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Specimen Days
by Walt Whitman
Specimen Days is essentially the great American poet Walt Whitman’s scrap book. It documents most of his life’s adventures, espeically his experience serving as a nurse during the Civil War and travelling around America.
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- Wikipedia – Walt Whitman
- LibriVox’s Specimen Days Internet Archive page
- Zip file of the entire book (319 MB)
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Total running time: 11:04:07
mp3 and ogg files
- 01 – A Happy Hour’s Command – Sources of Character- Results-1860 – 00:50:47
[mp3@64kbps - 24.3MB]
[mp3@128kbps - 48.7MB]
[ogg vorbis - 26MB]
Read by: Sue Anderson - 02 – Opening of the Secession of War – Patent Office Hospital – 00:28:25
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[mp3@128kbps - 27.2MB]
[ogg vorbis - 15MB]
Read by: Anna Simon - 03 – The White House by Moonlight — The Most Inspiriting of All War’s Shows – 00:29:00
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[mp3@128kbps - 27.8MB]
[ogg vorbis - 16MB]
Read by: Sarah Jennings - 04 – Battle of Gettysburg — Summer of 1864 – 00:33:23
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[mp3@128kbps - 32.0MB]
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Read by: Sibella Denton - 05 – A New Army Organization Fit for America — A Model Hospital – 00:22:23
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[mp3@128kbps - 21.4MB]
[ogg vorbis - 12MB]
Read by: Sarah Jennings - 06 – Boys in the Army – Death of President Lincoln – 00:33:08
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[mp3@128kbps - 31.8MB]
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Read by: Lucy Burgoyne - 07 – Sherman’s Army’s Jubilation-Its Sudden Stoppage — The Real War Will Never Get in the Books – 00:37:40
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[mp3@128kbps - 36.1MB]
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Read by: David Jaquay - 08 – An Interegnum Paragraph – Colors-A Contrast – 00:42:21
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[mp3@128kbps - 40.6MB]
[ogg vorbis - 23MB]
Read by: Great Plains - 09 – Nov 8 ‘76 – The Oaks and I – 00:41:13
[mp3@64kbps - 19.7MB]
[mp3@128kbps - 39.5MB]
[ogg vorbis - 21MB]
Read by: Joan Freeman - 10 – A Quintette-Death of William Cullen Bryant – 00:28:39
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[mp3@128kbps - 27.5MB]
[ogg vorbis - 15MB]
Read by: Belinda Brown - 11 – Jaunt Up the Hudson – Wild Flowers – 00:34:52
[mp3@64kbps - 16.7MB]
[mp3@128kbps - 33.4MB]
[ogg vorbis - 24MB]
Read by: Aaron Elliott - 12 – The Civility Too Long Neglected — Meeting A Hermit – 00:33:34
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[mp3@128kbps - 32.2MB]
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Read by: Jc Guan - 13 – An Ulster County Waterfall — Swallow on the River – 00:30:05
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Read by: Alan Davis Drake - 14 – Begin a Long Jaunt West — The Women of the West – 00:58:44
[mp3@64kbps - 28.1MB]
[mp3@128kbps - 56.3MB]
[ogg vorbis - 30MB]
Read by: Lucy Burgoyne - 15 – The Silent General – Seeing Niagara to Advantage – 00:21:47
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[mp3@128kbps - 20.9MB]
[ogg vorbis - 17MB]
Read by: Sibella Denton - 16 – Jaunting To Canada — Death of Thomas Carlyle – 00:28:51
[mp3@64kbps - 13.8MB]
[mp3@128kbps - 27.7MB]
[ogg vorbis - 16MB]
Read by: Sarah Jennings - 17 – Carlyle From American Points of View — Millet’s Pictures Last Items – 00:51:18
[mp3@64kbps - 24.6MB]
[mp3@128kbps - 49.2MB]
[ogg vorbis - 26MB]
Read by: Lucy Burgoyne - 18 – Birds – Death of Longfellow – 00:34:04
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[mp3@128kbps - 32.7MB]
[ogg vorbis - 18MB]
Read by: David Jaquay - 19 – Starting Newspapers-Nature and Democracy-Morality – 00:20:27
[mp3@64kbps - 9.8MB]
[mp3@128kbps - 19.6MB]
[ogg vorbis - 14MB]
Read by: Rich Meyers - 20 – Collect – End – 00:03:26
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[mp3@128kbps - 3.3MB]
[ogg vorbis - 1.8MB]
Read by: Lucy Burgoyne
Cataloged on October 20, 2008













