Richard Restak M.D. Audiobooks

Poe's Heart and the Mountain Climber: brain, body and culture in Scott Brick's voice

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 5.0/5 average

3 listener ratings

Who is Richard Restak M.D.?

The title is a riddle before it is anything else, pairing a writer famous for dread with a figure defined by nerve. Poe’s Heart and the Mountain Climber sets the two against each other, and our catalogue files the result across health and wellbeing, science and engineering, and politics and society.

That spread of shelves is the useful clue. It describes work treating the mind as a medical subject and a cultural one at the same time, while the medical qualification carried in the byline sets an expectation of evidence rather than anecdote. Beyond what the catalogue records we hold nothing verified about the author, and we would rather leave that space empty than furnish it with plausible filler.

Richard Restak M.D. in audiobooks

Poe’s Heart and the Mountain Climber runs to six hours and twenty four minutes and is read by Scott Brick, a narrator whose voice will be familiar to anyone who spends time with narrative non fiction.

Very few listeners have registered a score, so the figure shown carries little weight in either direction and is better ignored than trusted. Come for the subject and the reading instead: compact enough for a couple of sittings, and the sort of material that rewards a second pass. The listing sits below.