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by Robert W Service
1 hour, 19 minutes
Unabridged Lyrical Poetry Collection
1907
Thirty-four accessible, adventurous poems including the famous narrative oft-memorized poems “The Shooting of Dan McGrew” and “The Cremation of Sam McGee.” This collection has also been published as “Songs of a Sourdough.”
Read by Craig R Currier. Podcast includes the poem “My Madonna.” Complete audiobook collection (in the downloadable archives above) includes:
The Land God Forgot The Spell of the Yukon The Heart of the Sourdough The Three Voices The Law of the Yukon The Parson’s Son The Call of the Wild The Lone Trail The Pines The Lure of Little Voices The Song of the Wage Slave Grin The Shooting of Dan McGrew The Cremation of Sam McGee My Madonna Unforgotten |
The Reckoning Quatrains The Men that Don’t Fit In Music in the Bush The Rhyme of the Remittance Man The Low-Down White The Little Old Log Cabin The Younger Son The March of the Dead Fighting Mac The Woman and the Angel The Rhyme of the Restless Ones New Year’s Eve Comfort The Harpy Premonition The Tramps L’Envoi |
Originally for sale on November 16, 2004, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
Robert William Service (1874-1958) was a well-traveled poet, war-correspondent, author, and actor. Though born in Lancashire, England, he spent much of his life in Canada, and his most famous poetry immortalized the Yukon where he was stationed for eight years. He married a French woman after serving as a war correspondend in World War I, returned to North America during World War II, and ultimately returned to France after the war was over. He is known for his poetry's great accessibility and often action-packed adventure, and even people with little interest in poetry have taken the time to memorize some of his more famous verses.
Craig Currier is a graduate the University of California, Berkeley, where he majored in English and Dramatic Art. He has been featured in numerous roles in regional and college theaters in Northern California including the Marin Shakespeare Festival, the Prospect Theatre Project and the Central Valley Radio Players. Craig has recorded narration for UC films and is a student at VoiceOne of San Francisco. His wife, Barbara, is happy that he is now spending more time at home recording audio books and less time away in rehearsal.
Tags: 1-2 hours, 1907, 2009 Release, Adventure, Craig R Currier (reader), Free, Lyrical Voice, Podcast, Poetry, Poetry Collection, Robert W Service, The Longer Stuff, Western