The Island Hunting-Song: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Island Hunting-Song, credited to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., 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 volunteers bring you 10 recordings of The Island Hunting-Song by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr..This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for September 23, 2018. Read in English by Bruce Kachuk; Ellies; Foon; Garth Burton; Graham Scott; Larry Wilson; Phil Schempf; RajVO; Tomas Peter and tovarisch. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. A member of the Fireside Poets, he was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day. His most famous prose works are the "Breakfast-Table" series, which began with The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858). He was also an important medical reformer. In addition to his work as an author and poet, Holmes also served as a physician, professor, lecturer and inventor and, although he never practiced it, he received formal training in law. - Summary by Wikipedia

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Island Hunting-Song
• Author credits: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 10
• Listed recording duration: 21:59

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• nature
• philosophy
• Hunting
• summer
• autumn

Track guide

1. 01 - The Island Hunting-Song - Read by BK — 2:41
2. 02 - The Island Hunting-Song - Read by EC — 2:15
3. 03 - The Island Hunting-Song - Read by FH — 2:04
4. 04 - The Island Hunting-Song - Read by GB — 2:15
5. 05 - The Island Hunting-Song - Read by GRS — 2:01
6. 06 - The Island Hunting-Song - Read by LCW — 1:54
7. 07 - The Island Hunting-Song - Read by PS — 2:03
8. 08 - The Island Hunting-Song - Read by RAJ — 2:09
9. 09 - The Island Hunting-Song - Read by TP — 2:21
10. 10 - The Island Hunting-Song - Read by VB — 2:16

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