Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 40, August 3, 1880: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 40, August 3, 1880, credited to Various, 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 Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 40, August 3, 1880 by Various. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Harper's Young People is an illustrated weekly publication for children that includes short stories, tales from history, natural history, poetry, puzzles, and other fun. This 40th issue of the serial was published on August 3rd, 1880. In this issue, "The Moral Pirates" enter the Erie Canal and carefully pass the Whitewing through and trudge it around the canal's many locks; two American settler children are taken by Canadian Indians and live with them through one winter before they attempt a dangerous escape in the third part of "Old Times in the Colonies"; and a boy visits Colorado's Rocky Mountains, decides to become a prospector, and purchases his own "silver" mine for ten dollars in "Tom Chester's Silver Mine". Other highlights of this issue include accounts from India of feral children raised by wolves in "Wolf-Children"; "The Ship of the Desert", where we learn all about camels and their special adaptations that specially suit them to labor in the desert; and, the fourth part of "The Story of the American Navy" which describes the dramatic back and forth of the battles in the Mediterranean in the war against Tripoli. This periodical was published by Harper & Brothers, known today for their publications Harper's Bazaar and Harper's Magazine. - Summary by Jill Engle

Recording facts

• Recording title: Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 40, August 3, 1880
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 11
• Listed recording duration: 1:56:33

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• children
• history
• animals
• short stories
• magazine
• Harper's

Track guide

1. 01 - The Moral Pirates: Chapter X — 9:43
2. 02 - Some True Stories about Steeples; Flower Queens of Night — 6:51
3. 03 - Old Times in the Colonies: No. III - Isaac Bradley and Joseph Whittaker — 10:45
4. 04 - Tom Chester's Silver Mine — 11:50
5. 05 - Wolf-Children; The Story of the American Navy: Chapter IV — 10:18
6. 06 - What the Butterfly Says; The Ship of the Desert — 13:31
7. 07 - A Little Girl's Ascent of Vesuvius; A Letter from India — 10:45
8. 08 - Little Cousin Ranna — 9:09
9. 09 - Our Post-Office Box — 18:12
10. 10 - Puzzles from Young Contributors; Answers to Puzzles in No. 37; Advertisements — 10:35
11. 11 - More Mirthful Magic; Charade; The Useful Sunflower — 4:54

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