A Voice From The Main Deck: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
A Voice From The Main Deck by Samuel Leech: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 19 original MP3 tracks, 6:50:00 running time and a link to listen.
A Voice From The Main Deck, credited to Samuel Leech, 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 Voice From The Main Deck by Samuel Leech. Read in English by Barry Eads. Samuel Leech was a young sailor in the Royal Navy and the United States Navy during the War of 1812. He became notable as one of very few who wrote an account of his experiences. Leech's nautical career began in 1810, at the age of twelve. He was a powder monkey during H.M.S. Macedonian's duel with the U.S.S. United States in 1812. As a prisoner of war, he was due to be exchanged at some point, but when the captured Macedonian was brought into Newport, Rhode Island, Leech jumped ship. He returned to the sea, this time signing on to the US Navy, where he compared his treatment favorably to that in the Royal Navy. - Summary by Wikipedia
Recording facts
- Recording title: A Voice From The Main Deck
- Author credits: Samuel Leech
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 19
- Listed recording duration: 6:50:00
Catalogue topics
- Napoleonic Wars
- War of 1812
- Royal Navy
- seaman
- sailors
- united states navy
- hms macedonian
- uss syren
Track guide
- 01 - Chapter 1 — 24:39
- 02 - Chapter 2, Part 1 — 26:14
- 03 - Chapter 2, Part 2 — 24:07
- 04 - Chapter 3, Part 1 — 16:16
- 05 - Chapter 3, Part 2 — 17:29
- 06 - Chapter 4 — 22:13
- 07 - Chapter 5 — 19:14
- 08 - Chapter 6 — 27:15
- 09 - Chapter 7, Part 1 — 17:52
- 10 - Chapter 7, Part 2 — 17:31
- 11 - Chapter 8 — 22:04
- 12 - Chapter 9 — 27:50
- 13 - Chapter 10, Part 1 — 21:38
- 14 - Chapter 10, Part 2 — 21:55
- 15 - Chapter 11, Part 1 — 17:42
- 16 - Chapter 11, Part 2 — 17:56
- 17 - Chapter 12 — 27:08
- 18 - Chapter 13 — 15:29
- 19 - Chapter 14 — 25:28
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