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Ian Frazier trains his eye for unforgettable detail on Siberia, that vast expanse of Asiatic Russia. He explores many aspects of this storied, often grim region. He writes about the geography, the resources, the native peoples, the history, the 40-below midwinter afternoons, the bugs. The book brims with Mongols, half-crazed Orthodox archpriests, fur seekers, ambassadors of the czar bound for Peking, tea caravans, German scientists, American prospectors, intrepid English nurses, and prisoners and exiles of every kind....
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I Loved This Book
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By: Ian Frazier
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Lost Among the Birds
- Accidentally Finding Myself in One Very Big Year
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- Narrated by: Sam Devereaux
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Early in 2013 Neil Hayward was at a crossroads. He didn't want to open a bakery or whatever else executives do when they quit a lucrative but unfulfilling job. He didn't want to think about his failed relationship with 'the one' or his potential for ruining a new relationship with 'the next one'. And he almost certainly didn't want to think about turning 40. And so instead he went birding. Birding was a lifelong passion. It was only among the birds that Neil found a calm that had eluded him in the confusing world of humans.
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Know a Birder? This will help you Understand.
- By Carole T. on 08-27-17
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Walking to Listen
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At 23, Andrew Forsthoefel headed out the back door of his home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, with a backpack, an audio recorder, his copies of Whitman and Rilke, and a sign that read "Walking to Listen". He had just graduated from Middlebury College and was ready to begin his adult life, but he didn't know how. So he decided to take a cross-country quest for guidance, one where everyone he met would be his guide. In the year that followed, he faced an Appalachian winter and a Mojave summer. He met beasts inside: fear, loneliness, doubt.
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Transcends the typical trekking story
- By barefoot rabbit on 08-07-18
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The Longest Road
- Overland in Search of America, from Key West to the Arctic Ocean
- By: Philip Caputo
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
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Philip Caputo, who had just turned 70, his wife, and their two English setters took off in a truck hauling an Airstream camper from Key West, Florida, en route via back roads and state routes to Deadhorse, Alaska. The journey took four months and covered 17,000 miles, during which Caputo interviewed more than 80 Americans from all walks of life to get a picture of what their lives and the life of the nation are really about in the 21st century.
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Very Disappointing
- By Amazon Customer on 03-25-18
By: Philip Caputo
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Travels with Charley in Search of America
- By: John Steinbeck
- Narrated by: Gary Sinise
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
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In September 1960, John Steinbeck and his poodle, Charley, embarked on a journey across America, from small towns to growing cities to glorious wilderness oases. Travels with Charley is animated by Steinbeck’s attention to the specific details of the natural world and his sense of how the lives of people are intimately connected to the rhythms of nature—to weather, geography, the cycles of the seasons. His keen ear for the transactions among people is evident, too, as he records the interests and obsessions that preoccupy the Americans he encounters along the way.
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Gary Sinise is fantastic!
- By C. Wilson on 01-11-17
By: John Steinbeck
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We Stood upon Stars
- Finding God in Lost Places
- By: Roger W. Thompson
- Narrated by: John McLain
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You are made for freedom and adventure, friendship and romance. Yet too much of your life is spent unfulfilled at work, restless at home, and bored at church. All the while, you know there is something more. You'll find some of life's best moments waiting for you over a campfire, on a river - even in that coffee shop or brewery you didn't know you'd discover along the way. It's time to begin the search.
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Such a good book
- By The Great Bambino on 06-16-21
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Deep Creek
- Finding Hope in the High Country
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On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her century-old barn and all its inhabitants. Through her travels from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska, she explores what ties her to the Earth, the ranch most of all.
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The most beautiful book I’ve ever read
- By KFratt on 04-26-19
By: Pam Houston
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Route 66 Still Kicks
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- By: Rick Antonson
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This travelogue follows Rick and his travel companion Peter along 2,400 miles through eight states from Chicago to Los Angeles as they discover the old Route 66. With surprising and obscure stories about Route 66 personalities like Woody Guthrie, John Steinbeck, Al Capone, Salvador Dali, Dorothea Lange, Cyrus Avery (the Father of Route 66), the Harvey Girls, Mickey Mantle, and Bobby Troup (songwriter of “(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66”), Antonson’s fresh perspective reads like an easy drive down a forgotten road.
