Narration Demo
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (Canadian-General) North American (US General American - GenAM)Transcript
Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
though it came right down to the electrical wire. Surprisingly, this couple has decided to stay and give their home another chance. The openness of the main floor was enough of an enticement to have this family stayed to enjoy their spacious surroundings. Corvallis, Montana. Right in the heart of the bitter root valley in the late 18 hundreds, Ah, mining boom brought a wave of settlers here to support the expanding farmland. Ah, local mining company bought this enormous timber frame barn. It's more than 50 ft wide, 80 ft long and 23 ft high. Now the barn wood builders air here to take it down and give it a new life. Below the Earth's equator are the tropics. Dense, hot, rain drenched. More than half the world's plant and animal species live in swamps and jungles. It's a vertical landscape that pushes the very limits of animal engineering. By 18 48 3, United States claimed virtually all of the west, the Louisiana Purchase three annexation of Texas and Oregon, and the war with Mexico had stretched the nation's boundaries all the way to the Pacific. But the West was American in name only. Few people, East of the Mississippi were anxious to venture into its forbidding interior. Canada has some of the most remarkable wilderness found anywhere in the world and some of the planet's most iconic wildlife. It has the longest coastline of any country in the world. It has more surface freshwater than any other nation and the largest intact forest left on the planet. And yet much of this great wilderness and the wildlife found here today is a result of shaping by humans over thousands of years. 200 miles south of the Arctic Circle, midwinter transforms the Great Alaska Range into one of the most hostile places on Earth. With daylight lasting less than five hours and temperatures holding around 40 below, Life here will be a constant battle for survival until the spring thaw arrives.