Centuries Apart: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Centuries Apart, credited to Edward T. Bouvé, 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 Centuries Apart by Edward T. Bouvé. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Centuries Apart is about a group of Civil War Union soldiers who, dispatched by President Lincoln, quasi-time travel to a quasi-medieval England in the heart of Antarctica. This land, called South England, has been cut off from regular England since the the 1500s - and there's also a "New France" just south of it, peopled with descendants from 16th Century France. The account is based on the journal of one of the officers. "[SOUTH ENGLAND is] a large Island in the verdant heart of Antarctica inhabited since around 1500 by an English Lost Race, for whom history has stopped short. The island itself is shaped like a squat British Isles, and is dominated by South London...The ruling monarchy, descended from Plantagenets defeated in the War of the Roses, is slowly becoming dysfunctional; descriptions of the social and political world of South England are similar in tone and content to those offered by Mark Twain's mouthpiece in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889). Romance and dissension soon bring on the inevitable disaster." - Summary by TriciaG Note: There are two maps in the original text, in the frontispiece and after page 12, if one would like to refer to them during the story.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Centuries Apart
• Author credits: Edward T. Bouvé
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 26
• Listed recording duration: 9:18:58

Catalogue topics

• romance
• fantasy
• alternate history
• lost world
• lost race

Opening tracks: first 24 of 26

1. 00 - Preface — 5:49
2. 01 - Ch I: A Page of Unwritten History, Part 1 — 16:27
3. 02 - Ch I: A Page of Unwritten History, Part 2 — 15:25
4. 03 - Ch II: The Meeting of the Sixteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Part 1 — 28:02
5. 04 - Ch II: The Meeting of the Sixteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Part 2 — 27:14
6. 05 - Ch III: A Journey into Fair Northumbria, Part 1 — 22:05
7. 06 - Ch III: A Journey into Fair Northumbria, Part 2 — 21:35
8. 07 - Ch IV: A Remarkable Story, Part 1 — 18:50
9. 08 - Ch IV: A Remarkable Story, Part 2 — 17:40
10. 09 - Ch V: In which the Captain is Wounded and Taken Prisoner by Cupid, Part 1 — 32:17
11. 10 - Ch V: In which the Captain is Wounded and Taken Prisoner by Cupid, Part 2 — 28:38
12. 11 - Ch VI: The Hunt, Part 1 — 26:25
13. 12 - Ch VI: The Hunt, Part 2 — 21:24
14. 13 - Ch VII: The Course of True Love, Part 1 — 26:22
15. 14 - Ch VII: The Course of True Love, Part 2 — 26:32
16. 15 - Ch VIII: Farewell, Farewell, My Own True Love — 15:09
17. 16 - Ch IX: The Eagle's Crag — 22:10
18. 17 - Ch X: The Dell of the Swan Maiden — 33:41
19. 18 - Ch XI: The Black Tempest — 22:44
20. 19 - Ch XII: The Defence of Eagle's Crag — 12:42
21. 20 - Ch XIII: She Loved Not Wisely, But Too Well — 14:13
22. 21 - Ch XIV: Parting — 10:40
23. 22 - Ch XV: Grim-Visaged War, Part 1 — 18:39
24. 23 - Ch XV: Grim-Visaged War, Part 2 — 15:39

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