Down the Big River: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Down the Big River by Stephen W. Meader: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 27 original MP3 tracks, 6:03:03 running time and a link to listen.
Down the Big River, credited to Stephen W. Meader, 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 Down the Big River by Stephen W. Meader. Read in English by Warren Bergmann. In 1805, two boys encounter vicious river pirates on their way to help settle the American Midwest. I am very pleased to offer another of Stephen W. Meader's beautifully-written historical adventures. A prominent theme of this novel is "Manifest Destiny," a driving force in 19th-century American politics and government. The credo of Manifest Destiny held that white Americans were divinely foreordained to push westward and settle the continent. This book presents an accurate portrayal of (and celebrates) some of the people caught up in that undertaking. But it is important to acknowledge that Manifest Destiny was an imperialist and racist idea that directly resulted in the displacement and death of thousands of indigenous North Americans, the theft of their homeland, and eventually the forced removal of their children to boarding schools that worked to strip them of their language and culture. - Summary by Warren Bergmann
Recording facts
- Recording title: Down the Big River
- Author credits: Stephen W. Meader
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 27
- Listed recording duration: 6:03:03
Catalogue topics
- pirates
- river
- mississippi
- ohio
- daniel boone
- westward expansion
- keelboat
Opening tracks: first 24 of 27
- 01 - Chapter I — 10:25
- 02 - Chapter II — 8:59
- 03 - Chapter III — 13:40
- 04 - Chapter IV — 11:36
- 05 - Chapter V — 11:58
- 06 - Chapter VI — 17:30
- 07 - Chapter VII — 6:10
- 08 - Chapter VIII — 14:54
- 09 - Chapter IX — 13:18
- 10 - Chapter X — 14:12
- 11 - Chapter XI — 12:14
- 12 - Chapter XII — 14:47
- 13 - Chapter XIII — 16:27
- 14 - Chapter XIV — 10:39
- 15 - Chapter XV — 12:53
- 16 - Chapter XVI — 9:22
- 17 - Chapter XVII — 13:20
- 18 - Chapter XVIII — 18:43
- 19 - Chapter XIX — 14:33
- 20 - Chapter XX — 10:47
- 21 - Chapter XXI — 12:13
- 22 - Chapter XXII — 12:49
- 23 - Chapter XXIII — 11:45
- 24 - Chapter XXIV — 12:24
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