Discover the Libray of Best Audiobooks in Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration

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Title: How Chewing Gave Humans Flat Faces, Little Teeth and Wimpy Jaws

Author: Lauren Young

Narrator: Mike DelGaudio

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-30-16

Publisher: Atlas Obscura

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration

Publisher's Summary:

For a couple years as a Harvard graduate student, Katherine Zink spent a lot of time watching people chew. She would patiently wait while people chomped on crisp vegetables and gummy raw goat meat. Right before they would normally swallow, each person would spit out the food into test tubes for Zink to meticulously splay out for scanning and measuring.

"How Chewing Gave Humans Flat Faces, Little Teeth and Wimpy Jaws" is from atlasobscura.com, published on June 10, 2016.

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Title: The Revolutionary Concept of Standard Sizes Only Dates to the 1920s

Author: Daniel Richards

Narrator: Mike DelGaudio

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-23-16

Publisher: Atlas Obscura

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration

Publisher's Summary:

Building standards are everywhere, helping shape everything from your kitchen cabinets and the sidewalk in front of your house to the layout of your favorite restaurant. Despite their prevalence, building standards really only came into being in the last century. A major turning point in their wild proliferation arrived in the 1920s, when the German government made the then-radical decision to standardize the size of office paper.

"The Revolutionary Concept of Standard Sizes Only Dates to the 1920s" is from atlasobscura.com, published on September 19, 2016.

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Title: Why the Purple Skittle Tastes Different Outside America

Author: Ella Morton

Narrator: Mike DelGaudio

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-16-16

Publisher: Atlas Obscura

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration

Publisher's Summary:

Pop quiz: What flavor is the purple Skittle? If you grew up tasting the rainbow in the US of A, theanswer is clearly grape. But in other countries, including the UK and Australia, purple Skittles tastelike another fruit altogether: blackcurrant.

"Why the Purple Skittle Tastes Different Outside America" is from atlasobscura.com, published on September 9, 2016.

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Title: The Surprising Massachusetts Origins of Nearly Every American Sport

Author: Cara Giaimo

Narrator: Mike DelGaudio

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-16-16

Publisher: Atlas Obscura

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration

Publisher's Summary:

In 2004, a historian named John Thorn sent the librarians of Pittsfield, Massachusetts on a strangequest. Deep in the archives, they flipped through reams of 18th century bylaws, newsletters, andmeeting transcripts. They were looking for any mention of baseball - decades before it was thought tohave existed, in a state far from where it was supposedly born.

"The Surprising Massachusetts Origins of Nearly Every American Sport" is from atlasobscura.com, published on August 26, 2016.

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Title: The Mysterious Origins of This Unnervingly Life-like Japanese Doll from the 1800s

Author: Juliet Bennett Rylah

Narrator: Mike DelGaudio

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-16-16

Publisher: Atlas Obscura

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration

Publisher's Summary:

In the Ripley's Odditorium in Amsterdam, there is a loin cloth-clad doll that is so incredibly detailed and realistic, they say you might mistake it for a real person. Adored by company founder Robert Ripley since he acquired it in the 1930s, Edward Meyer, Ripley's VP of Exhibits & Archives, says its one of the collections most popular objects. However, depending on who you ask, this doll has one of two origin stories: the swan song of an artist who, believing he was at deaths door, desired to give one last gift to the woman he loved; or one of only many magnificently detailed dolls constructed by a working class craftsman.

"The Mysterious Origins of This Unnervingly Life-like Japanese Doll from the 1800s" is from atlasobscura.com, published on September 8, 2016.

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Title: Food Testing in 1902 Featured a Bow Tie-Clad 'Poison Squad' Eating Plates of Acid

Author: Natalie Zarrelli

Narrator: Mike DelGaudio

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-09-16

Publisher: Atlas Obscura

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration

Publisher's Summary:

Twelve young men sat around a fine dinner table with a crisp white tablecloth and silver settings. The collars of their pressed suits were neatly starched and their bow ties rested politely at their chins as they delicately brought forkfuls of delicious foods to their mouths, each morsel laced with formaldehyde and benzoate. Borax tablets polished off the meal.

"Food Testing in 1902 Featured a Bow Tie-Clad 'Poison Squad' Eating Plates of Acid" is from atlasobscura.com, published on August 30, 2016.

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Title: Andrew Ure and the Real Electric Frankenstein Experiments of the 1800s

Author: Lauren Young

Narrator: Mike DelGaudio

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-09-16

Publisher: Atlas Obscura

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration

Publisher's Summary:

Why scientists during the late 18th and 19th centuries conducted crude experiments with reanimating corpses.

"Andrew Ure and the Real Electric Frankenstein Experiments of the 1800s" is an Audible Audio-First Exclusive courtesy of Atlas Obscura, published on September 9, 2016.

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Title: Japans Annual Spider Battle is the Arachnid Equivalent of WWE

Author: Emerson Easley

Narrator: Mike DelGaudio

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-26-16

Publisher: Atlas Obscura

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration

Publisher's Summary:

Eight-legged wrestling, for your entertainment.

"Japans Annual Spider Battle is the Arachnid Equivalent of WWE" is from atlasobscura.com, published on June 20, 2016.

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Title: How a Mythical Imp That Snuck up People's Large Intestines Became a Symbol of Japan

Author: Abigail Walthausen

Narrator: Jamie Renell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-19-16

Publisher: Atlas Obscura

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration

Publisher's Summary:

Although the kappa-maki, a slim cucumber roll, is a vegetarian standby on sushi menus all over the globe, few realize that it is named for a folkloric water sprite whose reputation was never as innocuous as his namesake dish. Once thought to inhabit the rivers of Japan, the kappa was known for all sorts of waterside evil, from pranks on farm animals to drownings of children. Only one talisman could ward off a kappa: a cleverly wielded cucumber. The malicious imp could be appeased by a cucumber thrown downstream, with the name of a family member carved onto it. But eating a cucumber before swimming was considered a deadly mistake.

"How a Mythical Imp That Snuck up People's Large Intestines Became a Symbol of Japan" is from atlasobscura.com, published on July 19, 2016.

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Title: The Wonderful World of Hallmark Cards

Author: Luke Spencer

Narrator: Mike DelGaudio

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-05-16

Publisher: Atlas Obscura

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration

Publisher's Summary:

While visiting a Brooklyn church whose subterranean tunnels were part of the Underground Railroad, I came across an arresting painting. It was a copy of an 1860 oil painting by Eastman Johnson called The Freedom Ring, and showed a young slave girl in a red coat. That same year, the congregation at the Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims in Brooklyn Heights, led by pastor Henry Ward Beecher (and brother of activist Harriet Beecher Stowe), had raised enough money to buy her freedom. A caption said the original painting was owned by Hallmark Cards Inc. of Kansas City, Missouri.

"The Wonderful World of Hallmark Cards" is from atlasobscura.com, published on August 3, 2016.