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Caribbean & West Indies Audiobooks

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    Pirate Hunters

    Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship

    by Robert Kurson ...
    Narrated by Ray Porter ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 24 min

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNE • A thrilling adventure of danger and deep-sea diving, historic mystery and suspense, by the author of Shadow DiversFinding and identifying a pirate ship is the hardest thing to do under the sea. But two men—John Chatterton and John Mattera—are willing to risk everything to find the Golden Fleece, the ship of ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Small Island

    by Andrea Levy ...
    Narrated by Andrea Levy ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 24 min

    Small Island by bestselling author Andrea Levy won the Orange Prize for Fiction, as well as many other awards, including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Whitbread. Now a major BBC drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Naomie Harris, its enduring appeal will captivate fans of Maya Angelou and Zadie Smith.'A great read... honest, skilful, thoughtful and important' - GuardianIt is 1948, and ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    White Debt

    The Demerara Uprising and Britain’s Legacy of Slavery

    by Thomas Harding ...
    Narrated by Ben Onwukwe, Mark Meadows ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 8 min

    When Thomas Harding discovered that his mother's family had made money from plantations worked by enslaved people, what began as an interrogation into the choices of his ancestors soon became a quest to learn more about Britain's role in slavery. It was a history that he knew surprisingly little about - the myth that we are often taught in schools is that Britain's role in slavery was as the ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    La edad de oro de la piratería: Una guía fascinante sobre el papel de los piratas en la historia marítima de la primera época moderna y las historias de Anne Bonny, sir Francis Drake y William Kidd

    by Captivating History ...
    Narrated by Luis Trumper ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 9 min

    Tesoros enterrados, acentos de pirata, batallas marítimas de capa y espada, tricornios y caminar por la plancha: ¿Sabía que ninguno de esos elementos es válido en relación con los piratas reales de la historia?De hecho, existen muchos otros elementos sobre los piratas de la vida real que son simplemente ficción. Pero la historia real de los piratas, ¿merece la pena ser explorada y por qué?La ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Black Man on the Titanic

    The Story of Joseph Laroche

    by Serge Bilé ...
    Narrated by Mirron Willis ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 56 min

    Joseph Laroche was an anomaly among the passengers of the Titanic. He was exceptionally well-educated in a time when few black men had access to an education―and when even fewer were able to travel on a luxurious ship in first or second class. When his family arrived in the United States without him after the Titanic’s tragic crash, they were received well along with the other survivors, and even ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Toussaint Louverture

    A Revolutionary Life

    by Philippe Girard ...
    Narrated by Paul Woodson ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 26 min

    Toussaint Louverture's life was one of hardship, triumph, and contradiction. He was born a slave on Saint-Domingue yet earned his freedom and established himself as a small-scale planter. He even purchased slaves of his own. Philippe Girard shows how Louverture transformed himself from lowly freedman into revolutionary hero as the mastermind of the bloody slave revolt of 1791. By 1801, Louverture ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Modern Jamaica: The History of the Caribbean Island from Christopher Columbus to Today

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

    Unabridged

    2 hours 26 min

    One of the largest islands in the Caribbean and also home to the Arawak and Tainos. Jamaica may have been inhabited as far back as 5,000 years ago, and between 1000 BCE and 500 BCE, a somewhat more advanced Mesolithic race known as the “Ciboneys” or the “Guanahacabibe” began arriving, settling in Jamaica, the Bahamas, Cuba and Haiti. Two centuries later, the Ciboneys were followed by a wave of ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Goddie

    by Robert Picart ...
    Narrated by Angel Stafford ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 53 min

    In Robert Picart’s debut novel Goddie, we read the story of Goddie, a young girl born in the mid-1900s in the picturesque Blue Mountains of Jamaica. With the sudden loss of both parents, Goddie finds herself indentured to strangers in order to pay for school. Heartbroken, weary and alone, she forms a plan to escape to Great Britain as the Windrush movement escalates.Will Goddie be able to escape ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    A Kick in the Belly

