Round About a Great Estate: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Round About a Great Estate, credited to Richard Jefferies, 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 Round About a Great Estate by Richard Jefferies. Read in English by Steven Seitel John Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) wrote of country life, natural history, and agricultural practice at a time when the industrial revolution was bringing great change to long-settled patterns of English life. In this book, a work of fiction, he aims to tell us something of "the former state of things before it passes away entirely.” This is a gentle book with a keen eye for the beauty of the countryside, the uncultivated bonuses of plants and flowers; the antics of the birds and wild animals; and the agricultural practices, superstitions, and great generosity of the simple country folk who live on or about the Great Estate of the title. - Summary by Steven Seitel

Recording facts

• Recording title: Round About a Great Estate
• Author credits: Richard Jefferies
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 11
• Listed recording duration: 3:36:24

Catalogue topics

• Natural History
• country life
• victorian england

Track guide

1. 00 Preface — 2:52
2. 01 Okebourne Chase. Felling Trees. — 20:59
3. 02 Cicely. The Brook. — 23:07
4. 03 A Pack of Stoats. Birds. — 20:50
5. 04 Hamlet Folk. — 22:53
6. 05 Wind-Anemones. The Fishpond. — 22:58
7. 06 A Farmer of the Olden Times. — 23:19
8. 07 The Cuckoo-Fields. — 19:46
9. 08 Cicely's Diary. Hilary's Talk. — 19:53
10. 09 The Water-Mill. Field Names. — 20:49
11. 10 The Coombe-Bottom. Conclusion. — 18:58

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