Songs of Travel and Other Verses


Read by LibriVox Volunteers

A collection of short verses by the Scottish poet and novelist Robert Louis Stevenson reflecting his great love of travel and adventure from the Highlands of Scotland to the Islands of the Pacific.

(Summary by Alan Mapstone) (1 hr 15 min)

Chapters

Preface 1:35 Read by Alan Mapstone
The Vagabond 2:05 Read by Alan Mapstone
Youth and Love 0:55 Read by Stunning
Youth and Love 0:55 Read by Stunning
In dreams, unhappy, I behold you stand 0:48 Read by Rafief
She rested by the Broken Brook 0:43 Read by Rafief
The infinite shining heavens 0:56 Read by Alan Mapstone
Plain as the glistering planets shine 1:15 Read by Ehsan Ahmed Mehedi
To you, let snow and roses 0:57 Read by Sonia
Let beauty awake 0:58 Read by Alan Mapstone
I know not how it is with you 0:54 Read by mleigh
I will make you brooches 1:04 Read by Stunning
We have loved of Yore 1:37 Read by Sonia
Mater Triumphans 1:51 Read by Stefan Von Blon
Bright is the ring of words 1:04 Read by Alan Mapstone
In the highlands 1:23 Read by Sonia
Home no more home for me 2:26 Read by Alan Mapstone
Winter 1:01 Read by Marie Christian
The stormy evening closes now 1:36 Read by Stefan Von Blon
To Dr. Hake 1:37 Read by Marie Christian
To --- 2:19 Read by Sonia
The morning drum call 0:49 Read by Alan Mapstone
I have trod the upward and the downward slope 0:45 Read by Alan Mapstone
He hears with gladdened heart 0:40 Read by Stunning
Farewell, fair day and fading light 1:13 Read by Sonia
If this were Faith 2:04 Read by Sonia
My Wife 1:04 Read by Alan Mapstone
To the Muse 1:05 Read by Stunning
To an Island Princess 2:49 Read by Alan Mapstone
To Kalakaua 1:09 Read by Larry Wilson
To Princess Kaiulani 1:24 Read by Larry Wilson
To Mother Maryanne 0:55 Read by Algy Pug
In Memoriam E. H. 1:08 Read by Inkell
To my Wife 1:55 Read by Agnes Robert Behr
To my Old Familiars 2:08 Read by Inkell
The tropics vanish 2:13 Read by Algy Pug
To S. C. 3:05 Read by Algy Pug
The House of Tembinoka 8:21 Read by Alan Mapstone
The Woodman 7:49 Read by Algy Pug
Tropic Rain 1:30 Read by Inkell
An End of Travel 0:50 Read by Algy Pug
We uncommiserate pass into the night 1:12 Read by Algy Pug
Sing me a song of a lad that is gone 1:30 Read by Algy Pug
To S. R. Crockett 1:12 Read by Algy Pug
Evensong 0:53 Read by Nancy Müller