A superior man

Yee, Paul, author.

DAISY Sound Recording 2016

After the CPR is built in 1885, Yang Hok, a former coolie, treks along the railway to return his half-Chinese/half-Native son to the boy's mother and finds himself immersed in the conflicts arising from road-building among the Chinese and Native peoples. Hok's guide on the often perilous trip, Sam Bing Lew, also of mixed Chinese-Native blood, urges Hok to take his son to China, while Hok has dreams of finding fortune in America. Yang Hok is not a...

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Daisy edition
Computer data (56 files : 150 MB)

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1 DAISY disc (10 hrs., 52 min.) : sound ; 12 cm
digital DAISY
4 3/4 in

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Canadiana
Access restricted to persons who are visually impaired or physically disabled and cannot use conventional print materials
Read by Simon Curwen
Audio and text
Reproduced from: Vancouver, BC : Arsenal Pulp Press, 2015. 384 pages : 9781551525907
System requirements: IBM PC or compatible; double speed or faster CD-ROM drive; sound card and sound output device; DAISY playback software or DAISY talking book player. Also plays in CD-MP3 player or computer with MP3-capable software
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DAISY 2.02 standard; MP3 compression at 32 kbps
Studio original

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1985252

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Centre for Equitable Library Access (Canada)
Curwen, Simon, narrator

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