The Pioneers: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Pioneers, credited to Katharine S. Prichard, 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 Pionees, by Katharine S. Pritchard. Read by kirstyl. The Pioneers is set against the background of pioneering life in the Gippsland region of Victoria in pre-Federation Australia. Mary and Donald Cameron are free-settlers who make a home in the wilderness and grow a prosperous cattle operation that establishes their position as prominent members of the new settlement. At first, the novel privileges Mary’s perspective as she encounters escaped convicts, bush fires, and raising a son in a remote community. Later, it follows her son, Davey, as he struggles for independence against his father’s harsh authority. Davey encounters further obstacles in the figure of local hotel owner, Thad McNab, who is determined that Davey’s childhood sweetheart, Deirdre, should be his own bride. (Summary by kirstyl)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Pioneers
• Author credits: Katharine S. Prichard
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 48
• Listed recording duration: 8:17:46

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• Australia
• Gippsland

Opening tracks: first 24 of 48

1. 01 - Chapter I — 12:10
2. 02 - Chapter II — 8:34
3. 03 - Chapter III — 10:26
4. 04 - Chapter IV — 20:08
5. 05 - Chapter V — 8:13
6. 06 - Chapter VI — 5:40
7. 07 - Chapter VII — 17:08
8. 08 - Chapter VIII — 10:10
9. 09 - Chapter IX — 7:36
10. 10 - Chapter X — 6:54
11. 11 - Chapter XI — 13:20
12. 12 - Chapter XII — 7:09
13. 13 - Chapter XIII — 7:58
14. 14 - Chapter XIV — 6:09
15. 15 - Chapter XV — 5:43
16. 16 - Chapter XVI — 5:23
17. 17 - Chapter XVII — 11:17
18. 18 - Chapter XVIII — 18:11
19. 19 - Chapter XIX — 15:15
20. 20 - Chapter XX — 6:26
21. 21 - Chapter XXI — 9:56
22. 22 - Chapter XXII — 7:49
23. 23 - Chapter XXIII — 9:43
24. 24 - Chapter XIV — 7:36

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