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The Time It Never Rained
- De: Elmer Kelton
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 13 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 867
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 750
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 752
For decades, Charlie Flagg has eked out a living by raising cattle and sheep on his modest Texas ranch. Hardworking and old-fashioned, he distrusts federal programs that claim to help struggling farmers and ranchers. But as rainless years continue and others sell their souls for federal handouts, Charlie finds himself under increasing pressure to compromise his principles - and surrender his freedom.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of best audio books I've ever read
- De NEIL SCHMITT en 10-16-09
- The Time It Never Rained
- De: Elmer Kelton
- Narrado por: George Guidall
Accurate as hell and goddamed depressing
Revisado: 03-31-21
Just a small taste of what it's like to ranch in dry country. Captures a little bit of the suffering required to scratch out an existence.
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Coyote America
- A Natural and Supernatural History
- De: Dan Flores
- Narrado por: Elijah Alexander
- Duración: 8 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,942
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,467
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,468
Coyote America is both an environmental and a deep natural history of the coyote. It traces both the five-million-year-long biological story of an animal that has become the "wolf" in our backyards and its cultural evolution from a preeminent spot in Native American religions to the hapless foil of the Road Runner. A deeply American tale, the story of the coyote in the American West and beyond is a sort of Manifest Destiny in reverse.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very Enjoyable Book, Subject Matter, and Reader
- De John Townsend en 03-17-17
- Coyote America
- A Natural and Supernatural History
- De: Dan Flores
- Narrado por: Elijah Alexander
Just another anti-human environmental book
Revisado: 09-15-20
While coyotes are indeed interesting and wiley creatures worthy of volumes, the author fails to go beyond the garden variety environmental arguments in their favor. Ranching/hunting = bad, environment = good, along with the classic humans are the root cause of all destruction. One would think the author's over abundance of empathy towards the coyote could spare just a particle for those early settlers living a subsistence existence. A life so hard that the loss of even one head of stock could mean the difference between starvation or survival. If you're into the same tired environmental rhetoric and hate humans and the progress they've made through the ages, you'll love this book.
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Culloden
- Scotland's Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire
- De: Trevor Royle
- Narrado por: Tim Bruce
- Duración: 11 h y 23 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 47
The Battle of Culloden in 1746 has gone down in history as the last major battle fought on British soil: a vicious confrontation between the English Royal Army and the Scottish forces supporting the Stuart claim to the throne. But this wasn't just a conflict between the Scots and the English: The battle was also part of a much larger campaign to protect the British Isles from the growing threat of a French invasion.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Focus of book is English generals, not Culloden
- De Scotsman en 08-30-17
- Culloden
- Scotland's Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire
- De: Trevor Royle
- Narrado por: Tim Bruce
Not what it claims to be
Revisado: 07-24-19
Very little about Culloden, mostly a detail of English history with Culloden comprising a few chapters.
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Massacre at Mountain Meadows
- De: Ronald W Walker, Richard E Turley, Glen M Leonard
- Narrado por: Bill Dewees
- Duración: 10 h y 40 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 145
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 98
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 100
On September 11, 1857, a band of Mormon militia, under a flag of truce, lured unarmed members of a party of emigrants from their fortified encampment and, with their Paiute allies, killed them. More than 120 men, women, and children perished in the slaughter.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Slow to get started - not fully balanced.
- De Chris en 02-28-10
- Massacre at Mountain Meadows
- De: Ronald W Walker, Richard E Turley, Glen M Leonard
- Narrado por: Bill Dewees
Excellent
Revisado: 06-06-17
Very fair and balanced account of this incident. Places blame squarely on the shoulders of those who actually committed the massacre. This book vindicated the Native Americans of atrocities committed by Mormons but previously attributed to them. It was also very fair to the immigrants and did not seek to justify the massacre based on threats made or immigrants claiming to have killed Joseph Smith. Overall very interesting.
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