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Assyria

The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire

by Eckart Frahm ...

Narrated by Matthew Lloyd Davies ...

Unabridged

15 hours 2 min

A new history of Assyria, the ancient civilization that set the model for future empires."Truly extraordinary." —Times (London)At its height in 660 BCE, the kingdom of Assyria stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. It was the first empire the world had ever seen. Here, historian Eckart Frahm tells the epic story of Assyria and its formative role in global history.Assyria’s wide ... Read more

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A new history of Assyria, the ancient civilization that set the model for future empires."Truly extraordinary." —Times (London)At its height in 660 BCE, the kingdom of Assyria stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. It was the first empire the world had ever seen. Here, historian Eckart Frahm tells the epic story of Assyria and its formative role in global history.Assyria’s wide
... Read more
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Magicians of the Gods

Evidence for an Ancient Apocalypse

by Graham Hancock ...

Narrated by Graham Hancock ...

Unabridged

14 hours 54 min

". . . you've blown my mind open in a way that's just driven curiosity." Steven Bartlett, Diary of A CEO podcast interview with Graham HancockThe revolutionary book that asks if everything we think we know about the origins of civilisation is completely wrong?More than 12,000 years ago, at the end of the last Ice Age, humanity's story may have changed forever. A giant comet entered our solar ... Read more

$43.99 CAD

". . . you've blown my mind open in a way that's just driven curiosity." Steven Bartlett, Diary of A CEO podcast interview with Graham HancockThe revolutionary book that asks if everything we think we know about the origins of civilisation is completely wrong?More than 12,000 years ago, at the end of the last Ice Age, humanity's story may have changed forever. A giant comet entered our solar
... Read more
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The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt

by Toby Wilkinson ...

Narrated by Michael Page ...

Unabridged

18 hours 53 min

In this landmark work, one of the world's most renowned Egyptologists tells the epic story of this great civilization, from its birth as the first nation-state to its final absorption into the Roman Empire—three thousand years of wild drama, bold spectacle, and unforgettable characters.Award-winning scholar Toby Wilkinson captures not only the lavish pomp and artistic grandeur of this land of ... Read more

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In this landmark work, one of the world's most renowned Egyptologists tells the epic story of this great civilization, from its birth as the first nation-state to its final absorption into the Roman Empire—three thousand years of wild drama, bold spectacle, and unforgettable characters.Award-winning scholar Toby Wilkinson captures not only the lavish pomp and artistic grandeur of this land of
... Read more
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The Horse, the Wheel, and Language

How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World

by David W. Anthony ...

Narrated by Tom Perkins ...

Unabridged

18 hours 25 min

Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Until now their identity has remained a tantalizing mystery to linguists, archaeologists, and even Nazis seeking the roots of the Aryan race. The Horse, the ... Read more

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Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Until now their identity has remained a tantalizing mystery to linguists, archaeologists, and even Nazis seeking the roots of the Aryan race. The Horse, the
... Read more
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The Ill-Made Knight

‘The master of historical fiction’ SUNDAY TIMES

by Christian Cameron ...

Narrated by Saul Reichlin ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Chivalry
Unabridged

21 hours 16 min

'Brilliantly evoked' SUNDAY TIMESDiscover the first medieval adventure in the action-packed Chivalry series! Perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell, Simon Scarrow and Conn Iggulden.September, 1356. Poitiers.The greatest knights of the age were ready to give battle.On the English side, Edward, the Black Prince, who'd earned his spurs at Crecy.On the French side, the King and ... ... Read more

$43.99 CAD

'Brilliantly evoked' SUNDAY TIMESDiscover the first medieval adventure in the action-packed Chivalry series! Perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell, Simon Scarrow and Conn Iggulden.September, 1356. Poitiers.The greatest knights of the age were ready to give battle.On the English side, Edward, the Black Prince, who'd earned his spurs at Crecy.On the French side, the King and ...
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The Woman In Blue

The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries 8

by Elly Griffiths ...

