Because it is so beautiful unraveling the mystique of the American west : a nonfiction collection

DAISY Sound Recording 2019

Using the natural world as a springboard for speculations and musings, Reid's essays illustrate his beliefs that the American West is worth celebrating and tending. Reid's topics range from the spiritual and the sacred, injustice, homelessness, treatment of native peoples to motivation of mountaineers taking place from Nevada to northern Alaska.

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Nature conservation West (U.S.)

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Edition:

Daisy edition

Description:

1 DAISY disc (13 hours, 3 minutes) : sound ; 12 cm
digital DAISY
audio file MP3 DAISY 2.02
4 3/4 in

Target Audience Note:

Male narrator. NLS/BPH

Notes:

Access restricted to persons who are visually impaired or physically disabled and cannot use conventional print materials
Narrated by: Don Scott
Digital talking book. 1 level and 30 navigation points. Digitally mastered
Recorded from: First Counterpoint hardcover edition/ Berkeley, California : Counterpoint Press, [2017] 9781619029293
DAISY 2.02 standard; MP3 compression at 32 kbps
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

Contents:

To live one's life
West, to the future
From America, New Mexico
The condor's last flight
Ling-Ling has killed another baby
A poem, gathering in my mind
Intruders on a lifeless ridge
From Arctic Circle (six excerpts)
The fire and the rose
From Mountains of the great blue dream

LCCN:

2019994499

Control Number:

3248118

Other Authors:

Centre for Equitable Library Access (Canada)
Scott, Don, narrator

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