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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/361661 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Midsummer Morning: Rediscovering a Life of Adventure Author: Alastair Humphreys Narrator: Alastair Humphreys Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 34 minutes Release date: May 30, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A Financial Times Summer Book of 2019 Seasoned adventurer Alastair Humphreys pushes himself to his very limits – busking his way across Spain with a violin he can barely play. In 1935 a young Englishman named Laurie Lee arrived in Spain. He had never been overseas; had hardly even left the quiet village he grew up in. His idea was to walk through the country, earning money for food by playing his violin in bars and plazas. Nearly a century later, the book Laurie Lee wrote – As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning – inspired Alastair Humphreys. It made him fall in love with Spain – the landscapes and the spirit – and with Laurie's style of travel. He travelled slow, lived simply, slept on hilltops, relished spontaneity, and loved conversations with the different people he met along the hot and dusty road. For 15 years, Alastair dreamed of retracing Laurie Lee’s footsteps, but could never get past the hurdle of being distinctly unmusical. This year, he decided to go anyway. The journey was his most terrifying yet, risking failure and humiliation every day, and finding himself truly vulnerable to the rhythms of the road and of his own life. But along the way, he found humility, redemption and triumph. It was a very good adventure.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/369648 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Critical: Stories from the front line of intensive care medicine Author: Matt Morgan Narrator: Matt Morgan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 42 minutes Release date: May 30, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 4 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Journey into the world of intensive care medicine and the lives of people who have forever been changed by it.   ‘A very special book filled with stories of survival, hope and loss.’ Adam Kay '[Morgan's] wit and compassion are everywhere evident in this enlightening book, and he makes a welcome contribution to our understanding of these extraordinary times.' Sunday Times  There is no room for error in the ICU. Full focus is required at all times. It can be the difference between life and death.   Through the remarkable stories of his patients, Dr. Matt Morgan guides you through the body and its organs. He explains how various critical conditions arise, and all that goes into treating them – from the science, research and technology, to the tireless efforts of the doctors and nurses. This book gives you powerful insights about intensive care, many of which may prevent you, or those close to you, from ending up there. It will even teach you how to save a life.     Movingly and compassionately, Matt writes about the cases and the people that have stayed with him, both the recoveries and the losses. This book shows the fragility of life, but also the incredible resilience of the human body and spirit.   Sometimes darkness can show you the light.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/384197 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fast Fades The Beauteous Shore Author: Sally Cook Narrator: Sally Cook Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 59 minutes Release date: May 29, 2019 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This story tells of my pioneer colonist forebears and their arrival and settlement in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1838 after many difficult months at sea. They landed only a year after the proclamation of the city of Adelaide. At this time houses were made from reeds from the banks of Adelaide's Torrens River, the port of Adelaide was surrounded by swamp with the area referred to in those early days as 'Mudholia' or 'Dustholia'. During this time some colonial children mixed with local Aboriginal children, in some caeses learning part of their language. This story talks about Adelaide's rapid early development and in particular follows the fortunes of the illustrious Downer family.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/375366 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke Author: Jeffrey C. Stewart Narrator: William Andrew Quinn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 45 hours 35 minutes Release date: May 28, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart offers the definitive biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance, based on the extant primary sources of his life and on interviews with those who knew him personally. He narrates the education of Locke, including his becoming the first African American Rhodes Scholar and earning a PhD in philosophy at Harvard University, and his long career as a professor at Howard University. Locke also received a cosmopolitan, aesthetic education through his travels in continental Europe, where he came to appreciate the beauty of art and experienced a freedom unknown to him in the United States. And yet he became most closely associated with the flowering of black culture in Jazz Age America and his promotion of the literary and artistic work of African Americans as the quintessential creations of American modernism. In the process he looked to Africa to find the proud and beautiful roots of the race. Shifting the discussion of race from politics and economics to the arts, he helped establish the idea that black urban communities could be crucibles of creativity. Stewart explores both Locke's professional and private life, including his relationships with his mother, his friends, and his white patrons, as well as his lifelong search for love as a gay man.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/384145 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cuscus Fur, Stilton Cheese And A Three Toed Sloth Author: Sally Cook Narrator: Sally Cook Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 10 minutes Release date: May 28, 2019 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: I have survived a plane which caught on fire over the Tasman, have lived with a tribe in pre-Indenpendence Papuan New Guinea.I have hugged a three toed sloth in Colombia and worked for an antiquated group of newspapers in London where I covered murder trials, magistrates courts, cinema and theatre reviews. I have been stuck in mud in Tayrona National Park in Colombia, accompanied by shrieking monkeys, a mirthful friend and guide. A client once requested that my statue be built and that I be made a dame. I have had a murderer as a tenancy client and been called by a magistrate to take over a tribunal hearing whilst she fetched police. The guttering from the front of a disgruntled tenant's house has landed on my work desk, I have worked with a community organisation servicing fifty nationalities. And in riding my Honda 90 across Cambridgeshire's frozen fens, I have reported on Jack Spratt and Joe Blogs., one of whom was drunk on a turnip planter. Welcome to my world where I have been held hostage for a couple of hours by an irate service user, have worked with young offenders and have dealt with a tenant's suspicion of ghosts. My account is quirky, covering aspects of my travels and work.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/384162 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Silver Cigarette Case and The Murder of Great Escaper Jack Francis Williams Author: Sally Cook Narrator: Sally Cook, Michael Cook Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 22 minutes Release date: May 28, 2019 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This compelling story centred on the famous Great Escape is a story of love, friendship, and optimism. It focuses on Great Escaper Jack Francis Williams who was held captive in Germany's Stalag Luft III during World War II and his life before and after the Escape. It is told based around love letters dating back 76 years and holds many poignant moments and twists..

