Songs of a Sourdough: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Songs of a Sourdough, credited to Robert W. Service, 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 of a Sourdough by Robert W. Service. Read in English by Phil Benson Reputedly the best-selling poetry collection of the 20th century, 'Songs of a Sourdough' is best known for Robert W. Service's classic Yukon ballads, 'The Shooting of Dan McGrew' and 'The Cremation of Sam McGhee'. Service was born in Preston, Lancashire, and grew up in Scotland. In his twenties, he made his way to Canada and settled in the Yukon where he worked as a bank clerk but evidently dreamed of more adventurous pursuits. Service's readings of his poems show that he could adopt either a Scottish or North American accent. Here they are read in an accent that is not too far removed from the place of his birth. - Summary by Phil Benson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Songs of a Sourdough
• Author credits: Robert W. Service
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 8
• Listed recording duration: 1:27:57

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• adventure
• Lancashire
• Yukon

Track guide

1. 01 - The Law of the Yukon, The Parson's Son, The Spell of the Yukon — 14:22
2. 02 - The Call of the Wild, The Lone Trail, The Heart of the Sourdough, The Three Voices — 9:30
3. 03 - The Pines, The Harpy, The Lure of Little Voices, The Song of the Wage Slave, Grin — 12:28
4. 04 - The Shooting of Dan McGrew — 5:24
5. 05 - The Cremation of Sam McGhee — 5:27
6. 06 - My Madonna, Unforgotten, The Reckoning, Quatrains, The Men that Don't Fit in, Music in the Bush, The Rhyme of the Remittance Man — 12:58
7. 07 - The Low Down White, The Little Old Log Cabin, The Younger Son, The March of the Dead, — 17:06
8. 08 - The Rhyme of the Restless Ones, New Years Eve, Comfort, Premonition, The Tramps, L'envoi — 10:42

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