The Five Nations Vol I: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Five Nations Vol I, credited to Rudyard Kipling, 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 Five Nations Vol I by Rudyard Kipling. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Rudyard Kipling was the first English recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature and the youngest at the time to be so rewarded. His children’s stories and poems have been enduring expressions of his times, many tied to India, the country of his birth. Five Nations is a collection of poems covering the wide range of the British Kingdom at the time, though there is some debate as to what the Five Nations refer. There are two groups of poems in these volumes, unnamed poems and the service poems. Many of these have military themes and range over many wars of the British Empire. (Summary by Larry Wilson)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Five Nations Vol I
• Author credits: Rudyard Kipling
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 28
• Listed recording duration: 1:33:16

Opening tracks: first 24 of 28

1. 01 - Dedication — 1:31
2. 02 - The Sea and the Hills — 2:40
3. 03 - The Bell Buoy — 3:47
4. 04 - Cruisers — 3:23
5. 05 - The Destroyers — 3:35
6. 06 - White Horses — 3:37
7. 07 - The Second Voyage — 2:40
8. 08 - The Dykes — 3:51
9. 09 - The Song of Diego Valdez — 4:28
10. 10 - The Broken Men — 2:48
11. 11 - The Feet of the Young Men — 5:21
12. 12 - Truce of the Bear — 4:31
13. 13 - The Old Men — 3:07
14. 14 - The Explorer — 6:30
15. 15 - The Wage-Slaves — 3:21
16. 16 - The Burial — 1:51
17. 17 - General Joubert — 1:19
18. 18 - The Palace — 2:18
19. 19 - Sussex — 3:54
20. 20 - Song of the Wise Children — 2:14
21. 21 - Buddha at Kamakura — 3:38
22. 22 - The White Man's Burden — 2:59
23. 23 - Pharaoh and the Sergeant — 3:31
24. 24 - Our Lady of the Snows — 2:23

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