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/383574 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Toilet Warrior Author: Mark Balla Narrator: Mark Balla Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 7 minutes Release date: May 22, 2019 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: During a business trip to India, the author made an unexpected discovery, a discovery that was to turn his understanding of our world upside down. He was so shaken by what he learned that he felt unable to simply walk away. More often than not, when people are confronted by a major issue with global implications you will hear them say "What can I do? I'm only one person." Mark decided that such a response would be unacceptable and he made up his mind to get involved. Rather than just sit on the sidelines, in 2014 Mark took decisive action. As a result, Mark's inner humanitarian was awakened and the lives of tens of thousands of underprivileged children in India have been changed for the better. This highly inspiring, witty, cleverly narrated book tells the story of that awakening and its impact.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/375708 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch Author: Henry Miller Narrator: Tom Perkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 25 minutes Release date: May 21, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In his great triptych 'The Millennium,' Bosch used oranges and other fruits to symbolize the delights of Paradise. Whence Henry Miller's title for this, one of his most appealing books; first published in 1957, it tells the story of Miller's life on the Big Sur, a section of the California coast where he lived for fifteen years. Big Sur is the portrait of a place—one of the most colorful in the United States—and of the extraordinary people Miller knew there: writers (and writers who did not write), mystics seeking truth in meditation (and the not-so-saintly looking for sex-cults or celebrity), sophisticated children, and adult innocents; geniuses, cranks, and the unclassifiable, like Conrad Moricand, the 'Devil in Paradise,' who is one of Miller's greatest character studies. Henry Miller writes with a buoyancy and brimming energy that are infectious. He has a fine touch for comedy. But this is also a serious book—the testament of a free spirit who has broken through the restraints and clichés of modern life to find within himself his own kind of paradise.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/383552 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Timothy Leary Shaman Visionary Prophet - Wisdom in the Wind Author: Geoffrey Giuliano Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 44 minutes Release date: May 21, 2019 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The amazing life of LSD advocate Dr. Timothy Leary, a close friend of Geoffrey Giuliano's, is examined through the microscope of his great, abiding achievements as a philosopher, researcher, psychologist, and shaman. From his controversial early days at Harvard University to the heady heights of his time as a counterculture hero and international fugitive, here is Timothy Leary, in his own words. Perfect for all library, university, and private collections. A one-of-a-kind Icon Audio adventure. Music by AudioNautix.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/383541 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Saviour Soul Timothy Leary - An Audio Biography Author: Geoffrey Giuliano Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 41 minutes Release date: May 19, 2019 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: As a close friend of Geoffrey Giuliano the amazing life of LSD advocate Dr. Timothy Leary is examined through the microscope of his great, abiding achievements as a philosopher, researcher, psychologist, and shaman. From his controversial, early days at Harvard University, to the heady heights of his time as a counter-culture hero and international fugitive, here is Timothy Leary, in his own words and of those who knew him best. Perfect for all library, university, and private collections. A one-of-a-kind Icon audio adventure. Geoffrey Giuliano will donate all of his proceeds from this work to the Vrndavan Widows & Children's Fund of India via Sri Radhe International Inc., a New York State charity. Music by AudioNautix.