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The Forest Unseen
- A Year's Watch in Nature
- De: David George Haskell
- Narrado por: Michael Healy
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 356
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 305
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 305
In this wholly original audiobook, biologist David Haskell uses a one-square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee forest as a window into the entire natural world. Visiting it almost daily for one year to trace nature's path through the seasons, he brings the forest and its inhabitants to vivid life. Each of this audiobook's short chapters begins with a simple observation: a salamander scuttling across the leaf litter; the first blossom of spring wildflowers.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Delightful stories
- De Eleanor B. Hildreth en 08-03-15
- The Forest Unseen
- A Year's Watch in Nature
- De: David George Haskell
- Narrado por: Michael Healy
As instructive as entertaining
Revisado: 10-20-19
Through a chronological series of dates spent observing a patch of old growth forest, Haskell shares new insights and recovers old wisdom about geology, evolutionary biology, taxonomy, psychology, and literally dozens of other disciplines describing the natural world. The book is striking in its breadth and in the author’s ability to synthesize disciplines while also relating forest observations back to humankind’s relationships and roles in shaping and being shaped by the natural world. Haskell accomplishes this with a droll and flowing prose that is efficient and highly descriptive, effectively placing the listener in the forest with him. Beautifully narrated with excellent and expressive diction by Michael Healey, this book is also notable for escaping the fate of many other Audible titles covering scientific topics where the narrator confoundingly mispronounces important technical terms.
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Moonglow
- A Novel
- De: Michael Chabon
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 14 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,507
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,347
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,344
Moonglow unfolds as the deathbed confession, made to his grandson, of a man the narrator refers to only as "my grandfather". It is a tale of madness, of war and adventure, of sex and desire and ordinary love, of existential doubt and model rocketry, of the shining aspirations and demonic underpinnings of American technological accomplishment at midcentury, and, above all, of the destructive impact - and the creative power - of the keeping of secrets and the telling of lies.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful novel, terrible narrator
- De Joyce M. Bernheim en 12-30-16
- Moonglow
- A Novel
- De: Michael Chabon
- Narrado por: George Newbern
Amazing storytelling
Revisado: 07-23-17
Chabon's storytelling is simply incredible, matched by his effortlessly evocative prose. The scope of the work is remarkable and touches heavily on themes of guilt and redemption. I don't think there's a greater living writer. The reading is solid but doesn't add to the enjoyment of the story.
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