Coffee Break Collection 18 - Pirates: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Coffee Break Collection 18 - Pirates, credited to Various, 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 Coffee Break Collection 18 - Pirates by Various. Read in English by Chris Pyle; Lynne T; Garth Burton; Colleen McMahon; Josh Kibbey; Phil Schempf; April6090; Craig Campbell This is the eighteenth Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select English language public domain works of about 15 minutes or less in duration -- perfect to listen to during commutes, workouts or coffee breaks. The topic for this collection is pirates... a rich source of material. Fiction, non-fiction, poetry, prose, essays... the romance of a life on the ocean waves and the danger posed by the 'bad boys (and girls)'; but sometimes the law catches up with them.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Coffee Break Collection 18 - Pirates
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 15
• Listed recording duration: 1:34:12

Track guide

1. 01 - A Ballad of John Silver by John Masefield — 2:08
2. 02 - An Old Song Resung by John Masefield — 1:22
3. 03 - The Adventures, Trial and Execution of Captain Gow by Charles Ellms — 6:36
4. 04 - Adventure with Pirates, by James O. Brayman — 9:54
5. 05 - Capture of a Chinese Pirate Fleet by Anonymous — 6:04
6. 06 - Derelict: A Reminiscence of Treasure Island by Young E. Allison — 3:18
7. 07 - Execution of the Pirates by Ezra Baldwin Strong — 8:01
8. 08 - Home of Blackbeard, One of America's Cruelest Pirates by Anonymous, from the Dawson Record, August 16, 1903 — 5:49
9. 09 - The Life and Exploits of Anne Bonney by Charles Ellms — 3:41
10. 10 - The Life of John Massey, Who Died for Piracy by Arthur L. Hayward — 8:10
11. 11 - The Life of Philip Roche, a Pirate, etc. by Arthur L. Hayward — 14:25
12. 12 - On Pirates by Richard Middleton — 7:09
13. 13 - Captain Thomas White by Henry Hartford Benton and Thomas Carey — 9:47
14. 14 - The United States v. Smith, 1820 US Supreme Court — 4:25
15. 15 - The Yankee Privateer by Arthur Hale — 3:23

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