Our National Parks: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Our National Parks, credited to John Muir, 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 Our National Parks by John Muir. Read in English by volunteer readers. This book is a collection of sketches first published in the Atlantic Monthly magazine and gathered into book form in 1901. The focus here is on 4 parks in the west. Six of the 10 articles focus on Yosemite National Park; also described are Yellowstone, Sequoia, and General Grant (renamed Kings Canyon in 1940) National Parks. - Summary by TriciaG

Recording facts

• Recording title: Our National Parks
• Author credits: John Muir
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 22
• Listed recording duration: 10:01:13

Catalogue topics

• Yellowstone
• Yosemite
• sequoia
• kings canyon
• national
• parks
• nature

Track guide

1. 01 - Ch 1, Part 1: The Wild Parks and Forest Reservations of the West — 37:35
2. 02 - Ch 1, Part 2 — 26:31
3. 03 - Ch 2, Part 1: The Yellowstone National Park — 33:17
4. 04 - Ch 2, Part 2 — 35:29
5. 05 - Ch 3: The Yosemite National Park — 36:50
6. 06 - Ch 4, Part 1: The Forests of the Yosemite Park — 34:48
7. 07 - Ch 4, Part 2 — 33:16
8. 08 - Ch 5, Part 1: The Wild Gardens of the Yosemite Park — 31:48
9. 09 - Ch 5, Part 2 — 32:46
10. 10 - Ch 6, Part 1: Among the Animals of the Yosemite — 20:38
11. 11 - Ch 6, Part 2 — 22:55
12. 12 - Ch 6, Part 3 — 17:46
13. 13 - Ch 7, Part 1: Among the Birds of the Yosemite — 18:35
14. 14 - Ch 7, Part 2 — 21:19
15. 15 - Ch 8, Part 1: The Fountains and Streams of the Yosemite National Park — 25:20
16. 16 - Ch 8, Part 2 — 17:07
17. 17 - Ch 9, Part 1: The Sequoia and General Grant National Parks — 30:28
18. 18 - Ch 9, Part 2 — 23:40
19. 19 - Ch 9, Part 3 — 24:15
20. 20 - Ch 9, Part 4 — 25:25
21. 21 - Ch 10, Part 1: The American Forests — 27:34
22. 22 - Ch 10, Part 2 — 23:52

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