The Emancipation of South America: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Emancipation of South America, credited to Bartolomé Mitre, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Emancipation of South America by Bartolomé Mitre. (Translated by William Pilling.) Read in English by Piotr Nater. THREE great names stand forth conspicuous in the annals of America, those of Washington, Bolívar, San Martin. Of Washington, the great leader of the Democracy of the North; of Bolívar and of San Martin, who were the emancipators of the southern half of the continent. The story of the life-work of the latter of these two is the Argument of this book. The scene of action passes on a vast theatre, a territory extending for more than fifty degrees of latitude, from Cape Horn to the Tropic of Cancer, and occupies twenty years of strife. The starting-point of this history is the Argentine revolution; it follows the course of this revolution as it spreads over the continent, and its object is to explain the laws which governed the establishment of a family of new Republics, and the fundamental principles from which they sprang. (from the Historical Introduction). The author of the book went on to become the President of Argentina, serving from 1862 to 1868. Summary by Piotr Nater.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Emancipation of South America
• Author credits: Bartolomé Mitre
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 55
• Listed recording duration: 16:45:34

Catalogue topics

• war
• South America
• liberation

Opening tracks: first 24 of 55

1. 00 - TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE and PROLOGUE — 5:39
2. 01 - HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION part 1 — 33:41
3. 02 - HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION part 2 — 29:46
4. 03 - SAN MARTIN IN EUROPE AND IN AMERICA 1778-1812 — 21:17
5. 04 - THE LAUTARO LODGE 1812-1813 — 20:30
6. 05 - SAN LORENZO 1813-1814 — 21:40
7. 06 - UPPER PERU 1814 — 18:11
8. 07 - THE WAR IN THE NORTH 1814 — 17:41
9. 08 - THE CHILENO-ARGENTINE REVOLUTION 1810—1811 — 23:28
10. 09 - PROGRESS AND FALL OF THE CHILIAN REVOLUTION 1811—1814 — 36:22
11. 10 - CUYO 1814—1815 — 18:21
12. 11 - THE SPY SYSTEM OF THE PATRIOTS 1815—1816 — 13:27
13. 12 - THE IDEA OF THE PASSAGE OF THE ANDES 1815—1816 — 3:43
14. 13 - THE ARMY OF THE ANDES 1816—1817 — 11:09
15. 14 - THE PASSAGE OF THE ANDES 1817 — 25:37
16. 15 - CHACABUCO 1817 — 12:55
17. 16 - THE FIRST CAMPAIGN IN THE SOUTH OF CHILE 1817 — 12:17
18. 17 - ARGENTINE-CHILENO ALLIANCE 1817 — 16:23
19. 18 - CANCHA-RAYADA 1817—1818 — 19:12
20. 19 - MAIPÓ 1818 — 15:17
21. 20 - AFTER MAIPÓ 1818 — 11:02
22. 21 - THE FIRST NAVAL CAMPAIGN ON THE PACIFIC. 1818. — 15:46
23. 22 - THE REPASSAGE OF THE ANDES. 1818—1819. — 11:58
24. 23 - COCHRANE—CALLAO—VALDIVIA. 1819—1820. — 20:27

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