
Travels in Alaska
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Narrated by:
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Noah Waterman
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By:
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John Muir
"In mid-July of 1879, John Muir sailed for the first time through the sheer-walled fjords of Alaska's Inside Passage. 'Never before this,' he wrote, 'had I been embosomed in scenery so hopelessly beyond description.' During the previous 15 years, Muir had vanished into the north woods of Canada, walked a thousand miles from Kentucky to the Gulf of Mexico, and nested himself in the granite heart of California's Sierra Nevada mountains. Wild nature burned with volcanic intensity in the core of John Muir's soul. And here - amid the mountains, glaciers, and islands of Alaska - he found a wildness to match his own." (Richard Nelson)
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The narrator ruined my experience
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Read/listen only if your an student of the outdoors or you intrigued by a great philosopher named John Muir.
Alaska
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What did you like best about Travels in Alaska? What did you like least?
The images Muir paints are poignant. Some of his stories are entertaining. The narration is horrid. I had to play it back at half speed to understand it. Then it had an echo!What didn???t you like about Noah Waterman???s performance?
His speech is incredibly fast! I have never complained about narration, or anything, before.Did Travels in Alaska inspire you to do anything?
NoNarration was way to fast
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Great at .75 Speed
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Beautiful Story, Poor Naration
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Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
Travel's in Alaska is a classic of travel literature, a must-read for anyone interested in Alaska. The narrator is not good at all, though, and this detracted greatly from the experience of reading the book.How could the performance have been better?
The narrator of this Audible version is not at all suited to his task. He speaks too quickly, and his cadence gives no sense of the emotion and meaning behind the sentences being read. The narration becomes sing-songy and almost mechanical in places. All I could think of while listening was "what I wouldn't give for someone with a strong feeling for nature, and maybe a bit of a Scottish brogue, to be narrating this book!"Great book, poor narrator
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Don't waste your $ on audiobook, read the book
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Terrible narrator
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However, the narration is appalling and destroys the beauty of the book. The narrator speaks VERY quickly, in a sing-song sort of style with no regard for the text and no attempt to interpret what he is reading as most of the good narrators do. The same style, inflection and speed apply even when he is reading stories iwth different characters or describing Muir's first view of Glacier Bay and Muir's corresponding awe. The style is frustrating at best and I found it infuriating after a very short while. As a result, the book is very difficult to listen to (and I am a native Eastener used to fast speech). I had to resort to running the book on a slower rate on my I-Pod to get anything which allowed me to enjoy even a little of the beauty of the book - however this creates an echo. The echo, though, is better than the breakneck narration as taped.
What a pity. This is a book that deserves a wonderful narrator with some acting ability to interpret the text. Think how great it could be, for instance, with a James Earl Jones sort of voice. As it is, a wonderful book is destroyed.
Listen to the book for the text which is a wonderful narrative of Alaska. Just be prepared to have to deal with a very poor narration.
Book great, narration destroys
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Narration
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