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Snow Hunters
- A Novel
- De: Paul Yoon
- Narrado por: Paul Yoon
- Duración: 3 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 33
Snow Hunters traces the extraordinary journey of Yohan, who defects from his country at the end of the Korean War, leaving his friends and family behind to seek a new life on the coast of Brazil. Throughout his years there, four people slip in and out of his life: Kiyoshi, the Japanese tailor for whom he works; Peixe, the groundskeeper at the town church; and two vagrant children named Santi and Bia. Yohan longs to connect with these people, but to do so he must let go of his traumatic past.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Atmospheric
- De Chrissie en 08-16-13
- Snow Hunters
- A Novel
- De: Paul Yoon
- Narrado por: Paul Yoon
Colourful
Revisado: 08-06-15
A colourful visit to the aftermath of war in an unexpected brief poetic story minus the psychology of suffering with the exactitude and beauty of life in symbolism, people and place.
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When America First Met China
- An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail
- De: Eric Jay Dolin
- Narrado por: A. T. Chandler
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 51
Ancient China collides with newfangled America in this epic tale of opium smugglers, sea pirates, and dueling clipper ships. Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving nineteenth-century seas that separated a brash, rising naval power from a battered ancient empire. It is a prescient fable for our time, one that surprisingly continues to shed light on our modern relationship with China.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superior book! Excellent read!
- De melissa c. en 01-28-23
- When America First Met China
- An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail
- De: Eric Jay Dolin
- Narrado por: A. T. Chandler
Captivating - good storytelling.
Revisado: 08-23-13
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
I most enjoyed when he uses specifics to get to the heart of the story. For example he details America's first ship employed in the China Trade after US independence is formally acheived, some of the trade and conflict in the Canton system, or mutinies in the coolie trade.
I was fascinated by his detail in the development of shipping building in the form of earliest clippers built for the China trade, the sailing times, competition with Britain, commercial factors driving it, and its participatory roots the competitive sprit leading to the popular sporting of today's America's Cup.
Would you listen to another book narrated by A. T. Chandler?
Yes
Do you think When America First Met China needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?
Yes - I woudl like to see him analyze trade and specifically ocean steam liners in Modern era in China trade.
Any additional comments?
I would have like to have heard more detail and less story telling.
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