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Source text (please read only from this text!): http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18239Sophie Lee and Sholto Douglas come to Burma on the same ship in 1912. They come for different reasons. Through them, we learn about like in british India between 1912 to 1914, just before WWI. Academics view Bithia Mary Croker as one of the best authors who wrote about British India.
Note: This book is a product of it's times. There for, some of the views which are expressed are different. This does not reflect librivox's opinions(Summary by Stav Nisser.)
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Keywords that describe the book: romance, travel fiction
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LibriVox recording settings: mono (1 channel), 44100 Hz sample rate, 128 kbps constant bit rate MP3. See the Tech Specs
Intro to recording:
Leave 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning.
Say:
End of recording:"Section (or Chapter) # of The Road To Mandalay . This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit librivox.org." [Optional: "Read by your name."] "The Road To Mandalay by Bithia Mary Croker. Section Title."
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Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end."End of The Road To Mandalay , by Bithia Mary Croker."
Filename: roadtomandalay_##_croker_128kb.mp3 where ## is the section number. (e.g. roadtomandalay_01_croker_128kb.mp3)
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