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18th Century Audiobooks

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    James Cook

    The story behind the man who mapped the world

    by Peter FitzSimons ...
    Narrated by Michael Carman ...

    Unabridged

    21 hours 23 min

    The name Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated.But who was the real James Cook?This Yorkshire farm boy would go on to become the foremost mariner, scientist, navigator and cartographer of his era, and to personally map a third of the globe. His great voyages of discovery were ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Mutiny on the Bounty

    A saga of sex, sedition, mayhem and mutiny, and survival against extraordinary odds

    by Peter FitzSimons ...
    Narrated by Michael Carman ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 32 min

    The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before.Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plants from Tahiti and take them to the West Indies, the Bounty's crew found themselves in a tropical ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

    by Robert K. Massie ...
    Narrated by Mark Deakins ...

    Unabridged

    23 hours 52 min

    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An “absorbing” (Los Angeles Times) biography of one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in Russian history—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs“[A] compelling portrait not just of a Russian titan, but also of a flesh-and-blood woman.”—NewsweekONE OF ESQUIRE’S BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF ALL ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

    by David Graeber ...
    Narrated by Roger Davis ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 9 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.The Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands of miles away on the island of Madagascar, in the late seventeenth century, when it was home to several thousand pirates. This was the Golden Age of Piracy, a period of violent buccaneering and rollicking legends - but it was also, argues anthropologist David Graeber, a brief window of radical ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Rights of Man

    by Thomas Paine ...
    Narrated by Bernard Mayes ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 12 min

    Written in the late eighteenth century as a reply to Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the French Revolution, Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man is unquestionably one of the great classics on the subject of democracy. A vindication of the French Revolution and a critique of the British system of government, it defended the dignity of the common man in all countries against those who would discard him as one ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Enlightenment

    The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790

    by Ritchie Robertson ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Keeble ...

    Unabridged

    40 hours 10 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.The Enlightenment is one of the formative periods of Western history, yet more than 300 years after it began, it remains controversial. It is often seen as the fountainhead of modern values such as human rights, religious toleration, freedom of thought, scientific thought as an exemplary form of reasoning, and rationality and evidence-based argument. Others accuse the ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Duchess

    by Amanda Foreman ...
    Narrated by Wanda McCaddon ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 36 min

    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURELady Georgiana Spencer was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, and was nearly as famous in her day. In 1774 Georgiana achieved immediate celebrity by marrying William Cavendish, fifth duke of Devonshire, one of England’s richest and most influential aristocrats. She became the queen of fashionable society and ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Habsburgs

    The Rise and Fall of a World Power

    by Martyn Rady ...
    Narrated by Simon Bowie ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 58 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.In The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world it built - and then lost - over nearly a millennium. From modest origins, the Habsburgs grew in power to gain control of the Holy Roman Empire in the fifteenth century. Then, in just a few decades, their possessions rapidly expanded to take in a large part of Europe stretching from Hungary to ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Einfach G.E.L.

    - oder was Sie schon immer über Lessing wissen wollten ...

    by Hardy Crueger ...
    Narrated by Hardy Crueger ...

    Unabridged

    46 min

    »Einfach G.E.L. - oder was Sie schon immer über Lessing wissen wollten ...«Eine (auto-)biografische Lesung zum 238. Todestag Gotthold Ephraim Lessings von und mit Hardy Crueger.Wer war das eigentlich – Lessing? Was hat dieser Mann getan, dass man Straßen, Plätze, ja eine ganze Stadt nach ihm benennt? Wie kam er nach Wolfenbüttel, und warum mochten ihn die Leute nicht? Wer war Eva König? Und wer ... Read more

    $2.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Wedlock

    How Georgian Britain's Worst Husband Met His Match

    by Wendy Moore ...
    Narrated by Rebecca Hall ...

    Abridged

    7 hours 56 min

    WEDLOCK is the remarkable story of the Countess of Strathmore and her marriage to Andrew Robinson Stoney. Mary Eleanor Bowes was one of Britain's richest young heiresses. She married the Count of Strathmore who died young, and pregnant with her lover's child, Mary became engaged to George Gray. Then in swooped Andrew Robinson Stoney. Mary was bowled over and married him within the week.But nothing ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Deutsche Zustände (Drei Briefe)

    by Friedrich Engels ...
    Narrated by Eva Meckbach ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 1 min

    Diese Texte bieten die wunderbare Gelegenheit, deutsche Geschichte zu verstehen und zu begreifen: keine angestaubte Geschichtsstunde läuft hier ab, sondern ein brillanter Denker bringt hier die wichtigsten historischen Ereignisse mit viel Sprachwitz auf den Punkt. Bilderreich und einprägsam beginnen die Texte mit der einer geistvollen Beschreibung "deutscher Zustände" zu der Zeit, als Deutschland ... Read more

    $4.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777

    by Rick Atkinson ...
    Narrated by Rick Atkinson, George Newbern ...

    Unabridged

    26 hours 2 min

    ‘To say that Atkinson can tell a story is like saying Sinatra can sing … A powerful new voice has been added to the dialogue about [America’s] origins as a people and a nation. It is difficult to imagine any reader putting this beguiling book down without a smile and a tear.’ New York TimesIn June 1773, King George III attended a grand celebration of his reign over the greatest, richest empire ... Read more

    $66.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Blenheim

    Battle for Europe

    by Lord Charles Spencer ...
    Narrated by Lord Charles Spencer ...

