# Chronicles of America Volume 07 - Dutch and English on the Hudson

An audiobook by Maud Wilder Goodwin, read by LibriVox volunteers (5 h 5 min, English).

Geography is the maker of history. The course of Dutch settlement in America was predetermined by a river which runs its length of a hundred and fifty miles from the mountains to the sea through the heart of a fertile country and which offers a natural highway for transportation of merchandise and for communication between colonies. No man, however, could foresee the development of the Empire State when, on that memorable September day in 1609, a small Dutch yacht named the Halve Maene or Half Moon, under the command of Captain Henry Hudson, slipped in past the low hook of sand in front of the Navesink Heights, and sounded her way to an anchorage in what is now the outer harbor of New York. (from Chapter 1)

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## Chapters

1. Chapter 1 (23:52): https://archive.org/download/dutch_and_english_on_the_hudson_1903_librivox/dutchandenglishonthehudson_01_goodwin_64kb.mp3
2. Chapter 2 (21:38): https://archive.org/download/dutch_and_english_on_the_hudson_1903_librivox/dutchandenglishonthehudson_02_goodwin_64kb.mp3
3. Chapter 3 (26:41): https://archive.org/download/dutch_and_english_on_the_hudson_1903_librivox/dutchandenglishonthehudson_03_goodwin_64kb.mp3
4. Chapter 4 (35:46): https://archive.org/download/dutch_and_english_on_the_hudson_1903_librivox/dutchandenglishonthehudson_04_goodwin_64kb.mp3
5. Chapter 5 (23:57): https://archive.org/download/dutch_and_english_on_the_hudson_1903_librivox/dutchandenglishonthehudson_05_goodwin_64kb.mp3
6. Chapter 6 (28:25): https://archive.org/download/dutch_and_english_on_the_hudson_1903_librivox/dutchandenglishonthehudson_06_goodwin_64kb.mp3
7. Chapter 7 (17:03): https://archive.org/download/dutch_and_english_on_the_hudson_1903_librivox/dutchandenglishonthehudson_07_goodwin_64kb.mp3
8. Chapter 8 (18:45): https://archive.org/download/dutch_and_english_on_the_hudson_1903_librivox/dutchandenglishonthehudson_08_goodwin_64kb.mp3
9. Chapter 9 (21:55): https://archive.org/download/dutch_and_english_on_the_hudson_1903_librivox/dutchandenglishonthehudson_09_goodwin_64kb.mp3
10. Chapter 10 (17:44): https://archive.org/download/dutch_and_english_on_the_hudson_1903_librivox/dutchandenglishonthehudson_10_goodwin_64kb.mp3
11. Chapter 11 (17:07): https://archive.org/download/dutch_and_english_on_the_hudson_1903_librivox/dutchandenglishonthehudson_11_goodwin_64kb.mp3
12. Chapter 12 (17:53): https://archive.org/download/dutch_and_english_on_the_hudson_1903_librivox/dutchandenglishonthehudson_12_goodwin_64kb.mp3
13. Chapter 13 (18:32): https://archive.org/download/dutch_and_english_on_the_hudson_1903_librivox/dutchandenglishonthehudson_13_goodwin_64kb.mp3
14. Chapter 14 (15:51): https://archive.org/download/dutch_and_english_on_the_hudson_1903_librivox/dutchandenglishonthehudson_14_goodwin_64kb.mp3