Afloat on the Ohio: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Afloat on the Ohio, credited to Reuben Gold Thwaites, 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 Afloat on the Ohio by Reuben Gold Thwaites. Afloat on the Ohio, An Historical Pilgrimage, of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, From Redstone to Cairo. There were four of us pilgrims—my Wife, our Boy of ten and a half years, the Doctor, and I. My object in going—the others went for the outing—was to gather "local color" for work in Western history. The Ohio River was an important factor in the development of the West. I wished to know the great waterway intimately in its various phases,—to see with my own eyes what the borderers saw; in imagination, to redress the pioneer stage, and repeople it. ( From the Preface )

Recording facts

• Recording title: Afloat on the Ohio
• Author credits: Reuben Gold Thwaites
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 23
• Combined MP3 track duration: 7:21:21

Catalogue topics

• adventure
• history
• instruction
• memoirs
• nature
• travel

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 5:24
2. 01 - Chapter I — 33:11
3. 02 - Chapter II — 7:55
4. 03 - Chapter III — 12:40
5. 04 - Chapter IV — 14:11
6. 05 - Chapter V — 18:00
7. 06 - Chapter VI — 15:51
8. 07 - Chapter VII — 14:44
9. 08 - Chapter VIII — 15:05
10. 09 - Chapter IX — 13:31
11. 10 - Chapter X — 23:49
12. 11 - Chapter XI — 24:23
13. 12 - Chapter XII — 17:54
14. 13 - Chapter XIII — 24:46
15. 14 - Chapter XIV — 23:55
16. 15 - Chapter XV — 27:23
17. 16 - Chapter XVI — 23:55
18. 17 - Chapter XVII — 17:45
19. 18 - Chapter XVIII — 19:02
20. 19 - Chapter XIX — 22:37
21. 20 - Chapter XX — 14:00
22. 21 - Chapter XXI — 20:38
23. 22 - Appendix A — 30:41

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