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“jeffrey tayler”

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  • Murderers In Mausoleums

    Riding the Back Roads of Empire Between Moscow and Beijing

    by Jeffrey Tayler ...
    A gripping journey through some of the planet's most remote and challenging terrain and its peoples, in search of why democracy has yet to thrive in lands it seemed so recently ready to overtake Across the largest landmass on earth, in lands once conquered by Genghis Khan and exploited by ruthless Communist regimes, autocratic and dictatorial states are again arising, growing wealthy on ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Glory in a Camel's Eye

    A Perilous Trek Through the Greatest African Desert

    by Jeffrey Tayler ...
    An "amazing" true account of traveling with Bedouins through a drought-stricken North African landscape ( The Boston Globe).Having journeyed in the past across Siberia and up the Congo, Jeffrey Tayler was well accustomed to adventure and danger. But even this experienced travel writer was unprepared for the physical challenges that awaited him in a Sahara desiccated by eight years of unprecedented ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • River of No Reprieve

    Descending Siberia's Waterway of Exile, Death, and Destiny

    by Jeffrey Tayler ...
    The author of In Putin's Footsteps chronicles a deadly trek through the icy Russian region known for gulags and isolation.In a custom-built boat, Jeffrey Tayler travels some 2,400 miles down the Lena River from near Lake Baikal to high above the Arctic Circle, recreating a journey first made by Cossack forces more than three hundred years ago. He is searching for primeval beauty and a respite from ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Angry Wind

    Through Muslim Black Africa by Truck, Bus, Boat, and Camel

    by Jeffrey Tayler ...
    Hailed by Bill Bryson and the New York Times Book Review as a rising star among travel writers, Jeffrey Tayler penetrates one of the most isolated, forbidding regions on earth--the Sahel. This lower expanse of the Sahara, which marks the southern limit of Islam's reach in West and Central Africa, boasts such mythologized places as Mopti and Timbuktu, as well as Africa's poorest countries, Chad and ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In Putin's Footsteps

    Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones

    by Nina Khrushcheva, Jeffrey Tayler ...
    In Putin's Footsteps is Nina Khrushcheva and Jeffrey Tayler's unique combination of travelogue, current affairs, and history, showing how Russia's dimensions have shaped its identity and culture through the decades.With exclusive insider status as Nikita Khrushchev's great grand-daughter, and an ex-pat living and reporting on Russia and the Soviet Union since 1993, Nina Khrushcheva and Jeffrey ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    In Putin's Footsteps

    Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones

    by Nina Khrushcheva, Jeffrey Tayler ...
    Narrated by Kathleen Gati ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 52 min

    In Putin’s Footsteps is Nina Khrushcheva and Jeffrey Tayler’s unique combination of travelogue, current affairs, and history, showing how Russia’s dimensions have shaped its identity and culture through the decades.With exclusive insider status as Nikita Khrushchev’s great grand-daughter, and an ex-pat living and reporting on Russia and the Soviet Union since 1993, Nina Khrushcheva and Jeffrey ... Read more

    $59.08 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Cold War's Killing Fields

    Rethinking the Long Peace

    by Paul Thomas Chamberlin ...
    Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

    Unabridged

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    A brilliant young historian offers a vital, comprehensive international military history of the Cold War in which he views the decade-long superpower struggles as one of the three great conflicts of the twentieth century alongside the two World Wars, and reveals how bloody the ""Long Peace"" actually was.In this sweeping, deeply researched book, Paul Thomas Chamberlin boldly argues that the Cold ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

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    Storm Clouds over the Pacific, 1931-1941

    by Peter Harmsen ...
    Narrated by Walter Dixon ...
    Series series War in the Far East

    Unabridged

    9 hours 4 min

    War in the Far East is a trilogy of books offering the most complete narrative yet written about the Pacific Theater of World War II, and the first truly international treatment of the epic conflict. Historian Peter Harmsen weaves together a complex and revealing narrative, including facets of the war that are often overlooked in historic narratives. He explores the war in subarctic conditions on ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    American Exceptionalism and American Innocence

    A People's History of Fake News--From The Revolutionary War to The War on Terror

    by Roberto Sirvent, Danny Haiphong ...
    Narrated by Timothy Andrés Pabon ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 38 min

    Did the U.S. really “save the world” in World War II? Should black athletes stop protesting and show more gratitude for what America has done for them? Are wars fought to spread freedom and democracy? Or is this all fake news?American Exceptionalism and American Innocence examines the stories we’re told that lead us to think that the U.S. is a force for good in the world, regardless of slavery, ... Read more

    $41.21 CAD

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    A World to Win

    by Upton Sinclair ...
    Narrated by Bronson Pinchot ...
    Series Audiobook 7 - The Lanny Budd Novels

    Unabridged

    25 hours 49 min

    Presidential Agent 103 is targeted by allies and enemies alike as the Nazis roll across Europe in this novel in the Pulitzer Prize–winning series.Europe, 1940. As war rages across the continent, America watches anxiously from the sidelines. And President Franklin Roosevelt has been keeping an even closer eye on developments in the Third Reich. At the president’s personal request, Lanny Budd gained ... Read more

    $54.90 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    If You See Me, Don't Say Hi

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    by Neel Patel ...
    Narrated by Neel Patel ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 39 min

    "If You See Me, Don't Say Hi bristles with unexpected meetings and reunions, recognitions and failed recognitions, passions and estrangements of all kinds. These stories have a sharp eye for the complexities of modern life, but Neel Patel writes with the wisdom and compassion of an old soul." — Celeste Ng, New York Times bestselling author of Little Fires EverywhereThis program is read by the ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

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    Bearing the Cross

    Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

    by David J. Garrow ...
    Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach ...

    Unabridged

    34 hours 22 min

    Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, this is the most comprehensive book ever written about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. David J. Garrow had unrestricted access to Martin Luther King's personal papers, to thousands of pages of newly released FBI documents, and to more than seven hundred interviews with King's closest friends and enemies ... Read more

    $39.15 CAD

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