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Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we tarmacked, farmed and built ourselves out of wildness? In his vital, bewitching, inspiring classic, Robert Macfarlane sets out in search of the wildness that remains.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Magical
- De Jennifer en 01-27-22
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The Selected Poems of Li Po
- De: Li Po, Po Li, David Hinton, y otros
- Narrado por: David Shih
- Duración: 2 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Li Po (AD 701-762) lived in T'ang Dynasty China, but his influence has spanned the centuries: the pure lyricism of his poems has awed readers in China and Japan for over a millennium, and through Ezra Pound’s translations, Li Po became central to the modernist revolution in the West. However ethereal in spirit, his poems remain grounded in the everyday experience we all share. He wrote 1,200 years ago, half a world away, but in his poems we see our world transformed.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An intriguing experience
- De Paula en 02-10-18
De: Li Po, y otros
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The Man Who Walked Through Time
- The Story of the First Trip Afoot Through the Grand Canyon
- De: Colin Fletcher
- Narrado por: Matthew Josdal
- Duración: 8 h y 16 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 44
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In 1963 Colin Fletcher became the first man to walk the length of Grand canyon, below the Rim. It began with a dream, when he and a friend detoured from a cross-country trip to take a hurried look at the great natural wonder. Standing on the Rim, surrounded by the profound and almost mystical silence, Fletcher knew that something had happened to the way he looked at things. He also knew that the Canyon, with its depths and distances, cliffs, buttes, and hanging terraces, beckoned to him, calling him on a journey that would challenge both his body and his mind.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Eloquent
- De Bill J en 07-20-20
De: Colin Fletcher
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House Made of Dawn
- A Novel
- De: N. Scott Momaday
- Narrado por: N. Scott Momaday, Darrell Dennis
- Duración: 6 h y 29 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 138
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 119
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A young Native American, Abel has come home from war to find himself caught between two worlds. The first is the world of his father’s, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, and the ancient rites and traditions of his people. But the other world - modern, industrial America - pulls at Abel, demanding his loyalty, trying to claim his soul, and goading him into a destructive, compulsive cycle of depravity and disgust.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Novel great, reader not so much.
- De Marcia en 05-17-20
De: N. Scott Momaday
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The Old Ways
- A Journey on Foot
- De: Robert Macfarlane
- Narrado por: Robin Sachs
- Duración: 11 h y 23 m
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In this exquisitely written book, Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge, England, home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove roads, and sea paths that crisscross both the British landscape and its waters and territories beyond. The result is an immersive, enthralling exploration of the ghosts and voices that haunt old paths, of the stories our tracks keep and tell, and of pilgrimage and ritual. Told in Macfarlane’s distinctive voice, The Old Ways folds together natural history, cartography, geology, archaeology, and literature.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A perfect pairing of prose and narrator
- De chris en 11-05-12
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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
- De: Henry David Thoreau
- Narrado por: Jim Killavey
- Duración: 1 h y 3 m
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 424
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This essay by Thoreau first published in 1849, argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule their consciences. It goes on to say that individuals have a duty to avoid allowing the government to make them the agents of injustice. The quote: "That government is best which governs least," sometimes attributed to Thomas Jefferson or Thomas Paine, actually was first found in this essay. Thoreaus' thoughts were motivated by his disgust with slavery and the Mexican-American War but they are still relevant and resonate today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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10:22 p.m., 10th of January, 2018
- De Anonymous User en 01-11-18
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The Song of Hiawatha
- De: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Narrado por: William Hootkins
- Duración: 3 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Longfellow's great narrative poem has been unjustly neglected in recent years though it gives a sympathetic portrait especially of Hiawatha, reared by Nokomis, daughter of the Moon, and his bride Minehaha.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The narrator is amazing
- De Erez en 11-11-12
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Island on Fire
- The Extraordinary Story of a Forgotten Volcano That Changed the World
- De: Alexandra Witze, Jeff Kanipe
- Narrado por: John Lescault
- Duración: 6 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 246
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 211
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Laki is Iceland's largest volcano - and its most fearsome. Its eruption in 1783 is one of history's great untold natural disasters. Spewing out sun-blocking ash and then a poisonous fog for eight long months, the effects of the eruption lingered across the world for years. It caused the deaths of people as far away as the Nile and created catastrophic conditions throughout Europe.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting and Pertinent Topic!