Narrated by Jane McDowell ...

Series Audiobook 8 - The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries
Unabridged

9 hours 44 min

The murder of women priests in the shrine town of Walsingham sucks Dr Ruth Galloway into an unholy investigation.Ruth's friend Cathbad is house-sitting in Walsingham, a Norfolk village famous as a centre for pilgrimages to the Virgin Mary. One night, Cathbad sees a strange vision in the graveyard beside the cottage: a young woman dressed in blue. Cathbad thinks that he may have seen the Madonna ... Read more

$38.99 CAD

The murder of women priests in the shrine town of Walsingham sucks Dr Ruth Galloway into an unholy investigation.Ruth's friend Cathbad is house-sitting in Walsingham, a Norfolk village famous as a centre for pilgrimages to the Virgin Mary. One night, Cathbad sees a strange vision in the graveyard beside the cottage: a young woman dressed in blue. Cathbad thinks that he may have seen the Madonna
... Read more
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The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places

by Neil Oliver ...

Narrated by Neil Oliver ...

Unabridged

14 hours 1 min

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places written and read by Neil Oliver.The British Isles, this archipelago of islands, is to Neil Oliver the best place in the world. From north to south, east to west it cradles astonishing beauty. The human story here is a million years old, and counting. But the tolerant, easygoing peace we enjoy has been hard ... Read more

$22.99 CAD

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places written and read by Neil Oliver.The British Isles, this archipelago of islands, is to Neil Oliver the best place in the world. From north to south, east to west it cradles astonishing beauty. The human story here is a million years old, and counting. But the tolerant, easygoing peace we enjoy has been hard
... Read more
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Buried

An alternative history of the first millennium in Britain

by Alice Roberts ...

Narrated by Alice Roberts ...

Unabridged

10 hours 15 min

Funerary rituals show us what people thought about mortality; how they felt about loss; what they believed came next. From Roman cremations and graveside feasts, to deviant burials with heads rearranged, from richly furnished Anglo Saxon graves to the first Christian burial grounds in Wales, Buried provides an alternative history of the first millennium in Britain. As she did with her pre-history ... Read more

$34.99 CAD

Funerary rituals show us what people thought about mortality; how they felt about loss; what they believed came next. From Roman cremations and graveside feasts, to deviant burials with heads rearranged, from richly furnished Anglo Saxon graves to the first Christian burial grounds in Wales, Buried provides an alternative history of the first millennium in Britain. As she did with her pre-history
... Read more
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The Pattern Seekers

How Autism Drives Human Invention

by Simon Baron-Cohen ...

Narrated by Jonathan Cowley ...

Unabridged

5 hours 42 min

A groundbreaking argument about the link between autism and ingenuity.Why can humans alone invent? In The Pattern Seekers, Cambridge University psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen makes a case that autism is as crucial to our creative and cultural history as the mastery of fire. Indeed, Baron-Cohen argues that autistic people have played a key role in human progress for seventy thousand years, from the ... Read more

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A groundbreaking argument about the link between autism and ingenuity.Why can humans alone invent? In The Pattern Seekers, Cambridge University psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen makes a case that autism is as crucial to our creative and cultural history as the mastery of fire. Indeed, Baron-Cohen argues that autistic people have played a key role in human progress for seventy thousand years, from the
... Read more
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1177 B.C.

The Year Civilization Collapsed: Revised and Updated

by Eric H. Cline ...

Narrated by Eric H. Cline ...

Series series Turning Points in Ancient History
Unabridged

10 hours 47 min

This audiobook narrated by acclaimed archaeologist and bestselling author Eric Cline offers a breathtaking account of how the collapse of an ancient civilized world ushered in the first Dark AgesIn 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy defeated them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the ... Read more

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This audiobook narrated by acclaimed archaeologist and bestselling author Eric Cline offers a breathtaking account of how the collapse of an ancient civilized world ushered in the first Dark AgesIn 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy defeated them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the
... Read more
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Four Lost Cities

A Secret History of the Urban Age

by Annalee Newitz ...

