Roughing It in the Bush: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Roughing It in the Bush, credited to Susanna Moodie, 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 Roughing It in the Bush, by Susanna Moodie. Read by Moira Fogarty. 'Roughing It In the Bush' is Susanna Moodie's account of how she coped with the harshness of life in the woods of Upper Canada, as an Englishwoman homesteading abroad. Her narrative was constructed partly as a response to the glowing falsehoods European land-agents were circulating about life in the New World. Her chronicle is frank and humorous, and was a popular sensation at the time of its publication in 1852. (Summary by Moira Fogarty)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Roughing It in the Bush
• Author credits: Susanna Moodie
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 34
• Listed recording duration: 18:48:02

Catalogue topics

• non-fiction
• biography
• woman
• adventure
• nature
• memoir

Opening tracks: first 24 of 34

1. 00 - Introduction & Canada (a poem) — 15:36
2. 01 - A Visit to Grosse Isle — 26:36
3. 02 - Quebec — 31:39
4. 03 - Our Journey Up the Country — 27:56
5. 04 - Tom Wilson's Emigration — 51:19
6. 05 - Our First Settlement, and the Borrowing System — 52:08
7. 06 - Old Satan and Tom Wilson's Nose — 22:55
8. 07 - Uncle Joe and His Family — 41:27
9. 08 - John Monaghan — 30:10
10. 09 - Phoebe R---, and Our Second Moving — 24:57
11. 10 - Brian, the Still-hunter — 41:56
12. 11 - The Charivari — 52:35
13. 12 - The Village Hotel — 30:53
14. 13 - The Land-Jobber — 1:00:00
15. 14 - A Journey to the Woods — 31:17
16. 15a - The Wilderness, and Our Indian Friends (Part One) — 36:34
17. 15b - The Wilderness, and Our Indian Friends (Part Two) — 31:52
18. 16 - Burning the Fallow — 16:11
19. 17 - The Logging-Bee — 28:06
20. 18 - A Trip to Stony Lake — 31:32
21. 19 - The Ould Dragoon — 18:01
22. 20 - Disappointed Hopes — 29:45
23. 21 - The Little Stumpy Man — 46:59
24. 22 - The Fire — 39:43

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