Stories of the Cave People: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Stories of the Cave People, credited to Mary Marcy, 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 Stories of the Cave People by Mary Marcy. Read in English by Phil Chenevert; geoffbl; Lynda Marie Neilson; johnnyenglish; drandall; KathrynP "In this little book I have sought, in a series of stories or sketches, to present only the first steps in human progress. Man has risen from a stage of lowest savagery, little higher than the apes, buffeted by the hand of Nature, dependent upon the wild game he might kill or the food he found ready to hand, a fearing and a furtive creature of the forests and of the plains, preyed upon by a thousand stronger foes, to a being able to provide warmth and clothing and shelter against the rains and the cold and food against the seasons. He has become a master instead of a plaything of the elements. In a large measure he has become arbiter of his own food supply and, hence, his own destiny. He has subjugated, in a marvelous degree, the forces of Nature and harnessed them to his needs." - Summary by the author

Recording facts

• Recording title: Stories of the Cave People
• Author credits: Mary Marcy
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 13
• Listed recording duration: 2:59:55

Catalogue topics

• earlyman

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 3:05
2. 01 - A Song of the Cave People — 2:24
3. 02 - The Fire Beast — 13:27
4. 03 - The Ornament of Big Nose — 19:00
5. 04 - When Run Fast Went Hunting for a Wife — 15:28
6. 05 - Little Laughing Boy — 17:09
7. 06 - Hunting an Echo — 16:01
8. 07 - The Flood — 16:11
9. 08 - Big Foot’s New Weapon — 15:16
10. 09 - The First Planting — 15:45
11. 10 - The First Pot — 15:41
12. 11 - The Arrow Throwers — 15:56
13. 12 - The First Priest — 14:32

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