The World’s Story Volume XI: Canada, South America, Central America, Mexico and…
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Eva March Tappan
This is the eleventh volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature, poetry and pictures and offers a comprehensive presentation of the world's history, art and culture, from the early times till the beginning of the 20th century. Part XI contains stories about Canadian history and about the discovery of Central and South America, from the early Inca and Aztec civilizations to the 20th century revolutions and upheavals. - Summary by Sonia
Cast list for The Court of Justice of General Gomez:
Major: Jim Locke / Gomez: Monika M.C. / Narrator: Sonia (15 hr 56 min)
Chapters
What the Italians thought of John Cabot (1498), from two contemporary letters
7:18
Read by Jim Locke
The women who founded the Ursuline convent at Quebec (1639), by W. S. Herrington
6:31
Read by Jim Locke
Madame de la Tour and her defense of Fort St. John (1645), by Mary Hartwell Cat…
21:10
Read by Jim Locke
How people lived in New France (Seventeenth century), by Charles G. D. Roberts
14:19
Read by Piotr Nater
How a settler built his log barn (early part of the nineteenth century), by Sam…
6:40
Read by Devorah Allen
How the Northwest Company lost Fort Gabriel (about 1820), by Sir Gilbert Parker
10:26
Read by Colleen McMahon
How Alexander Mackenzie reached the Pacific Ocean (1793), by Rev. J. O. Miller
7:17
Read by Tomas Peter
How the Canadian Pacific crossed the Selkirks (1881-1886), by Frederic A. Talbot
10:28
Read by Jim Locke
The Canadian Northwest mounted police (Twentieth century), by W. G. Fitz-Gerald
18:47
Read by Jim Locke
How the Canadian Northwest awoke (End of the nineteenth century), by A. G. Brad…
12:19
Read by Steven Winterburn
How Dr. Grenfell was saved (Twentieth century), by George Andrews, one of the r…
6:55
Read by Matt Stevens
Given to hospitality (Twentieth century), by Dr. Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
17:34
Read by Matt Stevens
South America Part II: Peru, Chile, Bolivia, and Ecuador: Historical note
2:32
Read by J. M. Smallheer
South America Part III: Venezuela, Colombia, and the Guianas: Historical note
2:23
Read by J. M. Smallheer
The adventures of Columbus off the coast of Trinidad (1498), by Washington Irv…
6:15
Read by Alan Mapstone
The escape of the American minister from Paraguay (1868), by Charles A. Washburn
11:03
Read by Kristine Bekere
The people of the Argentine Pampas (about 1870), by Dr. Domingo Faustino Sarmie…
9:41
Read by Piotr Nater
William Walker, ''the last of the Filibusters'' (1853-1860), by Joaquin Miller
4:23
Read by Alan Mapstone
How the Aztec king passed his time (early part of the sixteenth century), by Hu…
9:42
Read by Jim Locke
Has the god Quetzalcoatl come to Mexico ? (1519), by William Hickling Prescott
15:33
Read by Piotr Nater
The last moments of Maximilian, by Jean Paul Laurens (France, 1838), painting p…
1:36
Read by Alan Mapstone
The rule of Porfirio Diaz (1877-1919), by Channing Arnold and Frederick J. Tabo…
19:41
Read by Fernando Borrego
The first landing of Columbus (1492), by Ferdinand Columbus, son of Christopher…
12:48
Read by Piotr Nater