michael Smith
    • Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
    • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 210 ratings
    • Tom Crean was the farmer’s son from Kerry who sailed on three major expeditions to the unknown Antarctic over a century ago. He served with both Captain Robert Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton, spent longer on the ice than either and outlived them both....

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    • A Legendary British Explorer's Deadly Quest to Uncover the Secrets of the Amazon
    • By: David Grann
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • David Grann retraces the footsteps of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett and his followers as he unravels one of the greatest mysteries of exploration....

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    • John Colter, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and the Call of the American West
    • By: David Weston Marshall
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In 1804, John Colter set out with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the first US expedition to traverse the North American continent. During the 28-month ordeal, Colter served as a hunter and scout, and honed his survival skills on the western frontier....

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    • True Tales of Hunting, Trapping, Fighting, and Survival
    • By: Stephen Brennan
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 28-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Experience the true “great outdoors” through the stories of the men who lived it.....

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    • Cook, Peary, and Byrd - How Three American Heroes Duped the World into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole
    • By: Anthony Galvin
    • Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 18-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • The Great Polar Fraud explores the history of the three men who claimed the pole, their claims, and the subsequent doubts of those claims....

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    • Hernando de Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms
    • By: Charles Hudson, Robbie Ethridge - foreword
    • Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
    • Length: 21 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 23-08-22
    • Language: English
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    • De Soto's path had been one of history's most intriguing mysteries until the publication of Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun. Using a new route reconstruction, Charles Hudson maps the story of the de Soto expedition, tying the route to a number of specific archaeological sites....

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    • By: Peter FitzSimons
    • Narrated by: Richard Aspel
    • Length: 17 hrs
    • Release date: 13-12-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • The story begins in 1629, when the pride of the Dutch East India Company, the Batavia, is on its maiden voyage en route from Amsterdam to the Dutch East Indies, laden down with the greatest treasure to leave Holland....

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    • A New History of Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads
    • By: Cat Jarman
    • Narrated by: Cat Jarman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 18-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 148 ratings
    • Follow bioarchaeologist Cat Jarman—and the cutting-edge forensic techniques central to her research—as she uncovers epic stories of the Viking age and follows a small ‘Carnelian’ bead found in a Viking grave in Derbyshire to its origins thousands of miles to the east in Gujarat....

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    • The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
    • By: Margalit Fox
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 23-09-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • This audiobook tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative....

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