The Story of the Pony Express by Glenn D. Bradley ~ Full Audiobook [history]

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01/18/23

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192m

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The Story of the Pony Express by Glenn D. Bradley audiobook.

Genre: history

The Story of the Pony Express offers an in depth account behind the need for a mail route to connect the eastern U.S. with the rapidly populating west coast following the gold rush of California, the springing up of lumber camps, and all incidental needs arising from the settling of the western frontier. Here we learn of the inception of the Pony Express, its formation, successes, failures, facts, statistics, combined with many anecdotes and names of the people who were an integral part of this incredible entity which lasted but less than two years, yet was instrumental in the successful settlement of two thirds of the land mass comprising the expanding country.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:10:23) Chapter 2

(00:29:23) Chapter 3

(00:56:28) Chapter 4

(01:20:33) Chapter 5

(01:46:06) Chapter 6

(02:07:44) Chapter 7

(02:25:25) Chapter 8

(02:55:09) Chapter 9

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Orthodoxy by Gilbert K. Chesterton ~ Full Audiobook [religion]

January 18, 2023

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Orthodoxy by Gilbert K. Chesterton audiobook.

Genre: religion

In Orthodoxy, G. K. Chesterton sets out to explain how he arrived at Christian belief, not through inherited convention, but through a hard-won sense that the world is both stranger and more meaningful than modern cynicism allows. Framed as a personal intellectual adventure, the book follows Chesterton as he tests the fashionable ideas of his age - skepticism, materialism, and self-made philosophies - and finds them unable to account for everyday experience: joy and duty, wonder and reason, sin and virtue, freedom and constraint. With wit, paradox, and vivid imagery, he argues that Christian orthodoxy is not a dull set of rules but a daring balance of opposites that protects the color and sanity of life. Along the way he reflects on imagination, humility, morality, and the peril of making the self the measure of truth. Both a defense of faith and a critique of modern assumptions, Orthodoxy invites listeners to reconsider what seems obvious, and to see belief as a living, dynamic response to the real world.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:11:32) Chapter 2

(00:56:00) Chapter 3

(01:38:08) Chapter 4

(02:35:26) Chapter 5

(03:17:24) Chapter 6

(04:15:57) Chapter 7

(05:18:58) Chapter 8

(06:04:21) Chapter 9

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The British Barbarians by Grant Allen ~ Full Audiobook [comedy]

January 18, 2023

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312m

The British Barbarians by Grant Allen audiobook.

Genre: comedy

After Civil Servant Philip Christy crosses paths with the mysterious Bertram Ingledew in the respectable suburb of Brackenhurst, Philip and his sister Frida, married to the wealthy Scot Robert Monteith, become friends with the stranger. Bertram has some unconventional concepts about society, and as the story unfolds, his beliefs and actions cause much disruption in the family and the neighbourhood.

Who is Bertram? Where does he come from? Allen explores some interesting ideas about society, some of which are curiously relevant today.

The story is preceded by an introduction which, although it may appear to have no connection with the story itself, the reader is earnestly besought by the author to read. The introduction begins as a diatribe against publishers, and develops into a philosophical justification of Allen's writing, and may, if desired, be omitted by the listener who is only interested in the story.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:23:17) Chapter 01

(00:50:44) Chapter 02

(01:19:17) Chapter 03

(01:28:11) Chapter 04

(02:06:58) Chapter 05

(02:34:38) Chapter 06

(02:54:10) Chapter 07

(03:11:14) Chapter 08

(03:44:20) Chapter 09