Letters From America: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Letters From America, credited to Rupert Brooke, 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 Letters From America by Rupert Brooke. Read in English by David Wales "[Rupert Brooke] started in May 1913 on a journey to the United States, Canada, and the South Seas, from which he returned next year at the beginning of June. The first thirteen chapters of this book were written as letters to the Westminster Gazette. He would probably not have republished them in their present form, as he intended to write a longer book on his travels; but they are now printed with only the correction of a few evident slips." The listener interested in Brooke's work may want to skip over Henry James' "so affectionate and desperately unintelligible a preface" (Christopher Morley in Modern Essays) and listen to those four tracks later. (Tracks 2 - 5) ( Book's Prefatory Note and david wales)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Letters From America
• Author credits: Rupert Brooke
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 4:27:03

Catalogue topics

• America
• United States
• Canada
• Samoa
• travelogue
• early twentieth century

Track guide

1. 00 - Prefatory Note — 1:13
2. 01 - Rupert Brooke by Henry James, Part 1 — 23:13
3. 02 - Rupert Brooke by Henry James, Part 2 — 16:33
4. 03 - Rupert Brooke by Henry James, Part 3 — 14:21
5. 04 - Rupert Brooke by Henry James, Part 4 — 10:49
6. 05 - Letter 1: Arrival — 10:52
7. 06 - Letter 2: New York — 14:18
8. 07 - Letter 3: New York (continued) — 14:02
9. 08 - Letter 4: Boston And Harvard — 14:34
10. 09 - Letter 5: Montreal And Ottawa — 12:57
11. 10 - Letter 6: Quebec And The Saguenay — 15:42
12. 11 - Letter 7: Ontario — 13:40
13. 12 - Letter 8: Niagara Falls — 13:56
14. 13 - Letter 9: To Winnipeg — 12:51
15. 14 - Letter 10: Outside — 13:31
16. 15 - Letter 11: The Prairies — 12:16
17. 16 - Letter 12: The Indians — 12:47
18. 17 - Letter 13: The Rockies — 13:48
19. 18 - Letter 14: Some Niggers — 14:48
20. 19 - An Unusual Young Man — 10:50

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