Treasure and Trouble Therewith, A Tale of California
By Geraldine Bonner
Length12h 2m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "The time was late August some eleven years ago. The place that part of central California where, on one side, the plain unrolls in golden levels, and on the other swells upward toward the rounded undulations of the foothills. It was very hot; the sky a fathomless blue vault, the land dreaming in the afternoon glare, its brightness blurred here and there by shimmering heat veils. Checkered by green and yellow patches, dotted with the black domes of oaks, it brooded sleepily, showing few signs of life. At long intervals ranch houses rose above embowering foliage, a green core in the midst of fields where the brown earth was striped with lines of fruit trees or hidden under carpets of alfalfa. To the west the foothills rose in indolent curves, tan-colored, as if clothed with a leathern hide. Their hollows were filled with the darkness of trees huddled about hidden streams, ribbons of verdure that wound from the mountains to the plain. Farther still, vision faint, remote and immaculate, the white peaks of the Sierra hung, a painting on the drop curtain of the sky. Across the landscape a parent stem of road wound, branches breaking from it and meandering thread-small to ranch and village. It was white-dusted here, but later would turn red and crawl upward under the resinous dimness of pine woods to where the mining camps clung on the lower wall of the Sierra. Already it had left behind the region of farms in neighborly proximity and the little towns that were threaded along it like beads upon a string. Watching its eastward course, one would have noticed that after it crested the first rise it ran free of habitation for miles."
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length12 hrs 2 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 6, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER I
20CHAPTER XX
2CHAPTER II
21CHAPTER XXI
3CHAPTER III
22CHAPTER XXII
4CHAPTER IV
23CHAPTER XXIII
5CHAPTER V
24CHAPTER XXIV
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6CHAPTER VI
25CHAPTER XXV
7CHAPTER VII
26CHAPTER XXVI
8CHAPTER VIII
27CHAPTER XXVII
9CHAPTER IX
28CHAPTER XXVIII
10CHAPTER X
29CHAPTER XXIX
11CHAPTER XI
30CHAPTER XXX
12CHAPTER XII
31CHAPTER XXXI
13CHAPTER XIII
32CHAPTER XXXII
14CHAPTER XIV
33CHAPTER XXXIII
15CHAPTER XV
34CHAPTER XXXIV
16CHAPTER XVI
35CHAPTER XXXV
17CHAPTER XVII
36CHAPTER XXXVI
18CHAPTER XVIII
37CHAPTER XXXVII
19CHAPTER XIX
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