The Indian Fairy Book: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Indian Fairy Book, credited to Henry R. Schoolcraft, 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 Indian Fairy Book by Henry R. Schoolcraft. Read by LibriVox Volunteers These Indian fairy tales are chosen from the many stories collected by Mr. Henry R. Schoolcraft, the first man to study how the Indians lived and to discover their legends. He lived among the Indians in the West and around the Great Lakes for thirty years in the first part of the Nineteenth Century and wrote many books about them. When the story-tellers sat at the lodge fires in the long evenings to tell of the manitoes and their magic, of how the little boy snared the sun, of the old Toad Woman who stole the baby, and the other tales that had been retold to generation after generation of red children, time out of mind, Mr. Schoolcraft listened and wrote the stories down, just as he heard them. In 1856 this collection of his stories was published by Mason Brothers in New York City. A small brown book with quaint engravings for pictures, it is now only to be found here and there in families that have always treasured its delightful contents. It is republished, with revisions and with new illustrations in color, so that these stories may be passed on as they deserve. - Summary from the Foreword of "The Indian Fairy Book"

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Indian Fairy Book
• Author credits: Henry R. Schoolcraft
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 27
• Listed recording duration: 7:11:40

Catalogue topics

• fairy tales
• american indian folklore
• childrens book

Opening tracks: first 24 of 27

1. 00 - Foreword — 2:28
2. 01 - Chapter 1 - The Boy Who Set A Snare For The Sun — 10:34
3. 02 - Chapter 2 - Manabozho, The Mischief-Maker, Part 1 — 21:42
4. 03 - Chapter 2 - Manabozho, The Mischief-Maker, Part 2 — 22:58
5. 04 - Chapter 3 - The Red Swan, Part 1 — 19:01
6. 05 - Chapter 3 - The Red Swan, Part 2 — 20:31
7. 06 - Chapter 4 - The Celestial Sisters — 12:30
8. 07 - Chapter 5 - Gray Eagle and His Five Brothers — 8:14
9. 08 - Chapter 6 - He of the Little Shell — 10:46
10. 09 - Chapter 7 - Osseoj the Son of the Evening Star — 12:31
11. 10 - Chapter 8 - The Wonderful Exploits of Grasshopper — 45:11
12. 11 - Chapter 9 - The Toad-Woman — 10:13
13. 12 - Chapter 10 - The Origin of the Robin — 5:29
14. 13 - Chapter 11 - White Feather and the Six Giants — 16:58
15. 14 - Chapter 12 - Sheem, the Forsaken Boy — 26:41
16. 15 - Chapter 13 - Strong Desire and the Red Sorcerer — 15:22
17. 16 - Chapter 14 - The Magic Packet — 3:23
18. 17 - Chapter 15 - The Man With His Leg Tied Up — 11:32
19. 18 - Chapter 16 - Leelinau, the Lost Daughter — 10:20
20. 19 - Chapter 17 - The Winter Spirit and His Visitor — 3:33
21. 20 - Chapter 18 - The Enchanted Moccasins — 28:50
22. 21 - Chapter 19 - The Weendigoes and the Bone-Dwarf — 14:30
23. 22 - Chapter 20 - The Fire-Plume — 42:55
24. 23 - Chapter 21 - The Bird Lover — 14:52

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