A Book of Discovery


Leído por Kristine Bekere

(3.3 stars; 41 reviews)

Telling the history of geographical discoveries, "Book of Discovery" is a record of splendid endurance, of hardships bravely borne, of silent toil, of courage and resolution unequalled in the annals of mankind, of self-sacrifice unrivalled and faithful lives laid ungrudgingly down. Of the many who went forth, the few only attained. It is of these few that this book tells. (From the Preface of the book). (16 hr 29 min)

Capítulos

Introduction 12:19 Leído por Kristine Bekere
A Little Old World 14:53 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Early Mariners 16:58 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Is the World Flat 12:15 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Herodotus—the Traveller 15:42 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Alexander the Great Explores India 25:41 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Pytheas Finds the British Isles 10:57 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Julius Caesar as Explorer 13:14 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Strabo's Geography 10:19 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Roman Empire and Pliny 10:46 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Ptolemy's Maps 5:23 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Pilgrim Travellers 9:40 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Irish Explorers 9:33 Leído por Kristine Bekere
After Mohammed 8:28 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Vikings Sail the Northern Seas 9:44 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Arab Wayfarers 17:23 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Travellers to the East 14:07 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Marco Polo 18:51 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The End of Mediaeval Exploration 12:40 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Mediaeval Maps 5:36 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Prince Henry of Portugal 19:54 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Bartholomew Diaz Reaches the Stormy Cape 8:34 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Christopher Columbus 14:47 Leído por Kristine Bekere
A Great New World 11:25 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Vasco da Gama Reaches India 14:10 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Discovery of the Spice Islands 16:54 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Balboa Sees the Pacific Ocean 9:32 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Magellan Sails Round the World 16:49 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Cortes Explores and Conquers Mexico 18:25 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Explorers in South America 15:22 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Cabot Sails to Newfoundland 6:52 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Jacques Cartier Explores Canada 11:05 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Search For a North-West Passage 14:30 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Frobisher Searches for a North-West Passage 5:56 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Drake's Famous Voyage Round the World 18:08 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Davis Straight 11:59 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Barents Sails to Spitzbergen 13:56 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Hudson Finds His Bay 13:14 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Baffin Finds His Bay 7:59 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Sir Walter Raleigh Searches for El Dorado 8:12 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Champlain Discovers Lake Ontario 9:56 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Early Discoverers of Australia 10:21 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Tasman Finds Tasmania 6:19 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Dampier Discovers His Straight 10:58 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Behring Finds His Straight 13:04 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Cook Discovers New Zealand 19:27 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Cook's Third Voyage and Death 18:11 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Bruce's Travels in Abyssinia 18:28 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Mungo Park and the Niger 18:15 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Vancouver Discovers His Island 8:46 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Mackenzie and His River 4:41 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Parry Discovers Lancaster Sound 12:51 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Frozen North 17:43 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Franklin's Land Voyage to the North 9:57 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Parry's Polar Voyage 6:01 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Search for Timbuktu 13:59 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Landers Discover the Mouth of the Niger 6:57 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Ross Discovers the North Magnetic Pole 13:17 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Flinders Names Australia 18:01 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Sturt's Discoveries in Australia 15:51 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Ross Makes Discoveries in the Antarctic Seas 8:00 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Franklin Discovers the North-West Passage 13:58 Leído por Kristine Bekere
David Livingstone 18:23 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Burton and Speke in Central Africa 10:49 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Livingston Traces Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa 7:48 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Expedition to Victoria Nyanza 12:16 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Baker Finds Albert Nyanza 11:55 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Livingstone's Last Journey 19:00 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Through the Dark Continent 25:49 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Nordenskiold Finds North-East Passage 17:57 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Exploration of Tibet 19:04 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Nansen Reaches Farthest North 17:21 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Peary Reaches the North Pole 11:39 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Quest for the South Pole 19:19 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Dates of Chief Events 11:10 Leído por Kristine Bekere

Reseñas

The reader is fine


(5 stars)

I don’t know why everyone is complaining. The reader’s accent it totally fine and understandable. Thanks for volunteering, appreciate your work. I also listened to a few of the others this reader does, all good.

cannot understand narrator


(0.5 stars)

I had to concentrate so hard to understand the narrator that I lost comprehension of the story. Every couple sentences there was a word I could not understand but would have to guess using context clues. By the that part she far into the next sentence. I gave up after the first chapter.

delightful summary of so many adventures


(5 stars)

The reader's accent gives this history an exotic feel of mystery. Well read. Thank you


(5 stars)

i cant imagine listening to a book about the travel and the world and not realizing people from all over speak different languages. if you can do better please step up. for the rest of us who have been where she is reading about, thanks for this.

its the best book on dìscovery


(5 stars)

Hard to understand


(1 stars)

Between my poor hearing and the readers accent there is too many words and concepts I can't understand.


(3 stars)

As noted by others she is difficult to understand at times do to accent.


(1 stars)

this women should not be reading English. Come on stop wasting people's time