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In 1930, two novice paddlers - Eric Sevareid and Walter C. Port - launched a secondhand 18-foot canvas canoe from the Minnesota River at Fort Snelling for an ambitious summer-long journey from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay. Without benefit of radio, motor or good maps, the teenagers made their way over 2,250 miles of rivers, lakes, and difficult portages.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Seems like an abridged version
- De Angela en 12-31-09
De: Eric Sevareid
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I Heard the Owl Call My Name
- De: Margaret Craven
- Narrado por: Frank Muller
- Duración: 3 h y 34 m
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The touching story of a young, mortally ill priest who spends his last days working among the Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Uncanny insight...
- De MetaThink en 03-22-15
De: Margaret Craven
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The Plover
- De: Brian Doyle
- Narrado por: David Drummond
- Duración: 9 h y 15 m
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Declan O Donnell has sailed out of Oregon and deep into the vast, wild ocean, having had just finally enough of other people and their problems. He will go it alone, he will be his own country, he will be beholden to and beloved of no one. No man is an island, my butt, he thinks. I am that very man.... But the galaxy soon presents him with a string of odd, entertaining, and dangerous passengers, who become companions of every sort and stripe. The Plover is the story of their adventures and misadventures in the immense blue country one of their company calls Pacifica.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Poetry, the sea and finally story
- De WA islander en 09-12-15
De: Brian Doyle
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A High Wind in Jamaica
- De: Richard Hughes
- Narrado por: Michael Maloney
- Duración: 6 h y 12 m
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Set in the 19th century against a backdrop of island life and the vast surrounding seas, A High Wind in Jamaica is the gripping story of the Bas-Thornton children, whose parents send them back to England following a hurricane in the postcolonial Caribbean they call home. Having set sail, the children quickly fall into the hands of pirates. As their voyage continues, things take an awful turn
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5 out of 5 stars
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Prose that reads like a Child's Fever Dream
- De Darwin8u en 01-02-17
De: Richard Hughes
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The Shipping News
- De: Annie Proulx
- Narrado por: Paul Hecht
- Duración: 12 h y 54 m
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At 36, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife gets her just desserts. He retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a rich cast of local characters all play a part in Quoyle's struggle to reclaim his life. As three generations of his family cobble up new lives, Quoyle confronts his private demons - and the unpredictable forces of nature and society - and begins to see the possibility of love without pain or misery.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Can't Explain Why I Love This Book
- De Polly en 03-06-12
De: Annie Proulx
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Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates
- De: Howard Pyle, Merle Johnson
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
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Merle Johnson has here gathered together in one volume all of the nineteenth-century author-artist's classic pirate stories that had been scattered through many magazines and books. Well researched and with richly drawn characters, Pyle's work will appeal to students of history and adventure lovers alike.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating and wonderfully read
- De Fletch en 09-08-06
De: Howard Pyle, y otros
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The Unknown Shore
- De: Patrick O'Brian
- Narrado por: Patrick Tull
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
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Best-selling author Patrick O'Brian turns to Commodore Anson's famous 1740 voyage for this rich tale of exploration and adventure. In The Unknown Shore, the inspiration for and immediate precursor to the acclaimed and immensely popular Aubrey/Maturin series, O'Brian's splendid prose and enthralling attention to detail launches listeners, spellbound, into the Age of Discovery.
