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Make your day. Choose this book.

Revisado: 11-22-24

Delightful. Yummy. Fun. Sad. Rich. Deep. Thought provoking. What a great story, fascinating characters, and so wonderfully narrated. You will not regret one single minute of listening to this book.

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Worth reading/listening

Revisado: 11-22-24

While I am NO Cheney fan, I found this book inspired by respect for a woman who is clearly intelligent, hard working, clear eyed and brave, brave, brave. I really enjoyed it and I learned from it. Narration was excellent.

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Such a good book

Revisado: 11-22-24

Fascinating history and biography, meticulously researched - and not too worshipful. Beautifully narrated. So excellent.

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Fascinating

Revisado: 11-22-24

I wonderful biography and history of man and era. Thoroughly researched. Very interesting - hard to turn off. And the narrator excellent.

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Charming. Fascinating.

Revisado: 11-22-24

If you are interested in Scotland. If you want to just escape to an island. If you like to eat. If you like textiles. If you like animals. If you are interested in regenerative agriculture. If public policy impact on communities interests you. All, some, or any of the above. You will love this book. Beautiful written and gracefully narrated, the author traces her journey in support of one particular breed of sheep. She comes through as so human, smart, and accessible - her company is a delight. And I learned a huge amount about all of the above.

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Valuable addition the canon

Revisado: 11-22-24

As can be expected of the eminent scholar, Rashid Khalidi - This is a really wonderful book that helps build some knowledge bridges between Dr. Khalidi's book on Palestinian Identify and the 100 Years War. His analysis, detail, and understanding is just fantastic and I have no hesitation recommending the book. However, had I to do it again, I would read it - not listen to the really, really awful narrator. His fast, monotone reading and consistent, almost laughable, mispronounciation of names has an odd combination of putting one to sleep and, at the same time, nails on chalkboard. It is an insult to the listener, subject matter, and author, that the narrator doesn't bother to figure out pronounciations. Ridiculous. And the editing is awful with the effect that the listerner can't tell as the narrator speedwalks them down hill, where one chapter ends or another beings.

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Superb book moderately narrated

Revisado: 11-22-24

Rashid Khalidi has researched and written a superb book and it is a great contribution to understanding Palestine, Israel, and the current state of play (lo these 100+ years). Professor Khalidi reads the introduction and I so much wish he had read the whole book. It is a mystery to me what a narrator for this would have been chosen who is unable to pronounce most of the place and people names - be they Palestinian or Israeli. In fact, in light of the sensitivity of the topic, it was rather insulting.

That said, I listened to it twice to get the facts down. Very, very good book on a topic that is important toyou whethe you know it or not.

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Important memoir by an admirable young woman

Revisado: 11-07-23

This is an interesting memoir of a very important event that also offers insight into Ms Hutchinson’s very typical background - an extraordinary person emerging from an ordinary, but interesting, background. Her mother should be proud to have raised such a clear-eyed, brave person. She is so young - but her story should school a lot of much older people.

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Beautifully read close up view of history

Revisado: 05-07-22

This book was fascinating. I enjoyed every minute. The reader is amazing - perfect. A real view into a slice of Great Britain and WWII.

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