History of a Six Weeks' Tour: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

History of a Six Weeks' Tour, credited to Percy Bysshe Shelley; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of History of a Six Weeks' Tour by Percy Bysshe Shelley; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read in English by BettyB; Kalynda; Pamela Nagami Full titled [i]History of a Six Weeks' Tour through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland; with Letters Descriptive of a Sail Round the Lake of Geneva and of the Glaciers of Chamouni[/i], this small journal was a travel narrative kept by the English Romantic authors Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley. They describe two trips, both taken by Mary, Percy, and Mary's stepsister, Claire Clairmont: one across Europe in 1814, and one to Lake Geneva in 1816. Divided into three sections, the text consists of a journal, four letters, and Percy Shelley's poem "Mont Blanc". Apart from the poem, the text was primarily written and organized by Mary Shelley. - Summary by 1817

Recording facts

• Recording title: History of a Six Weeks' Tour
• Author credits: Percy Bysshe Shelley; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 11
• Listed recording duration: 2:19:12

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• politics
• English
• Europe
• France
• Germany
• Holland
• The Netherlands

Track guide

1. 01 - Preface. — 3:16
2. 02 - Author's Introduction. — 3:05
3. 03 - France. — 22:10
4. 04 - Switzerland. — 15:41
5. 05 - Germany. — 10:26
6. 06 - Holland. — 6:02
7. 07 - Letters Written During a Residence of Three Months in the Environs of Geneva, in the Summer of the Year 1816. Letter I. — 9:33
8. 08 - Letters Written During a Residence of Three Months in the Environs of Geneva, in the Summer of the Year 1816. Letter II. — 7:24
9. 09 - Letters Written During a Residence of Three Months in the Environs of Geneva, in the Summer of the Year 1816. Letter III. — 25:43
10. 10 - Letters Written During a Residence of Three Months in the Environs of Geneva, in the Summer of the Year 1816. Letter IV. — 26:22
11. 11 - Mont Blanc. Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni. — 9:30

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