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CAMPBELL'S KINGDOMby Hammond Innes | Read by David RintoulBBC Audiobooks America/ Chivers | UnabridgedMystery & SuspenseThough he brings Hammond Innes's popular classic to life in a dignified manner, reader David Rintoul doesn't hold back on the drama and emotion when they're called for. Rintoul sees to it that listeners are drawn in by the story of Englishman Bruce Wetheral, a mid-level bureaucrat given a death sentence by his doctor, just as he inherits a tract of land across the Atlantic... Read More |
THE WRECK OF THE MARY DEAREby Ralph Hammond Innes | Read by Bill WallisBBC Audiobooks America/ Chivers | UnabridgedHistorical FictionOne March night, the MARY DEARE, an enormous leaking freighter, looms out of a rising gale to nearly capsize a salvage yacht in the English Channel. The skipper of the yacht boards the MARY DEARE to find that it has been set afire and abandoned by its crew. The only one left is a half-mad captain whose future lies with his battered boat. Narrator Bill Wallis perfectly captures... Read More |
THE WHITE SOUTHby Hammond Innes | Read by Stephen ThorneBBC Audiobooks America/ Chivers | UnabridgedMystery & SuspenseThe protagonist is caught up in a whaling enterprise near the Antarctic--there is shipwreck, villainy, near starvation, and epic journeys--Innes at his best. Stephen Thorne's voice and tone both fit the story perfectly. Honest and open, British, deliberate but exuding great interest in the story, he moves effortlessly along, even when articulating Norwegian and Scottish... Read More |
THE BLACK TIDEby Hammond Innes | Read by Stephen ThorneBBC Audiobooks America/ Chivers | UnabridgedMystery & SuspenseStephen Thorne is the perfect choice for reading Hammond Innes's saga of pollution and suspense. His British accent fits the protagonist to a T. Thorne is equally effective with the other characters, from lightly accented Iranians to French mademoiselles. With more than two thousand BBC Radio broadcasts to his credit, he is a widely experienced voice actor who excels at... Read More |
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