Narrated by Chloe Cannon ...

Unabridged

8 hours 14 min

In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes listeners on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities, each the center of a sophisticated civilization: the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Central Turkey, the Roman vacation ... Read more

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In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes listeners on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities, each the center of a sophisticated civilization: the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Central Turkey, the Roman vacation
... Read more
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Dying Fall

The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries 5

by Elly Griffiths ...

Narrated by Clare Corbett ...

Series Audiobook 5 - The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries
Unabridged

10 hours 26 min

Dr Ruth Galloway, forensic archaeologist, spends a lot of time looking at death. But now death has found her, with the news that her long-time friend Dan Golding has been killed in a house fire.Ruth's grief soon turns to suspicion of arson when she receives a desperate letter from Dan, sent the day before he died. He had made a ground-breaking discovery - and was petrified of the consequences.Ruth ... Read more

$43.99 CAD

Dr Ruth Galloway, forensic archaeologist, spends a lot of time looking at death. But now death has found her, with the news that her long-time friend Dan Golding has been killed in a house fire.Ruth's grief soon turns to suspicion of arson when she receives a desperate letter from Dan, sent the day before he died. He had made a ground-breaking discovery - and was petrified of the consequences.Ruth
... Read more
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The First Ghosts

A rich history of ancient ghosts and ghost stories from the British Museum curator

by Irving Finkel ...

Narrated by Irving Finkel ...

Unabridged

9 hours 41 min

The must-read exploration of the earliest human ghost stories from leading expert Irvine Finkel, author of The Ark Before Noah'It's enthralling stuff, mixing the scholarly with the accessible and placing storytelling right at the heart of the human experience.' - History RevealedThere are few things more in common across cultures than the belief in ghosts. Ghosts inhabit something of the very ... Read more

$34.99 CAD

The must-read exploration of the earliest human ghost stories from leading expert Irvine Finkel, author of The Ark Before Noah'It's enthralling stuff, mixing the scholarly with the accessible and placing storytelling right at the heart of the human experience.' - History RevealedThere are few things more in common across cultures than the belief in ghosts. Ghosts inhabit something of the very
... Read more
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24 Hours in Ancient Egypt

A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There

by Donald P. Ryan ...

Narrated by Jonathan Beville ...

Unabridged

6 hours 11 min

Spend twenty-four hours with the ancient Egyptians.Ancient Egypt wasn't all pyramids, sphinxes and gold sarcophagi. For your average Egyptian, life was tough, and work was hard, conducted under the burning gaze of the sun god Ra.During the course of a day in the ancient city of Thebes (modern-day Luxor), Egypt's religious capital, we meet twenty-four Egyptians from all strata of society—from the ... Read more

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Spend twenty-four hours with the ancient Egyptians.Ancient Egypt wasn't all pyramids, sphinxes and gold sarcophagi. For your average Egyptian, life was tough, and work was hard, conducted under the burning gaze of the sun god Ra.During the course of a day in the ancient city of Thebes (modern-day Luxor), Egypt's religious capital, we meet twenty-four Egyptians from all strata of society—from the
... Read more
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To Catch A King

Charles II's Great Escape

by Charles Spencer ...

Narrated by Richard Trinder ...

Unabridged

9 hours 18 min

How did the most wanted man in the country outwit the greatest manhunt in British history?In January 1649, King Charles I was beheaded in London outside his palace of Whitehall and Britain became a republic. When his eldest son, Charles, returned in 1651 to fight for his throne, he was crushed by the might of Cromwell’s armies at the battle of Worcester.With 3,000 of his supporters lying dead and ... Read more

$34.99 CAD

How did the most wanted man in the country outwit the greatest manhunt in British history?In January 1649, King Charles I was beheaded in London outside his palace of Whitehall and Britain became a republic. When his eldest son, Charles, returned in 1651 to fight for his throne, he was crushed by the might of Cromwell’s armies at the battle of Worcester.With 3,000 of his supporters lying dead and
... Read more
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24 Hours in Ancient China

A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There

by Yijie Zhuang ...

