Specimen Days
Walt Whitman
20 chapters · 11 h 4 min · English
Read by Sue Anderson, Anna Simon, Sarah Jennings, Sibella Denton, Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014), David Jaquay and others
Travel & Geography
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Specimen Days is essentially the great American poet Walt Whitman's scrap book. It documents most of his life's adventures, especially his experience serving as a nurse during the Civil War and travelling around America.
Chapters
1 A Happy Hour's Command --- Sources of Character-Results-1860 51 min 2 Opening of the Secession of War --- Patent Office Hospital 28 min 3 The White House by Moonlight --- The Most Inspiriting of All War's Shows 29 min 4 Battle of Gettysburg --- Summer of 1864 33 min 5 A New Army Organization Fit for America --- A Model Hospital 22 min 6 Boys in the Army --- Death of President Lincoln 33 min 7 Sherman's Army's Jubilation-Its Sudden Stoppage --- The Real War Will Never Get in the Books 38 min 8 An Interegnum Paragraph --- Colors-A Contrast 42 min 9 Nover 8, '76 --- The Oaks and I 41 min 10 A Quintet --- Death of William Cullen Bryant 29 min 11 Jaunt Up the Hudson --- Wild Flowers 35 min 12 The Civility Too Long Neglected -- Meeting A Hermit 34 min 13 An Ulster County Waterfall -- Swallow on the River 30 min 14 Begin a Long Jaunt West -- The Women of the West 59 min 15 The Silent General -- Seeing Niagara to Advantage 22 min 16 Jaunting To Canada --- Death of Thomas Carlyle 29 min 17 Carlyle From American Points of View -- Millet's Pictures Last Items 51 min 18 Birds - Death of Longfellow 34 min 19 Starting Newspapers --- Nature and Democracy-Morality 20 min 20 Notes 3 min
