About the Authors
Walter Krochmal is a conservatory-trained actor with over 20 years of national and international experience in classics, modern, avant garde, folk and other genres, on stage, in film and in over 50 audiobooks. He’s led a richly varied voice-over career that spans national network and cable television, radio and the Internet. He works in both English and Spanish, and narrated more than 40 audiobook titles in both languages.
Walter Krochmal is a conservatory-trained actor with over 20 years of national and international experience in classics, modern, avant garde, folk and other genres, on stage, in film and in over 50 audiobooks. He’s led a richly varied voice-over career that spans national network and cable television, radio and the Internet. He works in both English and Spanish, and narrated more than 40 audiobook titles in both languages.
Walter Krochmal is a conservatory-trained actor with over 20 years of national and international experience in classics, modern, avant garde, folk and other genres, on stage, in film and in over 50 audiobooks. He’s led a richly varied voice-over career that spans national network and cable television, radio and the Internet. He works in both English and Spanish, and narrated more than 40 audiobook titles in both languages.
About the Narrators
Patrick O’Brian (1914–2000), a translator and author of biographies, was best known as the author of the highly acclaimed Aubrey–Maturin series of historical novels. Set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars ,this twenty-volume series centers on the enduring friendship between naval officer Jack Aubrey and physician and spy Stephen Maturin. The Far Side of the World, the tenth book in the series, was adapted into a 2003 film directed by Peter Weir and starring Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany. The film was nominated for ten Oscars, including Best Picture. He wrote acclaimed biographies of Pablo Picasso and Sir Joseph Banks. He also translated many works from the French, among them the novels and memoirs of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Lacouture’s biographies of Charles de Gaulle.
Walter Krochmal is a conservatory-trained actor with over 20 years of national and international experience in classics, modern, avant garde, folk and other genres, on stage, in film and in over 50 audiobooks. He’s led a richly varied voice-over career that spans national network and cable television, radio and the Internet. He works in both English and Spanish, and narrated more than 40 audiobook titles in both languages.