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21st Century Yokel
- De: Tom Cox
- Narrado por: Tom Cox
- Duración: 10 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 22
21st-Century Yokel explores the way we can be tied inescapably to landscape, whether we like it or not, often through our family and our past. It's not quite a nature book, not quite a humour book, not quite a family memoir, not quite folklore, not quite social history, not quite a collection of essays, but a bit of all six. It contains owls, badgers, ponies, beavers, otters, bats, bees, scarecrows, dogs, ghosts and yes, even a few cats. What emerges from this are themes that are broader, bigger and more definitive.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book
- De Shalaana en 07-22-18
- 21st Century Yokel
- De: Tom Cox
- Narrado por: Tom Cox
Absolutely endearing
Revisado: 05-12-19
Tom is insightful, illustrative, and paints an intricately detailed picture of the natural world he adores. His writing communicates how the landscape influences his thinking, while also giving an excellent sales pitch for getting out and experiencing the outdoors in general. If you live somewhere that the great outdoors doesn’t color your world much, this book is a good primer as to why others love it so much. Likewise, if you spend time bonding with the landscape, climates, and wildlife where you live, you’ll find yourself nodding in agreement with tom quite often. Witty, humorous, and honest in his expression of personal points of view - does not disappoint. I find myself upping the level of my own mental narrative after reading one of tom’s descriptive and insightful books, too.
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A Walk in the Woods
- Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
- De: Bill Bryson
- Narrado por: Rob McQuay
- Duración: 9 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 11,776
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 10,380
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 10,372
The Appalachian Trail trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America - majestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes. If you’re going to take a hike, it’s probably the place to go. And Bill Bryson is surely the most entertaing guide you’ll find. He introduces us to the history and ecology of the trail and to some of the other hardy (or just foolhardy) folks he meets along the way - and a couple of bears. Already a classic, A Walk in the Woods will make you long for the great outdoors (or at least a comfortable chair to sit and read in).
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3 out of 5 stars
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Informational
- De Amber C en 03-29-17
- A Walk in the Woods
- Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
- De: Bill Bryson
- Narrado por: Rob McQuay
Um...
Revisado: 05-09-19
So, this was highly recommended to me, probably due to my habit of long-distance hiking in England, but I have to say I came away from it learning more about how I would NOT want to chronicle my efforts than I did enjoying it. Bryson made two observations that i totally agree with - 1. One of the best reasons to long-distance hike is because it makes you newly appreciate the little things in our comfortable lives, and 2. In America, we view nature as an either/or proposition. We either preserve it and lock it away, or we obliterate it completely and designate that as ‘people’ areas. Otherwise, the book is mostly the boring minutiae of his daily life on the trail, both when doing it as an authentic through-hiker, or as a commuter-walker. There are interesting facts on the depressing state of nature in America, but most of the words are draped in condescension, judgemental comments about everyone he meets, including his hiking partner, and lots of disdain for ‘fat’ or ‘chubby’ people. He also clearly feels negatively towards Americans and American culture in general, so it got pretty tiring, even though I wanted to see how it ended. It’s not very uplifting, because as soon as he extols the glory of some aspect of the trail, the next sentence is negative or is the start of another 10 minute description of people that died on the trail. Just, odd. Also, the narrator voice was a bit taxing, and his accents and impressions of the characters Bryson meets are pretty snarky and insulting.
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