Over Prairie Trails by Frederick Philip Grove ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

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01/10/23

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Over Prairie Trails by Frederick Philip Grove audiobook.

Genre: drama

When Frederick Philip Grove settled in a remote area of Manitoba in the early years of the 20th century, he found work teaching in a school over 30 miles from his home. He commuted by horse-and-wagon or horse-and-sleigh each weekend, and seven of those long and challenging journeys are recorded in “Over Prairie Trails,” published in 1922.

Grove has a sharp eye for details of nature that were of life-and-death importance to the lone prairie traveller — the shifting aspects of skies, wind, fog, and snow. On one level, the book is a treasury of documentary observation and nature writing.

However, while Grove claims to offer a naturalist’s “plain truth,” we come to realize that he is creating a “tale” as much as a nature diary. He selects and arranges his material. Sometimes this means transforming his accounts into archetypal heroic journeys, casting himself as the Odyssean adventurer who battles his way through seas of snow and fog to return to his wife and child. At other times, his reports launch meditations on the nature of observation, consciousness, and the construction of meaning.

“Over Prairie Trails” is a landmark in Canadian writing, influencing the way nature — especially the Canadian winter— would be written about for decades to come.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:04:27) Chapter 02

(00:48:52) Chapter 03

(01:48:28) Chapter 04

(02:26:57) Chapter 05

(03:02:42) Chapter 06

(03:44:45) Chapter 07

(04:40:43) Chapter 08

(05:10:18) Chapter 09

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The Web of the Golden Spider by Frederick Orin Bartlett audiobook.

Genre: mystery

The Web of the Golden Spider is a tale of mystery, intrigue and adventure that begins in the city, progresses to a mutinous open sea voyage, eventually leading to the remotest areas on the slopes of the Andes of South America. Wilson, our hero, finds himself in the midst of a battle between a deposed queen and revolutionists who have banded together in an effort to bring their country together as a republic. Wilson, although torn between helping mercenaries, freedom fighters and revolutionaries, is more concerned with the rescuing of the girl he has fallen in love with, but who has been snatched from him by a mysterious priest. That, and the finding of the famed treasure of El Dorado rumored to have been buried beneath Lake Guadiva.

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(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:21:22) Chapter 02

(00:47:45) Chapter 03

(01:09:24) Chapter 04

(01:34:47) Chapter 05

(01:54:13) Chapter 06

(02:15:16) Chapter 07

(02:38:31) Chapter 08

(02:59:24) Chapter 09

(03:22:47) Chapter 10

(03:41:06) Chapter 11

(04:00:59) Chapter 12

(04:22:44) Chapter 13

(04:49:24) Chapter 14

(05:03:44) Chapter 15

(05:26:43) Chapter 16

(05:54:33) Chapter 17

(06:19:56) Chapter 18

(06:38:55) Chapter 19

(07:00:20) Chapter 20

(07:29:06) Chapter 21

(07:51:52) Chapter 22

(08:07:34) Chapter 23

(08:29:54) Chapter 24

(08:48:57) Chapter 25

(09:11:50) Chapter 26

(09:32:41) Chapter 27

(09:50:27) Chapter 28

(10:10:29) Chapter 29

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Search the Sky by Frederik Pohl ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

January 11, 2023

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421m

Search the Sky by Frederik Pohl audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Ross was a junior trader on Halsey's Planet, and had great prospects but was not happy at all. Everything smelled of decay. The whole planet seemed to be slowly disappearing, the population dwindling month by month and year by year and yet no one seemd to care or even notice. Something was very, very wrong. When the first interstellar transport in 30 years arrived on Halsey's Planet, it brought things to a head. The ship had touched on six other colony worlds - and all six had been devoid of human life. Where was everybody? It was almost as if humankind, when separated by cosmic distances from Mother Earth, could not survive. He didn't know the answer but he knew it all smelled highly of decay. Decay and Rot. This highly praised novel by C.M.Kornbluth and Frederick Pohl was first published in 1954 was seen as a wonderful satire on various trends in the society of the 1950's.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:39:25) Chapter 02

(01:07:27) Chapter 03

(01:24:51) Chapter 04

(01:49:47) Chapter 05

(02:16:03) Chapter 06

(02:43:56) Chapter 07

(03:20:36) Chapter 08

(03:53:40) Chapter 09

(04:22:27) Chapter 10