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5 out of 5 stars
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As Good as the Series
- De Robert Goldston en 08-09-06
De: Patrick O'Brian
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The Open Boat
- De: Stephen Crane
- Narrado por: Richard Rohan
- Duración: 58 m
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As a well-paid war correspondent, Stephen Crane was shipwrecked en route to Cuba in early 1897. He and a small party of passengers spent 30 hours adrift off the coast of Florida, an experience that Crane would later transform into this, his most famous short story, in 1898.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Worth hearing again
- De HamIAm en 09-15-15
De: Stephen Crane
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Great American Stories
- De: Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, Ambrose Bierce
- Narrado por: Patrick Fraley, Patrick Hagan
- Duración: 5 h y 29 m
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Here are 10 unabridged stories by the greatest American authors. These treasured stories from the most influential authors of the 19th and early 20th centuries were selected for their literary importance as well as their dramatic oral qualities.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Classic Stories
- De kutzkai en 03-13-21
De: Mark Twain, y otros
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Treasure Island
- De: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 6 h y 57 m
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Millions of people have thrilled to the adventure of young Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver since the publication of Treasure Island in 1883. It has been dramatized countless times since its appearance. Treasure maps marked with an X, schooners, the Black Spot, tropical islands, and peglegged sailors with parrots on their shoulders: All these stereotypes of the buccaneer tale were the invention of R. L. Stevenson. But make no mistake about it...this novel is a masterpiece of plot development, character study, and sheer writing skill.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- De Liatris en 12-30-14
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Hannay: His 5 Adventures
- De: John Buchan
- Narrado por: Graham Scott
- Duración: 49 h y 49 m
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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
- De Barbara en 03-16-24
De: John Buchan
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12 Books to Read Before You Die, Volume 1
- De: Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, y otros
- Narrado por: Bruce Pirie, David Clarke, Phil Chenevert, y otros
- Duración: 89 h y 18 m
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Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to 12 Books to Read Before You Die, Volume 1 and learn about these classic books: Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac, The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle, and more....
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5 out of 5 stars
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All my favorites
- De Aymee en 06-27-23
De: Robert Louis Stevenson, y otros
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Cup of Gold
- A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History
- De: John Steinbeck, Susan F. Beegel - introduction
- Narrado por: Ronan Vibert
- Duración: 8 h y 19 m
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From the mid-1650s through the 1660s, Henry Morgan, a pirate and outlaw of legendary viciousness, ruled the Spanish Main. He ravaged the coasts of Cuba and America, striking terror wherever he went. Morgan was obsessive. He had two driving ambitions: to possess the beautiful woman called La Santa Roja and to conquer Panama, the "cup of gold".
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not your usual Steinbeck novel
- De Andrew en 06-03-15
De: John Steinbeck, y otros
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Good Poems
- Selected and Introduced by Garrison Keillor
- De: Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, y otros
- Narrado por: Garrison Keillor
- Duración: 4 h y 23 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 197
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Good Poems includes poems about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendence. It features the work of classic poets, such as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Robert Frost, as well as the work of contemporary greats such as Howard Nemerov, Charles Bukowski, Donald Hall, Billy Collins, Robert Bly, and Sharon Olds Good Poems includes poems about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very good, but. . .
- De KSmith en 01-27-11
De: Emily Dickinson, y otros
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Rockbound
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- Kelly
- 03-19-19
Will make you feel like a grizzled old fisherman.
I have rarely read a book that so fully transports me to another place. The harshness and uniqueness of Nova Scotia was so fully revealed that I felt as though I had visited with these men on a cold, windy Winter day. I will certainly read this one again one day.
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- Susie Bright
- 01-24-18
A Classic
Nothing sets my heart aflutter like immersing myself in backbreaking sea life of previous eras. I've spent years overheated and thirsty, or chilled stiff along with the crew hauling ropes on the H.M.S. Surprise listening to Patrick O'Brien's tales of the Royal Navy.
Rockbound is no adventure like O'Brien's books, but it satiates the same craving for a window into harder times from the comfort of my twenty first century life. Hearing about hauling line, gutting fish and negotiating the insular and strict social life of a hard scrabble island in Nova Scotia, as well as the humor, folklore, and culture of the people-- I feel set for any time-travel eventuality.
Fantastic narration by James Banning opens the musicality of the the dialect and endeared the characters to me and completely sucked me in to the story.
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- Reviewer
- 12-04-22
Excellent
A well read and transporting tale. Enjoyed listening to the book after reading it recently.
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