Tales of Lonely Trails, Zane Grey
Tales of Lonely Trails, Zane Grey
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Tales of Lonely Trails

Author: Zane Grey

Narrator: William Hope

Unabridged: 14 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/25/2019


Synopsis

Zane Grey wrote about the West and lived it as well. Tales of Lonely Trails is a collection of true travel tales describing his explorations of uninhabited areas of the West, much of it on pack horses with a guide.Here are descriptions of his hunting, camping, and exploring trips in the wild and desolate parts of the West, including Arizona territory, Colorado, Death Valley, the Tonto Basin, the Grand Canyon, and more. These adventures gave him the first-hard experience that he later used in writing his descriptions of the landscape and characters of his Western novels.

About Zane Grey

Zane Grey (January 31, 1872–October 23, 1939), born in Ohio, was practicing dentistry in New York when he and his wife, Lina Roth (Dolly) Grey, 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. Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) was his bestselling book. More than 130 films have been based on his work.

About William Hope

William Hope, an actor and Earphones Award–winning narrator, has had leading roles in many films, including Aliens as Gorman, Hellbound: Hellraiser II, Shining Through, and The Saint. His television credits include the Shell Seekers, As Time Goes By, and Gimme Gimme Gimme. On the London stage, he has appeared in The Seven Year Itch, The False Servant, and Doctor of Honour. He has appeared regionally in All My Sons, Twelfth Night, Way of the World, and La Ronde.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Gerald

If you are a hunter you might enjoy this work by Zane Grey. He recalls his annual hunting trips in great detail. His descriptions of the mountains and valleys and forests make you feel that you are right there with him. Unfortunately this becomes quite repetitive. Mountain lions, bears and deer are......more

Goodreads review by Glenn

Zane Grey remains a favorite because of his remarkable skills for recognizing and describing the most minute details of nature. While I love and appreciate nature, my level of appreciation does not reach as deep as his, so I needed almost as much time to read this biography of two hunting trips in N......more

Review of "Tales of lonely trails" by John Lietzke I didn't care for this book because I do not care to read about the exploits of the author. I only read a little more half of the book because I got bored(not my cup of tea). The book reads like a diary or journal made into sentences.......more


Quotes

“[Zane Grey] had the knack of tying his characters into the land and the land into the story. There were other Western writers who had fast and furious action, but Zane Grey was the one who could make the action not only convincing but inevitable, and somehow you got the impression that the bigness of the country generated a bigness of character.” Erle Stanley Gardner, Edgar Award–winning author of the Perry Mason novels, praise for the author