A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains, credited to Isabella L. Bird, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

Librivox recording of A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. Bird. Read by Laura Caldwell. Isabella Bird began travelling while in her early twenties to help alleviate illness that had plagued her since childhood. She was a single woman in her early forties when she made her treck through the Rocky Mountains. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains details this fascinating account of her travels through a series of letters written to her sister, Henrietta. These letters are filled with beautiful, vivid descriptions of the scenery, the people she encountered, the way of life, and a mountain man named Jim Nugent, that was as rough as they come, but a complete gentleman with Ms. Bird. She has the distinction of being the first woman to become a member of the Royal Geographical Society in 1892. (Summary by Laura Caldwell) For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org.

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
• Author credits: Isabella L. Bird
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 23
• Listed recording duration: 7:56:30

Catalogue topics

• travel
• nonfiction
• memoirs
• letters
• Rocky Mountain
• Estes Park
• Colorado
• mountain men

Track guide

1. 01 - Letter I — 26:30
2. 02 - Letter II — 11:12
3. 03 - Letter III — 24:33
4. 04 - Letter IV — 14:54
5. 05 - Letter V, Part 1 — 18:33
6. 06 - Letter V, Part 2 — 19:36
7. 07 - Letter VI, Part 1 — 17:47
8. 08 - Letter VI, Part 2 — 20:12
9. 09 - Letter VII, Part 1 — 20:57
10. 10 - Letter VII, Part 2 — 15:14
11. 11 - Letter VIII, Part 1 — 23:04
12. 12 - Letter VIII, Part 2 — 16:41
13. 13 - Letter IX, Part 1 — 22:27
14. 14 - Letter IX, Part 2 — 18:34
15. 15 - Letter X, Part 1 — 22:55
16. 16 - Letter X, Part 2 — 20:35
17. 17 - Letter XI — 24:41
18. 18 - Letter XII — 25:09
19. 19 - Letter XIII — 23:17
20. 20 - Letter XIV — 21:25
21. 21 - Letter XV — 27:35
22. 22 - Letter XVI — 21:55
23. 23 - Letter XVII — 18:46

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