Mothering on Perilous: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Mothering on Perilous, credited to Lucy S. Furman, 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 Mothering on Perilous by Lucy S. Furman. Read by Laura Victoria Cecelia Loring is alone in the world after the death of her mother and has come to the Kentucky mountains in search of work. Although very depressed from her loss she soon becomes caretaker of the garden at a school and not many days later finds herself quite busy as housemother to a group of energetic boys that keep running away from the school because of homesickness, especially Nucky, who seems to have the weight of the world on his shoulders, worrying about not being at home to help his brother Blant "keep lookout" for the Cheevers, who have been at war with the Marrses for years over a piece of land. Can she find a way to make the boys feel at home so they will stay and get an education? And can they begin to help her heal the broken places in her heart? Lucy Furman based several of her novels, including Mothering on Perilous, on her years as a teacher and housemother at the Hindman Settlement School in Kentucky. Through her experiences at the school her writing vividly portrays the beauty, but also the harshness of mountain life. (summary by Laura Victoria)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Mothering on Perilous
• Author credits: Lucy S. Furman
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 29
• Listed recording duration: 4:39:55

Catalogue topics

• fiction

Opening tracks: first 24 of 29

1. 01 - Arrival on Perilous — 5:39
2. 02 - Getting Acquainted — 6:06
3. 03 - Acquiring a Family — 17:13
4. 04 - War, Not Peace — 7:40
5. 05 - Getting Better Acquainted — 6:54
6. 06 - A Trade and Other Matters — 8:10
7. 07 - Heroes and Hero Worship — 5:18
8. 08 - Dress, Chivalry and the Trojan War — 11:38
9. 09 - More Trading and Some Family History — 8:18
10. 10 - About Mothers — 8:25
11. 11 - Over on Trigger — 15:07
12. 12 - The Fightingest Boy — 6:38
13. 13 - Around the Fire — 16:06
14. 14 - The Visit Home, and the Funeral Occasion — 15:40
15. 15 - Trouble on Trigger and Elsewhere — 11:38
16. 16 - Filial Piety and Croup — 5:12
17. 17 - Blessings and Hatings — 7:27
18. 18 - Christmas Anticipations — 8:30
19. 19 - Christmas and Danger — 10:23
20. 20 - War and Worse on Trigger — 8:29
21. 21 - Suspense — 7:58
22. 22 - The 'Eech,' and Tragedy — 13:00
23. 23 - Despair, and Budding Romance — 11:33
24. 24 - The Babe — 10:49

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