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The Oregon Trail audiobook

  • By: Rinker Buck
  • Narrator: Rinker Buck
  • Category: Expeditions & Discoveries, History
  • Length: 16 hours 42 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2015
  • Language: English
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The Oregon Trail Audiobook Summary

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 Indie Next Pick * Winner of the PEN New England Award

“Enchanting…A book filled with so much love…Long before Oregon, Rinker Buck has convinced us that the best way to see America is from the seat of a covered wagon.” —The Wall Street Journal

“Amazing…A real nonfiction thriller.” –Ian Frazier, The New York Review of Books

“Absorbing…Winning…The many layers in The Oregon Trail are linked by Mr. Buck’s voice, which is alert and unpretentious in a manner that put me in mind of Bill Bryson’s comic tone in A Walk in the Woods.” –Dwight Garner, The New York Times

A major bestseller that has been hailed as a “quintessential American story” (Christian Science Monitor), Rinker Buck’s The Oregon Trail is an epic account of traveling the 2,000-mile length of the Oregon Trail the old-fashioned way–in a covered wagon with a team of mules–that has captivated readers, critics, and booksellers from coast to coast. Simultaneously a majestic journey across the West, a significant work of history, and a moving personal saga, Buck’s chronicle is a “laugh-out-loud masterpiece” (Willamette Week) that “so ensnares the emotions it becomes a tear-jerker at its close” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis) and “will leave you daydreaming and hungry to see this land” (The Boston Globe).

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The Oregon Trail Audiobook Narrator

Rinker Buck is the narrator of The Oregon Trail audiobook that was written by Rinker Buck

Rinker Buck began his career in journalism at the Berkshire Eagle and was a longtime staff writer for the Hartford Courant. He has written for Vanity FairNew YorkLife, and many other publications, and his work has won the PEN New England Award, the Eugene S. Pulliam National Journalism Writing Award, and the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award. He is the New York Times bestselling author of The Oregon TrailFlight of Passage, and First Job. He lives in Tennessee.

About the Author(s) of The Oregon Trail

Rinker Buck is the author of The Oregon Trail

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The Oregon Trail Full Details

Narrator Rinker Buck
Length 16 hours 42 minutes
Author Rinker Buck
Category
Publisher Simon & Schuster Audio
Release date April 28, 2024
ISBN 9781442386228

Subjects

The publisher of the The Oregon Trail is Simon & Schuster Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Expeditions & Discoveries, History

Additional info

The publisher of the The Oregon Trail is Simon & Schuster Audio. The imprint is Simon & Schuster Audio. It is supplied by Simon & Schuster Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781442386228.

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This book is only available in the United States.

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