A Woman's Journey Round the World: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Woman's Journey Round the World, credited to Ida Laura Pfeiffer, 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 Woman's Journey Round the World by Ida Laura Pfeiffer. Read in English by Lynne Thompson; Leni; Piotr Nater; Gail Timmerman Vaughan; Xiph; Suprada Urval; bala; Zaineb; Kyle Stadelhofer; Jeanie; Anna Simon; Julia Niedermaier; Gilles G. Le Blanc Ida Laura Pfeiffer was an Austrian traveler and travel book author, one of the first female explorers, whose popular books were translated into several languages. "The Woman's Journey Around the World, from Vienna to Brazil, Chili, Tahiti, China, Hindostan, Persia, and Asia Minor" is the travel diary of the first of her two trips "around the world", following her successful trips to the Holy Land and to Iceland. (Summary by Leni)

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Woman's Journey Round the World
• Author credits: Ida Laura Pfeiffer
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 42
• Listed recording duration: 19:24:30

Opening tracks: first 24 of 42

1. 00 - PREFACE — 7:27
2. 01 - THE VOYAGE TO THE BRAZILS, PART 1 — 21:05
3. 02 - THE VOYAGE TO THE BRAZILS, PART 2 — 25:13
4. 03 - ARRIVAL AND SOJOURN IN RIO JANEIRO, PART 1 — 22:31
5. 04 - ARRIVAL AND SOJOURN IN RIO JANEIRO, PART 2 — 25:55
6. 05 - EXCURSIONS IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF RIO JANEIRO — 26:42
7. 06 - JOURNEY INTO THE INTERIOR OF THE BRAZILS, PART 1 — 31:46
8. 07 - JOURNEY INTO THE INTERIOR OF THE BRAZILS, PART 2 — 26:17
9. 08 - THE VOYAGE ROUND CAPE HORN — 35:12
10. 09 - ARRIVAL AND RESIDENCE IN VALPARAISO — 23:44
11. 10 - THE VOYAGE FROM VALPARAISO TO CANTON VIA TAHITI, PART 1 — 30:59
12. 11 - THE VOYAGE FROM VALPARAISO TO CANTON VIA TAHITI, PART 2 — 31:59
13. 12 - CHINA, PART 1 — 34:52
14. 13 - CHINA, PART 2 — 30:43
15. 14 - CHINA, PART 3 — 27:57
16. 15 - THE EAST INDIES - SINGAPORE, PART 1 — 21:54
17. 16 - THE EAST INDIES - SINGAPORE, PART 2 — 19:06
18. 17 - THE EAST INDIES - CEYLON — 40:38
19. 18 - MADRAS AND CALCUTTA, PART 1 — 27:13
20. 19 - MADRAS AND CALCUTTA, PART 2 — 28:12
21. 20 - BENARES, PART 1 — 37:31
22. 21 - BENARES, PART 2 — 30:34
23. 22 - ALLAHABAD, AGRA, AND DELHI, PART 1 — 31:04
24. 23 - ALLAHABAD, AGRA, AND DELHI, PART 2 — 32:54

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