Wanderer of the Wasteland, Zane Grey
Wanderer of the Wasteland, Zane Grey
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Wanderer of the Wasteland

Author: Zane Grey

Narrator: John Rayburn

Unabridged: 16 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/16/2022

Categories: Fiction, Western, Classic

Synopsis

Here is a story of a young man of eighteen who wandered for years after an accidental shooting of his brother. He felt as though he was a counterpart of the Biblical killing by Cain of his brother Abel. It was written by Zane Grey, one of the greatest western novelists. It came out about a dozen years after Grey’s Riders of the Purple Sage, one of the most successful western novels ever written. It takes us through a lonely land of prospectors and hermits as it tells of surviving searing Death Valley heat, an area that many consider the deadliest land in the world. Listen now and hear a highly surprising finish.

About Zane Grey

Zane Grey® (1872–1939), born in Ohio, was practicing dentistry in New York when he and his wife published his first novel. Grey presented the West as a moral battleground in which his characters are destroyed because of their inability to change or are redeemed through a final confrontation with their past. The man whose name is synonymous with Westerns made his first trip west in 1907 at age thirty-five. More than 130 films have been based on his work.

About John Rayburn

John Rayburn is a veteran of 62 years in broadcasting.  He served as a news/sports anchor and show host, and his TV newscast achieved the largest Share of Audience figures of any major-market TV newscast in the nation. John is a member of a Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on August 30, 2014

Zane Grey’s take on Homer’s Odyssey turns up in Wanderer of the Wasteland, the story of a boy named Adam who flees his past and a terrible crime. Adam seeks refuge in the desert, where life is unrelentingly hard and every day brings a battle against the alkali sands, scorching heat, lonely nights, n......more

Goodreads review by Mary on November 11, 2018

Grey is a guaranteed good read. Kind of hard to believe that something written almost 100 years ago is still entertaining and true to human nature. This novel was a bit verbose, it is tedious at times.......more

Goodreads review by Al on December 04, 2023

This is at least the third time I've read this book, which is one of Zane Grey's lesser-known (not to say unknown) works. The simple story is that youthful Adam Larey flees into the Arizona desert after a violent and apparently fatal confrontation with his brother, adopts the name Wansfell, and spen......more

Goodreads review by Laurel on November 07, 2019

This is a book review of Wanderer of the Wasteland, one of famous Zane Grey's lesser-known works. I found this first edition novel written in 1923 in my late mother’s book collection. Since I knew something of Zane Gray’s background from several sources, I wanted to read one of his books. I have bee......more

Goodreads review by Bob on September 13, 2023

This is a terrific book. It's no wonder Zane Grey was so well known as a writer of Western's. This one, has a deeply spiritual thread running through it as the hero deals with early misfortune in life, sojourning through his young adulthood in solitude in the stark desolation of Death Valley and the......more

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