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The Radio Reader  | Dick Estell presents serialized readings of recent best sellers and books that should be best sellers Monday through Friday nights.
Current book (January 3 thru February 12, 2007):
A Sense of the World:
How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler
by Jason Roberts
He was known simply as the Blind Traveler---a solitary, sightless adventurer who,
astonishingly, fought the slave trade in Africa, survived a frozen captivity in
Siberia, hunted rogue elephants in Ceylon, and helped chart the Australian
outback. James Holman became one of the greatest wonders of the world he so
sagaciously explored, triumphing not only over blindness but crippling pain,
poverty, and the interference of well-meaning authorities (his greatest feat, a
circumnavigation of the globe, had to be launched in secret.) Once a celebrity, a
best-selling author, and an inspiration to Charles Darwin and Sir Richard Francis
Burton, the charismatic, witty Holman outlived his fame, dying in an obscurity that
has endured---until now.
A Sense of the World is a moving rediscovery of one of history’s most epic lives.
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| The Radio Reader | Dick Estell presents serialized readings of recent best sellers and books that should be best sellers Monday through Friday nights.
Current book (November 30, 2006 thru January 2, 2007):
High Plains Tango
by Robert James Waller
Carlisle McMillan, a traveler and master carpenter seeking a place of quiet amid
the grinding roar of progress finds himself in Salamander, Wyoming. He finds his
quiet, or so he believes, and begins rebuilding a decrepit house as a tribute to the
gruff old man who taught him a carpenter’s skills, rebuilding his life at the same
time.
He finds two very different, independent women: Gally Deveraux, who works at a
diner in Salamander and longs for something more than she is, and Susanna
Benteen, beautiful and enigmatic, who was drawn to Salamander for mysterious
reasons of her own, a woman the town has labeled a witch. The women and his
carpenter’s trade and an old Indian known as Flute Player bring Carlisle a sense
of contentment for a while. But his quiet is shattered as bulldozer treads begin to
turn and the Yerkes County War commences. Run or stand your ground, that is
Carlisle’s dilemma, Gally on one side, Susanna on the other.
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