Poor Man's Rock
A Pacific Coast Romance of Salmon Fisheries, Cannery Monopolies, and the Struggle of Independent FishermenBy Bertrand William Sinclair
Length9h 49m
About this audiobook
Bertrand William Sinclair's *Poor Man's Rock* is a work of frontier fiction shaped by the social tensions, economic aspirations, and harsh natural environments of the North American West. Combining romance, adventure, and regional realism, the novel examines the unstable boundary between legitimate enterprise and speculative exploitation, while portraying landscape as both an impediment to human ambition and an active force in the drama. Sinclair's prose favors vivid physical description, brisk narrative movement, and dialogue grounded in the idioms of frontier communities. In this respect, the book belongs to the early twentieth-century tradition of Canadian and western popular literature, yet its attention to labor, class, masculine identity, and the costs of development gives it greater cultural and historical interest than a merely escapist adventure tale. Sinclair was a Canadian-born writer whose extensive experience in the Pacific Northwest and western Canada informed his sustained interest in resource economies, migration, and unsettled societies. Like many regional novelists of his period, he transformed firsthand familiarity with remote landscapes and working communities into fiction that could entertain a broad readership while recording the values and contradictions of an expanding frontier. His perspective lends the novel an especially convincing sense of place and social texture. Readers interested in western fiction, Canadian literary history, or narratives of labor and settlement will find *Poor Man's Rock* rewarding. It offers the pleasures of romance and adventure alongside a perceptive account of ambition, vulnerability, and community in a rapidly changing world.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 3.8 (40)
Includes Amazon, Goodreads, LibraryThing
GenreGeneral Fiction, Romance
Length9 hrs 49 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 8, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Three Soldiers (Annotated)
2Prologue. Long, Long Ago
3Chapter I. The House in Cradle Bay
4Chapter II. His Own Country
5Chapter III. The Flutter of Sable Wings
Show all chaptersShow less
6Chapter IV. Inheritance
7Chapter V. From the Bottom Up
8Chapter VI. The Springboard
9Chapter VII. Sea Boots and Salmon
10Chapter VIII. Vested Rights
11Chapter IX. The Complexity of Simple Matters
12Chapter X. Thrust and Counterthrust
13Chapter XI. Peril of the Sea
14Chapter XII. Between Sun and Sun
15Chapter XIII. An Interlude
16Chapter XIV. The Swing of the Pendulum
17Chapter XV. Hearts Are Not Always Trumps
18Chapter XVI. En Famille
19Chapter XVII. Business as Usual
20Chapter XVIII. A Renewal of Hostilities
21Chapter XIX. Top Dog
22Chapter XX. The Dead and Dusty Past
23Chapter XXI. As It Was in the Beginning
More from Bertrand William Sinclair
Big TimberBertrand William Sinclair9h 18m3.7 (18)$1.99 · $0.00
When the War Ends – Book SetBertrand William Sinclair26h 32m$1 · $0.00
When the Wilderness Calls – Bertrand W. Sinclair CollectionBertrand William Sinclair57h 48m$1 · $0.00
Big TimberBertrand William Sinclair9h 8m3.7 (18)$1 · $0.00
Raw Gold (Annotated)Bertrand William Sinclair6h 1m$2 · $0.00
Burned BridgesBertrand William Sinclair8h 47m$1.99 · $0.00
North of Fifty-ThreeBertrand William Sinclair9h 48m4.4 (14)$1.99 · $0.00
When the Wilderness Calls – Bertrand W. Sinclair Collection (Annotated)Bertrand William Sinclair57h 52m$1.99 · $0.00
When the War Ends – Book Set (Annotated)Bertrand William Sinclair26h 42m$1.99 · $0.00
The Land of Frozen SunsBertrand William Sinclair5h 55m4.1 (22)$1.99 · $0.00
WhistlerAnn Patchett10h 45m4.6 (4.6K)$29 · $0.00
Demon CopperheadBarbara Kingsolver21h 3m4.5 (949.4K)$46 · $0.00
To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee12h 18m4.5 (7.4M)$29 · $0.00
