The Pioneers: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Pioneers by James Fenimore Cooper: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 42 original MP3 tracks, 18:37:50 running time and a link to listen.
The Pioneers, credited to James Fenimore Cooper, 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 Pioneers, by James Fenimore Cooper. Read by Gary Sherwin and Bill Boerst. The Pioneers: The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale is one of the Leatherstocking Tales, a series of five novels by American writer James Fenimore Cooper. The Pioneers was first of these books to be published (1823), but the period of time covered by the book (principally 1793) makes it the fourth chronologically. (The others are The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, and The Prairie.) The story takes place on the rapidly advancing frontier of New York State and features a middle-aged Leatherstocking (Natty Bumppo), Judge Marmaduke Temple of Templeton, whose life parallels that of the author's father Judge William Cooper, and Elizabeth (the author Susan Cooper), of Cooperstown. The story begins with an argument between the Judge and the Leatherstocking over who killed a buck, and as Cooper reviews many of the changes to his fictional Lake Otsego, questions of environmental stewardship, conservation, and use prevail. The plot develops as the Leatherstocking and Chingachgook begin to compete with the Temples for the loyalties of a young visitor, Oliver Effingham. Effingham eventually marries Elizabeth. Chingachgook dies, exemplifying the vexed figure of the "dying Indian," and Natty vanishes into the sunset. For all its strange twists and turns, 'The Pioneers' may be considered one of the first ecological novels in the United States. (Summary from Wikipedia)
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Pioneers
- Author credits: James Fenimore Cooper
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 42
- Listed recording duration: 18:37:50
Opening tracks: first 24 of 42
- 00 - Introduction — 15:01
- 01 - Chapter 01 — 42:30
- 02 - Chapter 02 — 23:46
- 03 - Chapter 03 — 24:08
- 04 - Chapter 04 — 30:26
- 05 - Chapter 05 — 36:39
- 06 - Chapter 06 — 34:22
- 07 - Chapter 07 — 37:48
- 08 - Chapter 08 — 25:04
- 09 - Chapter 09 — 22:06
- 10 - Chapter 10 — 22:16
- 11 - Chapter 11 — 23:04
- 12 - Chapter 12 — 38:08
- 13 - Chapter 13 — 32:24
- 14 - Chapter 14 — 31:25
- 15 - Chapter 15 — 27:08
- 16 - Chapter 16 — 26:07
- 17 - Chapter 17 — 30:46
- 18 - Chapter 18 — 19:48
- 19 - Chapter 19 — 19:48
- 20 - Chapter 20 — 30:36
- 21 - Chapter 21 — 25:47
- 22 - Chapter 22 — 21:25
- 23 - Chapter 23 — 25:00
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