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Title: Philippines - Culture Smart!

Subtitle: The Essential Guide to Customs and Culture

Author: Graham Colin-Jones, Yvonne Quahe Colin-Jones

Narrator: Peter Noble

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-31-16

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration

Publisher's Summary:

Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs, and behavior in the Philippines, ensuring that you arrive aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. This concise guide tells you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. The inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliar situations, and develop trust, friendships, and successful business relationships. It will help you to turn your visit - whether on business or for pleasure - into a memorable and enriching experience.

Members Reviews:

Great mix of history and culture

I listen to this book in preparation for a 30-day Global Water Initiative visit to help build sustainable water sources for smaller island villages. I found the books first part covering the of history of the Philippines to be very enlightening. The second part of the book really goes into a better understanding of cultural introduction that is highly helpful for a westerner to include mentioning things to be on the wary of as only drink sealed bottle water.

Awesome

Great insight of the Philippines and culture of the people. My next visit will be even more enjoyable.

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Title: Decades Before Oprah, Della Reese was the First Black Woman to Host a Talk Show

Author: Mayukh Sen

Narrator: Mike DelGaudio

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-26-16

Publisher: Atlas Obscura

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration

Publisher's Summary:

The program was historic. But why are the archives lost?

"Decades Before Oprah, Della Reese was the First Black Woman to Host a Talk Show" is from atlasobscura.com, published on August 22, 2016.

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Title: America's Largest Outdoor Theatre Event Features 700 Lip Syncing Mormons

Author: Michael Schulson

Narrator: Mike DelGaudio

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-12-16

Publisher: Atlas Obscura

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration

Publisher's Summary:

Its better than Disney World, said Kelsey Trainor, standing in a field in upstate New York, surrounded by 700 costumed Mormons. All around were throngs of missionaries and tourists. People took photos in front of a seven-tiered stage, and families staked out seats among rows of green plastic chairs. Children walked around in the grass, dressed as the sinners of an ancient Mesoamerican civilization. Out on the highway, protestors shouted into bullhorns.

"America's Largest Outdoor Theatre Event Features 700 Lip Syncing Mormons" is from atlasobscura.com, published on August 3, 2016.

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Title: Marie Curie Got Her Start at a Secret University for Women

Author: Eric Grundhauser

Narrator: Mike DelGaudio

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-12-16

Publisher: Atlas Obscura

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration

Publisher's Summary:

If you think getting a college education is tough today, try earning a degree in Russian-controlled Poland in the late 19th century. If you were a man, you couldnt be taught anything at university outside of the state-sanctioned curriculum, which was bad enough, but if you were a woman, you werent allowed to attend at all. Thats where the Flying University, which produced Marie Curie and thousands of other students, came in.

"Marie Curie Got Her Start at a Secret University for Women" is from atlasobscura.com, published on August 4, 2016.

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Title: What It's Like to Be an Underwater Crime Scene Investigator

Author: Ella Morton

Narrator: Mike DelGaudio

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-29-16

Publisher: Atlas Obscura

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration

Publisher's Summary:

For Mike Berry, a challenging workday might involve groping through the silt at the bottom of a lake in the pitch dark, hoping to stumble upon a gun while avoiding getting his hand chomped off by a snapping turtle. Based in Virginia, Berry is an underwater criminal investigator. For the last 35 years, he has been diving to the bottom of lakes, rivers, and oceans in search of evidence that could send a murderer to prison or put a cold case to rest.

"What It's Like to Be an Underwater Crime Scene Investigator" is from atlasobscura.com, published on July 22, 2016.

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Title: Ethiopia - Culture Smart!

Subtitle: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

Author: Sarah Howard

Narrator: Peter Noble

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-26-16

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration

Publisher's Summary:

Ethiopia - Culture Smart! provides essential information, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliar situations, and develop trust, friendships, and successful business relationships.

Ethiopia - Culture Smart! offers illuminating insights into the culture and society of a particular country. It will help you to turn your visit - whether on business or for pleasure - into a memorable and enriching experience.

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

very happy

This handy and easy to read book will supplement the knowledge I have ...

I am planning to make and deliver a slideshow with images from our recent trip to Ethiopia. This handy and easy to read book will supplement the knowledge I have of Ethiopia and add to the information I present along with the images.

One Star

generalizations and stereotypes.

Great book

This book will really be used in our family as we have a little granddaughter from Ethiopia. Learning customs and the culture of her native country is important to all of us. It will also be helpful to anyone traveling in a country whose customs may be different but which are greatly valued.

Simple and Well Organized

A great overview of cultural topics. Sections are short and easy to ready. Provides a great flavor of the people, food, and customs. This also helped me identify specific historical events and geographic places to study before my trip.

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Title: Words of Mercury

Subtitle: Tales from a Lifetime of Travel

Author: Patrick Leigh Fermor, Artemis Cooper - editor, Rolf Potts - foreword

Narrator: Christopher Oxford

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-11-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration

Publisher's Summary:

A career-spanning anthology from the greatest traveler - and travel writer - of the 20th century.

The adventures of Patrick "Paddy" Leigh Fermor, Britain's most beloved traveler, began in 1933, when he embarked on a walk from Holland to Constantinople - the entire length of Europe - at the tender age of 18. Sleeping in barns, monasteries, and, on occasion, aristocratic country houses, the young adventurer made way his through the Old World just as everything was about to change.

Words of Mercury collects pieces from every stage of Leigh Fermor's life, from his journey through Eastern Europe just before the outbreak of the Second World War - described in gorgeous, meditative detail - to his encounter with voodoo in Haiti, to a monastic retreat to Normandy to try to write a book. Also included is the story of one of his most well-known exploits from the war - his planned and executed kidnap of a German general under British orders. Ever the student, "Paddy" also wrote extensively on his encounters with polymaths, linguists, and artists all over the world.

