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  • A Land So Strange cover art

    • A Land So Strange

    • The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
    • By: Andres Resendez
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 219 ratings
    • In 1528, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong. Of the 300 men who had embarked on the journey, only four survived....

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    • George Washington

    • The Wonder of the Age
    • By: John Rhodehamel
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 21-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Rhodehamel examines George Washington as a public figure, arguing that the man - who first achieved fame in his early twenties - is inextricably bound to his mythic status....

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    • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

    • By: Benjamin Franklin
    • Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 28-04-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • Left unfinished at the time of his death, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin has endured as one of the most well-known and influential autobiographies ever written....

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    • Black Flags, Blue Waters

    • The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
    • By: Eric Jay Dolin
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 16-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings

    • Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic and surprising history of American piracy's "Golden Age" - spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s - when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond....

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    • George Washington

    • The Political Rise of America's Founding Father
    • By: David O. Stewart
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 18 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 09-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • A fascinating and illuminating account of how George Washington became the dominant force in the creation of the United States of America, from award-winning author David O. Stewart....

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    • The Best Sailing Stories Ever Told

    • By: Stephen Brennan - editor
    • Narrated by: Mark Ashby
    • Length: 21 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 2.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • For thousands of years, we have set out sailing for all kinds of reasons - for battle, for infinite wealth, for the excitement of exploring the unknown....

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    • The Puritans

    • A Transatlantic History
    • By: David D. Hall
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp
    • Length: 21 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 15-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • A panoramic new history of Puritanism in England, Scotland, and New England....

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    • Indigenous Continent

    • The Epic Contest for North America
    • By: Pekka Hamalainen
    • Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
    • Length: 18 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 15-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • In Indigenous Continent, acclaimed historian Pekka Hämäläinen presents a sweeping counternarrative that shatters the most basic assumptions about American history....

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    • John Adams: A Life

    • By: John Ferling
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 13-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • John Ferling offers a compelling portrait of one of the giants of the Revolutionary era. This masterful book is a singular biography of the man who succeeded George Washington in the presidency and shepherded the fragile new nation through the most dangerous of times....

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    • The Ascent of George Washington

    • The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon
    • By: John Ferling
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 17-06-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • John Ferling peers behind the traditional image of our first president, carefully burnished by Washington himself, to show us a leader who was not only not above politics but a canny infighter....

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    • The Pirate Hunter

    • By: Richard Zacks
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 19-03-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • Captain Kidd has gone down in history as America's most ruthless buccaneer....

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    • Albion's Seed

    • Four British Folkways in America, Vol. 1
    • By: David Hackett Fischer
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 29 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • This fascinating audiobook is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time....

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    • Tales from a Revolution

    • Bacon's Rebellion and the Transformation of Early America
    • By: James D. Rice
    • Narrated by: Clay Teunis
    • Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-13
    • Language: English
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    • In the spring of 1676, Nathaniel Bacon, a hotheaded young newcomer to Virginia, led a revolt against the colony's Indian policies....

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    • America Bewitched

    • The Story of Witchcraft After Salem
    • By: Owen Davies
    • Narrated by: J. Paul Guimont
    • Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • America Bewitched is the first major history of witchcraft in America - from the Salem witch trials of 1692 to the present day....

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    • Damned Women

    • Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England
    • By: Elizabeth Reis
    • Narrated by: Susan Marlowe
    • Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • Elizabeth Reis explores the intersection of Puritan theology, Puritan evaluations of womanhood, and the Salem witchcraft episodes. She finds in those intersections the basis for understanding why women were accused of witchcraft more often than men....

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    • They Knew They Were Pilgrims

    • Plymouth Colony and the Contest for American Liberty
    • By: John G. Turner
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 07-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • An ambitious new history of the Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony, published for the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower's landing....

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    • Why We Love Pirates

    • The Hunt for Captain Kidd and How He Changed Piracy Forever
    • By: Rebecca Simon PhD
    • Narrated by: Kate Mulligan
    • Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 17-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 85 ratings

    • During his life and even after his death, Captain William Kidd’s name was known around England and the American colonies. He was infamous for the very crime for which he was hanged, piracy. This book by Rebecca Simon dives into the details of the two-year manhunt for Captain Kidd....

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    • Covered with Night

    • A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
    • By: Nicole Eustace
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 22-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 1722, two White fur traders attacked an Indigenous hunter and left him for dead near Conestoga, Pennsylvania....

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