The World’s Story Volume XII: The United States: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The World’s Story Volume XII: The United States, credited to Eva March Tappan, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of The World’s Story Volume XII: The United States by Eva March Tappan. Read in English by Sonia; Piotr Nater; Alan Mapstone; Kristine Bekere; April6090; Rita Boutros; Tomas Peter; Sonrisa Jones; Jim Locke; Lynda Marie Neilson; bellanelson875; Devorah Allen; Colleen McMahon; ToddHW; BettyB; Monika M. C.; Cliona Woodbyrne; Parsa2020 This is the twelfth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature, poetry and pictures and offers a comprehensive presentation of the world's history, art and culture, from the early times till the beginning of the 20th century. Part XII compiles stories about the early history of the United States, starting with the first explorators, the fights with the native Americans, the early settlers and culminating with the struggle for independence from the European leaders. - Summary by Sonia

Recording facts

• Recording title: The World’s Story Volume XII: The United States
• Author credits: Eva March Tappan
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 96
• Listed recording duration: 17:10:08

Catalogue topics

• explorers
• Indians
• Washington
• Independence
• Puritans
• Native Americans
• Mayflower
• settlers

Opening tracks: first 24 of 96

1. 01 - Raising the first American flag, by E. Percy Moran, American artist, 1862, painting, frontispiece — 1:58
2. 02 - The United States Part I: Discovery: Historical note — 1:32
3. 03 - The great voyage of Leif Ericson (1001), from the Sagas — 10:26
4. 04 - Columbus (1492), by Joaquin Miller — 2:38
5. 05 - Verrazzano's letter to the king (1524) — 14:28
6. 06 - The United States Part II: Stories of the Spanish adventurers: Historical note — 2:02
7. 07 - Ponce de Leon seeks the fountain of youth (1513), by Frederick A. Ober — 10:49
8. 08 - A Spanish peddler among the Indians (1528), by Cabeza de Vaca — 13:40
9. 09 - The story of John Ortiz (1528), by one of the companions of De Soto — 9:02
10. 10 - When De Soto met the princess (1541), by Theodore Irving — 17:21
11. 11 - The burial of De Soto in the Mississippi river (1542), by Theodore Irving — 7:43
12. 12 - The United States Part III: The cliff-dwellers of the Southwest: Historical note — 1:23
13. 13 - The seven cities of the wilderness, by John Fiske — 6:32
14. 14 - How the cliff-dwellers lived, by T. Mitchell Prudden — 27:20
15. 15 - How Little-Blue-Fox fooled the Coyote, a Pueblo folk-story retold by Charles F. Lummis — 8:57
16. 16 - The storming of the sky-city (1599), by Charles F. Lummis — 28:29
17. 17 - The United States Part IV: The planting of the Southern colonies: Historical note — 2:41
18. 18 - The Huguenots in Florida (1562-1565), by George Bancroft — 22:01
19. 19 - The lost colonoy of Roanoke Island (1584-1587), by Robert Southey — 10:57
20. 20 - John Smith as a captive among the Indians (1607-1608), by Captain John Smith — 13:08
21. 21 - Pocahontas and Captain John Smith, by F. C. Yohn, American artist, 1875, painting p. 122 — 2:53
22. 22 - The arrival of ''the King's Maids'' (1620), by Mary Johnston — 15:05
23. 23 - Life on a Virginia plantation (seventeenth century), by Eva March Tappan — 9:56
24. 24 - The planting of the colony of Maryland, by Frank B. Mayer, American artist, painting p. 136 — 2:48

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