The Dangerous Book for Boys CD [Abridged, Audiobook] [Audio CD]

Conn Iggulden (Author), Hal Iggulden (Author), Oliver Wyman (Reader)

Book Description

Recapture Sunday afternoons and long summer days. This is a wonderful collection of all things that make being young, or young at heart, fun.

Audio includes:

• Questions About the World
• How to Play Stickball
• The Rules of Soccer
• Fishing
• Famous Battles
• Extraordinary Stories
• Girls
• First Aid
• The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
• Seven Modern Wonders of the World

The perfect book for every boy from eight to eighty.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Despite finding time to write historical novels and The Dangerous Book for Boys, Conn Iggulden is in some ways better known as a trainer of Tollins. His Tollin troupe, Small and Mighty, are famous in Tasmania, where they often play to packed houses. Tragically, he lost his two best-known performers earlier this year. "The thing about transporting Tollins in shoe boxes," he says, "the really important thing, is to remember to put the airholes in."

Lizzy Duncan, with her trademark blue glasses, was a founding member of the Tollins in Art program, where inner-city schoolchildren are taken to the countryside by bus and encouraged to paint and observe Tollins in their natural habitats. Tollins: Explosive Tales for Children was her first illustrated book.

Lizzy's abstract paintings of Tollins are much sought after whenever they appear at Sotheby's auction house, and she is very active in promoting Tollin rights and registering them as a protected wetland species—or as a dryland species, if the weather's been good.

Conn and Lizzy's first book together, Tollins: Explosive Tales for Children, was published in 2009 to great critical acclaim—and has ensured that no one will ever mistake a Tollin for a fairy again.

From AudioFile

British brothers Conn and Hal Iggulden wrote their dangerous book--a compilation of things boys should know--to inspire boys to be boys and play games outdoors instead of indoor video ones. This abridged version necessarily excludes most of the how-tos (tying knots, making a bow and arrow) and concentrates on questions about the world (Why is it hotter at the Equator?), rules of stickball and soccer, notes on fishing, and stories of famous battles and personal courage (Robert Falcon Scott, Robert the Bruce). Oliver Wyman adds an effective and appropriate gee-whiz tone to his reading. At times, Wyman even sounds a bit like radio personality Casey Kasem counting em down (except hes counting up) when numbering off famous battles and stories. A.B. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: HarperAudio; Abridged edition (July 3, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0641932871
• ISBN-13: 978-0061469107
• ASIN: 0061469106
• Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 5.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,465,754 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)