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Enjoyed by millions given a initial announcement in 1959, The Travels Of Jaimie McPheeters is a sharp-witted story of a 13-year-old boy's adventures on a tour opposite America in 1849. This million-copy Pulitzer Prize-winning classical sum a tour of Jaimie and his father from Kentucky to gold-rush California.
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #330587 in Books
- Published on: 1958
- Binding: Hardcover
- 544 pages
Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
If Huck Finn had left West during a Gold Rush and lived to tell about it, he competence have sounded most like Jaimie McPheeters in describing his impossibly dangerous trek by car sight to California in 1849. Jaimie shares a storytelling with his father, an intelligent Scottish alloy whose passionate celebrity is usually rather undermined by a debility for gambling and clever drink. Reader Michael Lee is totally convincing as he reproduces, first, a thick Scottish brogue of a father; and then, a vehement ignorance of 14-year-old Jaimie. This audiobook's appended afterword, citing a author's exquisite research, creates it transparent because a book won a Pulitzer Prize in 1959. Like Lonesome Dove (Audio Reviews, LJ 2/15/93), another Pulitzer Prize winner, it transforms story into monumental adventure. Highly recommended.
- Jo Carr, Sarasota, Fla.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From AudioFile
The story of America has many tellers though few as edifying, humorous and unfeeling as Taylor in his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. This story follows Jaimie and his father, Sardius, on a prolonged trek to California's El Dorado. We knowledge a universe of a '49ers by a boy's clear-eyed, if rather judgmental, attitudes, aided by learned explanation from his feeble pa. Lee gives any voice particular impression and reads with declaration and enthusiasm. Regional dialects and gender are unfailingly clear. His exegesis of such a operation of characters is a triumph. Thorndike is to be commended for bringing this journey of American life to a audio format. S.B.S. An AUDIOFILE Earphones Award leader (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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13 of 13 people found a following examination helpful.
By Miles D. Moore
Some forward publisher of over titles--perhaps Dalkey Archives or someplace similar--should tell a new book posthaste. "The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters" is a walloping good read, full of excitement, humor, and clear characters. In places it reads as if Mark Twain and Henry Fielding had put their heads together for a collaboration. Robert Lewis Taylor wrote several books about teenage boys entrance of age on a frontier, though "Jaimie McPheeters" was a initial and by distant a best.
7 of 7 people found a following examination helpful.
By Blackbird Crow Raven
This is utterly presumably a many beguiling work of novella given "Huck Finn." Reading it was a pristine delight--it is unequivocally good written, a story is gripping, and we was concurrently confident and unhappy when we finished a final page.
I consider of a best nonfiction as "brain candy." This novel is more, shall we say, "soul candy" or maybe (without sounding smarmy, we hope) we can call it "heart candy."
6 of 6 people found a following examination helpful.
By A Customer
As several others have noted, we also examination this book as a teen (actually pre-teen) when it was initial released. It was my initial knowledge with a book annotated with references to investigate concerning a period.
It is each bit as good created as classics such as Tom Sawyer, Oliver Twist, or Treasure Island. we unequivocally can't suppose such a smashing square of novel being mislaid to other generations.
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