[Complete] Over the Hills and Far Away by Charlotte Evans - lt

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Over the Hills and Far Away: A Story of New Zealand by Charlotte Evans (1841 - 1882).

All audio files can be found on our catalog page: https://librivox.org/over-the-hills-and-far-away-a-story-of-new-zealand-by-charlotte-evans/

Over the Hills and Far Away follows Miss Lucy Cunningham as she travels by ship from England to join her father and brother in rugged and untamed New Zealand. A romanticised account of colonial life, Over the Hills is notable as one of the earliest New Zealand novels. ( Lewis Fletcher)
  • Text source (only read from this text!): http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/downloads/EvaOver.pdf
  • Type of proof-listening required (Note: please read the PL FAQ): standard



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    BC Admin
  • Link to author on Wikipedia (if available): (Charlotte Evans) : n/a
  • Link to title on Wikipedia (if available):
  • Number of sections (files) this project will have: 34
  • Does the project have an introduction or preface [y/n]: Yes
  • Original publication date (if known): 1874
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Genres for the project: General Fiction/Published 1800 -1900

Keywords that describe the book: new zealand, maoriland

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[*]The reader will record the following at the beginning and end of each file:
No more than 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning of the recording!
START of recording (Intro):
  • "Chapter [number] of Over the Hills and Far Away: A Story of New Zealand. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org"
  • If you wish, say:
    "Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]"
  • Say:
    "Over the Hills and Far Away: A Story of New Zealand, by Charlotte Evans. [Chapter]"


For the second and all subsequent sections, you may optionally use the shortened form of this intro disclaimer:
  • "Chapter [number] of Over the Hills and Far Away: A Story of New Zealand by Charlotte Evans. This LibriVox recording is in the Public Domain."
  • If you wish, say:
    "Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]"
  • Only if applicable, say:
    "[Chapter title]"
END of recording:
  • At the end of the section, say:
    "End of [Chapter]"
  • If you wish, say:
    "Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]"
  • At the end of the book, say (in addition):
    "End of Over the Hills and Far Away: A Story of New Zealand, by Charlotte Evans. "

There should be ~5 seconds silence at the end of the recording.

[*]Example filename overthehills_##_evans_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is the section number (e.g. overthehills_01_evans_128kb.mp3)

[*]Example ID3 V2 tags
Artist: Charlotte Evans
Title: ## - [Section title]
Album: Over the Hills and Far Away: A Story of New Zealand


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Last edited by PhileasBlogg on April 15th, 2018, 9:53 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Lynnet
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Post by Lynnet »

I will set this up for you.

Edit: and done! Do you have a DPL or do you need to advertise?
PhileasBlogg
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Post by PhileasBlogg »

Thanks!

I do not yet have a DPL
DrPGould
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Post by DrPGould »

Lewis:

I'm up for another project, if you'd like.

Philip
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PhileasBlogg
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Post by PhileasBlogg »

Thanks Philip, that would be great!
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Philip added as DPL. Moving to Going Solo.
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Post by DrPGould »

Lewis:

You're off to a great start. I have marked Sections 0-3 PL-OK, but I have a comment regarding Section 2 for your consideration.

At 0:18 you omitted "18--" from the end of the date in the diary entry. These sort of obscured dates frequently happen in literature. Usually in projects here at Librivox, they are read as "18 hundred something" or "18 hundred blank." If the date were integral to the plot, I would have noted it--but it does not appear to be so here--so its a judgment call as to whether it should be added--and your judgment is the one that matters.

Many thanks,

Philip
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PhileasBlogg
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Post by PhileasBlogg »

Thanks for the feedback, I was uncertain how to treat the obscured date. I have rerecorded the line in chapter 2 to say "eighteen hundred something": https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/overthehills_02_evans_128kb.mp3 (duration 9:14)

I have also uploaded chapters 4, 5, and 6:

https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/overthehills_04_evans_128kb.mp3 (9:55)
https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/overthehills_05_evans_128kb.mp3 (11:10)
https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/overthehills_06_evans_128kb.mp3 (8:54)
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Post by DrPGould »

Lewis:

Sections 3, 4, and 6 are PL-OK! Nicely done!

Section 5--1 correction

at 7:40 The paragraph beginning "it had been the custom" and ending "believed in it accordingly" is omitted.

Many thanks,

Philip
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Post by DrPGould »

Section 5 is PL-OK. (I'll get to the others tomorrow).

Many thanks,

Philip
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Post by DrPGould »

Lewis:

Once again, nicely read. Sections 8 and 9 are PL OK!

Section 7 there is one error repeated at 3:39 and 3:48....I heard Mrs. Cunningham where I expected Miss Cunningham.

Many thanks,

Philip
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Post by DrPGould »

Lewis:

Section 7 is PL-OK! Nicely done. I'll have the other two done sometime today.

Many thanks,

Philip
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