Eskimo Folk-Tales: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Eskimo Folk-Tales, credited to Knud Rasmussen, 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 Eskimo Folk-Tales by Knud Rasmussen. (Translated by W. W. Worster.) Read in English by Expatriate Quote: "No man is better qualified to tell the story of Greenland, or the stories of its people. Knud Rasmussen is himself partly of Eskimo origin; his childhood was spent in Greenland, and to Greenland he returned again and again, studying, exploring, crossing the desert of the inland ice, making unique collections of material, tangible and otherwise, from all parts of that vast and little-known land, and his achievements on these various expeditions have gained for him much honour and the appreciation of many learned societies. But it is as an interpreter of native life, of the ways and customs of the Eskimos, that he has done his greatest work. Such work, as regards its hither side, must naturally consist to a great extent of scientific treatises, collections of facts and specimens, all requiring previous knowledge of the subject for their proper comprehension. These have their great value as additions to the sum of human knowledge, but they remain unknown to the majority of men. As regards their contents, the stories bring before us, more clearly, perhaps, than any objective study, the daily life of the Eskimos, their habit of thought, their conception of the universe, and the curious "spirit world" which forms their religion or mythology. In point of form they are unique." (W. W. Worster, ed. by Expatriate)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Eskimo Folk-Tales
• Author credits: Knud Rasmussen
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 4:07:25

Catalogue topics

• folklore
• greenland
• danish literature

Track guide

1. 01 - Introduction — 14:24
2. 02 - Tales 01-03 — 8:32
3. 03 - Tale 04 — 38:39
4. 04 - Tales 05-08 — 17:11
5. 05 - Tales 09-11 — 18:39
6. 06 - Tales 12-17 — 20:11
7. 07 - Tales 18-25 — 18:48
8. 08 - Tales 26-32 — 20:23
9. 09 - Tales 33-38 — 20:11
10. 10 - Tales 39-42 — 29:04
11. 11 - Tales 43-46 — 18:16
12. 12 - Tales 47-52 — 23:07

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