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	An Antarctic Mystery or The Sphinx of the Ice Fields - Jules Verne Librivox recording of An Antarctic Mystery or The Sphinx of the Ice Fields by Jules Verne read by Esther. Edgar Allan Poe’s telling of Arthur Pym’s narrative is shown to be true as events come together that bring out clues that help Captain Len Guy trace the fate of his brother’s ship the Jane; the very ship that Arthur Pym was on board at the time of his disappearance. Through the efforts of Mr... Keywords: librivox; audiobook; adventure; shipwreck Downloads: 35,045 Average rating: (1 review)
	Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts - Stockton, Frank Richard Librivox recording of Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts. Buccaneers is non-fiction, a highly readable history of how piracy began and spread throughout the region in response to the plundering of Spanish colonialism. It is written with great flair for the dramatic by the author of The Lady or the Tiger? If you care to read along while listening, the Project Gutenberg website features a facsimile version of Buccaneers & Pirates that includes an antique map of the Caribbean which is a nice ref... Keywords: Pirates; Buccaneers; Sea Story; Librivox; Stockton; audiobook; adventure Downloads: 23,828 Average rating: (1 review)
	Dick Sands the Boy Captain - Jules Verne Librivox recording of Dick Sands the Boy Captain by Jules Verne, translated by Ellen E Frewer. Read by Alex C. Telander Dick Sands, a youth of fifteen, must assume command of a ship after the disappearance of its captain. Nature’s forces combined with evil doings of men lead him and his companions to many dangerous adventures on sea and in Central Africa. (Summary by Kikisaulite) For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org. Keywords: librivox; literature; adventure Downloads: 8,027 Average rating: (1 review)
	The Englishwoman in America - Isabella Lucy Bird LibriVox recording of The Englishwoman in America by Isabella Lucy Bird . Read by Sibella Denton Isabella Bird travels abroad in Canada and the United States in the 1850s. As an Englishwoman and a lone female, she travels as far as Chicago, Prince Edward Island, and Cincinatti. Her observations on the trials and tribulations of the journeys are astute, if formed by her place and time in history. Adventures with pickpockets, omnibuses, cholera, and rat invested hotels deter her not... Keywords: non fiction; isabella; bird; journey; travels; audio books; librivox Downloads: 2,758 Average rating: (1 review)
	Rookwood - William Harrison Ainsworth LibriVox recording of Rookwood, by William Harrison Ainsworth. Read by Paul Curran. A rich and complex historical Gothic-Adventure story centring on the murky deeds of an ancient family. It is a wonderfully atmospheric piece that combines narrative, poetry, song, and descriptive writing to great effect. The character of Dick Turpin that we know today - the dashing highwaymen and unmatched horseman - can be said to stem directly from this novel, as the most famous part of the book (often publishe... Keywords: librivox; audiobook; literature; gothic; adventure; highwayman; dick turpin Downloads: 13,102 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe LibriVox recording of The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe. Read by Chris Goringe For more information see LibriVox Downloads: 52,986 Average rating: (4 reviews)
	John Barleycorn or Alcoholic Memoirs - Jack London LibriVox recording of John Barleycorn or Alcoholic Memoirs, by Jack London. Read by Peter Kelleher. Jack London died at the age of forty. In this autobiographical work, London describes his life as seen through the eyes of John Barleycorn (alcohol). There is much controversy about the cause of his death just as there is about alcoholism and addiction. London's brutally frank and honest analysis of his own struggles and bouts with alcohol was way before its time and more modern theories of addict... Keywords: librivox; audiobook; alcohol; literature; memoir; autobiography Downloads: 3,988 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters - Logan Marshall LibriVox recording of The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters, by Logan Marshall. Read by Allyson Hester. This is a detailed and accurate account of the most awful marine disaster in history, constructed from the real facts as obtained from those on board who survived. Keywords: librivox; audiobook; titanic; history; maritime Downloads: 12,002 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front 1914-1915 - Anonymous (attrib: Kathleen Luard) LibriVox recording of Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front 1914-1915, by an anonymous author, attributed to Kathleen Luard. Read by: Ruth Golding, Julie VW, Christine Dufour and Marianne Coleman-Hipkins. The title is, I think, self explanatory. The nurse in question went out to France at the beginning of the war and remained there until May 1915 after the second battle of Ypres when she went back to a Base Hospital and the diary ceases... Keywords: librivox; audiobook; first world war; nursing; hospital; ambulance train; western front; Ypres; France; Belgium Downloads: 425 Average rating: (3 reviews)
	No Thoroughfare - Charles Dickens A LibriVox recording of No Thoroughfare, by Charles Dickens. Read by Alan Chant. Two boys from the Foundling Hospital are given the same name, with disastrous consequences in adulthood. Two associates, wishing to right the wrong, are commissioned to find a missing heir. Their quest takes them from fungous wine cellars in the City of London to the sunshine of the Mediterranean — across the Alps in winter... Keywords: librivox; literature; christmas Downloads: 13,967 Average rating: (4 reviews)
	Sailing Alone Around the World - Joshua Slocum Librivox recording of Sailing Alone Around the World, by Joshua Slocum. Joshua Slocum was the first man to sail around the world alone in a small boat. He personally rebuilt an 11.2 metre sloop-rigged fishing boat that he named the Spray. On April 24, 1895, he set sail from Boston, Massachusetts. More than three years later, he returned to Newport, Rhode Island, on June 27, 1898 having circumnavigated the world, a distance of 46,000 miles (74,000 km)... Keywords: librivox; audiobook; adventure; sailing; sea; nautical Downloads: 35,786 Average rating: (5 reviews)
	Typee - Herman Melville Librivox recording of Typee, by Herman Melville. Read by Michael Scherer Typee is Melville's first novel, based on his actual experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands. Extremely popular at the time of its initial publication, it provoked disbelief among its readers until the events it described were corroborated by Melville's fellow castaway, Richard T. Greene, who appears in the story as the character Toby... Keywords: librivox; audiobook; literature Downloads: 41,337 Average rating: (5 reviews)
	Moby Dick, or the Whale - Herman Melville Librivox recording of Moby Dick, or the Whale, by Herman Melville. Read by Stewart Wills Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique -- but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since. The novel is nominally about the obsessive hunt by the crazed Captain Ahab of the book's eponymous white whale. But interspersed in that story are digressions, paradoxes, philosophical riffs on whaling and life, and a display of techniques so advanced for its time that some have ... Keywords: librivox; audiobook; literature Downloads: 241,025 Average rating: (8 reviews)