A Cruising Voyage Around the World: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Cruising Voyage Around the World, credited to Woodes Rogers, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of A Cruising Voyage Around the World by Woodes Rogers. Read in English by Jim Rowland; KHand; Pamela Nagami; S S Kim; timli; Wayne Anderson First to the South-seas, Thence to the East-Indies, and Homewards by the Cape of Good Hope. Begun in 1708, and Finish'd in 1711. Containing a Journal of All the Remarkable Transactions; Particularly, of the Taking of Puna and Guiaquil, of the Acapulco Ship, and Other Prizes; an Account of Alexander Selkirk's Living Alone Four Years and Four Months in an Island; and a Brief Description of Several Countries in Our Course Noted for Trade, Especially in the South-sea. With Maps of All the Coast, from the Best Spanish Manuscript Draughts. And an Introduction Relating to the South-sea Trade. (Woodes Rogers) The story of the first privateer and his adventures; including the account of Alexander Selkirk's living alone on an island off Chile which formed the background to Robinson Crusoe. (Kim)

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Cruising Voyage Around the World
• Author credits: Woodes Rogers
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 15:33:01

Catalogue topics

• adventure
• pirates
• sailing
• around the world
• spanish gold
• bahamas

Track guide

1. 01 - Introduction Part 1 — 53:53
2. 02 - Introduction Part 2 and Dedication — 55:10
3. 03 - Ireland to Caribbean — 45:04
4. 04 - Caribbean to Grande — 43:13
5. 05 - Account of Brazile — 39:53
6. 06 - Account of River of La Plata — 1:02:55
7. 07 - From Grande to Juan Fernandez — 40:22
8. 08 - Account of Alexander Selkirk — 14:21
9. 09 - Juan Fernandez to Lobos and Northward — 41:07
10. 10 - At Guiaquil Part 1 — 51:00
11. 11 - At Guiaquil Part 2 — 53:50
12. 12 - Island of Gorgona — 49:52
13. 13 - Island of Gorgona part 2 and Galapagos Islands — 43:35
14. 14 - Off Mexico — 51:13
15. 15 - Off California — 51:32
16. 16 - Mexico describ'd — 39:39
17. 17 - Peru and Chili describ'd — 56:54
18. 18 - To the East Indies — 55:35
19. 19 - East Indies to the Cape of Good Hope — 49:07
20. 20 - Cape of Good Hope; to Holland and London — 34:46

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