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Best Account of the Old Route
- By Theodore John on 07-16-19
By: Rick Antonson
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Almost Anywhere
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- By: Krista Schlyer
- Narrated by: Marisa Vitali
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What do you do when your world ends? At 28 years old, Krista Schlyer sold almost everything she owned and packed the rest of it in a station wagon bound for the American wild. Her two best friends joined her - one a grumpy, grieving introvert, the other a feisty dog - and together they sought out every national park, historic site, forest, and wilderness they could get to before their money ran out or their minds gave in.
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No a travelogue - its a diary
- By Jonathan on 12-29-20
By: Krista Schlyer
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One Year Off
- Leaving It All Behind for a Round-the-World Journey with Our Children
- By: David Cohen
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
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In One Year Off, you can join the family on a trek up a Costa Rican volcano, cruise the canals of Burgundy by houseboat, and ride ferries through the Greek Islands. Later, as the Cohens wander further off the tourist trail, you can drive through the villages of Rajasthan, traverse the vast Australian Nullarbor, and discover the charms of Cambodia's Angkor Wat and the hidden shangri-las of northern Laos.
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fun filled travellog
- By tarun on 07-22-19
By: David Cohen
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No Shortage of Good Days
- By: John Gierach
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
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In No Shortage of Good Days John Gierach takes listeners from the Smokies in Tennessee to his home waters in Colorado, from the Canadian Maritimes to Mexico - saltwater or fresh, it's all fishing and all irresistible. As always he writes perceptively about a wide range of subjects: the charm of familiar waters, the etiquette of working with new fishing guides, night fishing when the trout and the mosquitoes are both biting, and fishing snobbery, a pitfall he seems to have largely avoided.
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I fish, but rarely fly fish.. love Gierach’s work
- By BearheartRaven on 04-24-20
By: John Gierach
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1 Dead in Attic
- After Katrina
- By: Chris Rose
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
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1 Dead in Attic is a collection of stories by Times-Picayune columnist Chris Rose, recounting the first harrowing year and a half of life in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Celebrated as a local treasure and heaped with national praise, Rose provides a rollercoaster ride of observation, commentary, emotion, tragedy, and even humor - in a way that only he could find in a devastated wasteland. They are stories of the dead and the living, stories of survivors and believers, stories of hope and despair.
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Still Makes Me Hurt
- By Gillian on 02-27-15
By: Chris Rose
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- Jim In Texas!
- 09-25-14
Not happy, but fascinating
I was vaguely aware of the existence of a band called 'Rush', but I couldn't recall hearing any of their music, my tastes in music go in a different direction.
I was unaware of this Neil Peart person. I've since learned he is considered a Living God by many people, including members of my own family.
The two things I do have in common with Mr Peart is that we were both born in 1952 and we both like to take a long motorcycle ride when we feel the need to clear our head. It was motorcycles, not music, that attracted me to this book.
This isn't a particularly happy book, but it is a fascinating one. It's a good motorcycle travelogue. It's an interesting look behind the scenes of the life a famous musician. And it's a tragic story of a man dealing with what has to be about the worst loss one can imagine.
Mr Peart doesn't always come across as particularly warm or tolerant. He does come across as brutally honest with himself and his readers.
The narration and production values are excellent, the story is compelling.
I can't say I 'enjoyed' this book, the central tragedy precludes that adjective.
I am glad I read it.
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- Chris
- 08-05-15
A very personal view of a very private man
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
Yes. I have always been very interested in Mr. Peart - so it was for me... although, at times the "letters to Bruno" format was tiring.
How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?
More log entries and less letters - I didn't care for the balance between the two as presented, but it was still enjoyable.
What about Brian Sutherland’s performance did you like?
He has a similar voice to Neil's so that was a definite plus - although a tad monotone at times... then again, with the subject matter, its understandable.
What else would you have wanted to know about Neil Peart’s life?
More details regarding drumming in general - and his new relationship with Carrie Nuttall. I felt the last chapter was too much of a whirlwind - i.e., lets wrap this thing up quickly...
Any additional comments?
All in all - a good read for the determined fan. Casual listeners will tire after about 3 hours.. I enjoyed the first 1/3 and last 1/3 the most... It seems that he was more philosophical in the beginning and then simply gave way to letter writing as opposed to journalizing in the middle... I wanted more of the Broken Man to New Found Life conversion details... although - its very possible there were none and it was simply the "time that did its healing".
Definitely reads more as a travelogue than a introspective view into his life. The introspection is there, but at times it gets tedious waiting for the details..
