Celebrated Travels and Travellers, vol.1: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Celebrated Travels and Travellers, vol.1, credited to Jules Verne, 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 Celebrated Travels and Travellers, vol.1 by Jules Verne. Read in English by Librivox volunteers. The famous writer of great adventure stories Jules Verne wrote also several lesser known, but good non-fiction works. "Celebrated travels and travellers" tells the story of geographical discovery in the same well written and precise manner we are used to finding in Verne’s fiction books. This book is divided into 3 volumes. This is the first volume, named the "Exploration of the World" and it covers the period in the World's history of exploration from B.C. 505 to the close of the 17th century. The second and third volumes are respectively entitled "The great navigators of the 18th century" and "The great navigators of the 19th century".

Recording facts

• Recording title: Celebrated Travels and Travellers, vol.1
• Author credits: Jules Verne
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 45
• Listed recording duration: 18:23:19

Catalogue topics

• explorers
• Vasco Da Gama
• Christopher Columbus
• navigators
• voyages
• discoveries in geography
• Cortès
• Magellan

Opening tracks: first 24 of 45

1. 01 - Preface. First Part, Chapter I, part 1. Celebrated travellers before the Christian era. — 20:04
2. 02 - First Part, Chapter I, part 2. Celebrated travellers before the Christian era. — 13:29
3. 03 - First Part, Chapter II. Celebrated travellers from the 1st to the 9th century. — 27:46
4. 04 - First Part, Chapter III, part 1. Celebrated travellers between the 10th and 13th centuries. — 18:10
5. 05 - First Part, Chapter III, part 2. Celebrated travellers between the 10th and 13th centuries. — 18:56
6. 06 - First Part, Chapter IV, part 1. Marco Polo. — 8:22
7. 07 - First Part, Chapter IV, part 2. Marco Polo. — 39:45
8. 08 - First Part, Chapter IV, part 3. Marco Polo. — 24:58
9. 09 - First Part, Chapter IV, part 4. Marco Polo. — 28:55
10. 10 - First Part, Chapter V. Ibn Batuta. — 17:36
11. 11 - First Part, Chapter VI, part 1. Jean de Béthencourt. — 18:24
12. 12 - First Part, Chapter VI, part 2. Jean de Béthencourt. — 21:26
13. 13 - First Part, Chapter VII, part 1. Christopher Columbus. — 33:31
14. 14 - First Part, Chapter VII, part 2a. Christopher Columbus – First voyage. — 23:26
15. 15 - First Part, Chapter VII, part 2b. Christopher Columbus – First voyage. — 20:59
16. 16 - First Part, Chapter VII, part 3. Christopher Columbus – Second voyage. — 30:47
17. 17 - First Part, Chapter VII, part 4. Christopher Columbus – Third voyage. — 17:12
18. 18 - First Part, Chapter VII, part 5. Christopher Columbus – Fourth voyage. — 33:52
19. 19 - First Part, Chapter VIII, part 1a. The conquest of India, and of the spice countries. — 18:05
20. 20 - First Part, Chapter VIII, part 1b. The conquest of India, and of the spice countries. — 24:13
21. 21 - First Part, Chapter VIII, part 2a. The conquest of India, and of the spice countries. — 34:46
22. 22 - First Part, Chapter VIII, part 2b. The conquest of India, and of the spice countries. — 30:03
23. 23 - Second Part, Chapter I, part 1a. The conquerors of central America. — 23:04
24. 24 - Second Part, Chapter I, part 1b. The conquerors of central America. — 25:26

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