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Burning Daylight begins as many of London's finest works begin: with the depiction of a man blessed with physical prowess and keen perception who takes on the natural forces of the 19th-century Yukon.
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Crockett of Tennessee
- A Novel Based on the Life and Times of David Crockett
- By: Cameron Judd
- Narrated by: Allan Robertson
- Length: 17 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 77
From humble beginnings in rural Tennessee to his heroic death defending the Alamo, frontiersman, adventurer, and politician David Davy Crockett embodies the spirit and ideals of the national character. Even during his lifetime, tales of the sharpshooting, skilled woodsman were - to his delight - told, retold, and elaborated on. As a US congressman, the former Creek War militiaman steadfastly opposed President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I highly recommend
- By That Man They Call Shad on 05-05-21
By: Cameron Judd
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Hard Gold (I Witness)
- The Colorado Gold Rush of 1859: A Tale of the Old West
- By: Avi
- Narrated by: Alston Brown
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 71
Early Whitcomb's family needs a miracle. Their Iowa farm has been in the family for generations, but a long drought has withered their savings and left them in debt - and in danger of foreclosure. Early's uncle, Jesse, thinks he has the solution: to head West and dig for gold. Fueled by reports of prospectors striking it rich in the Rocky Mountains, Jesse can't think about anything but gold. Early is wild to go with him, as much for the adventure as for the gold. But the journey costs money - more than the boys can afford....
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5 out of 5 stars
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great story
- By Uki Dominque Lucas on 04-09-19
By: Avi
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The Lost Wagon Train
- A Western Story
- By: Zane Grey, Joe Wheeler - foreword
- Narrated by: John McLain
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 41
The story of a Civil War soldier finding his humanity in the face of horrible savagery. Emerging from the Civil War a shamed and broken man, Stephen Latch turns to a life of thievery and murder. Still hoping to uphold the values of the Confederacy, Latch sets his sights on the wealth of resources pouring westward from the northern United States, putting together a band of ruthless misfits to help him stake his claim of the riches of the caravans.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great book
- By thomas fleenor on 08-01-22
By: Zane Grey, and others
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The Hash Knife Outfit
- A Western Story
- By: Zane Grey
- Narrated by: John McLain
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 82
They are just about as bad and evil as outlaw gangs come. But in the end, they finally go straight.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Narration is terrible.
- By Iain on 05-03-20
By: Zane Grey
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Destry Rides Again
- By: Max Brand
- Narrated by: J. P. O'Shaughnessy
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 108
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 86
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Story4 out of 5 stars 86
Harry Destry was a rough-and-tumble fighter who never lost a battle. But after six years in jail for a robbery he didn't commit, he comes back a changed man. The townsfolk believe he's beaten. They think all the fight's gone right out of him. And that's exactly what Destry wants them to think....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Unabridged doesn't mean unedited
- By Chris Haynes on 08-15-13
By: Max Brand
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This House of Sky
- Landscapes of a Western Mind
- By: Ivan Doig
- Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 376
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 316
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Story5 out of 5 stars 311
A nominee for the National Book Award, Ivan Doig's brilliant memoir shares the experiences and culture that shaped his early years and made him fall in love with the West. From his childhood in a family of homesteaders through the death of his mother and his move to Montana to herd sheep, Doig shows his intimate connection with the American West.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Early work by a favorite author
- By Doggy Bird on 09-06-14
By: Ivan Doig
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The Floor of Heaven
- A True Tale of the Last Frontier and the Yukon Gold Rush
- By: Howard Blum
- Narrated by: John H. Mayer
- Length: 16 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 176
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 146
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 147
It is the last decade of the 19th century. The Wild West has been tamed and its fierce, independent and often violent larger-than-life figures – gun-toting wanderers, trappers, prospectors, Indian fighters, cowboys, and lawmen –are now victims of their own success. They are heroes who’ve outlived their usefulness.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A major disappointment
- By Joshua on 05-03-14
By: Howard Blum
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The Harvester
- By: Gene Stratton-Porter
- Narrated by: Mary Starkey
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 96
