This Country of Ours, Complete Set

Stories of Explorers and Pioneers, Virginia, New England, the Middle and Southern Colonies, the French in America, the Struggle for Liberty and the United States Under the Constitution

De: Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall

Narrado por: David Thorn, Bobbie Frohman

In This Country of Ours, H. E. Marshall tells the story of America from the start of the settlements, to 1912, ending with the presidency of Woodrow Wilson. She tells it in a fashion that children are able to understand, and that will keep them interested. Marshall has filled this book with about 100 years of history, breaking them down by regions.

Public Domain (P)2012 Alcazar AudioWorks

Love the music

The only thing that I do not like is how the voices change at least once a chapter
But other wise great!

Love this book

This is a great book , and it is a very good book and it’s exiting.

Good Book

HE Marshall does a great job telling the stories despite the outdated terminology for different people groups. At the end of Chapter 19 the story jumps back to talk about John Smith. The editors need to go back and fix this chapter.

Watch out for different info from book

Chapter 19 was different from the printed book and excluded the last 1/3 of the chapter about the Commonwealth and Cavaliers, but included some story about Smith returning to England and being buried (I don’t even know where this text comes from in the book.) That’s as far as we have read, but I’ll be sure to pay attention from now on and not just trust the recording.

Annoying music, free on librivox

The narrators do a fair job of showing emotion and excitement for the stories being told, but the loud, chiming colonial music at the start of every chapter is incredibly annoying. Also, after buying I found this book is in the public domain, so it's FREE on librivox. Wasted a credit.

Interesting, but....

Any additional comments?

The way the narrations are presented is very confusing. They switch between each other in the middle of a chapter and at times in the middle of a paragraph! They have occasionally missed words and complete sentences. For example, in the first chapter, page 5, paragraph 5, sentence 2 and 3 are left out. On page 9, paragraph 1, sentence 3 reads 'Thus the first white man was laid to rest in Vineland the Good'. The word 'white' was left out - that makes a huge difference! Native people surely had been buried there, Thorvald was the first 'white' man to be buried there not the first man. Little things like these are annoyances but don't affect the overall performance.

Trying to use for homeschooling...

In chapter 1 and already it’s jumping and skipping parts of the book. 😡 Why do these audio books do this garbage?!

Says Complete but it is not.

This says complete but it only contains 9 mins of chapter one. I have part one and it has more chapters then this so called complete one.

Outdated, incorrect, worthless

Being written in 1917, we expected this to conform to outdated beliefs and characterizations.

Cultural bias aside, past historians can still be correct. This one is not.

We made it as far as "...trade routes in the East fell increasingly into the hands of the Turks and the INFINDELS..."

Infindels? It's INFIDELS, which is annoying but it's the misuse of the word that is far more egregious. Avoid this one.