    Abridged

    5 hours 58 min

    By the summer of 1704 Louis XIV's vast armies dominated Europe. France defeated every alliance formed against her and Louis was poised to extend his frontier to the Rhine and install a French prince on the throne of Spain. Two men saved Europe from French military domination: the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy. Marlborough masterminded a brilliant campaign, working with Eugene to ... Read more

    $30.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Macat Analysis of James Ferguson's The Anti-Politics Machine

    by Julie Jenkins ...
    Narrated by John Chancer ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 59 min

    The Anti-Politics Machine (1990) examines how international development projects are conceived, researched, and put into practice. It also looks at what these projects actually achieve. Ferguson criticizes the idea of externally-directed ‘development’ and argues that the process doesn’t take proper account of the daily realities of the communities it is intended to benefit. Instead, they often ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Enlightenment

    Reason, Tolerance, and Humanity

    by James Schmidt ...
    Narrated by James Schmidt ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 48 min

    The Enlightenment stands at the threshold of the modern age. It elevated the natural sciences to the preeminent position they enjoy in modern culture. It inaugurated a skepticism toward tradition and authority that decisively shaped modern attitudes in religion, morality, and politics. And it gave birth to a vision of history that saw man, through the unfettered use of his own reason, at last ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire

    by Sujit Sivasundaram ...
    Narrated by Raj Ghatak ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 26 min

    WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE FOR GLOBAL CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN-HESSEL TILTMAN PRIZE 2021 LONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2021‘Helps re-centre how we look at the world’ PETER FRANKOPAN‘Global history at its finest’ SUNIL AMRITH‘A master class’ OLIVETTE OTELE'Fascinating' FINANCIAL TIMESStarting from the ocean and from the forgotten... ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Culloden

    Scotland's Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire

    by Trevor Royle ...
    Narrated by Tim Bruce ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 23 min

    The Battle of Culloden in 1746 has gone down in history as the last major battle fought on British soil: a vicious confrontation between the English Royal Army and the Scottish forces supporting the Stuart claim to the throne. But this wasn't just a conflict between the Scots and the English: the battle was also part of a much larger campaign to protect the British Isles from the growing threat of ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Benjamin Franklin

    The Religious Life of a Founding Father

    by Thomas S. Kidd ...
    Narrated by Tom Perkins ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 53 min

    Renowned as a printer, scientist, and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin also published more works on religious topics than any other eighteenth-century American layperson. Born to Boston Puritans, by his teenage years Franklin had abandoned the exclusive Christian faith of his family and embraced deism. But Franklin, as a man of faith, was far more complex than the “thorough deist” who emerges in his ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Catherine the Great

    by Kelly Mass ...
    Narrated by Doug Greene ...

    Unabridged

    52 min

    Catherine II (born Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst; May the 2nd 1729-- November the 17th 1796, typically called Catherine the Great, ruled as Empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796, making her the nation's longest-serving female ruler. Following the assassination of her spouse and 2nd cousin, Peter III, she rose to power. Russia grew bigger, its civilization was rejuvenated, and it was acknowledged as one of ... Read more

    $5.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Tenskwatawa: The Life of the Shawnee Prophet and Tecumseh’s Brother

    by Charles River Editors ...
    Narrated by Colin Fluxman ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 35 min

    As settlers continued to encroach further west, the Shawnee, who were attempting to put together a confederacy of Native Americans to resist, stood firm and ready to fight them. Before America fought Britain in the War of 1812, they were engaged in Tecumseh’s War around the Great Lakes. The fighting made him famous and made a military hero (and eventually a president) out of William Henry Harrison ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    G/GESCHICHTE - Der Siebenjährige Krieg - Die Welt in Flammen - von Preußen bis Nordamerika

    by G GESCHICHTE, G GESCHICHTE ...
    Narrated by Clemens Benke ...
    series G/GESCHICHTE

    Unabridged

    2 hours 16 min

    Winston Churchill bezeichnete den Siebenjährigen Krieg als den "ersten Weltkrieg der Geschichte". Tatsächlich entsteht Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts aus mehreren Teilkonflikten ein nicht mehr zu kontrollierender, globaler Krieg: Ein riskantes Spiel mit dem Feuer auf mehreren Kontinenten, das mit mehr als einer Million Toten endet. Ein Wunder am Anfang ist das "renversement des alliances", die ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD

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    Creating the Constitution

    1787

    by Christopher Collier, James Lincoln Collier ...
    Narrated by Jim Manchester ...
    Audiobook 1998 - The Drama of American History Series

    Unabridged

    1 hour 53 min

    Using a narrative format, Creating the Constitution details the events leading up to the writing of the US Constitution and what American leaders went through to create it. The authors describe the conflicts between the new states and the delegates each sent to the Constitutional Convention, as well as the work that was done to resolve the many issues at hand. ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Captain Cook’s Epic Voyage

    by Geoffrey Blainey ...
    Narrated by John Gregg ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 49 min

    In 1768 Captain James Cook and his crew set out on a small British naval vessel in search of a missing continent. 2020 marks the 250th anniversary of that voyage, and Cook's 'discovery' of Australia. Captain Cook's Epic Voyage reveals the hardships and adventure of this remarkable quest, and the euphoria of discovering new lands. Drawing from his previous book, Sea of Dangers, in Captain Cook's ... Read more

    $32.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Panic of 1792, The: The History and Legacy of America’s First Financial Crisis

    by Charles River Editors ...
    Narrated by Daniel Houle ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 32 min

    In 1783, the last British troops left the American East Coast port cities of Savannah, Charleston, and New York. The War of Independence was over, and the United States of America finally emerged as an independent nation free from British rule. It was a stunning defeat for the British, but it was no less surprising to the victors – in fact, the man who would become the first president of the new ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial