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Cider with Rosie
- By: Laurie Lee
- Narrated by: Laurie Lee
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
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Cider with Rosie is a wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village....
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Wonderful Narration
- By Mr. Robertson on 23-12-12
By: Laurie Lee
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Icons of England
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: David Rintoul, Barnaby Edwards, Ben Eagle, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
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This celebration of the English countryside does not only focus on the rolling green landscapes and magnificent monuments that set England apart from the rest of the world....
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A Curates Egg
- By Mike on 25-11-20
By: Bill Bryson
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White Rural Rage
- The Threat to American Democracy
- By: Tom Schaller, Paul Waldman
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
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A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens—who are also the least likely to defend its core principles....
By: Tom Schaller, and others
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Wastelands
- The True Story of Farm Country on Trial
- By: Corban Addison, John Grisham - foreword
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 16 hrs and 16 mins
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The once idyllic coastal plain of North Carolina is home to a close-knit, rural community that for more than a generation has battled the polluting practices of large-scale farming taking place in its own backyard....
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Exceptional
- By amberannie on 04-11-23
By: Corban Addison, and others
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I Can Hear the Cuckoo
- Life in the Wilds of Wales
- By: Kiran Sidhu
- Narrated by: Aysha Kala
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
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I Can Hear the Cuckoo is a tender, philosophical memoir about the beauty of a microscopic life, the value of solitariness, and respecting the rhythm and timing of the earth....
By: Kiran Sidhu
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Our Wild Farming Life: Adventures on a Scottish Highland Croft
- By: Lynn Cassells, Sandra Baer
- Narrated by: Lynn Cassells
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
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As seen on the BBC’s This Farming Life. The inspirational story of Lynbreck Croft - a regenerative Scottish farm rooted in local food, community, and the dreams of two women. Lynn and Sandra left their friends, family, and jobs in England to travel north to Scotland....
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Inspiring and interesting
- By Amazon Customer on 22-12-23
By: Lynn Cassells, and others
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Cider with Rosie
- By: Laurie Lee
- Narrated by: Laurie Lee
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
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Cider with Rosie is a wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village....
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Wonderful Narration
- By Mr. Robertson on 23-12-12
By: Laurie Lee
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Icons of England
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: David Rintoul, Barnaby Edwards, Ben Eagle, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
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This celebration of the English countryside does not only focus on the rolling green landscapes and magnificent monuments that set England apart from the rest of the world....
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A Curates Egg
- By Mike on 25-11-20
By: Bill Bryson
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White Rural Rage
- The Threat to American Democracy
- By: Tom Schaller, Paul Waldman
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
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A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens—who are also the least likely to defend its core principles....
By: Tom Schaller, and others
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Wastelands
- The True Story of Farm Country on Trial
- By: Corban Addison, John Grisham - foreword
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 16 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The once idyllic coastal plain of North Carolina is home to a close-knit, rural community that for more than a generation has battled the polluting practices of large-scale farming taking place in its own backyard....
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Exceptional
- By amberannie on 04-11-23
By: Corban Addison, and others
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I Can Hear the Cuckoo
- Life in the Wilds of Wales
- By: Kiran Sidhu
- Narrated by: Aysha Kala
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
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I Can Hear the Cuckoo is a tender, philosophical memoir about the beauty of a microscopic life, the value of solitariness, and respecting the rhythm and timing of the earth....
By: Kiran Sidhu
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Our Wild Farming Life: Adventures on a Scottish Highland Croft
- By: Lynn Cassells, Sandra Baer
- Narrated by: Lynn Cassells
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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As seen on the BBC’s This Farming Life. The inspirational story of Lynbreck Croft - a regenerative Scottish farm rooted in local food, community, and the dreams of two women. Lynn and Sandra left their friends, family, and jobs in England to travel north to Scotland....
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Inspiring and interesting
- By Amazon Customer on 22-12-23
By: Lynn Cassells, and others
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Beast
- Werewolves, Serial Killers, and Man-Eaters: The Mystery of the Monsters of the Gévaudan
- By: Gustavo Sánchez Romero, S. R. Schwalb
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
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Using modern biology and history to investigate a series of grisly deaths in the countryside of 18th-century France....
By: Gustavo Sánchez Romero, and others
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Return to Akenfield
- Portrait of an English Village in the 21st Century
- By: Craig Taylor
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
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Thirty-five years after the publication of Ronald Blythe's classic portrait of an English village, Akenfield, Craig Taylor returned to the Suffolk village....
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Uncomfortable
- By K. Logan on 02-04-24
By: Craig Taylor
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Rural Rides
- By: William Cobbett
- Narrated by: Peter Wickham
- Length: 22 hrs and 22 mins
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Between 1821 and 1826, the prolific writer and journalist William Cobbett travelled the countryside of the South of England on foot and horseback. Rural Rides is a fascinating account of his journeys, and depicts a way of life in transition....
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Excellent
- By Zadzaczadlin on 05-07-22
By: William Cobbett
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Janesville
- An American Story
- By: Amy Goldstein
- Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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This is the story of what happens to an industrial town in the American heartland when its factory stills - but it's not the familiar tale....
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excellent and sad story of a town
- By rikki on 17-08-20
By: Amy Goldstein
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Methland
- The Death and Life of an American Small Town
- By: Nick Reding
- Narrated by: Mark Boyett
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
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The dramatic story of the methamphetamine epidemic as it sweeps the American heartland a timely, moving, very human account of one community s attempt to battle its way to a brighter future....
By: Nick Reding
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Uprooted
- Recovering the Legacy of the Places We've Left Behind
- By: Grace Olmstead
- Narrated by: Grace Olmstead
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
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In the tiny farm town of Emmett, Idaho, there are two kinds of people: those who leave and those who stay. Those who leave go in search of greener pastures, better jobs, and college. Those who stay are left to contend with thinning communities, punishing government farm policy....
By: Grace Olmstead
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The Lies of the Land
- Seeing Rural America for What It Is―and Isn’t
- By: Steven Conn
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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A "piercing, unsentimental" (New Yorker) history that boldly challenges the idea of a rural American crisis.
By: Steven Conn
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Judgment Ridge
- The True Story Behind the Dartmouth Murders
- By: Dick Lehr, Mitchell Zuckoff
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
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On a cold night in January 2001, the idyllic community of Dartmouth College was shattered by the discovery that two of its most beloved professors had been hacked to death in their own home. Investigators searched helplessly for clues linking the victims to their murderer or murderers....
By: Dick Lehr, and others
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The Rural Voter
- The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America
- By: Nicholas Jacobs, Daniel M. Shea
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
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This pathbreaking book pinpoints forces behind the rise of the "rural voter"—a new political identity that combines a deeply felt sense of place with an increasingly nationalized set of concerns....
By: Nicholas Jacobs, and others
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American Fire
- Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
- By: Monica Hesse
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
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Incorporating this drama into the long-overlooked history of arson in the United States, American Fire re-creates the anguished nights that this quiet county spent lit up in flames....
By: Monica Hesse
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Farming for the Long Haul
- Resilience and the Lost Art of Agricultural Inventiveness
- By: Michael Foley
- Narrated by: Madison Niederhauser
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
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Farming for the Long Haul is about building a viable small-farm economy that can withstand the economic, political, and climatic shock waves that the 21st century portends....
By: Michael Foley
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Hitching for Hope
- A Journey into the Heart and Soul of Ireland
- By: Ruairí McKiernan
- Narrated by: Gary Furlong
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
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A journey through Ireland by thumb - ears open to the stories, dreams, and struggles of the people encountered along the way....
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I hoped this would be so much better
- By Anonymous User on 10-08-21
By: Ruairí McKiernan
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Billionaire Wilderness
- The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West
- By: Justin Farrell
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
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Billionaire Wilderness takes you inside the exclusive world of the ultra-wealthy, showing how today's richest people are using the natural environment to solve the existential dilemmas they face....
