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Damnation Spring
- De: Ash Davidson
- Narrado por: CJ Wilson, Rebecca Lowman, Mark Sanderlin, y otros
- Duración: 15 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 471
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 412
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 409
Colleen and Rich Gundersen are raising their young son, Chub, on the rugged California coast. It’s 1977, and life in this Pacific Northwest logging town isn’t what it used to be. For generations, the community has lived and breathed timber; now that way of life is threatened. Colleen is an amateur midwife. Rich is a tree-topper. It’s a dangerous job that requires him to scale trees hundreds of feet tall - a job that both his father and grandfather died doing. Colleen and Rich want a better life for their son - and they take steps to assure their future.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Many sides to the story, beautifully told
- De A. Golden en 09-03-21
- Damnation Spring
- De: Ash Davidson
- Narrado por: CJ Wilson, Rebecca Lowman, Mark Sanderlin, Candace Thaxton
Many sides to the story, beautifully told
Revisado: 09-03-21
This book is fiction, but it is true in many ways. It reminded me of the conflicts that continue to this day over western lands and who should benefit from them. The indigenous inhabitants, still occupying their ancestral lands? People who make their living from natural resources, logging in this case, but could also include fishermen and miners? People who want to experience the natural wonders in state and national parks? The characters who represent all of these viewpoints are vividly and sympathetically drawn in Ms. Davidson's book, and the writing is beautiful.
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A Very Stable Genius
- Donald J. Trump's Testing of America
- De: Philip Rucker, Carol Leonnig
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber, Carol Leonnig, Philip Rucker
- Duración: 18 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,045
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,409
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,394
Washington Post national investigative reporter Carol Leonnig and White House bureau chief Philip Rucker, both Pulitzer Prize winners, provide the definitive insider narrative of Donald Trump's unique presidency with shocking new reporting and insight into its implications. Here, for the first time, certain officials who felt honor-bound not to divulge what they witnessed in positions of trust tell the truth for the benefit of history.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating story, but poor narration
- De DCNow2014 en 01-21-20
- A Very Stable Genius
- Donald J. Trump's Testing of America
- De: Philip Rucker, Carol Leonnig
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber, Carol Leonnig, Philip Rucker
Diverting and disturbing
Revisado: 04-27-20
For anyone concerned about the judgement of our current POTUS, your fears will be confirmed.
Anecdotes of Trump's pettiness, self absorption, and complete lack of concern for the welfare of the country abound in this account of his 3 years in office. Too bad it won't be on everyone's reading list.
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Life on a Little Known Planet
- A Biologist's View of Insects and their World
- De: Howard Ensign Evans
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 14 h y 5 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 79
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 42
This classic book is natural history at its best. The world of insects is Howard Evans' "little-known planet," the realm of the cockroach and the cricket, the wasp and the bedbug. With the precision and authority of a distinguished biologist, and the wit and grace of an accomplished writer, Howard Evans muses on the uniqueness of dragonflies, the romantic impulses of butterflies, the musicianship of crickets, and the mysteries of the firefly.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Some of my favorite bug groups!
- De Anne Wilson en 02-16-04
- Life on a Little Known Planet
- A Biologist's View of Insects and their World
- De: Howard Ensign Evans
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
The life of bugs, beautifully told
Revisado: 09-26-19
This book isn't for everyone, but for people interested in natural history and insects, it's an insightful account of the life histories of selected insects. Scott Brick is the perfect narrator for the book, bringing out the humor and emphasizing points the way Dr. Evans might have, sometimes cranky and sometimes transported by an insight or moment of beauty.
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Spying on the South
- An Odyssey Across the American Divide
- De: Tony Horwitz
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins, Tony Horwitz
- Duración: 17 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 408
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 356
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 356
In the 1850s, the young Frederick Law Olmsted was adrift, a restless farmer and dreamer in search of a mission. He found it as an undercover correspondent in the South for the up-and-coming New York Times. For the Connecticut Yankee, pen name "Yeoman", the South was alien, often hostile territory. Yet Olmsted traveled for 14 months, by horseback, steamboat, and stagecoach, seeking dialogue and common ground. Tony Horwitz rediscovers Yeoman Olmsted amidst the discord and polarization of our own time. Is America still one country?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great final story from a talented author
- De Ericka en 06-29-19
- Spying on the South
- An Odyssey Across the American Divide
- De: Tony Horwitz
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins, Tony Horwitz
Armchair road trip
Revisado: 08-15-19
Loved this book! Insightful, funny and "vintage Horwitz" in the same spirit as "Confederates in the Attic" and his other books.
Horwitz brings you along in his travels and research, visiting historic sites and many bars, gathering multiple viewpoints and keeping a good humor through good times and bad. Especially sorry to finish this book, knowing it is his last.
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The Overstory
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 22 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9,992
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8,743
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8,728
The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum New York to the late 20th-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. An air force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits 100 years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light.
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4 out of 5 stars
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eye opening
- De Michael Stansberry en 05-23-18
- The Overstory
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
Intricate tree stories
Revisado: 11-21-18
This is a complex of tree-related stories that intertwine in interesting ways, with salient cultural and natural history notes.
A bit preachy at times, especially the long narrative of Maidenhair and Watchman, and I say that as a committed environmentalist. Also, too many voices for one reader. Multiple accents, ages and genders problematic for one female reader. The narrator's voice for some of the ESL accents and especially Maidenhair (an irritating falsetto), became too grating to listen to after awhile. This book is better read than listened to.
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