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The Rhodora

by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

To celebrate Earth Day, LibriVox volunteers bring you six different recordings of The Rhodora, by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of April 16th, 2006.
(Summary by Annie Coleman)

• Bartleby e-text
• Wikipedia - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Wikipedia - Earth Day
• LibriVox’s The Rhodora Internet Archive page
• Zip file of the entire book (4.2MB)
• RSS feed · Subscribe in iTunes · Chapter-a-day

mp3 and ogg files

• Version 1 - 00:01:32
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.7MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.4MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.1MB]
  Read by: Annie Coleman
• Version 2 - 00:01:26
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.6MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.3MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.0MB]
  Read by: Chip
• Version 3 - 00:01:31
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.7MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.4MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 0.8MB]
  Read by: Graham Williams
• Version 4 - 00:01:30
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.7MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.4MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 0.8MB]
  Read by: Laura Fox
• Version 5 - 00:01:28
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.7MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.4MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 0.7MB]
  Read by: Robert Garrison
• Version 6 - 00:01:10
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.5MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.1MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 0.6MB]
  Read by: Westwinds12