Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 057: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 057 by Various: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 15 original MP3 tracks, 4:23:31 running time and a link to listen.
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 057, credited to Various, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
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LibriVox recording of Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 057 by Various. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers. Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Natural cataclysm is the subject of several readings: the 1899 Alaskan earthquake, which uplifted cliffs at Yakutat Bay 47 feet; a terrifying forest fire in Northern Wisconsin in 1899; the fiery sunsets which followed the volcanic eruption of Krakatoa in 1883; a storm at sea which sank the English frigate Anson in 1807; and the explosion of a hydrogen-filled dirigible over Chicago in 1919. Natural beauty, also a topic, includes a guide to the Antrim coast of Ireland, observations on Black Walnut trees and the communal life of Yellow-Jacket wasps, and an essay on how to paint reflections. Two colloquies of Erasmus explore a young woman's choice to become a nun and the "preposterous judgments" of people who value the names of things more than the Things themselves. Progress--envisioned as the age of electricity; changes in burglary; and Nostradamus' prognostications for the future round out the volume. -summary by Sue Anderson Elizabeth G. Peckham was the co-author of "Communal Life of Yellow-Jacket Wasps" Fifty Quatrains of Nostradamus was translated by Theophilus de Garencières
Recording facts
- Recording title: Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 057
- Author credits: Various
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 15
- Listed recording duration: 4:23:31
Catalogue topics
- Alaska
- shipwreck
- Reflection
- volcano
- painting
- earthquake
- glacier
- dirigible
Track guide
- 01 - The Black Walnut — 4:50
- 02 - Can Radio Ignite Balloons — 17:47
- 03 - Communal Life of Yellow-Jacket Wasps — 21:11
- 04 - Fifty Quatrains from Nostradamus — 14:49
- 05 - A Forest Fire in Northern Wisconsin — 16:22
- 06 - The Great Alaskan Earthquakes of 1899, Part 1 — 28:38
- 07 - The Great Alaskan Earthquakes of 1899, Part 2 — 10:42
- 08 - A Guide to the Giant's Causeway, Ireland — 36:13
- 09 - The Krakatoa Sunsets — 16:15
- 10 - The Loss of His Majesty's Frigate Anson — 21:38
- 11 - Modern Burglar's Strange Evolution — 6:57
- 12 - Of Things and Words — 17:07
- 13 - Painting Reflections — 16:20
- 14 - Progress — 4:31
- 15 - The Virgin Averse to Matrimony — 30:11
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