Narrated by Kathleen Li ...

Unabridged

7 hours 30 min

Spend twenty-four hours with the ancient Chinese.Travel back to AD 17, during the fourth year of the reign of Wang Mang of the Han dynasty, a vibrant and innovative era full of conflicts and contradictions. But as different as the Han culture might have been to other great ancient civilizations, the inhabitants of ancient China faced the same problems as people have for time immemorial: earning ... Read more

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Spend twenty-four hours with the ancient Chinese.Travel back to AD 17, during the fourth year of the reign of Wang Mang of the Han dynasty, a vibrant and innovative era full of conflicts and contradictions. But as different as the Han culture might have been to other great ancient civilizations, the inhabitants of ancient China faced the same problems as people have for time immemorial: earning
... Read more
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Tempted by the Runes

The stunning and evocative timeslip novel of romance and Viking adventure

by Christina Courtenay ...

Narrated by Eilidh Beaton ...

Series series Runes
Unabridged

11 hours 36 min

This stunning and evocative new timeslip novel from the bestselling author of Echoes of the Runes is available to preorder now!Brimming with romance, adventure and vivid historical detail, Christina Courtenay does for the Vikings what Diana Gabaldon's Outlander and Clanlans does for Scottish history.Born centuries apart. Bound by a love that defied tim... ... Read more

$34.99 CAD

This stunning and evocative new timeslip novel from the bestselling author of Echoes of the Runes is available to preorder now!Brimming with romance, adventure and vivid historical detail, Christina Courtenay does for the Vikings what Diana Gabaldon's Outlander and Clanlans does for Scottish history.Born centuries apart. Bound by a love that defied tim...
... Read more
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World Prehistory

The Basics

by Brian M. Fagan, Nadia Durrani ...

Narrated by Lee Goettl ...

Unabridged

7 hours 16 min

Written in a non-technical style by two archaeologists and experienced writers about the past, the story begins with human origins in Africa some six million years ago and the spread of our remote ancestors across the Old World. Then we return to Africa and describe the emergence of Homo sapiens (modern humans) over 300,000 years ago, then, much later, their permanent settlement of Europe, Eurasia ... Read more

$29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Written in a non-technical style by two archaeologists and experienced writers about the past, the story begins with human origins in Africa some six million years ago and the spread of our remote ancestors across the Old World. Then we return to Africa and describe the emergence of Homo sapiens (modern humans) over 300,000 years ago, then, much later, their permanent settlement of Europe, Eurasia
... Read more
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The Library of Ancient Wisdom

Mesopotamia and the Making of History

by Selena Wisnom ...

Narrated by Catherine Bailey ...

Unabridged

12 hours

Brought to you by Penguin.The story of the ancient world’s most spectacular library, and the civilization that created itWhen a team of Victorian archaeologists dug into a grassy hill in Iraq, they chanced upon one of the oldest and greatest stores of knowledge ever seen: the library of the Assyrian emperor Ashurbanipal, seventh century BCE ruler of a huge swathe of the ancient Middle East known ... Read more

$26.99 CAD

Brought to you by Penguin.The story of the ancient world’s most spectacular library, and the civilization that created itWhen a team of Victorian archaeologists dug into a grassy hill in Iraq, they chanced upon one of the oldest and greatest stores of knowledge ever seen: the library of the Assyrian emperor Ashurbanipal, seventh century BCE ruler of a huge swathe of the ancient Middle East known
... Read more
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Au commencement était...

Une nouvelle histoire de l'humanité

by David Graeber, David Wengrow ...

Narrated by Cyril Romoli ...

