Madam How and Lady Why: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 16 original MP3 tracks, 7:38:40 running time and a link to listen.
Madam How and Lady Why, credited to Charles Kingsley, 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 Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley. Did you ever wish you knew how to explain natural phenomena such as earthquakes and volcanoes to your children? Search no more, this book has all the answers (at least all the ones that were known in 1869) and gives them in a pedagogical way. Listed on the Ambleside homeschooling list. (Summary by Nadine)
Recording facts
- Recording title: Madam How and Lady Why
- Author credits: Charles Kingsley
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 16
- Listed recording duration: 7:38:40
Catalogue topics
- science
- children
- education
- volcanoes
- nature
- earthquake
Track guide
- 00 - Preface — 10:51
- 01 - Chapter 1 - The Glen pt 1 — 20:43
- 02 - Chapter 1 - The Glen pt 2 — 21:31
- 03 - Chapter 2 - Earthquakes — 34:28
- 04 - Chapter 3 - Volcanoes — 33:49
- 05 - Chapter 4 - The Transformations of a Grain of Soil — 25:03
- 06 - Chapter 5 - The Ice-Plough — 27:32
- 07 - Chapter 6 - The True Fairy Tale — 30:40
- 08 - Chapter 7 - The Chalk-Carts — 32:30
- 09 - Chapter 8 - Madam How's Two Grandsons — 26:22
- 10 - Chapter 9 - The Coral-Reef — 39:08
- 11 - Chapter 10 - Field and Wild pt 1 — 26:37
- 12 - Chapter 10 - Field and Wild pt 2 — 23:50
- 13 - Chapter 11 - The World's end — 44:30
- 14 - Chapter 12 - Homeward Bound pt 1 — 28:18
- 15 - Chapter 12 - Homeward Bound pt 2 — 32:56
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