The Stone Axe Of Burkamukk: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Stone Axe Of Burkamukk, credited to Mary Grant Bruce, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Stone Axe Of Burkamukk by Mary Grant Bruce. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers. Mary Grant Bruce (1878 - 1958) was an Australian children's writer who spent one year collecting Aboriginal stories in Gippsland - a part of Victoria which is thought had a dense population of the early Australians. Sadly, now there are no tribal people living, though their descendants are still around. This book contains 13 stories of the Gunaikurnai people, as told by their elders to the author. From the preface: Year by year the old black tribes are dying out, and many of their legends and beliefs are dying with them. These legends deal with the world as the blacks knew it; with the Bush animals and birds; the powers of storm, flood, fire, thunder, and magic, and the beings who they thought controlled these powers; with the sun, moon and stars; and with the life and death of men and women. The folktales of a people are the story of its soul, and it would be a pity if the native races of our country were to vanish altogether before we had collected enough of their legends to let their successors know what manner of people lived in Australia for thousands of years before the white man came. (From the Preface by Mary Grant Bruce with a little help from annise)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Stone Axe Of Burkamukk
• Author credits: Mary Grant Bruce
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 25
• Listed recording duration: 6:56:40

Catalogue topics

• children
• australia
• aborigines
• bush
• outback

Opening tracks: first 24 of 25

1. 00 - Foreword — 2:54
2. 01 - The Stone Axe of Burkamukk - Chapter I — 26:25
3. 02 - The Stone Axe of Burkamukk - Chapter II — 21:04
4. 03 - The Stone Axe of Burkamukk - Chapter III — 22:44
5. 04 - Waung the Crow - Chapter I — 14:22
6. 05 - Waung the Crow - Chapter II — 13:00
7. 06 - The Emu Who Would Dance — 23:22
8. 07 - Booran, the Pelican - Chapter I — 14:36
9. 08 - Booran, the Pelican - Chapter II — 20:57
10. 09 - The Story Of the Stars — 7:27
11. 10 - How Light Came — 11:19
12. 11 - The Frog That Laughed — 24:53
13. 12 - The Maiden Who Found the Moon - Chapter I — 10:48
14. 13 - The Maiden Who Found the Moon - Chapter II — 9:51
15. 14 - The Maiden Who Found the Moon - Chapter III — 10:31
16. 15 - Mirran and Warreen — 14:21
17. 16 - The Daughters of Wonkawala - Part 1 — 26:23
18. 17 - The Daughters of Wonkawala - Part 2 — 25:51
19. 18 - The Burning Of the Crows — 23:12
20. 19 - Kur-Bo-Roo, the Bear - Chapter I — 9:21
21. 20 - Kur-Bo-Roo, the Bear - Chapter II — 9:43
22. 21 - Kur-Bo-Roo, the Bear - Chapter III — 18:14
23. 22 - Wurip, the Fire-Bringer - Chapter I — 18:03
24. 23 - Wurip, the Fire-Bringer, Chapter II — 17:46

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