The Silver Horde
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Rex Beach
(4,154 Sterne; 13 Bewertungen)
The Silver Horde , is set in Kalvik, a fictionalized community in Bristol Bay, Alaska, and tells the story of a down on his luck gold miner who discovers a greater wealth in Alaska's run of salmon (silver horde) and decides to open a cannery. To accomplish this he must overcome the relentless opposition of the "salmon trust," a fictionalized Alaska Packers' Association, which undercuts his financing, sabotages his equipment, incites a longshoremen's riot and bribes his fishermen to quit. The story line includes a love interest as the protagonist is forced to choose between his fiance, a spoiled banker's daughter, and an earnest roadhouse operator, a woman of "questionable virtue." (Summary by Wikipedia) (10 hr 59 min)
Chapters
Wherein "The Grande Dame" Arrives, Laden With Disappointments
35:21
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Bewertungen
wow the end chapter was devastatingly read improper english
(2,5 Sterne)
Sheryl Dalton
(5 Sterne)
Another great Rex Beach story. i have never complained about a narrator but the last chapter almost ruined the whole book for me. i had to fast forward the last few minutes. Sorry. Tex.