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Journey: A Novel Audiobook
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"The best novel of James Michener's career." Milwaukee Journal Gold fever swept the world in 1897. The chance for untold riches sent thousands of dreamers on a perilous trek toward their fortunes, failures, or deaths. Follow four English aristocrats and their Irish servant as they misguidedly haul their dreams across cruel Canadian terrain toward the Klondike gold fields.
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"Journey, Michener's novel about four English nobelmen and one Irish peasant seeking adventure and fortune during the gold rush of 1897 was very surprising and brutal. Sure, any school boy has heard of the gold rush but I'm more than certain that most people have no idea what it took to get to the Yukon. This journal took more than two years to get there. It is remarkable because image being couped up from October to June (8 months) in a shelter that you had to build yourself because of the weather conditions in the McKenzie basin. Twice before you got to the destination. Then, there is no guarantee that you'll be successful in finding gold! They were a better sort of man than I."
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“Stunning…Michener at his best.”
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“Michener brings sharply into focus the hardships encountered by those who dreamed of striking it rich.”
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“Michener has amassed a peerless reputation as the heralded dean of the historical tome…Journey is a book that envelops the reader in an atmosphere of hazardous escapades.”
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“Remarkable…superb literature.”
— Pittsburgh Press
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About James A. Michener
James A. Michener (1907–1997) was one of the world’s most popular writers. He authored more than forty books of fiction and nonfiction, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Tales of the South Pacific, the bestselling novels The Source, Hawaii, Alaska, Chesapeake, Centennial, Texas, Caribbean, and Caravans, and the memoir The World Is My Home. Michener served on the advisory council to NASA and the International Broadcast Board, which oversees the Voice of America. Among dozens of awards and honors, he received America’s highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1977, and an award from the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities in 1983 for his commitment to art in America.
About Larry McKeever
Larry McKeever has narrated a number of audiobooks, including several by James A. Michener and Isaac Asimov.