In The Footprints Of The Padres


Read by David Wales

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The American Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909) wrote travel books quite popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This third enlarged edition (1912) of his book more about California in general, in historia, and in memoria rather than her missions contains essays not included in the previous editions. “Charles Warren Stoddard was possessed of unique literary gifts that were all his own. These gifts shine out in the pages of this book. Here we find that mustang humor of his forever kicking its silver heels with the most upsetting suddenness into the honeyed sweetness of his flowing poetry. Here, too, we find that gift of word-painting which makes all his writings a brilliant gallery of rich-hued and soft-lighted wonder…. But no, the old California that Stoddard loved lives on, and will, because he caught and preserved its spirit and its coloring, its light and life and music. As the redwood thicket holds the sunlight, so do Stoddard's words keep bright and living, though viewed through a mist of tears, the California of other days.” ( Book Introduction and David Wales) (7 hr 31 min)

Chapters

Introduction And Introductory Poem 10:03 Read by David Wales
Old Days In El Dorado - 1. "Strange Countries for to See" 15:16 Read by David Wales
Old Days In El Dorado - 2. Crossing the Isthmus 14:36 Read by David Wales
Old Days In El Dorado - 3. Along the Pacific Shore 14:11 Read by David Wales
Old Days In El Dorado - 4. In the Wake of Drake 16:13 Read by David Wales
Old Days In El Dorado - 5. Atop o' Telegraph Hill 16:04 Read by David Wales
Old Days In El Dorado - 6. Pavement Pictures 13:22 Read by David Wales
Old Days In El Dorado - 7. A Boy's Outing 13:46 Read by David Wales
Old Days In El Dorado - 8. The Mission Dolores 16:05 Read by David Wales
Old Days In El Dorado - 9. Social San Francisco 17:52 Read by David Wales
Old Days In El Dorado - 10. Happy Valley 14:53 Read by David Wales
Old Days In El Dorado - 11. The Vigilance Committee 12:27 Read by David Wales
Old Days In El Dorado - 12. The Survivor's Story 14:47 Read by David Wales
A Bit of Old China 34:53 Read by David Wales
With the Egg-Pickers of the Farallones 22:04 Read by David Wales
A Memory of Monterey 47:27 Read by David Wales
In a Californian Bungalow 25:52 Read by David Wales
Primeval California 23:59 Read by David Wales
Inland Yachting 26:27 Read by David Wales
In Yosemite Shadows 33:21 Read by David Wales
An Affair of the Misty City - 1. What the Moon Shone on 16:25 Read by David Wales
An Affair of the Misty City - 2. What the Sun Shone on 6:28 Read by David Wales
An Affair of the Misty City - 3. Balm of Hurt Wounds 14:52 Read by David Wales
An Affair of the Misty City - 4. By the World Forgot 10:03 Read by David Wales