Animal Heroes: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Animal Heroes, credited to Ernest Thompson Seton, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Animal Heroes by Ernest Thompson Seton. Read in English by Ginny Blankenship; Steph Hamilton; Cooper Leith; Joy Baker; April6090; Elizabeth Harcus; Debbie R. Baker Robinson; Nemo A hero is an individual of unusual gifts and achievements. Whether it be man or animal, this definition applies; and it is the histories of such that appeal to the imagination and to the hearts of those who hear them. In this volume every one of the stories, though more or less composite, is founded on the actual life of a veritable animal hero. The most composite is the White Reindeer. This story I wrote by Utrovand in Norway during the summer of 1900, while the Reindeer herds grazed in sight on the near uplands. The Lynx is founded on some of my own early experiences in the backwoods. It is less than ten years since the 'Jack Warhorse' won his hero-crown. Thousands of "Kaskadoans" will remember him, and by the name Warhorse his coursing exploits are recorded in several daily papers. The least composite is Arnaux. It is so nearly historical that several who knew the bird have supplied additional items of information. The nest of the destroying Peregrines, with its owners and their young, is now to be seen in the American Museum of Natural History of New York. The Museum authorities inform me that Pigeon badges with the following numbers were found in the nest: 9970-S, 1696, U. 63, 77, J. F. 52, Ex. 705, 6-1894, C 20900. Perhaps some Pigeon-lover may learn from these lines the fate of one or other wonderful flier that has long been recorded "never returned." - Summary by the Note to the Reader

Recording facts

• Recording title: Animal Heroes
• Author credits: Ernest Thompson Seton
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 16
• Listed recording duration: 6:16:47

Catalogue topics

• cat
• rabbit
• wolf
• 1905
• pigeon
• lynx
• terrier
• reindeer

Track guide

1. 01 - The Slum Cat, part 1 — 24:15
2. 02 - The Slum Cat, part 2 — 24:42
3. 03 - The Slum Cat, part 3 — 16:36
4. 04 - Arnaux, the Chronicle of a Homing Pigeon, part 1 — 13:15
5. 05 - Arnaux, the Chronicle of a Homing Pigeon, part 2 — 20:33
6. 06 - Badlands Billy, the Wolf that Won, part 1 — 38:14
7. 07 - Badlands Billy, the Wolf that Won, part 2 — 36:53
8. 08 - The Boy and the Lynx, part 1 — 12:53
9. 09 - The Boy and the Lynx, part 2 — 27:41
10. 10 - Little Warhorse, the History of a Jack-rabbit, part 1 — 25:31
11. 11 - Little Warhorse, the History of a Jack-rabbit, part 2 — 26:25
12. 12 - Snap, the Story of a Bull-Terrier — 28:24
13. 13 - The Winnipeg Wolf, part 1 — 14:56
14. 14 - The Winnipeg Wolf, part 2 — 15:52
15. 15 - The Legend of the White Reindeer, part 1 — 20:20
16. 16 - The Legend of the White Reindeer, part 2 — 30:17

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