A True Picture of Emigration: or Fourteen Years in the Interior of North America: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
A True Picture of Emigration: or Fourteen Years in the Interior of North America by Rebecca Burlend: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 8 original MP3 tracks, 3:21:04 running time and a link to listen.
A True Picture of Emigration: or Fourteen Years in the Interior of North America, credited to Rebecca Burlend, 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 True Picture of Emigration: or Fourteen Years in the Interior of North America by Rebecca Burlend. Read in English by Ted Lienhart. Complete title: "A True Picture of Emigration: or Fourteen Years in the Interior of North America; being a full and impartial account of the various difficulties and ultimate success of an English family who emigrated from Barwick-in-Elmet, near Leeds, in the year 1831" The author and her husband, with five of their seven children, emigrated in 1831 from their farm in Yorkshire, England to Pike County, Illinois. In this small book, dictated in 1848 to a son who did not accompany the family, Rebecca Burlend describes their voyage and their early years in Illinois getting established as farmers on the western frontier. It is a warts-and-all account, as experienced by a middle-aged English mother with young children. - Summary by Ted Lienhart
Recording facts
- Recording title: A True Picture of Emigration: or Fourteen Years in the Interior of North America
- Author credits: Rebecca Burlend
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 8
- Combined MP3 track duration: 3:21:04
Catalogue topics
- frontier and pioneer life - illinois
- women pioneers - illinois - biography
- illinois - history - 1778-1865
- frontier and pioneer life - personal narrative
- immigration - personal narrative
- american frontier - memoir
- frontier women
Track guide
- 00 - Prefatory Remarks — 1:39
- 01 - Chapter 1 — 9:35
- 02 - Chapter 2 — 23:48
- 03 - Chapter 3 — 30:26
- 04 - Chapter 4 — 41:23
- 05 - Chapter 5, Part 1 — 31:03
- 06 - Chapter 5, Part 2 — 31:13
- 07 - Chapter 5, Part 3 — 31:58
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