Over the course of his illustrious lifetime, Leigh Fermor wrote several acclaimed travel books, countless essays, translations, and book reviews, many of which are compiled in this anthology. His unique experiences out in the world fed his insatiable curiosity and voracious appetite for scholarship. His tales, written in a singular, elegant style, have inspired generations of writers and continue to shape the language of travel.

Members Reviews:

Interesting travel writing

Interesting travel writing from the 1930s and later. Fermor is an excellent and engaging writer. A bit dated in places.

Five Stars

Spectacularly erudite and entertaining writing, even about mundane events.

Five Stars

Wonderfully literate, evocative tales of fascinating places and times.

Five Stars

Fermor is worth the attention of anyone who loves good writing.

Words fly

This book is a wonderful read, like the other travel books by this author. He not only captures places and people vividly, but he writes in a easy style, I felt that we were old friends and he was describing his experiences to me.

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Title: Nepal - Culture Smart!

Subtitle: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

Author: Tessa Feller

Narrator: Anna Bentinck

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-28-16

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 17 votes

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration

Publisher's Summary:

Nepal - Culture Smart! provides essential information, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliar situations, and develop trust, friendships, and successful business relationships. Nepal - Culture Smart! offers illuminating insights into the culture and society of a particular country. It will help you to turn your visit - whether on business or for pleasure - into a memorable and enriching experience.

Members Reviews:

Much of this was news to me & I am glad to know it

Before this book I knew very little of the land of Nepal. I am glad to read the book and open my mind and expand my knowledge - thank you.

Excellent

Great summary of the countries customs and history. I feel prepared. The narrator is easy to understand and adds character to the novel.

Comprehensive look into Nepal

Very comprehensive look into Nepal and its diverse culture. The next best thing to actually being there and experiencing it in person.

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Title: The Last Dive

Subtitle: A Father and Son's Fatal Descent into the Ocean's Depths

Author: Bernie Chowdhury

Narrator: L. J. Ganser

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-14-16

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 55 votes

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration

Publisher's Summary:

Chris and Chrissy Rouse, an experienced father-and-son scuba diving team, hoped to achieve widespread recognition for their outstanding but controversial diving skills. Obsessed and ambitious, they sought to solve the secrets of a mysterious, undocumented World War II German U-boat that lay under 230 feet of water, only a half day's mission from New York Harbor. In doing so they paid the ultimate price in their quest for fame.

Bernie Chowdhury, himself an expert diver and a close friend of the Rouses, explores the thrill-seeking world of deep-sea diving, including its legendary figures, most celebrated triumphs, and gruesome tragedies. By examining the diver's psychology through the complex father-and-son dynamic, Chowdhury illuminates the extreme sport diver's push toward - and sometimes beyond - the limits of human endurance.

Members Reviews:

Who's Last Dive

This book seem to be more about the author and his embellished accomplishments then the Rouses. His speculation on what they did on their last dive was almost comical seeing his wasn't even there. Hearing the narrator take deep breaths at every sentence made this a painful book to listen to.

Misleading title

I enjoyed this book, but it has much content unrelated to the Rouses' deaths or even their life. The author frequently writes of himself, which can still be interesting. There is a factual disagreement with Shadow Divers about whom to evacuate by Coast Guard helicopter. Not sure which book to trust.

Fascinating and educational, albeit a bit too long

Would you consider the audio edition of The Last Dive to be better than the print version?

Considering how much specific material is covered in The Last Dive, I'd definitely suggest going with listening to the audiobook instead, as it can definitely feel exhausting to read about all the technicalities related to diving if it's not a sport you do yourself. Just make sure the narrator's breathing doesn't get on your nerves.

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Last Dive?

To me, the book became the most engaging in Chapter 7: Triple Vision and Chapter 8: Voice From The Deep, as the writer describes in excruciating detail what it's like to have decompression sickness, and what kind of thoughts someone has during and right after an experience like that.

Did L. J. Ganser do a good job differentiating all the characters? How?

L. J. Ganser's performance was fine for the material. He manages to make the moments that matter compelling enough to draw you in, and does a good job clearly pronouncing the diver-terminology-heavy sentences that are spread throughout the book.

I didn't get bothered by the heavy breathing that some other listeners complained about, and it actually might have added to the atmosphere to me, making me feel like I was right there with the divers at the crushing underwater depths.

However, I do feel L. J. Ganser struggles to create proper individualistic characters, even with the core characters of the book, which is a problem when two of the major names - father and son, Chris and Chrissy - are so similar.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

It's definitely not a book I would want to listen to all in one sitting.

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Title: Switzerland - Culture Smart!

Subtitle: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

Author: Kendall Maycock

Narrator: Anna Bentinck

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-10-16

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration

Publisher's Summary:

There is far more to Switzerland than beautiful scenery, chocolate, watches, faceless bankers, and spotless cities. The real Switzerland is full of surprises and anything but bland. This small, rugged, landlocked country at the heart of Europe has been a confederation since the first three cantons came together in a defensive alliance in 1291. Four national languages are spoken within its borders. Its present 26 cantons are largely autonomous and retain their individual characters. In this grassroots democracy, real power lies with the people, who exercise it directly through frequent referendums. Swissness is, above all, a spirit of independence and of communal involvement.

Members Reviews:

really informative

I love that this series helps you get a general sense of the population. Best taken with the grains of salt that whatever the culture, there will be a counter culture and differences in age groups and individuals. This particular one felt a bit too repetitive for my tastes, they could have cut down on the number of times they explained the same Swiss characteristics.