In The Footprints Of The Padres: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

In The Footprints Of The Padres, credited to Charles Warren Stoddard, 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 In The Footprints Of The Padres by Charles Warren Stoddard. Read in English by David Wales The American Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909) wrote travel books quite popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This third enlarged edition (1912) of his book more about California in general, in historia, and in memoria rather than her missions contains essays not included in the previous editions. “Charles Warren Stoddard was possessed of unique literary gifts that were all his own. These gifts shine out in the pages of this book. Here we find that mustang humor of his forever kicking its silver heels with the most upsetting suddenness into the honeyed sweetness of his flowing poetry. Here, too, we find that gift of word-painting which makes all his writings a brilliant gallery of rich-hued and soft-lighted wonder…. But no, the old California that Stoddard loved lives on, and will, because he caught and preserved its spirit and its coloring, its light and life and music. As the redwood thicket holds the sunlight, so do Stoddard's words keep bright and living, though viewed through a mist of tears, the California of other days.” ( Book Introduction and David Wales)

Recording facts

• Recording title: In The Footprints Of The Padres
• Author credits: Charles Warren Stoddard
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 24
• Listed recording duration: 7:31:26

Catalogue topics

• San Francisco
• California
• memoir
• Yosemite
• california history
• monterey
• california missions
• padres

Track guide

1. 00 - Introduction And Introductory Poem — 10:03
2. 01 - Old Days In El Dorado - 1. "Strange Countries for to See" — 15:16
3. 02 - Old Days In El Dorado - 2. Crossing the Isthmus — 14:36
4. 03 - Old Days In El Dorado - 3. Along the Pacific Shore — 14:11
5. 04 - Old Days In El Dorado - 4. In the Wake of Drake — 16:13
6. 05 - Old Days In El Dorado - 5. Atop o' Telegraph Hill — 16:04
7. 06 - Old Days In El Dorado - 6. Pavement Pictures — 13:22
8. 07 - Old Days In El Dorado - 7. A Boy's Outing — 13:46
9. 08 - Old Days In El Dorado - 8. The Mission Dolores — 16:05
10. 09 - Old Days In El Dorado - 9. Social San Francisco — 17:52
11. 10 - Old Days In El Dorado - 10. Happy Valley — 14:53
12. 11 - Old Days In El Dorado - 11. The Vigilance Committee — 12:27
13. 12 - Old Days In El Dorado - 12. The Survivor's Story — 14:47
14. 13 - A Bit of Old China — 34:53
15. 14 - With the Egg-Pickers of the Farallones — 22:04
16. 15 - A Memory of Monterey — 47:27
17. 16 - In a Californian Bungalow — 25:52
18. 17 - Primeval California — 23:59
19. 18 - Inland Yachting — 26:27
20. 19 - In Yosemite Shadows — 33:21
21. 20 - An Affair of the Misty City - 1. What the Moon Shone on — 16:25
22. 21 - An Affair of the Misty City - 2. What the Sun Shone on — 6:28
23. 22 - An Affair of the Misty City - 3. Balm of Hurt Wounds — 14:52
24. 23 - An Affair of the Misty City - 4. By the World Forgot — 10:03

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