検索キーワード： 著者 "Owen Barnes" すべてのカテゴリー

A history of ordinary things, told slowly. Each episode is an hour of calm, factual narration about something everyday: lighthouses, salt, the postal service, canals, clocks, libraries. How people managed before it, how it came to be, how it worked, what became of it. Short sentences, slow pace, no cliffhangers, no questions. You are not meant to follow along; falling asleep is the idea. Every episode ends in silence, not an ad. Chapter timestamps are in each episode's notes. Written by Owen Barnes and narrated with AI.

A true story of courage and survival, South to Alaska carries listeners from the heartland of America to the last frontier... the hard way. Born in the dusty heart of Oklahoma in 1916, 10-year-old Melvin sees a photograph of a cabin in the Alaska wilderness in his fourth-grade geography book and dreams of living there. Nearly 50 years later he builds a 47-foot boat in his Arkansas backyard, launches it on the Arkansas River, and cruises 10,000 miles to Alaska by way of the Panama Canal. Melvin has never been south of the United States/Mexico border.