The Expedition: Expedition, Book 1

If you are looking for a great time travel book--this ISN'T it! From the description of the book that I read before buying it, that is what I thought I was getting; an innovative story about modern technology, space flight, a trip into the past, and a struggle to return to the future. In reality, the book is a historical novel documenting the two and a half year Lewis and Clark expedition that began in 1805, with just the slightest, uninspired sugar-coating of science fiction sprinkled throughout the the book. If you like historical novels (I don't), then you will probably like hearing this book as it plods rather tediously through meeting after meeting with friendly and unfriendly Indians, buffalo an elk hunts, idyllic, G-rated romances between white men and beautiful Indian squaws, and the like. I don't know how accurate the book is in its portrayal of the Lewis and Clark expedition--I don't remember much about it from my high school history book of fifty years ago--but I presume that the basic facts are accurate (excluding the two accidental time-travelers from the future who happened along for the journey.) So if you always wanted to know the details of what occurred on that historic expedition (I could have done without that knowledge myself)--this book is for you.

The narrator was ok, but the quality of the recording was poor--at times it sounded as if it were being recorded in an echo chamber, and at other times you could hear each time the recording was paused or edited during its creation--usually once or twice every sentence.

In fairness, I must say this--despite my negative comments, the book did hold my interest sufficiently that I never considered not finishing the book. Hence my 3-star rather than one-star rating.

Well, after having read a lot about Lewis and Clark, I found this a good story but it was soooo monotone. It also felt like a tricky way to teach history.

Nothing redeeming about this. No reason at all to use the time travel card on this one. It added nothing. You might as well call it a very poor story about Lewis and Clark's expedition. Neat concept, poor execution. I had to fast forward through several hours of it and even then it was a bore.

Poor audio quality as well. I read this same complaint about another Books In Motion presentation and would be hesitant get another one. It was really annoying.

Historical, exciting, wonderment

The realization that the two astronauts would not be found.

His read is easy to follow and he makes the trip exciting

Yes, but impossible to hear the whole book in one sitting

I like to listen to chapters, I look forward to the next one, yes I would like to listen to the book all at once, and since there are others in the series, I am excited to find out what happens to our astronauts in future books.

terrible production quality, very annoying, lasted a whole 5 minutes and had to stop. Terrible narrator, weak writing, nothing good to say. VERY Dissapointed.