MONARCH: the Big Bear of Tallac


Read by Ernest Thompson Seton

(4.8 stars; 4 reviews)

Ernest Thompson Seton's book, "Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac." Published in 1919, it tells the story of a tiny Grizzly cub who grew to be the Monarch of the Plains -- and the Prisoner of humanity's arrogance.

"Kind memory calls the picture up before me now, clear, living clear: I see them as they sat, the one small and slight, the other tall and brawny, leader and led, rough men of the hills. They told me this tale--in broken bits they gave it, a sentence at a time. ... They told of the river at our feet: of its rise, a thread-like rill, afar on Tallac's side, and its growth--a brook, a stream, a little river, a river, a mighty flood that rolled and ran from hills to plain to meet a final doom so strange that only the wise believe. ... reverencing the indomitable spirit of the mountaineer, worshiping the mighty Beast that nature built a monument of power, and loving and worshiping the clash, the awful strife heroic, at the close, when these two met."

- Ernest Thompson Seton


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Monarch, The Big Bear of Tallac, episode 1 Read by Ernest Thompson Seton
Monarch, The Big Bear of Tallac, episode 2 Read by Ernest Thompson Seton
Monarch, The Big Bear of Tallac, episode 3 Read by Ernest Thompson Seton
Monarch, The Big Bear of Tallac, episode 4 Read by Ernest Thompson Seton
Monarch, The Big Bear of Tallac, episode 5 Read by Ernest Thompson Seton
Monarch, The Big Bear of Tallac, episode 6 Read by Ernest Thompson Seton
Monarch, The Big Bear of Tallac, episode 7 Read by Ernest Thompson Seton
Monarch, The Big Bear of Tallac, episode 8 Read by Ernest Thompson Seton
Monarch, The Big Bear of Tallac, episode 9 Read by Ernest Thompson Seton
Monarch, The Big Bear of Tallac, episode 10 Read by Ernest Thompson Seton
Monarch, The Big Bear of Tallac, episode 11 Read by Ernest Thompson Seton
Monarch, The Big Bear of Tallac, episode 12 Read by Ernest Thompson Seton
Monarch, The Big Bear of Tallac, episode 13 Read by Ernest Thompson Seton
Monarch, The Big Bear of Tallac, episode 1 Read by Ernest Thompson Seton
Monarch, The Big Bear of Tallac, episode 15 Read by Ernest Thompson Seton
Monarch, The Big Bear of Tallac, episode 16 Read by Ernest Thompson Seton
Monarch, The Big Bear of Tallac, episode 17 - Thank you Read by Ernest Thompson Seton

Reviews


(0 stars)

Funny thing about recording audiobooks of whatever format. It's always a learning experience. This was the third book I'd recorded for my regular podcast, just after "Beggars," and my second Seton book. I think I was a little too in love with the sound of my own voice in the ...


(0 stars)

Having listened to "Beggars" when I saw you'd recorded some others I put them in my queue. The first episode wasn't bad, but (perhaps due to the writer setting up his tale) didn't have any of the magic that filled the later chapters. But as it went on, I couldn't ...


(0 stars)

Thanks! What you're hearing is the second version I recorded of that last chapter. I broke down the first time. I hadn't read the book before recording it. I actually have five books here: A Handy Guide for Beggars, Monarch, Wild Animals I Have Known (also by Seton), Flatland by ...

Interesting Story, well read


(5 stars)

Great story and interesting insight into both bear and men from a different time in our history. I will try other Seton and "Grizzly Smith"audio books.