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Title: Nature's Metropolis
Subtitle: Chicago and the Great West
Author: William Cronon
Narrator: Jonah Cummings
Format: Unabridged
Length: 18 hrs and 12 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-08-13
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 60 votes
Genres: History, American
Publisher's Summary:
Awarded the 1992 Bancroft Prize and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award for Best Nonfiction Book of 1991.
In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenth-century America. By exploring the ecological and economic changes that made Chicago America's most dynamic city and the Great West its hinterland, Mr. Cronon opens a new window onto our national past. This is the story of city and country becoming ever more tightly bound in a system so powerful that it reshaped the American landscape and transformed American culture. The world that emerged is our own.
Members Reviews:
Low information density
I learned some interesting things about Chicago, but I didn't think there was a clear structure and I thought it took the author a lot of words to say not that much.
Good book, dire narrator
This classic, important book of environmental history is excellent and rewarding every time I read it, and doesn't suffer as an audiobook for lack of illustrations. The book reads very well even without seeing the charts. The complex accounting of the development of Chicago and its hinterland makes for a very engaging listen.
However, this particular reader strongly detracts from the text. Words are frequently mispronounced (if I hear potah-wah-tomeee one more time..) making obvious and distracting breaks from believing our narrator knows what he's talking about. An attempt at adding character has him putting on very poor and distracting accents when reading quotations. I also particularly did not enjoy the cadence of the reading, though I understand that is subjective.
Lovely book, I strongly suggest people read it in their lives, but maybe let Professor Cronon's own voice read in your own mind rather than get the audiobook.
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Title: Nature's Metropolis
Subtitle: Chicago and the Great West
Author: William Cronon
Narrator: Jonah Cummings
Format: Unabridged
Length: 18 hrs and 12 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-08-13
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 60 votes
Genres: History, American
Publisher's Summary:
Awarded the 1992 Bancroft Prize and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award for Best Nonfiction Book of 1991.
In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenth-century America. By exploring the ecological and economic changes that made Chicago America's most dynamic city and the Great West its hinterland, Mr. Cronon opens a new window onto our national past. This is the story of city and country becoming ever more tightly bound in a system so powerful that it reshaped the American landscape and transformed American culture. The world that emerged is our own.
Members Reviews:
Low information density
I learned some interesting things about Chicago, but I didn't think there was a clear structure and I thought it took the author a lot of words to say not that much.
Good book, dire narrator
This classic, important book of environmental history is excellent and rewarding every time I read it, and doesn't suffer as an audiobook for lack of illustrations. The book reads very well even without seeing the charts. The complex accounting of the development of Chicago and its hinterland makes for a very engaging listen.
However, this particular reader strongly detracts from the text. Words are frequently mispronounced (if I hear potah-wah-tomeee one more time..) making obvious and distracting breaks from believing our narrator knows what he's talking about. An attempt at adding character has him putting on very poor and distracting accents when reading quotations. I also particularly did not enjoy the cadence of the reading, though I understand that is subjective.
Lovely book, I strongly suggest people read it in their lives, but maybe let Professor Cronon's own voice read in your own mind rather than get the audiobook.