Around the World on a Bicycle, Vol. 1: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Around the World on a Bicycle, Vol. 1, credited to Thomas Stevens, 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 Around the World on a Bicycle, Volume 1 by Thomas Stevens. Thomas Stevens was the first person to circle the globe by bicycle, a large-wheeled Ordinary. His journey started in April 1884 in San Francisco from where he cycled to Boston to take a steamer to England. Crossing England, France, Central Europe and Asia Minor before he was turned back at the borders of Afghanistan. He returned part of the way to take a ship to Karachi, from where he crossed India. Another steam ship brought him from Calcutta to Hong Kong, and from Shanghai he set over to Japan, finally ending his journey after actually cycling 13.500 miles in Yokohama, December 1886. This is the first volume of his travel experiences, detailing the part of the journey from San Francisco to Teheran, where he spent the winter. (Summary by Ava)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Around the World on a Bicycle, Vol. 1
• Author credits: Thomas Stevens
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 45
• Combined MP3 track duration: 22:29:08

Catalogue topics

• non-fiction
• biography
• travel
• adventure
• memoirs

Opening tracks: first 24 of 45

1. 00 Preface — 3:33
2. 01 I: Over the Sierras Nevadas, Part 1 — 25:53
3. 02 I: Over the Sierras Nevadas, Part 2 — 30:00
4. 03 II: Over the Deserts of Nevada, Part 1 — 27:32
5. 04 II: Over the Deserts of Nevada, Part 2 — 30:57
6. 05 III: Through Mormon Land and over the Rockies, Part 1 — 31:42
7. 06 III: Through Mormon Land and over the Rockies, Part 2 — 25:24
8. 07 IV: From the Great Plains to the Atlantic, Part 1 — 29:40
9. 08 IV: From the Great Plains to the Atlantic, Part 2 — 24:23
10. 09 V: From America to the German Frontier, Part 1 — 32:15
11. 10 V: From America to the German Frontier, Part 2 — 25:48
12. 11 V: From America to the German Frontier, Part 3 — 22:23
13. 12 VI: Germany, Austria and Hungary, Part 1 — 27:01
14. 13 VI: Germany, Austria and Hungary, Part 2 — 29:13
15. 14 VI: Germany, Austria and Hungary, Part 3 — 29:26
16. 15 VII: Through Slavonia and Servia, Part 1 — 29:11
17. 16 VII: Through Slavonia and Servia, Part 2 — 25:59
18. 17 VII: Through Slavonia and Servia, Part 3 — 20:43
19. 18 VIII: Bulgaria, Roumelia, and into Turkey, Part 1 — 21:53
20. 19 VIII: Bulgaria, Roumelia, and into Turkey, Part 2 — 23:03
21. 20 VIII: Bulgaria, Roumelia, and into Turkey, Part 3 — 21:15
22. 21 IX: Through European Turkey, Part 1 — 25:27
23. 22 IX: Through European Turkey, Part 2 — 23:51
24. 23 IX: Through European Turkey, Part 3 — 24:37

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