Historic Waterways: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Historic Waterways, credited to Reuben Gold Thwaites, 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 Historic Waterways, Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing down the Rock, Fox and Wisconsin Rivers by Reuben Gold Thwaites. This volume is the record of six hundred miles of canoeing experiences on historic waterways in Wisconsin and Illinois during the summer of 1887. There has been no attempt at exaggeration, to color its homely incidents, or to picture charms where none exist. It is intended to be a simple, truthful narrative of what was seen and done upon a series of novel outings through the heart of the Northwest. If it may induce others to undertake similar excursions, and thus increase the little navy of healthy and self-satisfied canoeists, the object of the publication will have been attained. (Summary from Frontspiece)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Historic Waterways
• Author credits: Reuben Gold Thwaites
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 21
• Listed recording duration: 6:08:48

Catalogue topics

• adventure
• history
• memoirs
• nature

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 3:02
2. 01 - Introduction — 16:34
3. 02 - Table of Distances — 4:18
4. 03 - The Rock River, CHAPTER I. The Winding Yahara — 23:26
5. 04 - The Rock River, CHAPTER II. Barbed Wire Fences — 17:24
6. 05 - The Rock River, CHAPTER III. An Illinois Prairie Home — 16:40
7. 06 - The Rock River, CHAPTER IV. The Half-Way House — 15:11
8. 07 - The Rock River, CHAPTER V, Grand Detour Folks — 24:53
9. 08 - The Rock River, CHAPTER VI, An Ancient Mariner — 18:51
10. 09 - The Rock River, CHAPTER VII. Storm-Bound at Erie — 16:25
11. 10 - The Rock River, CHAPTER VIII. The Last Day Out — 15:41
12. 11 - The Fox River (of Green Bay), FIRST LETTER. Smith's Island — 21:40
13. 12 - The Fox River (of Green Bay), SECOND LETTER. From Packwaukee to Berlin — 18:27
14. 13 - The Fox River (of Green Bay), THIRD LETTER. The Mascoutins — 15:08
15. 14 - The Fox River (of Green Bay), FOURTH LETTER. The Land of the Winnebagoes — 22:19
16. 15 - The Fox River (of Green Bay), FIFTH LETTER. Locked Through — 14:35
17. 16 - The Fox River (of Green Bay), SIXTH LETTER. The Bay Settlement — 20:05
18. 17 - The Wisconsin River, CHAPTER I. Alone in the Wilderness — 18:12
19. 18 - The Wisconsin River, CHAPTER II. The Last of the Sacs — 23:06
20. 19 - The Wisconsin River, CHAPTER III. A Panoramic View — 21:55
21. 20 - The Wisconsin River, CHAPTER IV. Floating Through Fairyland — 21:06

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