At this point, I want to address folks who are trying to decide if they should get this book and may have formed a negative view based on other reviews..I've read many Amazon reviews that are quite negative regarding Mr. Peart's attitude and the appearance of "Self centered narcissism of a rich man". I think this is absolutely untrue. Yes - he is in a different place in his life than most of us, but he also has a job that is MUCH more demanding than many people would ever dare to take on. He is travelling away from family and home most of the year and had to scratch and claw his way in the early years when they got literally NO radioplay. It was NOT an easy road - but his persistence paid of and he now has the comfort that so many people give him a hard time for.
Also - regarding his "attitude" toward others in the book - calling them "fat, obese, etc"... How about we try and be a bit empathetic for a minute - you just lost your entire family - and have nothing to look forward to - you are near the point of cashing it in and just eating a bullet as it were... and you expect him to be anything except apathetic, withdrawn and downright cynical? Please... he gave us a raw look at how he felt - and then people want to sit back on their laurels and criticize. Get back to me when you deal with such tragedy in your life and let me know how it went.
I applaud Neil for giving us this insight - and I hope my review is not overly critical - because I do believe that it is important to be critical if one is to gain insight and grow. So - here's to looking forward to another installment in the "Life and times of Elwood".
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- Dan Collins
- 09-27-20
Don't Meet Your Heroes
This book was tough to listen to. it was hard to remind myself of the position Mr Peart was in when he wrote it. Although this book is a window into Mr Peart's journey from the most difficult places a person would visit and back to normal life, I certainly got the impression that it was written for no other person except the author himself. I think I am fine with that.
Mr Peart will always have my gratitude. And I am glad to have shared in this painful journey with him to the small extent that I have in listening to this book. Rest in peace, Ghost Rider. And rest in peace, Mr Peart.
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- Mike in NC
- 06-15-16
A man's journey to accepting his. it is, what is
This book by Neil Peart the drummer for the band RUSH tells the story of how even the "Rich and Famous" are affected by the loss of those you love. The opening chapters are riveting as he lights the fuse of his journey rocket. The feelings and emotions are raw, real and, let's face it quite sad.
Neil's only recourse..... "Keep moving"
It's important to note that this story didn't start out to be a book. Like many books it was a personal collection of his thoughts and feelings in the form of a journal. It wasn't until sometime after he collected this thoughts and put them in the form of a book.
So the story begins, with lost love and his journey to accepting "what is" his chosen method is the Motorcycle. His bike becomes a metaphor for his personal, emotional, and spiritual survival. As long as he keeps moving, his mind remains occupied.
The early parts of the book were great. His travels across Canada, to Alaska, and the Arctic circle. His trip continues back through Alaska, and into Washington, California and then the deserts of the Midwest, then to Mexico. Each of these "mini trips" told with great detail. Detail so clear you can almost be riding with him...
For me as the story continued it started to become ... Bla Bla Bla... His letters to his best friend Brutus seemed to be a crutch for actual writing a book. Perhaps because it wasn't a book originally...
Towards the end, Neil takes you at times on what seems like a day by day account of his life in the late 1990's both on and off his bike. Life as a famous drummer, Friend and human. Then he kind of skips a few years, says he got re-married and they live happily ever after..
I was left with a WTH just happened moment. In my mind he kind of "punted" the ending... After a long journey you often look back, and after the Ghost Rider journey I looked back and could easily see the wake of the writing.
Phase 1 A lot of detail, feelings emotions, and suffering
Phase 2 I'm getting board now but I have to make more pages
Phase 3 Page count hit... We all lived happily ever after
In short, it is a good enough book that I gave it 4 stars across the board. I'm glad I listened to it, but it is not one I'd listen to a second time.
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- Mr. Andre
- 12-12-13
save yourself and read this review instead
What disappointed you about Ghost Rider?
I was expecting an interesting travelogue and a story of a man overcoming hardship. Instead what I got was a rich man moping and feeling sorry for himself. His travelogue is mostly a list of the birds he saw, the motels he stayed in, what he ate and what he drank. Mostly he complains and complains. I recognize that he had some very rough stuff happen to him, but f*cking come on already. Until that point he had led an incredibly charmed life, the sort of life that anybody would dream of. He seems to have no sense of perspective or awareness of that, just a brooding self-pity that goes on forever.
