Count Luckner, The Sea Devil: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Count Luckner, The Sea Devil, credited to Lowell Thomas, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Count Luckner, The Sea Devil by Lowell Thomas. Read in English by Mark Harrington. Count Felix von Luckner, German naval war officer of World War One, through the words of Lowell Thomas, relates his adventures at sea as a young man through his German naval command in Word War I. Von Luckner is best known as the one who broke through the British blockade and disrupted Allied shipping in a windjammer, under sail, while managing to avoid killing any Allied crews. (Summary by Mark Harrington)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Count Luckner, The Sea Devil
• Author credits: Lowell Thomas
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 28
• Listed recording duration: 9:19:13

Catalogue topics

• World War I
• WWI
• luckner
• count von luckner
• world war i
• 1914-1918
• german naval warfare

Opening tracks: first 24 of 28

1. 01 - Ch. 1 - We Meet a Flying Buccaneer — 14:15
2. 02 - Ch. 2 - Felix Runs Off To Sea — 22:32
3. 03 - Ch. 3 - Saved By an Albatross — 14:52
4. 04 - Ch. 4 - Salvation, Kangaroos, and Fakirs In Australia; Ch. 5 - Wrestling Champion Of Sankt Pauli — 26:45
5. 05 - Ch. 6 - The Tragic Cruise of the "Caesarea" — 32:02
6. 06 - Ch. 7 - The Beach Comber's Adventure With the "Panther" — 13:03
7. 07 - Ch. 8 - Pitfalls For the Sailor, and the Canary That Spoke Low Deutsch — 14:22
8. 08 - Ch. 9 - The Runaway Comes Home — 12:20
9. 09 - Ch. 10 - From Pig-Sty Cleaner To Kaiser's Protégé — 16:57
10. 10 - Ch. 11 - In the Camaroons, and the Fairy of Fuerteventura — 18:16
11. 11 - Ch. 12 - Fake Norwegians for a Pirate Cruise — 42:50
12. 12 - Ch. 13 - Running the British Blockade in a Hurricane — 31:03
13. 13 - Ch. 14 - We Capture the "Gladys Royal" and the "Lundy Island" — 22:28
14. 14 - Ch. 15 - Raiding Along the Equator, and an Interrupted Honeymoon — 19:35
15. 15 - Ch. 16 - Windjammer vs. Steamer — 10:45
16. 16 - Ch. 17 - The Last Cruise of the Poor Old "Pinmore" — 13:04
17. 17 - Ch. 18 - The Life of a Modern Buccaneer — 15:04
18. 18 - Ch. 19 - How We made Our Prisoners Walk the Plank; Ch. 20 - The Battle of the Falkland Islands — 24:49
19. 19 - Ch. 21 - Racing the Enemy Around Cape Horn — 18:51
20. 20 - Ch. 22 - Raiding the Pacific — 12:32
21. 21 - Ch. 23 - Shipwrecked in Southern Seas — 13:15
22. 22 - Ch. 24 - Castaways on a Coral Atoll — 14:14
23. 23 - Ch. 25 - Let's Go Raiding Again! — 10:49
24. 24 - Ch. 26 - From the Society Islands to the Cook Islands in an Open Boat — 25:41

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