    Women, Slavery & Resistance

    by Stella Dadzie ...
    Narrated by Bahni Turpin ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 49 min

    Enslaved West Indian women had few opportunities to record their stories for posterity. Yet from their dusty footprints and the umpteen small clues they left for us to unravel, there's no question that they earned their place in history. Pick any Caribbean island and you'll find race, skin colour, and rank interacting with gender in a unique and often volatile way. In A Kick in the Belly, Stella ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    35 Miles From Shore

    by Emilio Corsetti III ...
    Narrated by Fred Filbrich ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 48 min

    Winner of the 2018 Audiobook Listeners Award for nonfictionOn May 2, 1970, a DC-9 jet with 57 passengers and a crew of six departed from New York’s JFK International Airport en route to the tropical island of St. Maarten, but four hours and 34 minutes later the flight ended in the shark-infested waters of the Caribbean. It was, and remains, the only open-water ditching of a commercial jet. The ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    A Small Place

    by Jamaica Kincaid ...
    Narrated by Robin Miles ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 48 min

    From the award-winning author of Annie John comes a brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua.“If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the prime minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a prime minister would want an ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Try Not to Be Strange

    The Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda

    by Michael Hingston ...
    Narrated by Tom Lute ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 20 min

    On his fifteenth birthday, in the summer of 1880, future science-fiction writer M.P. Shiel sailed with his father and the local bishop from their home in the Caribbean out to the nearby island of Redonda—where, with pomp and circumstance, he was declared the island’s king. A few years later, when Shiel set sail for a new life in London, his father gave him some advice: Try not to be strange. It ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Young Castro

    The Making of a Revolutionary

    by Jonathan M. Hansen ...
    Narrated by Timothy Andrés Pabon ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 35 min

    An intimate, revisionist portrait of the early years of Fidel Castro, showing how an unlikely young Cuban led his country in revolution and transfixed the world. This book will change how you think about Fidel Castro. Until now, biographers have treated Castro's life like prosecutors, scouring his past for evidence to convict a person they don't like or don't understand. This can make for bad ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Mr Atkinson’s Rum Contract: The Story of a Tangled Inheritance

    by Richard Atkinson ...
    Narrated by John Banks ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 40 min

    Shortlisted for the RSL Christopher Bland Prize 2021‘Rarely has family history been so vivid’ JENNY UGLOW‘An extraordinarily original work’ AMANDA FOREMANLike many well-to-do Georgian families, the Atkinsons’ wealth was acquired at a terrible cost, through the labour and lives of enslaved Africans. Drawing on his ancestors’ private correspondence, Richard Atkinson pieces together their unsettling ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Brothers in Arms

    The Kennedys, the Castros, and the Politics of Murder

    by Stephen Molton, Gus Russo ...
    Narrated by Paul Boehmer ...

    Unabridged

    23 hours 49 min

    Using breakthrough reporting and interviews with long-silent sources, Gus Russo and Stephen Molton have crafted a dramatic retelling of the time before, during, and after the killing of John F. Kennedy. The book centers on the two opposed sets of brothers-the Kennedys and the Castros-who collectively authored one of modern history's most dangerous, and tragically ironic, chapters. Bobby Kennedy ... Read more

    $38.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Common Wind

    Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution

    by Julius S. Scott ...
    Narrated by Earl McLean ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 33 min

    The Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the New World. Having delved deep into the gray obscurity of official eighteenth-century records in Spanish, English, and French, Julius S. Scott has written a powerful "history from below." Scott follows the spread of "rumors of emancipation" and the people behind ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Minty Alley

    A collection of rediscovered works celebrating Black Britain curated by Booker Prize-winner Bernardine Evaristo

    by C.L.R. James ...
    Narrated by Bernardine Evaristo, Ben Onwukwe ...
    Audiobook 4 - Black Britain: Writing Back

