Bill Nye's Cordwood: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Bill Nye's Cordwood, credited to Bill Nye, 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 Bill Nye's Cordwood by Bill Nye. Read in English by John; Phil Schempf; yaelh; DrPGould; Tom Penn; Steve C; Lynda Marie Neilson; LT; Bruce Kachuk; Nemo From Galileo to Grover Cleveland, from wasps to cattle, from dinosaurs to the railroad, Bill Nye's wide ranging wit pokes gentle fun at everything and everybody. This book is another wonderful collection of his thoughts on late 19th century America. - Summary by Tom Penn

Recording facts

• Recording title: Bill Nye's Cordwood
• Author credits: Bill Nye
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 35
• Listed recording duration: 3:44:12

Catalogue topics

• satire
• humor

Opening tracks: first 24 of 35

1. 01 - Bill Nye on the Cow Industry — 7:34
2. 02 - A New Biography of Galileo — 9:09
3. 03 - Methuselah — 9:03
4. 04 - Note on Some Spring Styles — 6:13
5. 05 - Hunting an Ichthyosaurus — 7:15
6. 06 - True Merit Rewarded — 4:58
7. 07 - Bill Nye Condoles with Cleveland — 8:02
8. 08 - No Doubt as to His Condition and Cyclones — 6:50
9. 09 - The Earth — 8:55
10. 10 - Francisco Pizarro's Career — 8:52
11. 11 - Bill Nye Discovers — 6:50
12. 12 - Bill Nye 'Incubates.' — 7:27
13. 13 - Bill Nye on Tobacco,--A discourager of Cannibalism — 5:54
14. 14 - Bill Nye's Arctic-le — 8:58
15. 15 - Bill Nye's Answers to Correspondents — 5:55
16. 16 - Bill Nye Preparing a Political Speech in Advance for a Time of Need — 7:23
17. 17 - Bill Nye on Railroads — 7:04
18. 18 - Bill Nye's Letter — 6:17
19. 19 - Bill Nye Attends — 6:26
20. 20 - Favored a Higher Fine — 4:50
21. 21 - How Bill Nye Failed to Make the Amende Honorable--a Pathetic Incident — 5:07
22. 22 - Seeing a Saw Mill — 3:28
23. 23 - How a Chinaman Rides the Untamed Broncho — 4:24
24. 24 - Bill Nye Wants to Know How to Preserve Game — 8:07

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