{"id":1299,"date":"2012-11-13T21:31:47","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T18:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fredsrecords.com\/site\/?post_type=product&#038;p=1299"},"modified":"2025-08-19T12:09:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T14:39:43","slug":"john-steffler-the-grey-islands","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.fredsrecords.com\/site\/shop\/john-steffler-the-grey-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grey Islands &#8211; John Steffler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Grey Islands<\/em>&nbsp;by John Steffler<br \/>\nNarrated by John Steffler and (in order of appearance) Frank Holden, Janis Spence, Deidre Gillard-Rowlings and Darryl Hopkins<\/p>\n<p><em>This Canadian audiobook (aka audio book ) was produced in Newfoundland and Labrador by Rattling Books.&nbsp; Audiobooks from Rattling Books include fiction, poetry and non-fiction titles.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class='shareinpost'><ul class=\"socialwrap row\"><li class=\"iconOnly\"><a  rel='nofollow'  target='_blank'  title='Recommend this post : The Grey Islands &#8211; John Steffler on Facebook'  href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fredsrecords.com%2Fsite%2Fshop%2Fjohn-steffler-the-grey-islands%2F&amp;t=The+Grey+Islands+%E2%80%93+John+Steffler'  ><img  src='http:\/\/www.fredsrecords.com\/site\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-and-follow\/images\/blank.gif'  height='24' width='24'  class='image-24' alt='facebook'  style='background: transparent url(http:\/\/www.fredsrecords.com\/site\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-and-follow\/default\/24\/sprite-feb-24.png) no-repeat;padding:0;margin:0;height:24px;width:24px;background-position:-300px 0px'   \/> <span class=\"head\">Recommend on Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"iconOnly\"><a  rel='nofollow'  target='_blank'  title='Pin this post : The Grey Islands &#8211; John Steffler on Pinterest'  href='http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fredsrecords.com%2Fsite%2Fshop%2Fjohn-steffler-the-grey-islands%2F&media=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fredsrecords.com%2Fsite%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F11%2FGreyIsland_0001_NEW-150x150.jpg'  ><img  src='http:\/\/www.fredsrecords.com\/site\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-and-follow\/images\/blank.gif'  height='24' width='24'  class='image-24' alt='pinterest'  style='background: transparent url(http:\/\/www.fredsrecords.com\/site\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-and-follow\/default\/24\/sprite-feb-24.png) no-repeat;padding:0;margin:0;height:24px;width:24px;background-position:-1200px 0px'   \/> <span class=\"head\">Pin it on pinterest<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"iconOnly\"><a  rel='nofollow'  target='_blank'  title='Tweet this post : The Grey Islands &#8211; John Steffler on Twitter'  href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fredsrecords.com%2Fsite%2Fshop%2Fjohn-steffler-the-grey-islands%2F&amp;text=\"  ><img  src='http:\/\/www.fredsrecords.com\/site\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-and-follow\/images\/blank.gif'  height='24' width='24'  class='image-24' alt='twitter'  style='background: transparent url(http:\/\/www.fredsrecords.com\/site\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-and-follow\/default\/24\/sprite-feb-24.png) no-repeat;padding:0;margin:0;height:24px;width:24px;background-position:-1625px 0px'   \/> <span class=\"head\">Tweet about it<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"iconOnly\"><a rel=\"_self\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Freds%20Records%20:%20The%20Grey%20Islands%20&#8211;%20John%20Steffler&amp;body=here%20is%20a%20link%20to%20something%20on%20the%20Fred's%20Records%20site%20I%20thought%20you%20might%20like.%20%20https:\/\/www.fredsrecords.com\/site\/shop\/john-steffler-the-grey-islands\/\" title=\"Check this out -- totally thought of you...\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fredsrecords.com\/site\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-and-follow\/images\/blank.gif\" height=\"24\"  width=\"24\" style=\"background: transparent url(http:\/\/www.fredsrecords.com\/site\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-and-follow\/default\/24\/sprite-feb-24.png) no-repeat;padding:0;margin:0;height:24px;width:24px;background-position:-275px 0px\" class=\"image-24\"  alt=\"email\" \/> <span class=\"head\">Tell a friend<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"clean\"><\/div> <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A novel in the form of poems, a physical exploration of Newfoundland\u2019s past, a search for ghosts in an abandoned settlement on an abandoned island, this is the story of a come-from-away determined to immerse himself in the physical reality of Newfoundland in an abrupt and inescapable way. Indisputably a modern classic of Canadian poetry, The Grey Islands is one man\u2019s mediation on the interplay between nature and human society in the rugged setting of coastal Newfoundland. The boats and houses of those who tried to live on the Grey Islands have disappeared, but their stories survive in the neighboring settlements \u2013 stories of treks on the sea ice, of near-starvation, of hunting ducks at night with muskets loaded with everything from nails to the parts of a gold pocket watch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"class_list":["post-1299","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_tag-audio-book","product_tag-grey-islands","product_tag-john-steffler","product_tag-nfld-2","product_tag-poetry","product_tag-rattling-books","product_shipping_class-cd-dbl-dsc","first","outofstock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredsrecords.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredsrecords.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredsrecords.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredsrecords.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredsrecords.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredsrecords.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}