- De Catherine Puma en 01-23-22
De: Alexandra Witze, y otros
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The Maine Woods
- De: Henry David Thoreau
- Narrado por: Duncan Brownlehe
- Duración: 9 h y 6 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Thoreau gives an account of three canoe and hiking journeys - by himself and with others - through the mostly uninhabited forests of Maine in the 1850s. Identifying birds, trees and plants by their botanical as well as their common names, he also records the Indian names of lakes, rivers and plants. He investigates the connections between waterways and trails, and provides detail on camping, fishing and hunting in the woods, using whatever is at hand. Extolling the beauty of the wilds that he encounters, Thorough’s narrative is also imbued with elements of his philosophy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Listened to this at least 3 times
- De Teagan MacEachern en 01-30-23
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RipRap and Cold Mountain Poems
- De: Gary Snyder
- Narrado por: Gary Snyder
- Duración: 58 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 37
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By any measure, Gary Snyder is one of the greatest poets in America in the last century. From his first book of poems to his latest collection of essays, his work and his example, standing between Tu Fu and Thoreau, has been influential all over the world. Riprap, his first book of poems, was published in Japan in 1959 by Origin Press, and it is the 50th anniversary of that groundbreaking book that is celebrated with this new edition.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Listen to for 1000 nights and never long enough
- De Susie en 05-05-16
De: Gary Snyder
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Evangeline
- De: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Narrado por: Leonard Wilson
- Duración: 2 h
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General5 out of 5 stars 23
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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"Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie" is an epic poem by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, published in 1847. The poem follows an Acadian girl named Evangeline and her search for her lost love Gabriel, set during the time of the expulsion of the Acadians. The idea for the poem came from Longfellow's friend, Nathaniel Hawthorne. Longfellow used dactylic hexameter, imitated from Greek and Latin classics, though the choice was criticized.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- De Anonymous User en 05-23-23
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A Most Remarkable Creature
- The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World's Smartest Birds of Prey
- De: Jonathan Meiburg
- Narrado por: Jonathan Meiburg
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
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An enthralling account of a modern voyage of discovery as we meet the clever, social birds of prey called caracaras, which puzzled Darwin, fascinate modern-day falconers, and carry secrets of our planet's deep past in their family history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I don't leave reviews often, but . . .
- De Steven L Peck en 06-24-21
De: Jonathan Meiburg
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The Whisper on the Night Wind
- The True History of a Wilderness Legend
- De: Adam Shoalts
- Narrado por: Adam Shoalts
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Traverspine is not a place you will find on most maps. A century ago, it stood near the foothills of the remote Mealy Mountains in central Labrador. Today it is an abandoned ghost town, almost all trace of it swallowed up by dark spruce woods that cloak millions of acres. In the early 1900s, this isolated little settlement was the scene of an extraordinary haunting by large creatures none could identify. Strange tracks were found in the woods. Unearthly cries were heard in the night. Sled dogs went missing.
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1 out of 5 stars
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This book should’ve been billed as a travel log quote we put up the tent we slept weird noises we took down the tent”
- De S. Harms en 10-29-21
De: Adam Shoalts
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Becoming Animal
- An Earthly Cosmology
- De: David Abram
- Narrado por: David Abram
- Duración: 13 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 248
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 220
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As the climate veers toward catastrophe, the innumerable losses cascading through the biosphere make vividly evident the need for a metamorphosis in our relation to the living land. For too long we've inured ourselves to the wild intelligence of our muscled flesh, taking our primary truths from technologies that hold the living world at a distance. This audiobook subverts that distance, drawing listeners ever deeper into their animal senses in order to explore, from within, the elemental kinship between the body and the breathing Earth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a life changer
- De EH555 en 07-26-18
De: David Abram
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Tailchaser's Song
- De: Tad Williams
- Narrado por: Alex Kydd
- Duración: 13 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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More than 35 years ago, a young author surprised and enchanted audiences with his first novel - the story of Fritti Tailchaser, a courageous tom cat in a world of whiskery heroes and villains, of feline gods and strange, furless creatures called M'an.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Lord of the Cats
- De J. Angel en 09-29-21
De: Tad Williams
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Blue Lagoon
- Booktrack Edition
- De: H. De Vere Stacpoole
- Narrado por: Adrian Praetzellis
- Duración: 7 h y 31 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 28
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 26
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Listen to Blue Lagoon with a movie-style soundtrack and amplify your audiobook experience. Two shipwrecked children grow up on a South Pacific island. This beautiful story of adventure and innocent love was H.D. Stacpoole’s most popular work.
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5 out of 5 stars
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love it
- De Angel K en 04-18-24