This is the charming story of David Langston, a young man in search of the woman of his dreams. She came to him in a vision and he knows he must find her.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Possibly My Most Unusual Listen Ever
- By Kathy in CA on 11-16-16
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Hannay: His 5 Adventures
- By: John Buchan
- Narrated by: Graham Scott
- Length: 49 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 12
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Story5 out of 5 stars 12
In The Thirty-Nine Steps, Hannay struggles to thwart an assassination plot designed to hasten war between Britain and Germany. Later he is plucked from the trenches first, in Greenmantle, to frustrate a plot to ferment an uprising in the Islamic world; and then, in Mr. Standfast, to undertake a vital secret mission against a German spy ring operating among pacifist elements in England. After the war, his adventures continue in The Three Hostages; and then in The Island of Sheep, when an old oath to protect the son of a friend from his days in Africa draws him into new danger.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Values of a bygone era
- By Barbara on 03-16-24
By: John Buchan
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The Pastures of Heaven
- By: John Steinbeck
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 309
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 271
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 272
Today, nearly 40 years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures. We have begun publishing his many works for the first time as Penguin Classics. This season we continue with the seven spectacular and influential books East of Eden, Cannery Row, In Dubious Battle, The Long Valley, The Moon Is Down, The Pastures of Heaven, and Tortilla Flat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Golden, mythical America
- By Dan Harlow on 07-07-13
By: John Steinbeck
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The Last Crossing
- A Novel
- By: Guy Vanderhaeghe
- Narrated by: John Henry Cox, John Keating, Colin Lane, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 70
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Story4 out of 5 stars 46
This epic tale sweeps across continents and time, hovers over a key era in American history, and deftly realizes the humanity of a whole cast of characters. Told through flashbacks and alternating points of view, The Last Crossing is about redemption, about seeking and finding, about human feelings and strengths, about personal honor, and about that moment in life when we must decide to cross over and surrender to love.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A Very Dark Story
- By Virginia on 04-05-04
By: Guy Vanderhaeghe
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My Life as an Indian
- By: James Willard Schultz
- Narrated by: Brian V. Hunt
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 215
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 197
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Story5 out of 5 stars 195
Beautiful, tender, haunting, and full of excitement, this is the memoir of famed author, explorer, Glacier Park guide, trader, and historian of the Blackfoot Indians, James Willard Schultz. With the Blackfoot woman, whom he deeply loved, from 1880 to 1903, Schultz lived the life of a Blackfoot Indian with Nat-ah-ki and her people. During this time, he began writing for magazines, at times running a trading post, and working as a guide in the West.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Compassionate Story
- By Ann Holmes on 09-13-18
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Independent People
- By: Halldór Laxness
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 20 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 385
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 347
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 347
This magnificent novel - which secured for its author the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature - is now available to contemporary American audiences. Although it is set in the early 20th century, it recalls both Iceland's medieval epics and such classics as Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter. And if Bjartur of Summerhouses, the book's protagonist, is an ordinary sheep farmer, his flinty determination to achieve independence is genuinely heroic and, at the same time, terrifying and bleakly comic.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I am so confused about this introduction
- By George M on 09-10-18
By: Halldór Laxness
What listeners say about Burning Daylight
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- Z
- 09-05-18
Production value poor
This was a great book with an adventurous transporting story. Burning Daylight a compelling character from the mind of Jack London. But..... I was very crestfallen by the poor quality of the recording. So much so that I stopped listening two or three times abjured by the shrill background noise. The production was cheaply and poorly performed. This could have been a life changing book for a new reader, or a new-to-London fan. Overall if your a JL fan and prefer books on tape through your Audible app this is a great pick. Just bear in mind that the production value is low but the story is well worth the sacrifice.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-02-20
Favorite Jack London book
i enjoyed the narrator, story, theme, and resolution. I feel that this was Jack London's dream for himself.
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