All Frontiers Are Jealous Audiobook (Free)
- Various, R.F. Daley
- 1 h 58 min
- Galaxy Press
- 2010-08-23
Summary:
A charming rogue cut from the same cloth as Robert Mitchum, American engineer Dan Courtney is learning fast that it requires more than a little elegance to lay the groundwork for the railroad. Particularly if the plan is certainly to build it across a number of the roughest and most dangerous territory on earth.
Courtney’s been hired to survey the land that could link in the Uganda Railway to the Anglo-Egyptian railroad. Working through desert, jungle and mountains, this is one series – and tale – with even more about All Frontiers Are Jealous twists and transforms than the NEW YORK subway system.
Diamond smugglers. A fearsome indigenous tribe. A lovely young American woman . and a guy determined to kill her. Put all of them collectively and you’ve got a global where All Frontiers Are Jealous. It’s up to Courtney to tame those frontiers – undertake the tribe, save the woman, and save the future from the railroad . . . before his blood ends up around the tracks.
L. Ron Hubbard based this story for the real-life history of a variety of harrowing efforts in the late 19th and early 20th century to hyperlink up both railroads. A skilled civil engineer and surveyor himself, Hubbard acquired worked in rough and dangerous landscape within the West Indies Mineralogical Expedition. All Frontiers Are Jealous could be a function of fiction, but so far as Hubbard was concerned, in his own life, the experience couldn’t have been more real.
“The natives are restless, the run after is on, and All Frontiers Are Jealous as the audio edition is your ticket to adventure within a property as spectacular since it is forbidding. “Combined with the talented ensemble, there are excellent sound files and original music that keep the story moving with cinematic simplicity.” –Gil Wilson
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