The Trail of the Red Diamonds
Golden Age Stories
گزارش تخلف
فرمت کتاب
audiobook
تاریخ انتشار
2010
Lexile Score
710
Reading Level
3
ATOS
5.2
Interest Level
6-12(MG+)
نویسنده
R.F. Daleyناشر
Galaxy Pressشابک
9781592125357
کتاب های مرتبط
- اطلاعات
- نقد و بررسی
- دیدگاه کاربران
نقد و بررسی
Tait Ruppert narrates with bravado as Lt. Jonathan Daly searches for red diamonds buried in Kublai Khan's grave. After finding a rare manuscript of Marco Polo's travels, Daly sets out for China, where he encounters British agents and other adventurers also on the trail of the jewels. Sound effects dramatize the action and danger as a full cast brings the characters to life. Also included is "Hurricane's Roar," in which the hero searches for a landing strip in war-torn Mongolia. Machine-gun bullets whine and propellers hum as Ruppert breathlessly captures an air battle between open-cockpit planes. The full cast captures the excitement of bygone days. M.B.K. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine
August 30, 2010
Hubbard fans will welcome this golden age reprint volume, whose rollicking title tale first appeared in Thrilling Adventures magazine in 1935. While recovering from wounds received in South America's Gran Chaco War, Lt. John Daly learns of "the red diamonds of Kublai Khan" from reading "an original manuscript" of Marco Polo's Travels. Determined to find the diamonds, Daly embarks on a journey with best friend Jim Lange that will lead them from Peking, China, to the remote burial temple of Kublai Khan and straight into heart-thumping danger. The book's second tale, "Hurricane's Roar," about a devilishly clever Mongolian warrior named Wind-Gone-Mad, is less fun but still full of colorful pulp action.
November 15, 2010
These four latest entries in Galaxy Press's "Stories from the Golden Age" series, a line of multicast audiobooks and trade pbs based on short stories by Hubbard published in pulp magazines of the 1930s and 1940s, follow The Baron of Coyote River, Dead Men Kill, Golden Hell, and Yukon Madness (all reviewed in LJ Audio 3/15/10). The settings are exotic and romantic: a railway construction site in Sudan (All Frontiers Are Jealous), a Montana cattle ranch (Cattle King for a Day), the Mongolian plains (in bonus story "Hurricane's Roar"), and a Buddhist monastery in Tibet (The Trail of the Red Diamonds). The characters are unabashedly stereotyped: the good guys are heroes, the bad guys are nasty warlords, greedy bankers, or black-hearted rustlers, and the women are plucky and beautiful. Two of the four discs contain an extra story. A male narrator reads the text and a full cast of actors--ranging from three to five--voice the various characters. The dialog-to-narrative transitions can be awkward, but the stories' fast-moving pace is sure to keep listeners enthralled. Great fun for nostalgia buffs; recommended for tweens and up. [More at www.goldenagestories.com.--Ed.]--Nann Blaine Hilyard, Zion-Benton P.L., IL
Copyright 2010 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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