Unabridged

24 hours 9 min

Depuis des siècles, nous nous racontons sur les origines des sociétés humaines et des inégalités sociales une histoire très simple. Pendant l’essentiel de leur existence sur terre, les êtres humains auraient vécu au sein de petits clans de chasseurs-cueilleurs. Puis l’agriculture aurait fait son entrée, et avec elle la propriété privée. Enfin seraient nées les villes, marquant l’apparition non ... Read more

$48.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Depuis des siècles, nous nous racontons sur les origines des sociétés humaines et des inégalités sociales une histoire très simple. Pendant l’essentiel de leur existence sur terre, les êtres humains auraient vécu au sein de petits clans de chasseurs-cueilleurs. Puis l’agriculture aurait fait son entrée, et avec elle la propriété privée. Enfin seraient nées les villes, marquant l’apparition non
... Read more
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Signs of the Gods?

by Erich von Daniken ...

Narrated by Peter Berkrot ...

Unabridged

7 hours

Were human beings created by powers from outer space? Did extraterrestrial giants build the megaliths of Malta and the menhirs of Brittany? Was the Ark of the Covenant a machine built by the astronaut gods?In Signs of the Gods? Erich von Däniken travels far and wide around the globe to study the many strange phenomena that all point to one conclusion—that many thousands of years ago, Earth was ... Read more

$29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Were human beings created by powers from outer space? Did extraterrestrial giants build the megaliths of Malta and the menhirs of Brittany? Was the Ark of the Covenant a machine built by the astronaut gods?In Signs of the Gods? Erich von Däniken travels far and wide around the globe to study the many strange phenomena that all point to one conclusion—that many thousands of years ago, Earth was
... Read more
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The Collapse of Complex Societies

by Joseph A. Tainter ...

Narrated by Brian Arens ...

Series series New Studies in Archaeology
Unabridged

10 hours 26 min

Political disintegration is a persistent feature of world history. The Collapse of Complex Societies, though written by an archaeologist, will therefore strike a chord throughout the social sciences. Any explanation of societal collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the members of all such societies in both the present and future. Dr. Tainter describes nearly ... Read more

$35.99 CAD

Political disintegration is a persistent feature of world history. The Collapse of Complex Societies, though written by an archaeologist, will therefore strike a chord throughout the social sciences. Any explanation of societal collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the members of all such societies in both the present and future. Dr. Tainter describes nearly
... Read more
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Impossible Truths

Amazing Evidence of Extraterrestrial Contact

by Erich von Daniken ...

Narrated by Charles Constant ...

Unabridged

2 hours 33 min

Why do flying machines and astronauts appear in the artworks and sacred texts of all ancient cultures? What is the meaning of the immense earth drawings, impossible to view from the ground, that can be found all over the globe? How could prehistoric cultures have engraved diorite and other hard rock with such incredible precision without the use of modern tools? In this mind-bending new book, ... Read more

$19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Why do flying machines and astronauts appear in the artworks and sacred texts of all ancient cultures? What is the meaning of the immense earth drawings, impossible to view from the ground, that can be found all over the globe? How could prehistoric cultures have engraved diorite and other hard rock with such incredible precision without the use of modern tools? In this mind-bending new book,
... Read more
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24 Hours in Ancient Athens

A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There

by Philip Matyszak ...

Narrated by Gareth Richards ...

Unabridged

6 hours 38 min

Athens, 416 BC. A tenuous peace holds. The city-state's political and military might are feared throughout the ancient world; it pushes the boundaries of social, literary, and philosophical experimentation in an era when it has a greater concentration of geniuses per capita than at any other time in human history. Yet even geniuses go to the bathroom, argue with their spouse, and enjoy a drink ... Read more

$29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Athens, 416 BC. A tenuous peace holds. The city-state's political and military might are feared throughout the ancient world; it pushes the boundaries of social, literary, and philosophical experimentation in an era when it has a greater concentration of geniuses per capita than at any other time in human history. Yet even geniuses go to the bathroom, argue with their spouse, and enjoy a drink
... Read more

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