    Unabridged

    7 hours 59 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.The only novel from the world-renowned writer C.L.R. James - this extraordinary, big-hearted exploration of class was the first novel by a black West Indian to be published in the UK'As he walked home he looked up at the myriads of stars, shining in the moonlight. Did people live there? And if they did, what sort of life did they live?'It is the 1920s in th... ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Homecoming

    Voices of the Windrush Generation

    by Colin Grant ...
    Narrated by Colin Grant, John Sackville, Kristin Atherton, Debra Michaels, Leemore Marrett ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 8 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.When Colin Grant was growing up in Luton in the 1960s, he learned not to ask his Jamaican parents why they had emigrated to Britain. ‘We’re here because we’re here,’ his father would say. ‘You have some place else to go?’But now, seventy years after the arrival of ships such as the Windrush, this generation of pioneers are ready to tell their stories.Homecoming draws on ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Resistance, Rebellion & Revolt

    How Slavery Was Overthrown

    by Professor James Walvin ...
    Narrated by Ben Onwukwe ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 51 min

    This long overdue, vivid and wide-ranging examination of the significance of the resistance of the enslaved themselves - from sabotage and running away to outright violent rebellion - shines fresh light on the end of slavery in the Atlantic World.It is high time that this resistance, in addition to abolitionism and other factors, was given its due weight in seeking to understand the overthrow of ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    History of the Caribbean: A Captivating Guide to Caribbean History, Starting from Christopher Columbus through the Wars of Religion, Slavery, and Colonial Laws to the Present

    by Captivating History ...
    Narrated by Jason Zenobia ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 39 min

    Almost everyone knows The Bahamas and Jamaica are in the Caribbean. But what do you really know about those countries?The history of the Caribbean is an exciting ride, but few outside of the region know much about it in depth beyond Columbus’s discovery. This audiobook will lead you through the history of the region, which witnessed some of the world’s most important events. We will begin with ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Christian Slavery

    Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World

    by Katharine Gerbner ...
    Narrated by Elizabeth Wiley ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 49 min

    In Christian Slavery, Katharine Gerbner contends that religion was fundamental to the development of both slavery and race in the Protestant Atlantic world. Slave owners in the Caribbean and elsewhere established governments and legal codes based on an ideology of "Protestant Supremacy," which excluded the majority of enslaved men and women from Christian communities. For slaveholders, ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Windrush: 75 Years of Modern Britain

    by Trevor Phillips, Mike Phillips ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 48 min

    An oral history of Britain’s first West Indian immigrants and their descendants from 1948 to the present day.In 1948 the former troop ship Windrush made the 30-day journey across the Atlantic from Jamaica. The arrival of its 500 passengers, the first generation of Caribbean migrants in the UK, was the initial step in the formation of a new identity: the black Briton.Fifty years later, Mike and ... Read more

    $49.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Irma Brings Love

    Surviving a category five hurricane

    by Maureen A. Peters, Maureen A. Peters ...
    Narrated by Kathleen Godwin ...
    Audiobook 2 - Irma-proof

    Unabridged

    3 hours 24 min

    Hurricane Irma forced Joshua from the comfort of his new home. This category five hurricane completely demolished the house. However, he made his escape just in time. Desperate to find a safer place to ride out the storm, he sought shelter with his Landlady.Although he was comfortable living with his brother when he moved to the British Virgin Islands to seek employment, he desired his own space. ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Rum

    Interessantes über das "Wasser der Dämonen"

    by Thomas Meinen, Thomas Meinen ...
    Narrated by Thomas Meinen ...

    Unabridged

    18 min

    So wurde der Rum auch genannt. Als Oliver Cromwell im Kampf um die Vorherrschaft auf den Meeren, der englischen Flotte den Befehl gab, das spanische Imperium in Westindien anzugreifen, kamen die Seeleute seiner Majestät anlässlich der Eroberung von Jamaika im Jahre 1655 zum ersten Mal mit jenem hochprozentigen Getränk in Berührung. Die ersten einschlägigen Erfahrungen mit dem "Seelentröster der ... Read more

    $9.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial