Cupid in Africa: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Cupid in Africa, credited to Percival Christopher Wren, 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 Cupid in Africa by Percival Christopher Wren. Read in English by Kevin Green. Bertram Greene, brilliant student, aesthete, intellectual and shy, decides to make his military father proud of him at last and joins the colonial Indian Army Reserve as a second Lieutenant at the start of Great War. Feeling a complete fish out of water, he is dispatched to India without any training whatsoever, and is expected to take charge of a company of native soldiers. He is then posted to East Africa to join the British fighting force there, and finds out what real soldiering means. This amusing, and at times harrowing tale gives a comprehensive description of the life and conditions of a soldier in the tropics, obviously written by someone who has experienced them. The author, P. C. Wren, is the author of the famous Beau Geste books. (Summary by Kevin Green)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Cupid in Africa
• Author credits: Percival Christopher Wren
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 29
• Listed recording duration: 8:45:00

Catalogue topics

• humor
• adventure
• humour
• africa
• WW1
• World War One
• action
• british army

Opening tracks: first 24 of 29

1. 01 - Major Hugh Walsingham Greene — 8:03
2. 02 - Mr Charles Stayne-Brooker (or Herr Karl Stein-Brucker) — 8:35
3. 03 - Mrs Stayne-Brooker - and her Ex-Stepson — 3:47
4. 04 - Bertram becomes a Man of War — 28:01
5. 05 - And is Ordered to East Africa — 29:13
6. 06 - Preparations — 12:20
7. 07 - Terra Marique Jactatus — 30:43
8. 08 - Mrs. Stayne-Brooker — 6:15
9. 09 - Mombasa — 22:35
10. 10 - The Mombasa Club — 16:21
11. 11 - Military and Naval Manoeuvres, part 1 — 22:28
12. 12 - Military and Naval Manoeuvres, part 2 — 21:45
13. 13 - Bertram Invades Africa — 18:41
14. 14 - M'paga — 14:25
15. 15 - Food and Feeders — 26:15
16. 16 - Reflections — 32:15
17. 17 - Baking — 18:48
18. 18 - The Convoy — 18:07
19. 19 - Butindi — 17:28
20. 20 - The Bristol Bar — 23:07
21. 21 - More Baking — 19:16
22. 22 - Trial — 16:05
23. 23 - Of a Pudding — 17:28
24. 24 - Stein-Brucker Meets Berram Greene - and Death — 17:03

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