The Valley of Vision: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Valley of Vision, credited to Henry Van Dyke, 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 Valley of Vision, by Henry Van Dyke. Read by Mary Ann Spiegel ”Why do you choose such a title as The Valley of Vision for your book” said my friend; “do you mean that one can see farther from the valley than from the mountain-top?” This question set me thinking, as every honest question ought to do. Here is the result of my thoughts, which you will take for what it is worth, if you care to read the book. The mountain-top is the place of outlook over the earth and the sea. But it is in the valley of suffering, endurance, and self-sacrifice that the deepest visions of the meaning of life come to us. I take the outcome of this Twentieth Century War as a victory over the mad illusion of world-domination which the Germans saw from the peak of their military power in 1914. The united force of the Allies has grown, through valley-visions of right and justice and human kindness, into an irresistible might before which the German “will to power” has gone down in ruin. (From the Preface)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Valley of Vision
• Author credits: Henry Van Dyke
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 14
• Listed recording duration: 5:23:10

Catalogue topics

• world war I
• refugee
• Belgium

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 3:00
2. 01 - A Remembered Dream — 14:31
3. 02 - The Antwerp Road — 3:35
4. 03 - A City of Refuge — 15:47
5. 04 - A Sanctuary of Trees — 32:38
6. 05 - The King's High Way — 7:18
7. 06 - Half-Told Tales — 9:50
8. 07 - The Broken Soldier and the Maid of France — 1:02:47
9. 08 - The Hearing Ear — 22:49
10. 09 - Sketches of Quebec — 23:34
11. 10 - A Classic Instance — 27:09
12. 11 - Half Told Tales - Fantasia — 27:26
13. 12 - Salvage Point — 18:53
14. 13 - The Boy of Nazareth Dreams — 54:00

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