Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 32 results for “bernard mayes”
Skip side bar filters

  • Audiobook

    The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. I

    by Edward Gibbon ...
    Narrated by Bernard Mayes ...

    Unabridged

    41 hours 29 min

    Considered one of the finest historical works in the English language, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is lauded for its graceful, elegant prose style as much as for its epic scope. Remarkably accurate for its day, Gibbon's treatise holds a high place in the history of literature and remains an enduring subject of study.Gibbon's monumental work traces the history of more than thirteen ... Read more

    $55.95 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 3

    by Edward Gibbon ...
    Narrated by Bernard Mayes ...

    Unabridged

    39 hours 5 min

    Considered one of the finest historical works in the English language, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is lauded for its graceful, elegant prose style as much as for its grand scope and considerable accuracy. It is a remarkable survey of what the author calls "the greatest and, perhaps, most awful scene in the history of mankind."This third volume of Gibbon's masterpiece covers the years ... Read more

    $55.95 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 2

    by Edward Gibbon ...
    Narrated by Bernard Mayes ...

    Unabridged

    40 hours 19 min

    Famous for its unflagging narrative power, fine organization, and irresistibly persuasive arguments, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire has earned a permanent place of honor in historical literature. Gibbon's elegantly detached erudition is seasoned with an ironic wit, and remarkably little of his work is outdated.This second volume covers AD 395 to AD 1185, from the reign of Justinian in ... Read more

    $55.95 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Outline of History

    Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind

    by H. G. Wells ...
    Narrated by Bernard Mayes ...

    Unabridged

    44 hours 31 min

    Having coined the phrase "the war that will end war," H. G. Wells was disillusioned by the World War I peace settlement. Convinced that humanity needed to awaken to the instability of the world order and remember lessons from the past, the author of numerous science fiction classics set out to write about history. Wells hoped to remind mankind of its common past, provide it with a basis for ... Read more

    $55.95 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Human Action, Third Revised Edition

    A Treatise on Economics

    by Ludwig von Mises ...
    Narrated by Bernard Mayes ...

    Unabridged

    42 hours 42 min

    Ludwig von Mises is to economics what Albert Einstein is to physics, and Human Action is his greatest work. It is a systematic study that covers every major topic in the science of economics. It is also one of the most convincing indictments of socialism and statism ever penned. When it first appeared in English in 1949, it was a sensation, the largest and most scientific defense of human freedom ... Read more

    $55.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Mutiny on Board HMS Bounty

    by William Bligh ...
    Narrated by Bernard Mayes ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 17 min

    In 1787, William Bligh, commander of the Bounty, sailed under Captain Cook on a voyage to Tahiti to collect plants of the breadfruit tree, with a view to acclimatizing the species to the West Indies. During their six-month stay on the island, his men became completely demoralized and mutinied on the return voyage. But a resentful crew, coupled with ravaging storms and ruthless savages, proved to ... Read more

    $27.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Chasing the Monsoon

    A Modern Pilgrimage through India

    by Alexander Frater ...
    Narrated by Bernard Mayes ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 40 min

    This is the inspiring story of how one man realized his dream of witnessing firsthand the most dramatic of meteorological events: the Indian monsoon.Alexander Frater spent the first six years of his life on a South Pacific island, where his father, the only doctor within a thousand square miles, encouraged his fascination and respect for the volatile play of the elements. Frater brings this ... Read more

    $32.15 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Plutarch’s Lives, Vol. 1

    by Plutarch ...
    Narrated by Bernard Mayes ...

    Unabridged

    42 hours 28 min

    One of the world’s most profoundly influential literary works and the basis for Shakespeare’s Roman plays (Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, and Antony and Cleopatra), Plutarch’s Lives have been entertaining and arousing the spirit of emulation in countless readers since their creation at the beginning of the second century.Originally named Parallel Lives, the work pairs eminent Romans with famous Greek ... Read more

    $55.95 CAD

  • Audiobook

    What’s Wrong with the World

    by G. K. Chesterton ...
    Narrated by Bernard Mayes ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 54 min

    In this important book, G.K. Chesterton offers a remarkably perceptive analysis of social and moral issues, even more relevant today than in his own time. With a light, humorous tone but a deadly serious philosophy, he comments on errors in education, on feminism vs. true womanhood, on the importance of the child, and other issues, using incisive arguments against the trendsetters’ assaults on the ... Read more

    $27.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

  • Audiobook

    Two Years before the Mast

    by Richard Henry Dana ...
    Narrated by Bernard Mayes ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 31 min

    Richard Henry Dana referred to this book as "a voice from the sea." Influencing such authors as Conrad and Melville, it has become a maritime classic that has inflicted legions of men with a passion for the sea.Dana, a law student turned sailor for health reasons, sailed in 1834 on the brigPilgrimfor a voyage from Boston around Cape Horn to California. Dana Point was named as a result of this ... Read more

    $39.15 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

  • Audiobook

    Sailing Alone around the World

    by Joshua Slocum ...
    Narrated by Bernard Mayes ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 26 min

    Challenged by an expert who said it couldn’t be done, Joshua Slocum, a fearless New England sea captain, set out in April 1895 to prove that a man could sail alone around the world. A little over three years and forty-six thousand miles later, the proof was complete. This is Slocum’s own account of his remarkable adventures during the historic voyage of the Spray.Whether Slocum was more ... Read more

    $23.75 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

  • Audiobook

    The City of God

    by Saint Aurelius Augustinus ...
    Narrated by Bernard Mayes ...

    Unabridged

    47 hours 43 min

    Written between AD 413 and 426, The City of God is one of the great cornerstones in the history of Christian thought, a book vital to understanding modern Western society. Augustine originally intended it to be an apology for Christianity against the accusation that the Church was responsible for the decline of the Roman Empire. Indeed, Augustine produced a great amount of evidence to prove that ... Read more

    $55.95 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook