Autobiography of a Seaman, Vol. 1: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Autobiography of a Seaman, Vol. 1, credited to Lord Thomas Cochrane, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Autobiography of a Seaman, Vol. 1, by Lord Thomas Cochrane. Read by Timothy Ferguson. This two volume work is the autobiography of Lord Cochrane, a naval captain of the Napoleonic period. His adventures are seminal to the development of naval fiction as a genre. Marryat sailed with Cochrane, while later writers borrowed incidents from this biography for their fictions. Most notable among these is Patrick O'Brian, three of whose novels have clear parallels to incidents in the life of Cochrane. This first volume covers Cochrane's earlier life, during which he is most active militarily. (Introduction by Timothy Ferguson)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Autobiography of a Seaman, Vol. 1
• Author credits: Lord Thomas Cochrane
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 24
• Listed recording duration: 11:19:11

Catalogue topics

• adventure
• biography
• history
• memoirs
• sea stories
• war stories

Track guide

1. 00 - Dedication, Preface, and Introductory — 1:08:03
2. 01 - My Boyhood, and Entrance Into the Navy — 22:25
3. 02 - Cruise of the Hind — 18:41
4. 03 - Voyage of the Thetis — 22:59
5. 04 - Services in the Meditteranean — 24:11
6. 05 - Cruise of the Speedy — 42:15
7. 06 - Cruise of the Speedy Continued — 26:04
8. 07 - Admiralty Reluctance to Promote Me — 26:48
9. 08 - Naval Administration Sixty Years Ago — 21:03
10. 09 - Employment in the Arab — 9:26
11. 10 - Cruise of the Pallas — 18:50
12. 11 - Services in the Pallas Continued — 33:43
13. 12 - My Entrance Into Parliament — 18:47
14. 13 - Dissolution of Parliament — 33:48
15. 14 - Cruise of the Imperieuse — 30:28
16. 15 - Cruise of the Imperieuse Continued — 29:11
17. 16 - Cruise of the Imperieuse Continued — 22:15
18. 17 - Cruise of the Imperieuse Continued — 49:37
19. 18 - Cruise of the Imperieuse Continued — 21:28
20. 19 - Appointment to Command Fire-Ships in Basque Roads — 25:10
21. 20 - Untitled Chapter — 24:16
22. 21 - Untitled chapter — 50:28
23. 22 - Arrival in England — 19:22
24. 23 - Lord Gambier's Despatch — 19:56

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