The Anglo-Saxons of the Kentucky Mountains: a Study in Anthropogeography: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Anglo-Saxons of the Kentucky Mountains: a Study in Anthropogeography, credited to Ellen Churchill Semple, 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 The Anglo-Saxons of the Kentucky Mountains: a Study in Anthropogeography by Ellen Churchill Semple. Read in English by Leon Harvey. In one of the most progressive and productive countries of the world, and in that section of the country which has had its civilization and its wealth longest, we find a large area where the people are still living the frontier life of the backwoods, where the civilization is that of the eighteenth century, where the people speak the English of Shakespeare's time, where the large majority of the inhabitants have never seen a steamboat or a railroad, where money is as scarce as in colonial days, and all trade is barter. It is the great upheaved mass of the Southern Appalachians which, with the conserving power of the mountains, has caused these conditions to survive, carrying a bit of the eighteenth century intact over into this strongly contrasted twentieth century, and presenting an anachronism all the more marked because found in the heart of the bustling, money-making, novelty-loving United States. These conditions are to be found throughout the broad belt of the Southern Appalachians, but nowhere in such purity or covering so large an area as in the mountain region of Kentucky. - Summary by Ellen Churchill Semple

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Anglo-Saxons of the Kentucky Mountains: a Study in Anthropogeography
• Author credits: Ellen Churchill Semple
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 2
• Listed recording duration: 1:27:34

Catalogue topics

• rednecks
• culturally regressive
• hillbillies

Track guide

1. 01 - Part 1 — 42:46
2. 02 - Part 2 — 44:48

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