Manhunt
Author: James L. Swanson
Narrator: Richard Thomas
Abridged: 9 hr 9 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Harper Audio
Published: 02/07/2006
Category: History
Author: James L. Swanson
Narrator: Richard Thomas
Abridged: 9 hr 9 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Harper Audio
Published: 02/07/2006
Category: History
When I'm as disappointed in an audiobook as I am in this one, I wonder if it might have been better in an unabridged version. As it is, it's a very short audiobook and did not need to be abridged. The Wilkes story is incredible enough and exciting enough that it doesn't need the over-dramatization given it by both the author's florid writing and by Richard Thomas' unnecessarily dramatic reading. I would love to have this extraordinary moment in history told by a better historian and read by a better reader.