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Our Island Story, Part 1

by: Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall

Publication date: 2006-07-15

Usage: Public Domain

Topics: librivox, literature, audiobook, children, history, england, legends, marshall

Language: English

LibriVox recording of Our Island Story, by H. E. Marshall. Read by Kara Shallenberg. This is the first half of the book. Part 2 may be found here: http://librivox.org/our-island-story-part-2-by-he-marshall/.

Our Island Story was first published in 1905 and became an instant classic. Beginning with the Romans and following the triumphs and foibles of the good, not so good and the downright despicable figures of history; we are treated to a dazzling montage of kings, queens, barons, knights, explorers, movers and shakers that have played a key role in the history of England. Marshall freely mixes folk tale with historical fact and in so doing paints a very vivid picture of the past in a style reminiscent of all that is finest in the children's story telling tradition.This is the first section of that work and will carry you from the time when Tacitus first sang the praises of Britannica to his Roman readers up to the vicious and bloodthirsty confusion that is the War of the Roses (about 1500 years). (Summary by Jim)

For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.

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Addeddate: 2006-07-15 09:04:13

Boxid: OL100020215

Call number: 234

External-identifier: urn:storj:bucket:jvrrslrv7u4ubxymktudgzt3hnpq:our_island_story_1_librivox

Identifier: our_island_story_1_librivox

Ocr: ABBYY FineReader 9.0

Ocr_converted: abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11

Ocr_module_version: 0.0.14

Ppi: 600

Run time: 8:05:37

Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text

Taped by: LibriVox

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Reviewer: librivoxbooks - - September 3, 2014
Subject: Link to Part 2

Yes, sorry about that. Link now added to summary.

Reviewer: eschiss1 - - September 2, 2014
Subject: "A Link to the Second"...

I see it's been available for almost 8 years now, so since no one updated this @ Librivox or here, here's the link...

https://archive.org/details/our_island_story_2_librivox

Reviewer: Sayeth - - July 20, 2010
Subject: Free Listens review

As its name implies, this is not a scholarly history, but a series of history stories. Marshall does not investigate the socio-political background behind events or apply economic theory to the past. Instead she tells the legend of Boudica in the same narrative style as a story about the signing of the Magna Carta.

For complete review and other audiobook reviews, visit www.freelistens.blogspot.com

Reviewer: stsawyer - - May 8, 2007
Subject: GREAT JOB!

I've read the first half of this book to my kids and my reading left a lot to be desired. I was so glad to find this book here. I saved it to my computer and then burned it to a CD. We now listen to it in the car and the kids LOVE it!!! Great job in every part of this book! I do hope you can will do more!

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