Maori Folk-Tales of the Port Hills: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Maori Folk-Tales of the Port Hills, credited to James Cowan, 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 Maori Folk-Tales of the Port Hills by James Cowan. Read in English by Beeswaxcandle. In this little book I have endeavoured to interweave with descriptions of the most picturesque parts of the Canterbury Port Hills some of the Maori poetic legends and historical traditions which belong to the Range, and which have not previously been recorded. - Summary by Preface

Recording facts

• Recording title: Maori Folk-Tales of the Port Hills
• Author credits: James Cowan
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 7
• Listed recording duration: 1:41:00

Catalogue topics

• māori folk-tales
• canterbury port hills

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 2:25
2. 01 - Chapter 1: The Story of the Rocks — 9:10
3. 02 - Chapter 2: The Port Hills and Their Names — 20:26
4. 03 - Chapter 3: Round the Sugarloaf — 17:58
5. 04 - Chapter 4: Rapaki: A Village by the Sea — 19:44
6. 05 - Chapter 5: The “Ahi-a-Tamatea”: How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill — 13:04
7. 06 - Chapter 6: Hills of Faery: The Little People of the Mist — 18:13

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