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The Whisper on the Night Wind
- The True History of a Wilderness Legend
- Narrated by: Adam Shoalts
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
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Publisher's Summary
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Spellbinding adventure from Canada's most beloved modern-day explorer.
Traverspine is not a place you will find on most maps. A century ago, it stood near the foothills of the remote Mealy Mountains in central Labrador. Today it is an abandoned ghost town, almost all trace of it swallowed up by dark spruce woods that cloak millions of acres.
In the early 1900s, this isolated little settlement was the scene of an extraordinary haunting by large creatures none could identify. Strange tracks were found in the woods. Unearthly cries were heard in the night. Sled dogs went missing. Children reported being stalked by a terrifying grinning animal. Families slept with cabin doors barred and axes and guns at their bedsides.
Tales of things that "go bump in the night" are part of the folklore of the wilderness, told and retold around countless campfires down through the ages. Most are easily dismissed by skeptics. But what happened at Traverspine a hundred years ago was different. The eye-witness accounts were detailed, and those who reported them included no less than three medical doctors and a wildlife biologist.
Something really did emerge from the wilderness to haunt the little settlement of Traverspine. Adam Shoalts, decorated modern-day explorer and an expert on wilderness folklore, picks up the trail from a century ago and sets off into the Labrador wild to investigate the tale. It is a spine-tingling adventure, straight from a land steeped in legends and lore, where Vikings wandered a thousand years ago and wolves and bears still roam free.
In delving into the dark corners of Canada's wild, The Whisper on the Night Wind combines folklore, history, and adventure into a fascinating saga of exploration.
What the critics say
“It is a spooky read, and after finishing it you might want to take a few days off before heading back into the wilderness . . . a page turner for sure.” (Kevin Callan, Explore Magazine)
“The place they end up is so isolated and untravelled that it could give the yips to even the most seasoned explorer. Shoalts is precise in his descriptions of setting and his writing is filled with . . . a clever, intentional use of language that heightens tension and lets a creepiness seep into the narrative.” (Quill and Quire)
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- phdjiggs
- 2021-10-21
Well written and frightening
An excellent tale told by an experienced adventure. Delving into spooky subject matter, the author kept the account tense and informative, with a well-timed dose of comic relief. Great read!
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- Anonymous User
- 2021-10-21
Captivating
Was very enjoyable to listen to. Highly recommend this real life thriller/history/outdoors book! Shoalts delivers the audio version perfectly
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- Amazon Customer
- 2023-07-06
Engaging to those who travel the wilds
Making sense of a mystery through historical accounts and introspection. Adam writes well and encapsulates his adventure, giving history life and mystery a real look and a sensible, rational conclusion. An excellent read! Thank you! Can’t wait to get to the North on trip again!
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- Larry
- 2023-06-20
A bit of a disappointment
Enjoyed the story line but the narrator took a lot of the enjoyment out of it too robotic
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- Alison Schott
- 2023-02-16
Disappointing
I really wanted to enjoy this story. The premise sounded intriguing, and I am fascinated by stories of cryptids and unusual events. However, the overall performance of this reading was irritating in that the author pronounces some basic words in unusual ways (ex. place pronounced as "plice"), making listening to this tale a little aggravating.
I believe the story itself could have been so much more interesting given the subject matter. Essentially, the listener/reader is taken on a canoe trip with two men who seem incapable of stimulating conversation. Before you know it, the two men are back home, and that's that. There were some brief interjections of history and folklore, which were enjoyable, however. The writer did do a reasonable job in describing the landscape in which they traveled, but this quickly became repetitive.
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- Anonymous User
- 2022-11-19
Loved it
Adam expertly weaves remote Labrador history, chilling Windego stories and a road trip from hell into an entertaining read.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2022-10-11
Underwhelming
Cool Canoe trip in Labrador but not much else. I find the author a bit smug and repetitive.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2022-04-17
Not Good
This book is boring. It’s a verbose description of Labrador. Not much else. The conclusion it comes to is underwhelming and the theory doesn’t fit in my opinion.
I have liked some of his other stuff. But this book is bad.
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- J Dave
- 2022-01-19
Another Great Adventure Shared
I really enjoy Adam's adventures in the Canadian wilderness. This added a fun story with the adventure.
His love history and the outdoors really shines through.
