'A pacy confection of history, mystery and romance.' The Times
Despite being the leading expert in his field, Fitz has never really fulfilled his potential, never written the great book on extinct species that everyone expected from him when he was setting out.
Suddenly a figure from those days reappears in his life. The beautiful Gaby wants him to help find something that vanished over two hundred years ago from the collection of the pioneering naturalist Joseph Banks: a speciment known as The Mysterious Bird of Ulieta.
Unsure of the reasons behind this quest, but spurred on join it by his beguiling lodger Katya, Fitz soon finds that the only way to solve the puzzle of the missing bird is to unravel the mystery of Banks's passionate affair with a young woman - Miss B. - who has disappeared from history as effectively as the creature he is hunting.
It is the story of her life - poignant, courageous, shocking - and of her relationship with Banks, which twines around the enigma of Fitz to produce a wonderful double-helix of secrets and surprises.
Martin Dugard
Peformed By : Simon Jones
Hachette Audio
Runtime : 6 hours
Categories : Adventurers & Explorers
Historical
World
Pre 1900
Biographical
$29.98 $20.99
The epic, never-before-told story of Columbus’s final, and perhaps greatest journey. More info... |
Stephen E. Ambrose
Peformed By : Barrett Whitener
Simon & Schuster
Runtime : 22 hours
Categories : American
Pre 1900
Adventurers & Explorers
Historical
$59.95 $29.95
In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River, across the forbidding Rockies. More info... |
David Starkey
Peformed By : Patricia Hodge
Harper Collins UK
Runtime : 2 hours 6 minutes
Categories : Historical
Royalty and Heads of State
British
Pre 1900
Biographical
$12.75
An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man’s world, passionately sexual yet... More info... |
Richard Curtis and Ben Elton
Peformed By : Full Cast Performance
BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime : 2 hours 50 minutes
Categories : Adult
Comedy
Pre 1900
Modern Classics
$18.49
Richard Curtis’ and Ben Elton’s award-winning comedy in which Rowan Atkinson as the ubiquitous Blackadder, ably hampered by Tony Robinson as the loyal Baldrick, wreaks havoc throughout the centuries. More info... |
Christopher Lee
Peformed By : Anna Massey
BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime : 3 hours
Categories : Non Fiction
British
Pre 1900
$22.25
Lee's history of Britain provides the definitive radio account of the events and personalities that have shaped our nation. From foreign invasions and war to economic crises and social revolution... More info...
Written By : Pete McCarthy
Narrated By : Pete McCarthy
Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks
Length : 2 hours
Type : Autobiography
Biographical
Travel
Price : $16.75
The audio of the million-selling book - Pete McCarthy's hilarious journey in search of his Irish roots.
McCarthy's tale of his hilarious trip around Ireland has gained thousands of fans all over the world.
Pete was born in Warrington to an Irish mother and an English father and spent happy summer holidays in Cork. Years later, reflecting on the many places he has visited as a travel broadcaster, Pete admits that he feels more at home in Ireland than anywhere. To find out whether this is due to rose-coloured spectacles or to a deeper tie with the country of his ancestors, Pete sets off on a trip around Ireland and discovers that it has changed in surprising ways.
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