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Lure of the Wild
Written by David Thompson
Narrated by Rusty Nelson
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Up in the Rockies, where a man could live free, Nathaniel King and a rugged mountain man named Shakespeare McNair head for a rendezous of trappers and fur traders.
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David Thompson
David Thompson is Professor of railway noise and vibration at the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, University of Southampton, United Kingdom. He has worked in the field of railway noise since 1980, with British Rail Research in Derby, United Kingdom, and the TNO Institute of Applied Physics in the Netherlands, before moving to Southampton in 1996. He was responsible for developing the TWINS software for predicting rolling noise.
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Reviews for Lure of the Wild
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5David Thompson writes fictional history...but shows 2lst century
audiences how he thinks it was.1 person found this helpful
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Imagination captured with both of the first two books. I m looking forward to hearing the rest of them.
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