[COMPLETE]Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods by W.T. Cox - ans

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Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, With a Few Desert and Mountain Beasts, by W. T. Cox

This project is now complete. All files can be downloaded from the catalog page here:https://librivox.org/fearsome-creatures-of-the-lumberwoods-by-william-t-cox/[/color]
A limbless reptilian monster that propels itself through the swamps with a propellor-tipped tail? A creature so ashamed of its monstrous appearance that it dissolves into tears when captured? Learn about the snoligoster, the squonk and many other 'fearsome critters' in this field guide written and illustrated by two North American foresters who know them well. Listeners who suspect that these creatures are the stuff of tall tales, will nevertheless do well to look out for slide-rock bolters when vacationing in the Colorado mountains. (Summary by Phil Benson)


Source text (please read only from this text!): https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015038719210&view=1up&seq=13&skin=2021

Target completion date: 2021-11-30

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Genres for the project: Fantastic Fiction/Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

Keywords that describe the book: forestry, legendary beasts, fearsome critters, fantasy field guide

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"Section (or Chapter) # of Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, With a Few Desert and Mountain Beasts. 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."] "Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, With a Few Desert and Mountain Beasts, by W. T. Cox. Section Title."
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Post by eggs4ears »

MC and DPL already lined up - annise and newgatenovelist - half the sections ready to upload.
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MW set up
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Post by Newgatenovelist »

Checking in. No problem at all about some of the sections being shorter - it should actually be a bit easier since this is working with a Hathitrust scan.

Did your record collection have some punk in it?

It looks like Roald Dahl had a hand in naming some of these critters. I can't wait to find out about the cactus cat!
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Post by Newgatenovelist »

Sections 0-4 are PL OK. One note for section 5, the unexpectedly anti-Irish section on the leprocaun:

1.28-1.31, p 17 second para [23/60 on the page count at the bottom of the screen]
...and even over in northern Michigan.
https://www.lexico.com/definition/michigan
The first syllable I heard sounded like the man’s name Mitch
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015038719210&view=1up&seq=23&skin=2021

This illustrations are absolutely out of this world! I thought the first one was good, but it seems like every one just gets more and more like a fever dream of Edward Gorey.
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Yes - I've been drooling over the illustrations since he first posted - choosing which will look best on a cover will be difficult.

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Post by Newgatenovelist »

Sections 6, 7 and 8 are PL OK. Notes for 9 and 10 below. I hope you won't mind me saying this all feels like one giant leg pull, or a publication that only saw the light of day as the result of a drunken bet.


9, Wapaloosie

1.17-1.27, p 25 second para, self-correction
...and upon examining its velvety cloak and upon examining its velvety coat decided that it would make an attractive and serviceable pair of mittens...
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015038719210&view=1up&seq=31&skin=2021


10, Cactus Cat

0.24-0.28, p 27 first para, omission
...the land of desert and mountain, [of fruitful valleys,] of flat-topped mesas...
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015038719210&view=1up&seq=33&skin=2021

0.41-0.46, p 27 first para (same page, same link)
...to say nothing of seeing one sporting about amongst the cholla and palo verde.
https://www.lexico.com/definition/cholla

1.05-1.08, see previous note
...and the cholla-covered hills of Yucatan.

1.42-1.46 – this one is me being pretty hard-nosed about it, so consider it optional!
...the sap of the first cactus has fermented into a kind of mescal...
https://www.lexico.com/definition/mescal
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Post by annise »

They don't mention drop bears, those much-feared inhabitants of Australian forests. A family dog was attacked by a killer Koala - she went up to sniff it when it was walking between trees and it jumped on her back and dug the claws in - luckily not piercing any vital organs.

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Post by Newgatenovelist »

Sections 11-19 are PL OK. Section 20:

0.20-0.24
Ranging from the mouth of the Columbia River southward to the Klamath...
This pronunciation for a place in southern Oregon is the same as a couple of youtube videos I’ve found talking about the river – and, I presume, the same as for the place in northern California. Did you find a different (or just better!) source when you prepped this?
https://forvo.com/search/Klamath/en_usa/

2.08-2.13, see previous note
While examining timber on a tributary of the Klamath River, California...
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Yes, I think I must have found a source, though I can't seem to find it again now. I say that because the version I ended up with was a correction of the one you have given. Having said that, it looks like yours is correct.
Newgatenovelist wrote: November 14th, 2021, 1:55 pm Sections 11-19 are PL OK. Section 20:

0.20-0.24
Ranging from the mouth of the Columbia River southward to the Klamath...
This pronunciation for a place in southern Oregon is the same as a couple of youtube videos I’ve found talking about the river – and, I presume, the same as for the place in northern California. Did you find a different (or just better!) source when you prepped this?
https://forvo.com/search/Klamath/en_usa/

2.08-2.13, see previous note
While examining timber on a tributary of the Klamath River, California...
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Post by Newgatenovelist »

Hmmm. I don't know with absolute certainty which one is correct - it's sort of a best guess based on what I could find because I'm not from the area. This came up with a few of the sections in this project, where something was clearly based on a local word (or a European corruption of a local word or tribe name), but finding any sort Native pronunciation guide is usually a lot harder than, say, French or German. I'm not trying to dismiss the source you found out of hand, because tracking down anything at all usually counts as a win.
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Parts 5, 9, 10, 20 corrected and uploaded!

I have left mescal as it is. Wasn't sure what you meant, was the stress? Mine sounded like the first one in Lexico to me.
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Erin, are you okay to PL the last issue of Blue Review? It's late at night now, but I'll post it on the launchpad tomorrow. Phil
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