The second half of the book is apparently just letters to acquaintances, still brooding and complaining about snowshoeing and x-country skiing and hiking around on his woodland estate. I have about 5 hours of this book left and will not finish it.
Would you ever listen to anything by Neil Peart again?
I have heard that his earlier books are good. There are a lot of books out there though, and I doubt I'll come back for more of this.
Which scene was your favorite?
He has some good descriptions of interesting places at the very beginning, when he was still in the Yukon and Alaska.
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Ghost Rider?
The last 3/4 of the book.
Any additional comments?
I realize I am probably being hard on this book. The narration is good and really captures the self-pitying tone of the book and in fact may have magnified it. I really think this book was for Neal to work through his own grieving process and can't imagine why anybody else would want to read it.
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- MSM
- 12-17-19
Ghost Rider review
Thank you Neil Peart for sharing your rawness! Spoke to my soul! Fellow grief survivor after losing my husband, my daughter and my boyfriend over the past 8 years. Sure makes me want to get a motorcycle. I’ll stick to running 5ks and half marathons!
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- DOUG
- 08-07-18
Little Baby Soul
An enjoyable book about getting away from grief. Neil is a world class drummer as well as writer, and while his writing is impressive with this tragic tale of escape and acceptence of the death of his daughter and wife, it dose sometimes get long in the tooth- especially with his letters to everyone and his constant telling of caring for his ‘Little Baby Soul’. The front half of the book moves faster than the second half and I felt myself speeding up the audio book to 2X just to move on from letter afeter letter.
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- 05-09-18
Great story of heartbreak and the process of healing!
As a fellow man who understands the call of the road. Having driven most of the western states I know how it’s alluring! More recently riding a motorcycle as well! This heart wrenching story is written in such a way as that you can experience the motorcycle trip and also feel great empathy for someone’s pain and healing as well. Understanding that you don’t fully understand what you have not personally experienced!
Thank you Neil for sharing your story with us!
It is a great privilege to be let into your pain and healing!
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- PT
- 04-21-18
Surprising… At First
From reading reviews I was expecting a lot of philosophizing. At the beginning there wasn’t much of that. In the latter part of the book, which I suppose is the Letters section, there was a lot of philosophizing. Being a “philosophizer” myself I didn’t mind too much, but it wasn’t as good as the travelogue pieces.
Having ridden probably only a fraction as much as Mr. Peart (350 K miles in 40 years) I found the travel log more fun than most. So many of those tales are “We Went Here, We Saw That, We Ate Something. We Went There, Saw That, Ate Something.“ I did like the philosophizing more than I did in Pirsig’s book. Being a technical writer who also reached the end of the road, I never found Pirsig very affecting.
At least Peart only called his bike a “steed“ three or four times. (My pet peeve. 😉 )
A lot of effort went into this book and I think it is worth a read.
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- Oh Captain, My Captain
- 03-06-20
I truly unique book!
I don't think you have to be a fan of the band Rush in order to love this book. granted he covers 50,000 mi, so there are times when you might be tired of the road and you might want to take a break, but Neil is such an amazing writer with such a gift for words with such an amazing memory and the ability to describe the things that he sees, it's truly unique I think. You could listen to this book and just build or reading list of the things that he reads, build a map of the United States end of the best roads in America. He's an observer of wildlife, of Flora and fauna, and I'm very happy to say he loves good food, good restaurants, and he tends to review every place he goes to including hotels.
some of my favorite parts where when he was not on the road, in his house in Toronto, and free to think and to ponder the deeper meanings of life that he is so familiar with, and so skillful at explaining. while reading this book I actually opened up a separate page on my phone and I would stop and I would record quotes that stood out to me, and there were so, so many. did he talk about what it was like to be on the road or to be on the stage with Rush? No, almost never.
The little snippets and quotes from songs that I've long been familiar with, that might open or close a chapter, hit me with such newfound meaning when simply read in the context of the story. now I understand why on his tombstone, or his monument, he has written Neil Peart, author.
I now understand that his amazing career as being one of the greatest drummers of all time, voted drummer of the year at least 10 years running, and one of the greatest lyricists of any rock band ever, Was only one small portion of his life, and as he got older it's possible that his life is a musician became even more eclipsed by all the other things that he set out to achieve.
a gifted writer, a tremendous observer of life, of people, and of the situations that we all find ourselves in, Mr. Peart receives only a the fraction of the credit that he deserves.
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