Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone, credited to Walt Whitman, 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 olunteers bring you 10 recordings of Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone by Walt Whitman.This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 5, 2018. Read in English by Bruce Kachuk; Newgatenovelist; Foon; Greg Giordano; Graham Scott; Jude; Kristin Gjerløw; Lee Ann Howlett; RajVO and Tomas Peter. Walter "Walt" Whitman was an American poet, essayist, and journalist, in addition to publishing his poetry—was a volunteer nurse during the American Civil War. Whitman's major work, Leaves of Grass, was first published in 1855 with his own money. The work was an attempt at reaching out to the common person with an American epic. He continued expanding and revising it until his death in 1892. ( Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone
• Author credits: Walt Whitman
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 10
• Listed recording duration: 14:52

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• nature
• philosophy

Track guide

1. 01 - Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone - Read by BK — 1:41
2. 02 - Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone - Read by EL — 1:39
3. 03 - Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone - Read by FH — 1:11
4. 04 - Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone - Read by GG — 1:32
5. 05 - Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone - Read by GRS — 1:23
6. 06 - Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone - Read by JH — 1:43
7. 07 - Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone - Read by KG — 1:27
8. 08 - Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone - Read by LAH — 1:24
9. 09 - Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone - Read by RAJ — 1:20
10. 10 - Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone - Read by TP — 1:32

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