Songs from the Mountains: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Songs from the Mountains, credited to Henry Kendall, 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 Songs from the Mountains by Henry Kendall. Read in English by Peter Tucker; Algy Pug; Nemo; Larry Wilson; Kirby Wheatland; Bruce Kachuk This is a volume of late poetry by Australian poet Henry Kendall, published in 1880. The poems in this volume are prime examples of the style for which Kendall was famous, describing the Australian nature and landscape in poetic detail. Wikipedia quotes the Sydney Mail writing: "Sad songs though many of them be, they are full of great thoughts and lofty aspirations. You may dislike them because they are not all chanted in unison with the bright noontide hymn; but you cannot deny that they are all of the music that floats high above the level of earthly grossness, and that sings, if sometimes among clouds, yet always far above the spires and mountains, although these are loftier than the level of the unbroken plains beneath." - Summary by Carolin

Recording facts

• Recording title: Songs from the Mountains
• Author credits: Henry Kendall
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 35
• Listed recording duration: 2:47:22

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• nature
• australia
• poem
• sydney
• 1880
• 2017

Opening tracks: first 24 of 35

1. 01 - To a Mountain — 4:21
2. 02 - Mary Rivers — 3:51
3. 03 - Kingsborough — 4:11
4. 04 - Beyond Kerguelen — 4:39
5. 05 - Black Lizzie — 5:17
6. 06 - Hy-Brasil — 4:29
7. 07 - Jim the Splitter — 4:06
8. 08 - Mooni — 5:34
9. 09 - Pytheas — 5:56
10. 10 - Bill the Bullock-Driver — 4:35
11. 11 - Cooranbean — 4:36
12. 12 - When Underneath the Brown Dead Grass — 1:32
13. 13 - The Voice in the Wild Oak — 4:51
14. 14 - Billy Vickers — 4:54
15. 15 - Persia — 3:00
16. 16 - Lilith — 3:19
17. 17 - Bob — 4:24
18. 18 - Peter the Piccaninny — 4:29
19. 19 - Narrara Creek — 6:36
20. 20 - In Memory of John Fairfax — 3:07
21. 21 - Araluen — 3:56
22. 22 - The Sydney International Exhibition — 17:21
23. 23 - Christmas Creek — 4:29
24. 24 - Orara — 3:24

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