Our Vanishing Wild Life: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Our Vanishing Wild Life, credited to William T. Hornaday, 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 Vanishing Wild Life by William T. Hornaday We are weary of witnessing the greed, selfishness and cruelty of "civilized" man toward the wild creatures of the earth. We are sick of tales of slaughter and pictures of carnage. It is time for a sweeping Reformation; and that is precisely what we now demand. -William Temple Hornaday

Recording facts

• Recording title: Our Vanishing Wild Life
• Author credits: William T. Hornaday
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 45
• Listed recording duration: 18:42:06

Catalogue topics

• nature
• nonfiction
• animals
• extinction

Opening tracks: first 24 of 45

1. 00 - Foreword and Preface — 13:01
2. 01 - The Former Abundance of Wild Life — 17:05
3. 02 - Extinct Species Of North American Birds — 26:07
4. 03 - The Next Candidates For Oblivion — 40:15
5. 04 - Extinct And Nearly Extinct Species Of Mammals — 16:39
6. 05 - The Extermination of Species, State by State — 48:12
7. 06 - The Regular Army of Destruction — 24:19
8. 07 - The Guerillas of Destruction — 26:56
9. 08 - The Unseen Foes of Wild Life — 26:37
10. 09 - Destruction of Wild Life by Diseases — 19:35
11. 10 - Destruction of Wild Life by the Elements — 23:48
12. 11 - Slaughter of Song-birds by Italians — 40:26
13. 12 - Destruction of Song Birds By Southern Negroes and Poor Whites — 26:46
14. 13 - Extermination Of Birds For Women's Hats — 50:40
15. 14 - The Bird Tragedy On Laysan Island — 11:15
16. 15 - Unfair Firearms and Shooting Ethics — 38:43
17. 16 - The Present And Future Of North American Big Game—I — 39:31
18. 17 - The Present And Future Of North American Big Game—II — 29:02
19. 18 - The Present And Future Of African Game — 19:57
20. 19 - The Present And Future Of Game In Asia — 16:22
21. 20 - Destruction Of Birds In The Far East. By C. William Beebe — 20:46
22. 21 - The Savage View-Point of the Gunner — 15:33
23. 22 - Our Annual Losses By Insects — 10:43
24. 23 - The Economic Value of Birds — 53:06

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