Canoeing Maine's Legendary Allagash

Thoreau, Romance, and Survival of the Wild

De: David K. Leff

Narrado por: Rick Lillard

Meet Henry David Thoreau, US Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, and other intrepid explorers as you travel northern Maine's rugged woods and waters. In a wild country of ledge and trees that stubbornly resists encroaching civilization, find a young couple padding through the trials, triumphs, and sheer mental and physical exhaustion of wilderness travel severely testing their ability to get along and even complete the trip. Fill your ears with roaring rapids and yodeling loons. Smell pungent spruce and dank swamps. Encounter moose and majestic sunrises cloaked in morning mist. A few spoken words, and you will find yourself deep in the evergreen forest.

©2017 David K. Leff (P)2018 Homebound Publications

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This book has some good points but all the self reflection should have maybe stayed in a journal and not have become a book. Maybe that is more on me for not doing my research and just buying it because its about the Allagash. The historical knowledge was really good though and clearly research was done.

The guy reading it has never been to Maine before with those pronunciations, just cringe worthy. I dont regret using a credit on it but I wouldn't recommend it, that's for sure. Maybe he and I just see the river differently and that's ok by me.

poor pronounciations too distracting

the reader ruins the pronounciations of too many words. It made me cringe every time.

Do yourself a favor and read it yourself.

I rushed into this as I have plans to canoe the Allagash and have been soaking up any information available. There is not much wrong with the content of the book itself but I could not bring myself to finish the audio version. The narrator and whoever else was involved in the production of this audiobook have no knowledge of the subject matter. This is not necessarily a problem as I'm sure this is the case a lot of the time. What is a problem, however, is that no attempt was made to familiarize themselves with the region's history or the terms associated with the activities involved.

It's really hard to listen to if you have even average standards for the noises that pass through your ear canals. I have a tendency to be quite judgmental and the tonal quality of this man's voice was enough to send me packing. That is to say nothing about the out of place and seemingly forced accent or mispronunciation of almost every proper noun in the first 25 minutes.

I should have ready the reviews and listened to the sample first. Wasting the credit was on me but do yourself a favor and buy a copy to read yourself.

Not a competing story

Unfortunately, this story is centered around the authors bad breakup instead of canoeing. It comes across childish and uncomfortable. I imagine it was cathartic for him to write about but it is not the story I was interested in hearing when starting a book about canoeing in Maine