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- Murdoboy
- 2021-10-27
More Canoe Trip than Monster Hunt
I enjoyed Shoalts’ first book and was excited to see he was going to be tackling a Canadian Cryptid, but too much time is spent describing his travels through the wilderness that all ends up sounding the same. There are great bits where he describes local and international monsters, but they feel few and far between.
That said the ending is pretty satisfying compared to a lot of other Cryptid books.
(He also pronounces the word “place” in a strange way, but only that one word, it’s very distracting.)
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- S. Harms
- 2021-10-29
This book should’ve been billed as a travel log quote we put up the tent we slept weird noises we took down the tent”
This is about the worst represented book I have ever read if you like travel logs and like to read about somebody’s pros of how the wind feels in the trees look and how the slide noises bother him then this is the book for you it is totally misrepresented by audible and I would not have paid for it had I not thought it might have something interesting in it it was bland an interesting not well performed. And after a long trip he goes home and has a cup of green tea what a wuss
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- Nina Miller
- 2023-06-08
good book, narration needs work
Its a pretty straightforwad account of a cool journey into wild Canada, complete with historical anecdotes and the author's hypothesis on what really happened to the inhabitants on the town. Despite (or maybe because of) some very questionable decisions made by the adventurer, I enjoyed listening to the book, but it took effort with the narrator. The reader routinely pauses in the middle of sentences and places inflections where they don't make sense. The dialogue in the book doesn't sound like dialogue at all. It would seem like the author meant for some parts to be slightly humorous or playful, but it was hard to tell from the narration. It's a bit like listening to one of those robot narrators.
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- Jennifer Muse
- 2023-02-10
Excellent Book!
Another excellent book from Adam Shoalts. I will recommend it to all my earth-loving, adventurous friends.
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- Darrin D.
- 2023-01-02
Mysteriously exciting
I so very much enjoyed your book and your movie. Like minded in your endeavors. The book took me back to my childhood thoughts and fears. However my adulthood knows better the mysteries in the dark.
I’ll be a faithful fan!!!
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- Marsha Parker
- 2022-11-06
True Adventure
This book caught and held my interest, not only for the thrills in the story, but for all the bits and pieces of research and history brought together to solve the puzzle. Loved it!
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- Rebecca
- 2022-10-11
Creepy
I never would have thought that a narrative of a real life exploration could be creepy but this one really is! perfect for Halloween season!
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- Stephen
- 2022-08-11
Labrador
The Whisper on the Night Wind concerns the legend of a mysterious creature in Labrador. Many places have mystery creatures such as Sasquatch or Loch Ness and Labrador has its own. Shoalts uses it as a narrative thread to explore Labrador, and does arrive at a plausible explanation. It's also a travelogue and outdoor journey, first it takes 20+ hours to get there along a dirt road from Quebec. The largest settlement is North West River / Goose Bay and just east of there, south of Melville Bay, are the Mealy Mountains. Within the past 5 years they were made into a new National Park. The park has no roads or official trails and is exceptionally hard going with dense black spruce forests and barren rock mountains. It's been called the largest protected area in eastern North America. Labrador was one of the last areas to be settled by humans, being so far away from the Bering Strait, locked up by glaciers, and generally bypassed by Europeans for better climes south. To this day there are very few people. The Mealy Mountains are adjacent to the largest human settlement in the entire territory but hardly anyone goes there. The mystery of the creature keeps the narrative taught and pages turning while you learn about this fascinating place.
I am wary of 1-star reviewers and look how they reviewed other books because it's often just as badly. If you have any interest in Labrador this is a great gateway when followed with Google Maps. I read this book a while ago and it has stuck with me.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2022-02-28
Kudos to Adam
Kudos to Adam for unraveling a decades long mystery, turning it into a fine yarn. A lot of research went into the making of this book.
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- Nathaniel Rich
- 2021-11-16
Geography was the only believable part
Tortuously fabricated dialogue, absurd placement of a revelation about the mystery, and what is, at it's core, a story of a guy's canoe trip.
I am not certain the sidekick Zack actually exists, and isn't just a conversational mirror.
And the mystery? I'm going to spoil it right here. I wouldn't, but the quality of the book demands I save others the strain of surviving to the end. Wolverines, and moose that wandered into an area they didn't traditionally occupy. Two critters, mixed up sightings.
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