Remarkably Bright CreaturesShelby Van Pelt11h 17m4.4 (1.7M)$29 · $0.00
The Great Gatsby: Original 1925 Edition (An F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic NovelFrancis Scott Fitzgerald4h 45m4.6 (9.3K)$18 · $0.00
Something Like LoveBeverly Jenkins10h 21m4.6 (2.7K)$29 · $0.00
Black History CollectionFrederick Douglass, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois27h 9m4.6 (2.6K)$18 · $0.00
The Old Man and the Sea (Annotated)Ernest Hemingway4h 27m4.6 (1.4K)$2 · $0.00
White HotIlona Andrews13h 18m4.5 (136.9K)$5 · $0.00
The Ghost by the Billabong (The Matilda Saga, #5)Jackie French14h 58m4.6 (773)$33 · $0.00
Cast in BloodMichelle Sagara16h 35m4.6 (607)$33 · $0.00
The Captain Blood Trilogy (Annotated)Rafael Sabatini29h 20m4.6 (1K)$3 · $0.00
Ship of the Line (Annotated)Cecil Louis Troughton Smith11h 13m4.6 (1K)$2 · $0.00
The George Orwell CollectionGeorge Orwell24h 46m4.5 (14.4K)$12 · $0.00
Time RegainedMarcel Proust15h 38m4.5 (9.2K)$2 · $0.00
Driving ForceElle James4h 58m4.6 (407)$20 · $0.00
When God Calls the HeartBrian Bird, Michelle Cox3h 24m4.6 (439)$10 · $0.00
Five Little IndiansMichelle Good10h 34m4.5 (64.5K)$29 · $0.00
Lolth's WarriorR. A. Salvatore13h 20m4.6 (2.4K)$33 · $0.00
The Things We Cannot SayKelly Rimmer13h 48m4.5 (359.1K)$33 · $0.00
The ReunionJana Deleon6h 31m4.6 (1.6K)$26 · $0.00
Something Like LoveBeverly Jenkins10h 21m4.6 (2.7K)$29 · $0.00
Wishes from the HeartSophie Mays4h 9m4.7 (344)$15 · $0.00
Blizzard ShowdownShirlee McCoy5h 16m4.6 (1.1K)$12 · $0.00
To Hold and ProtectSandra Owens7h 59m4.6 (1.1K)$8 · $0.00
Arctic WitnessHeather Woodhaven5h 46m4.6 (985)$12 · $0.00
Following the TrailLynette Eason6h 35m4.6 (2.3K)$12 · $0.00
Her Duty Bound DefenderSharee Stover6h 30m4.6 (559)$12 · $0.00
Defending from DangerJodie Bailey5h 46m4.6 (588)$24 · $0.00
White HotIlona Andrews13h 18m4.5 (136.9K)$5 · $0.00
Explosive RevengeMaggie K. Black6h 18m4.6 (545)$12 · $0.00
Her Brand of JusticeB.J. Daniels6h 48m4.6 (1.3K)$12 · $0.00
Search And DetectTerri Reed5h 51m4.6 (706)$24 · $0.00
Driving ForceElle James4h 58m4.6 (407)$20 · $0.00
Danger in the WildernessDarlene L. Turner6h 54m4.7 (299)$12 · $0.00
Yukon JusticeDana Mentink6h 15m4.6 (751)$12 · $0.00
The Rogue WarriorCindy Roland Anderson5h 44m4.6 (410)$17 · $0.00
Trail Of ThreatsJessica R. Patch5h 47m4.6 (425)$24 · $0.00
Ironwood, a Fae Universe SeriesAlessa Thorn26h 57m4.6 (835)$30 · $0.00
Ready to ProtectValerie Hansen5h 38m4.6 (981)$24 · $0.00
You may also like
The Lady of the CamelliasAlexandre Dumas fils7h 12m4.1 (76.8K)$1.20 · $0.00
CamilleAlexandre Dumas fils8h 43m4.1 (74.2K)$1.99 · $0.00
Camille (La Dame aux Camilias)Alexandre Dumas8h 31m4.1 (71.7K)$1 · $0.00
Wuthering HeightsEMILY BRONTE12h 40m4.0 (2.5M)$3.50 · $0.00
CamilleAlexandre Dumas, fils7h 59m4.1 (70K)$17
Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë7h 41m4.0 (2M)$23
The Brontë Sisters CollectionEmily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë39h 58m4.5 (9.2K)$12 · $0.00
Tess of the D'urbervillesThomas Hardy17h 4m4.0 (610.2K)$1 · $0.00
The Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)Nathaniel Hawthorne103h 49m4.5 (2.3K)$1.99 · $0.00
Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë12h 52m4.0 (1.8M)$1.20 · $0.00
ANNA KARENINA (Collector's Edition)Leo Tolstoy79h 54m4.3 (1.1M)$2 · $0.00
Plain Tales from the HillsRudyard Kipling7h 41m3.9 (3.5K)$2.30
An Eye for an EyeAnthony Trollope7h 18m3.8 (2.2K)$2.30
Keep a Little SecretDorothy Garlock8h 58m3.9 (1K)$22
MoonglowMichael Chabon14h 42m3.9 (37.4K)$33 · $0.00
Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë11h 43m4.0 (2.4M)$21
Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë13h 38m3.9 (1.9M)$4 · $0.00
Dimanche and Other StoriesIrène Némirovsky8h 21m4.0 (1.3K)$17 · $0.00
The Jew and Other StoriesIvan Sergeevich Turgenev6h 55m3.7 (88)$2.30 · $0.00
It May Be True, Vol. I-IIIMrs. Henry Wood17h 10m$2.30