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  • Alaskan Travels

  • Far-Flung Tales of Love and Adventure
  • By: Edward Hoagland
  • Narrated by: David Rapkin
  • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
  • 3.5 out of 5 stars (21 ratings)
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By: Edward Hoagland
Narrated by: David Rapkin
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One of America's great essayists, Edward Hoagland recounts his travels to Alaska, where he falls in love with a nurse named Linda. Alaskan Travels is an engrossing mixture of memoir, cultural studies, and travel writing, and Hoagland describes the lives of oilmen, millionaires, and Eskimos with the same intensity he uses to capture the brutal landscape.

David Rapkin delivers Hoagland's narrative with a clean, crisp style, helping to augment the tales of these varied Alaskan people. Like all great travel writing, Alaskan Travels places the listener in its fascinating locale and may inspire a journey to this wild, wonderful land.

Summary

Thirty years ago, celebrated American writer Edward Hoagland, in his early fifties and already with a dozen acclaimed books under his belt, had a choice: a midlife crisis or a midlife adventure. He chose the adventure. Pencil and notebook at the ready, Hoagland set out to explore and write about one of the last truly wild territories remaining on the face of the earth: Alaska.

From the Arctic Ocean to the Kenai Peninsula, the backstreet bars of Anchorage to the Yukon River, Hoagland traveled the “real” Alaska from top to bottom. Here he documents not only the flora and fauna of America’s last frontier, but also the extraordinary people living on the fringe. On his journey he chronicles the lives of an astonishing and unforgettable array of prospectors, trappers, millionaire freebooters, drifters, oilmen, Eskimos, Indians, and a remarkably kind and capable frontier nurse named Linda.

In his foreword, novelist Howard Frank Mosher describes Edward Hoagland’s memoir as “the best book ever written about America’s last best place.” In the tradition of Twain’s Life on the Mississippi and Jonathan Rabin’s Old Glory, with a beautiful love story at its heart, this is an American masterpiece from a writer hailed by the Washington Post as “the Thoreau of our times.”

©2012 Edward Hoagland (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

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Varying degrees of interesting

Interesting insight into the lives of various every day Alaskans encountered on the author's travels. Some fascinating insights into the reality of Alaskan life and culture. Some chapters were harder to engage with but overall worth a listen for free.

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hmmm

just couldn't get into it. found it quite boring no real heading feels like someone waffling on about nothing in particular

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Bizarre sentence structuring

Absolutely weird book. The sentences are somehow constructed in a way that make the authors points unfathomable. A lot of concentration is required to follow every single sentence. The narration is strangely robotic which doesn't help.

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interesting

I love listening to tales from or about Alaska, this is one of those which is very easy to listen to, interesting and keeps the reader/ listener engaged.

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