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fascinating, insightful, easy listening
- By Elizabete Smildzina on 16-10-22
By: Justin Farrell
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The Natural Storyteller
- Wildlife Tales for Telling
- By: Georgiana Keable
- Narrated by: Georgiana Keable, Hugh Lupton, Heid Maria Jerstad, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
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Forty-eight stories of brave sparrows, wilds winds, and how to live in times of climate change. A prize-winning book by the natural storyteller Georgiana Keable, sharing long experience with children in the forests and snows of Norway....
By: Georgiana Keable
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The Quiet Zone
- Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence
- By: Stephen Kurczy
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
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In this riveting account of an area of Appalachia known as the Quiet Zone where cell phones and Wi-Fi are banned, journalist Stephen Kurczy explores the pervasive role of technology in our lives and the innate human need for quiet....
By: Stephen Kurczy
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Edward Thomas: Selected Poems
- By: Edward Thomas
- Narrated by: Greg Wagland
- Length: 27 mins
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Selected Poems by Edward Thomas (1878-1917) is read by Greg Wagland for Magpie Audio....
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A Great Poet
- By A. Russell on 21-03-21
By: Edward Thomas
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The Politics of Resentment
- Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker
- By: Katherine J. Cramer
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
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Since the election of Scott Walker, Wisconsin has been seen as ground zero for debates about the appropriate role of government in the wake of the Great Recession....
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Appalachian Fall
- Dispatches from Coal Country on What's Ailing America
- By: Jeff Young
- Narrated by: Gibson Frazier
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
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A searing, on-the-ground examination of the coal industry - and the workers left behind - in the midst of an environmental crisis, addiction, and rising white nationalism....
By: Jeff Young
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Ein Hof und elf Geschwister
- Der stille Abschied vom bäuerlichen Leben
- By: Ewald Frie
- Narrated by: Günter Schoßböck
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
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Die stolze bäuerliche Landwirtschaft mit Viehmärkten, Selbstversorgung und harter Knochenarbeit ist im Laufe der Sechzigerjahre in rasantem Tempo und...
By: Ewald Frie
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La España vacía [The Empty Spain]
- By: Sergio del Molino
- Narrated by: Sergio del Molino
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
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Llega al catálogo de Alfaguara un título que ya es historia reciente: el libro que cambió la mirada sobre la despoblación y la señaló como un fenómeno crucial para entender la España de hoy....
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Our Towns
- A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America
- By: James Fallows, Deborah Fallows
- Narrated by: James Fallows, Deborah Fallows
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
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A vivid, surprising portrait of the civic and economic reinvention taking place in America, town by town and generally out of view of the national media. A realistically positive and provocative view of the country between its coasts....
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A great perspective for an outsider
- By Kiff76 on 18-07-21
By: James Fallows, and others
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Garbage Land
- On the Secret Trail of Trash
- By: Elizabeth Royte
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Royte, Jennifer Aquino
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
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In a country that consumes and then casts off more and more, what actually happens to the things we throw away? In Garbage Land, acclaimed science writer Elizabeth Royte leads us on the wild adventure that begins once our trash hits the bottom of the can....
By: Elizabeth Royte
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Fragile Neighborhoods
- Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time
- By: Seth D. Kaplan
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
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Fragile states expert Seth D. Kaplan offers a bold new vision for addressing social decline in America, one zip code at a time....
By: Seth D. Kaplan
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Hillbilly-Elegie
- Die Geschichte meiner Familie und einer Gesellschaft in der Krise
- By: J. D. Vance
- Narrated by: Dominic Kolb
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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J. D. Vance erzählt die Geschichte seiner Familie - eine Geschichte vom gescheiterten Aufstieg und von der Resignation einer ganzen Bevölkerungsschicht...
By: J. D. Vance