Palmetto Leaves: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Palmetto Leaves, credited to Harriet Beecher Stowe, 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 Palmetto Leaves by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Read in English by Michele Fry; Kevin Callon Boyle; Eva Davis; BettyB; Twinkle; Tom Penn; Larry Wilson; Sheila; John After the Civil War, Harriet and her husband Charles bought an Orange Plantation in Mandarin, on the upper east coast of Florida, where they lived during the winter months. Over the years they expanded their cottage to accommodate many guests (now a museum open to the public). They opened schools to educate and churches to care for the recently freed negros pouring into Florida seeking refuge and opportunity. These charming essays, each describing a largely undeveloped rural land, became one of the first travel guides written about Florida and stimulated the first boom of tourism and residential development to that area. Stow describes its waterways, flora and fauna, the generosity of the people, the lush abundance of flowers, farmer's efforts to develop crops, Negro relations with whites, correspondence with famous persons, etc. - Summary by Michele Fry

Recording facts

• Recording title: Palmetto Leaves
• Author credits: Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 5:18:32

Catalogue topics

• culture
• travel
• mandarin
• farming
• Florida
• oranges

Track guide

1. 01 - Nobody's Dog — 14:36
2. 02 - A Flowery January In Florida — 9:51
3. 03 - The Wrong Side Of The Tapestry — 13:56
4. 04 - A Letter To The Girls — 12:29
5. 05 - A Water-Coach, And A Ride In It — 16:38
6. 06 - Picknicking Up Julington — 17:56
7. 07 - Magnolia — 9:32
8. 08 - Yellow Jessamines — 19:34
9. 09 - ''Florida For Invalids'' — 18:36
10. 10 - Swamps And Orange Trees — 10:56
11. 11 - Letter-Writing — 13:26
12. 12 - Magnolia Week — 13:56
13. 13 - Buying Land In Florida — 9:18
14. 14 - Our Experience In Crops — 9:19
15. 15 - May In Florida — 9:38
16. 16 - St. Augustine — 18:50
17. 17 - Our Neighbor Over The Way — 24:34
18. 18 - The Grand Tour Up River — 23:25
19. 19 - Old Cudjo And The Angel — 12:46
20. 20 - The Laborers Of The South — 39:16

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