The White Heart of Mojave: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The White Heart of Mojave, credited to Edna Brush Perkins, 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 White Heart of Mojave by Edna Brush Perkins. Read by Sue Anderson "The White Heart of the Mojave" recounts a 1920's adventure "in the wind and sun and big spaces" of Death Valley by two independent minded women, Edna Brush Perkins and Charlotte Hannahs Jordan. Both women were early feminists, Edna as chairwoman of the greater Cleveland Woman's Suffrage Party (1916-18). At the end of the Great War, the two friends wanted nothing more than to escape "to the solitariness of some wild and lonely place far from city halls, smokestacks, national organizations, and streets of little houses all alike." Their vacation started as a long motor drive through the backwoods of California (Charlotte's husband, Ned, owned the Jordan Motor Car Company). It ended with a month long trek through Death Valley in an old milk wagon drawn by a horse and a mule. Edna's descriptions of the desert are superb and from the heart--the dunes "were very beautiful, with knife-edged tops ridged in pure, clean lines from which fringes of fine sand blew up like the wind tossed manes of white horses." This is a great listen for anyone who likes first-hand accounts of adventure in the Great Outdoors. (Summary by Sue Anderson)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The White Heart of Mojave
• Author credits: Edna Brush Perkins
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 4:44:12

Catalogue topics

• nonfiction
• adventure
• nature
• memoirs
• travel
• deserts
• Mojave Desert (Calif.)
• Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)

Track guide

1. 01 - The Feel of the Outdoors; How We Found Mojave — 29:00
2. 02 - How We Found Mojave, Part 2 — 27:42
3. 03 - The White Heart — 26:07
4. 04 - The Outfit — 20:35
5. 05 - Entering Death Valley — 32:43
6. 06 - The Strangest Farm in the World — 21:28
7. 07 - The Burning Sands — 16:46
8. 08 - The Dry Camp; The Mountain Spring — 23:16
9. 09 - The Mountain Spring, Part 2 — 26:52
10. 10 - The High White Peaks — 20:17
11. 11 - Snowstorm and Sandstorm — 21:16
12. 12 - Snowstorm and Sandstorm, Part 2; The End of the Adventure — 18:10

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