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Outpost by Dan Richards, Read by the Author

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Dan Richards narrates his audiobook, Outpost, in a clear English accent that often sounds as if he’s telling the story on a late evening in a pub. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Alan Minskoff talk about Richards’s self-effacing, witty, and intimate narration as he tells listeners about the value of remote and often romantic places. Much is to be learned and considered in his wandering to northernmost Norway, Iceland, Scotland, to the Mars Project, and to Desolation Peak.

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