Border Raids and Reivers: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Border Raids and Reivers, credited to Robert Borland, 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 Border Raids and Reivers by Robert Borland. Read in English by James R. Hedrick. A history of southern Scots families (reivers). "There are few more remarkable phenomena in the political or social life of Scotland than what is familiarly known as “Border Reiving.” In olden times it prevailed along the whole line of the Borders from Berwick to the Solway, embracing the counties of Berwick, Roxburgh, Selkirk, Peebles, and Dumfries. During a period of some three or four hundred years these districts were chiefly inhabited by hordes of moss-troopers, who made it the chief business of their lives to harry and despoil their English neighbours. … In coming to the consideration of this subject, there is one fact which it is well the reader should carefully bear in mind, and that is, that from the peculiar circumstances in which Borderers were placed in early times, the only alternative they had was either to starve or steal. The recognition of this fact will at least awaken our sympathy, if it does not always command our approval, when we come to consider the lives and characters of the Border Reivers."(Summary quoted from the text)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Border Raids and Reivers
• Author credits: Robert Borland
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 17
• Listed recording duration: 8:10:31

Catalogue topics

• scotland
• border reivers

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 2:41
2. 01 - The Auld Enemy — 21:10
3. 02 - Percy’s Pennon — 27:26
4. 03 - Poor and Lawless — 34:11
5. 04 - Raids and Forays — 39:43
6. 05 - Wardens of the Marches — 25:14
7. 06 - The Day of Truce — 28:55
8. 07 - The Deadly Feud — 31:30
9. 08 - The Thieves Dauntoned — 30:49
10. 09 - Liddesdale Limmers — 41:29
11. 10 - After the Hunting — 32:16
12. 11 - The Corbie’s Nest — 29:19
13. 12 - Flagellum Dei — 25:48
14. 13 - Minions of the Moon — 47:53
15. 14 - Under the Ban — 22:10
16. 15 - The Triumph of Law — 29:31
17. 16 - The Harvest of Peace — 20:26

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