Isobel

By: James Oliver Curwood

Narrated by: Jack Brown

This story by James Oliver Curwood, published in 1913, possesses all of the great elements that make up a good adventure yarn! Old fashioned sense of nobility, falling in love, losing love, suspense, tragedies and ultimate happiness regained as the listener gets entangled in the story - full of twists and turns - of a Sergeant of the Canadian Northwest Mounted and his partner; chasing an elusive killer and his wife through a wintry and harsh world...©2018 Audioliterature (P)2018 Audioliterature

Entertaining but dated

An adventure story set in the far north of Canada in the days of the Hudson Bay fur trappers. A popular adventure story when written but has issues common to popular novels of 100+ years ago. Gender and racial stereotypes are evident. The “hero” violates his oath to uphold the law, developed an unhealthy/unrealistic instant romantic attachment to the wife of the criminal he is hunting, and leaves an infant in a tent alone in the winter as he goes off to chase down an Indian woman and her husband to attempt to force them to return to care for the child’s mother who is stricken with small pox. This story has issues that don’t age well.