The Crossing: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Crossing, credited to Winston Churchill, 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 The Crossing by Winston Churchill. Read in English by Bob R. This is an historical fiction novel. Many real characters of history are included, as well as fictitious ones. The saga takes place in the period slightly before the American Revolution, and extends for some years after that war. It covers the first movement of southern colonists, over the mountains, into Kentucky, then into the lands that would become Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. The battles to take these lands from the British make up much of the drama. The characters also move into New Orleans to face off with the French. This was a major best selling novel when released. The writer, Winston Churchill, was a most prominent American novelist of the time. The Prime Minister of England, Winston S. Churchill, was his contemporary, but no family relation. This book contains content that some listeners might find offensive. (Summary by Bob Rollins)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Crossing
• Author credits: Winston Churchill
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 50
• Listed recording duration: 22:41:13

Catalogue topics

• hsitorical fiction
• wilderness road
• revoluntionary war

Opening tracks: first 24 of 50

1. 01 - Bk 1 Ch 1 - The Blue Wall — 12:50
2. 02 - Bk 1 Ch 2 - Wars and Rumors of Wars — 16:38
3. 03 - Bk 1 Ch 3 - Charleston — 34:08
4. 04 - Bk 1 Ch 4 - Temple Bow — 27:28
5. 05 - Bk 1 Ch 5-Clam's Hell — 24:55
6. 06 - Bk 1 Ch 6-Man Proposes — 26:53
7. 07 - Bk 1 Ch 7-In Sight of the Blue Wall — 31:58
8. 08 - Bk 1 Ch 8-The Nollichucky Trace — 37:34
9. 09 - Bk 1 Ch 9-On the Wilderness Trail — 41:30
10. 10 - Bk 1 Ch 10-Harrodstown — 40:38
11. 11 - Bk 1 Ch 11-Fragmentary — 16:16
12. 12 - Bk 1 Ch 12-The Campaign Begins — 23:44
13. 13 - Bk 1 Ch 13-Kaskaskia — 32:33
14. 14 - Bk 1 Ch 14-How the Kaskaskians Were Made Citizens — 21:40
15. 15 - Bk 1 Ch 15- Days of trial — 34:02
16. 16 - Bk 1, Chap 16-Davy Goes to Cahokia — 31:40
17. 17 - Bk 1, Chap 17-The Sacrifice — 18:35
18. 18 - Bk 1 Ch 18-An' Ye Had Been Where I had Been — 40:36
19. 19 - Bk 1 Ch 19-The Hair Buyer Trapped — 36:53
20. 20 - Bk 1 Ch 20 - The Campaign Ends — 22:01
21. 21 - Bk 2 Ch 1 - In the Cabin — 29:27
22. 22 - Bk 2 Ch 2 - ''The Beggars are come to Town'' — 22:52
23. 23 - Bk2 Ch 3-We Go To Danville — 27:02
24. 24 - Bk 2 Ch 4-I Cross the Mountains Once More — 9:04

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